Dead Account

Always ready for a fight! Destruction for destruction's sake! The online streamer Aoringo is a troll, making the worst of the worst of boundary-pushing flamebait content and raking in the revenue from the hate-watchers. You may think he's nothing more than a bottom feeder and a drain on society, but in reality, he's high school dropout Souji Enishiro, a caring older brother with a sweet tooth who loves nothing more than his little sister. His viral videos? Just a way to pay his sister's medical bills. And even if all of humanity hates him, he doesn't care, so long as his little sister gets better. But then, something very strange begins to happen...
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(Source: Kodansha)

Urusugawa, Kiyomi Main

Fairouz Ai Japanese

Kasubata, Kukuru Main

Uchiyama, Kouki Japanese

Enishiro, Souji Main

Okamoto, Nobuhiko Japanese

Hasumi, Renri Main

Hanae, Natsuki Japanese

Haijima, Hiyori Main

Machico Japanese

Asaki, Yoimaru Main

Satou, Takuya Japanese

Emoto, Naruhiko Main

Suzuki, Ryouta Japanese

Surugi, Dei Supporting

Imai, Fumiya Japanese

Kouchi, Mina Supporting

Hikasa, Youko Japanese

Lonely K Supporting

Ogata, Megumi Japanese

Kurosu, Nobuhiko Producer

Oonuki, Yuusuke Producer

Amano, Masashi Producer

Iwata, Kouki Producer

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Mar 28, 2026

fubuki_kira

Recommended

how much of the good features of jjk can you cut away before you make a show unwatchable? a lot apparently. this show draws from jjk heavily, from the relatively constrained set of abilities characters can have, to the intentionally shitty personalities of most cast members, and to the overall tone of the creatures they face. while not nailing the landing, the show starts fairly compelling with the leadup to souji joining the academy, if you watched just that part, you might be compelled to give the show an 8, but it doesn't hold that momentum for long.

the quick bites you need to know to ... understand the show, which is fairly dark despite the art style implying otherwise, is that there's an upheavel in spirit sorcerery, and new generations of spirits are using digital forms that require digital techniques to fight. our boy souji, a nuisance streamer who works to take care of his sister, gets caught up into the world of sorcery by accident, having drawn attention from the main villain of the show and is given a power others fear as inherintly evil and is taken in by the strongest to go to a school of other people who draw power from their shitty personalities.

some similarities should be made pretty aware by now. functionally this show is the first season of jjk, in 12 episodes. but lets not make more comparisons, lets go over what we get done in this season. after proving himself to the principal that he had the necessary grit to be a sorcerer, he and his classmates get assigned to the curses in a building, but the curses are stronger than expected, and they almost die. after that they conduct a practice battle between class A and B, which doesnt go exactly as planned.

okay i know what you are thinking. its not that bad. the show does have some of its own charm, but the main issue is its insufficiently deep copying of jjk. the power system so far is spirit energy goes into phone, phenomena manifests, with an advanced version shown later. every sorcerer has a phenomena directly related to their personality, meaning there are duplicates. souji produces fire, as does anyone else who is primarily known for being a rage baiter online. his male classmate weilds a ban hammer, and his female uses clingy gel. its all very charming in practice, but without the underlying generic power system of cursed energy reinforcement, binding vows, and barrier techniques, every character feels extremely weak. all signs indicate that this show is going to be a team sport fighting show, instead of the 'every sorcerer dies alone' sort of show. maybe they hit their stride later, but otherwise this is just a completely average battle shonen that fits so perfectly into its place as a third generation shounen that its almost laughable.

(dragonball of course) -> bleach -> jjk -> dead account

its a palatable enough watch but it feels like a fusion of black clover and jjk in a very bad way, so im expecting the quality to continue to slump with time. 5/10 + 1 for having a few compelling moments and a compelling episode. for 6/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Apr 11, 2026

VanVeleca

Mixed Feelings

Dead Account can be described in one word: Whatever.

It's a very OK show. It's not awful, but it can be if you don't like shounen. Especially very bare bones modern shounen. The kind where you can imagine the next scene and it will play out exactly like you thought because you've seen this exact same plot point in like 3 different WSJ legends.

Almost every cliche thing in a battle shounen shows up before you're even halfway through the anime. There's a main trio, two male one female. The main guy tends to be hyper energetic and the other guy is more chill but an asshole, ... the girl's entire personality is just "teenage girl". Every character gets some kinda unique weapon but the main guy has the most special power evar!!!1!! Some sort of secret society that has been protecting humanity from secret monsters. Et cetera, et cetera, The list goes on.

There is the occasional sprinkle to make Dead Account kinda stand out, like the social media thing and how modern technology has changed how spirits operate, but as far as this first (maybe only) season goes it isn't actually that important. I was hoping perhaps the characters would be fighting exclusively with phones, because as stupid as that would be it would still be way funnier/interesting than the battle system we actually got.

It's just...whatever.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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May 27, 2026

spagoot520

Not Recommended

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This show was appalling and quite frankly one of the worst shows I've watched

ART: more like fart 3/10 shit sucked was either bad or mediocre

"CHARACTERS": more like fart 2/10. Boring uninspired messes of tropes and like the worst people you've ever met.

COMEDY?: more like fart 1/10. There was one joke I laughed at. Mostly every time they made a joke I wanted to shove a railroad spike up my nose like a DIY lobotomy.

MUSIC: more like not good 0/10. Some of the worst music I have ever heard. Would rather listen to an orchestra of people!!!

PACING: more like fart 4/10. its just bad shit ... happens for no reason and plot seems to progress randomly.

WRITING: no joke the actual definition of a 35 year old trying to bond with kids. like your totally aoeing my pogchamp when I didn't even press my ult. 0/10

generic as shit and not very awesome sauce

OVERALL: bad

TLDR: bad also music sucks

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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