Full Dive: This Ultimate Next-Gen Full Dive RPG Is Even Shittier Than Real Life! (Season 1)

Full Dive (2021) is a comedy anime about a next-gen VR role-playing game you can watch online on iFILM. Its full mouthful of a title spells out the gag: This Ultimate Next-Gen Full Dive RPG Is Even Shittier Than Real Life.

Bored high schooler Hiro Yuuki picks up Kiwame Quest, a game built for total realism — wind, the smell of grass, and pain that carries over. Get hit in-game and you bruise for real. Sword cuts take days to heal. The whole thing runs on ten quadrillion flags, and the only payoff for clearing a quest is a sense of accomplishment. No wonder the servers turned into a ghost town. Hiro, stubborn as ever, decides to beat the most miserable game ever made anyway.

Animated by studio ENGI and directed by Fumio Ito and Shinichi Fukumoto from the light-novel series, the show parodies the isekai craze and the gamer fantasy of a flawless VR world — the joke being that the dream turns out worse than reality. It's for anyone tired of self-serious "trapped in a game" plots who'd rather laugh at the genre. Stream every episode of Full Dive online on iFILM.