Blue Flames Burst Out from Enishiro's Smartphone...! Anime "Dead Account" Episode 1 Synopsis & Preview Cuts Released

The synopsis and preview cuts for Episode 1 of the anime "Dead Account" have been released.

This work is based on the manga series by Shizumu Watanabe, currently serialized in "Magazine Pocket" (Kodansha).

Sōji Enishiro (CV. Nobuhiko Okamoto) has been working daily as a controversial streamer called "Aoringo" to earn money for his younger sister Hisato's medical treatment. However, after awakening to his electric power through a certain incident, Enishiro is taken to a place where suspicious rumors never cease. It was a school that trains a new generation of mediums to exorcise ghosts that have become digitized along with the spread of the internet! A modern-style exorcism battle action where you burn, strike, and exorcise begins! Broadcasting starts on Saturday, January 10, 2026, at 11:30 PM on TV Asahi's nationwide 24-station network "IMAnimation" slot.

Episode 1: "That Man, Controversial"
【Synopsis】
Sōji Enishiro had been working as a controversial streamer called "Aoringo" to earn money for his younger sister Hisato's medical treatment. Having finished earning the treatment fees, he was spending his days looking forward to messages from Hisato, who is now far away, but one night a man suddenly appears and tells him "Your sister died a month ago." What about the messages that should have been arriving until yesterday――? The next moment, the supposedly dead Hisato appears from the smartphone in front of him! Enishiro can do nothing before Hisato, who has turned into what's commonly called a "Bake-aka" (ghost account). At that moment, as if responding to his strong desire to save his sister, blue flames burst out from Enishiro's smartphone...!

（C)渡辺静・講談社／「デッドアカウント」製作委員会