In 2074 Japan will still have capital punishment and will patent a "cutesy death" where death will come from hunger and thirst after remaining connected for days in virtual reality. For the condemned it will be possible to choose which anime character to spend the last days with and in which anime world, it will be impossible to distinguish reality from fiction. The technology will be stolen by "dreamers" who will use it without cognition and will have effects on them like drugs, often leading to death, many will choose to live in virtual reality with very long sessions attached to vital machines and forced feeding.