Good Night World

In the virtual world of Planet, the Akabane Family is one of the game’s strongest teams: a father, mother, and two sons whose warmth toward each other exists only online. None of the four realizes that the people behind those avatars are their actual family members in the real world—a household so broken that they can barely speak to one another.

A shut-in older brother, a high-achieving younger brother, a father despised by his children, and an emotionally absent mother all escape into Planet to get away from one another, only to build the family they wish they had without recognizing it. As the Akabanes close in on the game’s ultimate objective, the mysterious Black Bird, the boundary between virtual and real life begins to collapse, and their refuge starts revealing secrets more dangerous than the lives they were trying to escape.