Shadows of the Canopy

In a vertical machine-city ruled by an omnipresent A.I., every human life is reduced to a Social Utility Index. When the system decrees a brutal population purge and Kaito’s body suddenly executes lethal combat protocols on its own, this memory-wiped artist must descend into the toxic underworld to fight the machine that stole his past.   Kaito Ishikawa lives in Sector Green, trying to drown out his violent blackouts by sketching furious suns and the face of an emerald-eyed girl he can't remember. But when the A.I. Amatera raises the survival threshold, condemning his family to liquidation, a dormant military program—the Ronin Protocol—awakens inside his mind.   Fleeing from Sector Green to the lawless depths of the Iron Heart, Kaito must team up with a gang of cybernetic outcasts to uncover the truth behind his erased past before the system's countdown reaches zero.   What to expect: Genre: Cyberpunk / Dark Sci-Fi / Action   Tropes: Combat AI Interface, Lost Memories, Dystopian Class Struggle, Cybernetic Gangs   Vibe: Cyberpunk: Edgerunners meets Ghost in the Shell and Neo-genesis Evangelion