Loups=Garous

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Loups=Garous is a 2010 Post Cyber Punk anime movie directed by Junichi Fujisaku, based on a book by Natsuhiko Kyogoku. It is set in a world Twenty Minutes Into the Future, where everyone is constantly watched by an omnipresent surveillance system and mostly communicate online. Children are educated online, so schools are replaced by Community Centers that teach them how to socialise.

The story's protagonists are four girls assigned as a group: shy and quiet Hazuki Makino, energetic Mio Tsuzuki, emotionless Ayumi Kouno and old-times anime fan Yuko Yabe. A series of brutal murders occurs in neighbourhood. As Yuko nearly becomes one of the victims, girls come together to protect her and gradually develop a genuine friendship. However, the murderer keeps hunting them, easily manipulating police and the whole surveillance system. To survive, they have to uncover the truth behind the society's facade.

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