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Themed around the ambiguities of modern communication, the story of Soredake ga Neck is set in the Hot Hot Mart convenience store, where the mysterious young man known as Muto works in the company of Nekomaru, the slightly sinister store's cat. Is Muto the savior of the Hot Hot Mart? Or is this merely an ominous existence? What sort of stories await at the convenience store?

An unsettling blend of absurdist humor and quiet dread transforms a mundane convenience store into a landscape of existential uncertainty. Between the cryptic interactions of a mysterious clerk and the watchful gaze of a sinister cat, the animation captures the strange friction of modern social connection.