History Manga / GoodNightWorld

A TwelveEpisodeAnime adaptation by NAZ was released by Creator/{{Netflix}} in October 2023, releasing all 12 episodes on the 12th.

A TwelveEpisodeAnime adaptation was released all episodes at once by Creator/{{Netflix}} in October 2023.

''Good Night World'' is a ScienceFiction manga by Uru Okabe.

* EvolvingCredits: The ending credits, which center around Pico, [[spoiler:switch out her avatar for the doll the avatars of logged off players turn into after she gets deleted. The last episode, which shows that at least her "player" was restored, goest pack to using her proper avatar]].

** Kojiro is shown to get physically violent with his children when he considers they deserve punishment in flashbacks. The shown causes of punishment are ''almost''' accidentally spilling a drink on a computer keyboard and the breaking of a coffee mug that is implied to also be accidental. He's also revealed to have been quite controlling, ironically, during a conversation comparing him unfavorably to Shiro.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are a couple hints towards the reveal about Shiro and AAAAA in the first episode:
** Kojiro is established to be having back pain bad enough to make changing a lightbulb a burden in his debut scene. May later needs to tell Ichi and AAAAA that Shiro won't be logging in due to needing to go to the hospital.
** Soon after AAAAA needs to log off to do something, Taichiro's ''PLANET'' session gets interrupted by Asuma informing him that Kojiro had to go to the hospital for a hernia.

** The Black Bird can cause the purely mental variant of this trope to happen to actual players, in a way that can be best summed up as them hallucinating that they are logging off from ''PLANET'', only to be promptly put through various psychological trials in a mental version of the real world that puts the entire SlasherMovie genre to shame. It eventually kills them from a mix of the psychological impact of killing the person inside their mind repeatedly and the person being unable to meet their real-world needs in that state.

* TheMostDangerousVideoGame: The Black Bird sends ''the player'' to the hospital the first time it kills an avatar. Getting "contaminated" by it isn't much better, as it leads to a slow death by a mental variant of TheGameNeverStopped.

** Kojiro is shown to get physically violent with his children when he considers they deserve punishment in flashbacks. The shown causes of punishment are ''almost''' accidentally spilling a drink on a computer keyboard and the breaking of a coffee mug that is implied to also be accidental.

* ApplianceDefenestration: Taichiro throws his VR visor out the window over [[spoiler:Pico seemingly abruptly cutting contact with him after promising to start a new version of the Pirates together, not knowing she's one of the AIs Kojiro needed to delete to make the Black Bird more manageable]]. By pure luck, this happens while Miyabi is coming back to the house for the first time a in while and she prevents it from getting damaged.

* DramaticIrony: When asked about his ''PLANET'' activities by another member of the Arima family, Asuma claims that he's an occasional player and merely searching for friend he wants to bring back to the real world. The reason the other family member is asking in the first place? They saw AAAAA on Asuma's computer and are testing the waters to see if it's a good idea to tell Asuma that they are another member of the Akabane Family. In other words, Asuma is unknowingly lying to one of the three people who are able to know he's doing just that.

* DramaticIrony: When asked about his ''PLANET'' activities by another member of the Arima family, Asuma claims that he's an occasional player and merely searching for friend he wants to bring back to the real world. The reason the family member is asking in the first place? They saw AAAAA on Asuma's computer and are testing the waters to see if it's a good idea to tell Asuma they are another member of the Akabane Family. In other words, Asuma unknowingly lying to one of the three people who have the knowledge to see through the lie.

* DontYouDarePityMe: Both Taichiro and Kojiro are shown to not like feeling pitied, which ironically causes their attempts to be nice to each other in the real world to backfire.

** The mother of Hinako, Pico's player[[spoiler:, more accurately the real person whose memories served as her template]], is shown to be the controlling variant. She asks her to be home as soon as she's done with her classes while holding her arm and not letting go before she agrees.

** The Black Bird can cause the purely mental variant of this trope to happen to actual players, in a way that can be best summed up as them hallucinating that they are logging off from ''PLANET'', only to be promptly put through various psychological trials in a mental version of the real world that would put the entire SlasherMovie genre to shame. It eventually kills them from a mix of the psychological impact of killing the person inside their mind repeatedly and the person being unable to meet their real-world needs in that state.