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Afterlost

Japanese mobile game and anime series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ24873319
Source-derived summary

Afterlost (Japanese: 消滅都市, Hepburn: Shōmetsu Toshi; transl. "Annihilated City") (stylized as AFTERLOST) is a Japanese mobile game series. An anime television series adaptation by studio Madhouse aired from April to June 2019.

Plot

One day, the city of Lost suddenly disappears. Takuya, a courier who works alone, meets Yuki, a mysterious girl who is the sole survivor of the incident. After receiving a message from Yuki's father, who was presumed missing, they head toward Lost.

Despite not knowing each other, Takuya and Yuki must work together to survive and reach Lost. Opposing them is a mysterious organization who seeks to prevent them from knowing the truth.

Characters

Yuki (ユキ)

Voiced by: Kana Hanazawa (Japanese); Lindsay Seidel (English)

A girl with mysterious powers who is the sole survivor of the incident that destroyed Lost. After receiving a message from her father, she and Takuya head for the city.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Afterlost” is japanese mobile game and anime series. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Afterlost, Japanese and mobile, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2014. For this dossier, Afterlost, Japanese and mobile is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “japanese mobile game and anime series” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24873319. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from Afterlost” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.