ANONYMOUS;CODE

"The fact that you've arrived here―rather, to this save point―at this moment in your life is nothing short of a miracle. It delights me to no end. Step through the stage's curtain; rip off the mask of the wizard who pulls the strings. Close the loop. Hack into God." ——February 6, 2036 - Time, 15:28:15 Every computer on Earth overflowed past the maximum limit of the 4,294,967,295 seconds granted within the Digital Standard Clock that had been ticking away since 1900, leading to the worst-case scenario: all Defense-Attack Systems throughout the world majorly malfunctioning. Military satellites roared like Hammers of God as they showered instant devastation upon the world's major cities. New York, London, Shanghai, Moscow, and Shinjuku. This large-scale disaster came to be known as "Sad Morning." Was this simply judgment being handed down onto mankind? If so, then who could that judge be? Or instead, could this merely be the preface to a far greater calamity...? The curtains to the story of Anonymous;Code rise during an unsettling series of events set in Nakano, Tokyo - Year 2037.

The game takes place in 2037. The story starts on February 6, 2036, when an accident involving computers going berserk destroys many large cities around the world. The massive disaster is named the "2036 Problem", but there's a prediction that there will be a similar incident in 2038. So a group of scientists use the Gaia Supercomputer to create an "Earth Simulator" to prevent it from happening, but fail because human birth potential has dropped dramatically. The scientists then introduce the "Arecibo Message" formula to the Earth Simulator, successfully bringing mankind into another world. They are excited at first, until they realize that human beings in the Earth Simulator themselves created another Earth Simulator. The scientists begin to suspect that they are actually only the product of an Earth Simulator from creatures whose position is above them. The story centers around Takaoka Pollon, a hacker who has the ability to "Save and Load" like in a video game. Using his Hacking Trigger System, he can intervene with the world line around him.