Real Drive - S01

2061 AD. Fifty years have passed since humanity built the Network society. Many expected this new infrastructure to bring about a utopia, one where people connected with each other at the level of consciousness. Instead, new social problems emerged, such as personal data leaks and the spread of manipulated information. Even so, people kept relying on the Network to exchange information and could not bring themselves to abandon it. In time, a new Network realm with stronger security was developed. It was called the Meta Real Network, usually shortened to "the Metal." The Metal stored personal memory data inside protected virtual stand-alone organic cyber enclaves known as bubble shells, and it eventually became part of everyday life. But people gradually learned to release and explode their instincts within the safe environment of the Metal. Those unleashed instincts pushed each person's consciousness to drown in a sea of information and left them exposed to the pressures of desire. Meanwhile, norms and regulations continued to bind their lives in the real world. So a strange friction between the two worlds began to show itself as aberrations beyond anything imaginable. The experts who ventured into the deep sea of the Metal to investigate and decipher these aberrations were called cyber divers. This is the story of a cyber diver, Masamichi Haru, who investigates the incidents that lie between Reality and the Metal.