Fool Night on Netflix: Release Date, Story and Cast of the Anime Where Humans Turn Into Plants

Imagine 100 years without sunlight. Plants are dying, the air is thinning, and the government has a solution: pay people to become plants.

That is the haunting premise of Fool Night, one of the strangest and most moving manga of recent years, and Netflix has turned it into an anime with two big studios behind it.

Here is the release date, story, cast and what to expect.

What is Fool Night about?

For about 100 years, thick clouds have blocked the sun. Plants are withering and oxygen is running out. Humanity’s answer is transfloration: turning people into plants. It was first offered to the terminally ill, but the money has drawn others too, since volunteers are paid for the two years the change takes.

Toshiro Kamiya is a broke would-be musician paying for his sick mother’s medicine. When she takes his savings, he asks his childhood friend Yomiko to transform him. Afterwards, he can hear what plants say, and takes a job finding transformed people and carrying their messages to the families they left behind.

Fool Night voice cast

Koki Uchiyama (Toge in Jujutsu Kaisen) voices Toshiro Kamiya, and Minako Kotobuki voices Yomiko Horai. The English dub cast has not been announced yet.

Who is making the Fool Night anime?

It is a rare team-up between Sunrise (Gundam, Cowboy Bebop) and Shaft (Monogatari, Madoka Magica). Atsushi Yukawa directs, with Jin Tanaka handling series composition and Tatsuya Kato on music.

The manga has run in Shogakukan’s Big Comic Superior since 2020, with 13 volumes as of June 2026. Viz Media publishes it in English.

Is Fool Night worth watching?

If you like quiet, thoughtful sci-fi like Pluto or Sonny Boy, this looks like one of the most interesting anime of the season. It is a story about grief, money and what we owe each other, wrapped in a very original idea.

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Watch the official trailer on YouTube.