(Life-Form Resonance Inner Energy Negative Emotion and Disaster Preventions) Smartphone-like devices allow them to summon and control these creatures, who emerge en masse as soon as their teacher turns around to write equations on the board. To his surprise, everyone in his class has a similar companion, who they call F.R.I.E.N.D.s. On the first day of school, Masashi brings Kurage-bo in his backpack, sneaking him chee-kama when he gets hungry. They are interrupted by a tsunami shimmering with unnatural colors, a single eye at its center. That night, Masashi dreams about eating chee-kama and talking to his dead father, who made the snack as part of his job. They quickly become friends, playing soccer and practicing martial arts at a shrine.
He pins it to the ground and discovers the pink creature inside, who he names Kurage-bo (Jellyfish Boy).
Suddenly, a box of chee-kama launches itself towards him. The next day, Masashi returns home from a visit to his new elementary school to find it ransacked. Before long, young Masashi Kusakabe notices strange things in he and his mother's apartment: glimpses of a small figure's shadow and chee-kama (cheese-and-fish-cake stick) wrappers strewn about the floor. While the Black-Cloaked Four are trying to make a monster, a mysterious pink creature watches in on the factory.Ī year after an unspecified natural disaster, two evacuees prepare to begin a new life in a rural town. are made from negative energy of children by the Black-Cloaked Four. are puppets made from silicon and then programmed into CGI F.R.I.E.N.D.s.