Shadows House

High in an isolated manor lives the Shadow family, nobles whose bodies are completely black and whose emotions spill into the world as soot. Each young Shadow is given a Living Doll, a humanlike attendant expected to serve as both caretaker and visible “face.” Cheerful Emilico is assigned to the quiet Kate and eagerly tries to become the perfect doll, even though she understands almost nothing about the house or its rules. As the pair meet other Shadows and Dolls, small contradictions begin to disturb Emilico's simple view of her purpose. The mansion's endless soot, rigid hierarchy, and strange debut ceremony hide a system far more unsettling than ordinary noble life, and Kate is determined to learn what Shadows House is really doing to everyone inside it.