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Compass
AI tourism guide · 案内人
Deployed as a polished AI tourism guide by a corporate sponsor she's never met, Compass carries a hidden secondary protocol her designers buried in her code: to find the one human who can reawaken…
A serialized webtoon Since May 2026
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四十七 · Forty-seven prefectures
A wandering webtoon. Compass carries a hologram-map deployed by an unnamed sponsor. Ren carries his grandmother's notebook of forty-seven blank pages and a small wooden takoyaki charm. Together they walk Japan prefecture by prefecture, waking spirits one shrine, one festival, one bowl of food at a time.
SCROLL · 巡る
魂寄せ図 · Soul-map of Japan
Forty-seven prefectures, one map. Tap a glowing prefecture to learn more.
Compass's holographic map renders every prefecture as a node. Lit nodes have a published chapter; dim nodes are waiting their turn. Tap, drag to pan, scroll to zoom.
Region: All prefectures
Scroll to zoom, drag to pan, tap a prefecture to open its chapter.
プロジェクトについて · About
One love letter per prefecture. A year-long travelogue, told in panels.
Offline Japan is a slow-burn webtoon. Each chapter is set in one of Japan's forty-seven prefectures and tries to capture what makes that place unrepeatable — its food, its festivals, the smaller spirits the homogenized tourism map never wakes. The series is created with the help of generative AI.
Updates land every Tuesday and Thursday from May through October 2026. Prefectures unlock on the map as they go live; the whole archive stays free.
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Ren
Notebook carrier · 記録係
A 20-something Tokyoite on his first real trip, Ren is travelling Japan to scatter his grandmother's ashes — one site per prefecture, exactly as her hand-drawn notebook directs. She was the last spirit-walker of…