“C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control” –When You Gamble Your Future, What Is Truly at Stake?

C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control is an original anime series produced by Tatsunoko Production in 2011.
Blending the worlds of economics, fantasy, and battle action, it presents a strikingly unique take on the question:

“What if the economy itself could determine your future?”

The story follows Kimimaro Yoga, a college student who becomes involved in mysterious battles within an alternate dimension known as the Financial District.
In these battles, called Deals, participants fight alongside partners known as Assets, wagering their future potential for monetary gain.
Victory brings enormous wealth—but defeat means losing pieces of your own future.

As Kimimaro dives deeper into this high-risk, high-reward world, he begins to uncover the hidden truths about money, ambition, and the system that governs reality itself.
What begins as a fight for financial survival soon becomes a philosophical war over the fate of the world’s economy.

Japan, 20XX.
The nation is drowning in massive debt. News headlines scream of economic collapse, sovereign bond failure, and national bankruptcy.

Just when all hope seems lost, a new government-backed financial institution — the Sovereign Wealth Fund — miraculously revives the Japanese economy.
The prime minister proudly declares Japan’s recovery to the world, gaining international acclaim.

Yet on the streets, the reality is different.
Despite the government’s black ink surpluses, ordinary citizens continue to suffer: rising unemployment, layoffs, and disillusionment.
Despair spreads, birthrates plummet, and random acts of violence increase. The people’s hearts stagnate, filled only with uncertainty and fear.

Amid this uneasy peace lives Kimimaro Yoga, an economics student whose dream is simple — to live a modest, stable life as a civil servant.
Orphaned at a young age, Kimimaro lives alone on scholarship money, quietly chasing security rather than ambition.

One day, a mysterious man approaches him with an unusual offer:

“I can lend you money, using your future as collateral. Would you like to invest your potential?”

From that moment, Kimimaro’s ordinary life is shattered.
He is thrust into the enigmatic Financial District, a surreal realm where Deals decide not only personal fortunes but the destiny of entire nations.

On paper, C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control looks like a “finance anime” with a dense title and a niche concept.
In reality, it’s a story about something far more universal:
the clash between “the present you want to protect” and “the future you are willing to sacrifice.”

In the mysterious “Financial District,” people wager their future as collateral to gain Midas Money and powerful partners called Assets. They fight duels called “Deals.” Winners gain enormous wealth in the real world; losers lose their future—and their real lives crumble quietly.

It sounds cold and technical, yet the deeper you go, the more you realize:
what’s being traded is not money at all, but tears, regrets, and possibilities.

The Financial District is essentially a metaphor for modern capitalism.

• Your “future” is collateral
• You borrow Midas Money against it
• You fight in Deals to gain or lose assets
• The outcome reshapes reality

Lose, and you don’t just lose cash.
You lose the life you could have had:
the partner you might have married, the children who might have been born, the career paths that might have opened.

It’s an extreme but very clear visualization of how debt and risk can consume your future in the real world, too.

The brilliance of C lies in how it uses this exaggerated system to ask a simple question:

Is money “just money,” or is it something more?

When someone’s future disappears from the world, the answer becomes painfully obvious.

Although C is built on economic metaphors, its true subject is possibility.

The show constantly reminds us that:

• Some people cannot even reach “tomorrow” without money
• But if we sacrifice too much of the future for today, everything collapses in the long run

We see poor characters whose words are dismissed, customers treated badly because they have no money, and policies that favor short-term gains over long-term stability.
It’s uncomfortably close to our world.

Yet we also see characters who pour enormous money into government bonds just to save citizens,
only to be met with disbelief:

“You spent all that just to help the people?”

The direction is sharp: symbolic cuts, visual metaphors, and the way the city quietly changes as futures disappear. Especially the later episodes, where people, buildings, and even relationships fade from existence—that’s where the “finance anime” suddenly becomes a human tragedy.

In those moments, you realize:
what’s being gambled is not currency, but souls and possibilities.
what’s being gambled is not currency, but souls and possibilities.

C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control is:

• Intellectually stimulating as a finance and economics metaphor
• Visually inventive in how it turns abstract concepts into battles
• Emotionally powerful in its portrayal of “now vs future”

Most of all, it’s a rare show where you come for the money talk—
and stay for the people.

You may start it thinking,

“This is about economics, right?”

But by the end, you’ll find yourself asking something very different:

• Whose future would I protect?
• What am I willing to sacrifice today?
• And can I really say I value other people’s possibilities?

If you ever feel like watching an anime about money that can actually make you cry,
C is one of the very few that truly earns that description.

• Kimimaro Yoga — Voiced by Kouki Uchiyama
• Mashu — Voiced by Haruka Tomatsu
• Souichirou Mikuni — Voiced by Daisuke Hosomi
• Q — Voiced by Saori Gotou
• Jennifer Satou — Voiced by Mayumi Asano
• Masakaki — Voiced by Takahiro Sakurai

• Director: Kenji Nakamura
• Series Composition: Noboru Takagi
• Screenplay: Noboru Takagi, Kenji Sugihara, Shinsuke Ōnishi, Manabu Ishikawa
• Character Design: mebae
• Music: Taku Iwasaki
• Animation Studio: Tatsunoko Production

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