'Shiritsu Paranomaru Koko' Participates in YouTube's Fake News Awareness Campaign 'Honto Kana? Ga Anata wo Mamoru.'

Plott Inc. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Shota Okuno; hereinafter "Plott"), which plans, produces, and develops IP content, announced that its popular anime 'Shiritsu Paranomaru Koko' will participate in the fake news awareness project "Honto Kana? Ga Anata wo Mamoru." led by YouTube. The promotional video for this project has been released on the official YouTube channel of Shiritsu Paranomaru Koko.

Project Overview **Project Name:** Honto Kana? Ga Anata wo Mamoru. (Is it true? It protects you.) **Official Website:** https://www.youtube.com/@YouTubeJapan **Organizer:** YouTube **Cooperation/Supervision:** Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications "Digital Positive Action" Project / Professor Tatsuhiko Yamamoto, Keio University Law School (Constitutional Law) **Academic Partner:** Keio University X Dignity Center **Key Message:** "Honto Kana? Ga Anata wo Mamoru." **Video Release Channel:** Shiritsu Paranomaru Koko Official YouTube Channel

About the Campaign "#Honto Kana? Ga Anata wo Mamoru." is an industry-academia-government collaborative fake news countermeasure awareness campaign led by YouTube, with the cooperation and supervision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (DPA) and Keio University X Dignity Center. It has been continuously implemented annually since 2023, with the aim of raising awareness that false and misleading information is a problem lurking in daily life and providing opportunities to consider how to deal with information.

Each time, creators from various genres disseminate methods for dealing with fake news through YouTube videos. In the third installment in 2025, 8 groups including Emiko Uenuma, Anne, Akabintan, Tesesaku ch, and Ten Ten Hanten participated (in no particular order, titles omitted).

In the latest series for 2026, 'Shiritsu Paranomaru Koko' was selected to participate, recognized for its unique worldview and humor, and its style of delivering "important messages naturally to viewers" as a crucial task for raising awareness among young people.

Project Participation Structure **[Provided by]** **YouTube**

**[Academic Partner]** **Keio University X Dignity Center** A place for research and practice that creates the future of human dignity and a "good life" based on the latest research results in science and technology. It promotes a wide range of research projects, including "informational health" in the AI era and platform governance. https://www.x-dignity.kgri.keio.ac.jp/

**[Cooperation/Supervision (Government Initiative)]** **Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications-led "Digital Positive Action"** A public-private partnership project launched by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications in January 2025, aiming to improve ICT literacy among users of the internet and SNS. 19 companies and organizations, including platform operators, telecommunications carriers, and IT-related companies, participate in promoting countermeasures and awareness-raising for various issues in the digital space, such as fake news, fraudulent advertisements, and defamation. https://www.soumu.go.jp/dpa/

**[Cooperation/Supervision (Supervisor)]** **Professor Tatsuhiko Yamamoto (Keio University Law School / X Dignity Center)** A researcher specializing in constitutional law and information law, highly regarded domestically and internationally for his research on freedom of expression, privacy, and human dignity in the digital space. He serves as the chairman of the "Digital Positive Action" promotion meeting and has held various government committee positions, including a member of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications' "Study Group on Platform Services." He advocates that "to fundamentally solve problems, it is necessary to significantly change awareness, and literacy is indispensable for that."

About the Promotional Video The video utilizes the worldview of 'Shiritsu Paranomaru Koko' to develop an original story centered on "fake news." Through the characters' struggles with false and misleading information, yet pausing to think "Is it true?", the video provides viewers with an opportunity to naturally develop the habit of critical thinking.

Watch the video (YouTube)

About 'Shiritsu Paranomaru Koko' 'Shiritsu Paranomaru Koko' is an anime comedy that captures the daily lives of high school students who, despite having special abilities, spend their days idly rather than engaging in fierce battles. The channel has surpassed 1 million subscribers and is actively expanding into media mixes, making it a channel with growing momentum.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@parako/videos X: https://x.com/parako_official

About Plott Inc. Plott Inc. is a creative company that plans, produces, and develops IP content, primarily focusing on short animations. It mainly produces and creates anime works and webtoon (*) works on YouTube and TikTok. With the philosophy of "Bringing warmth to daily life. Passion to the world. Light to the era.", it aims to become a leading next-generation creative company in Japan. It has launched numerous IP contents, with a cumulative total of 12 million channel subscribers and 15 billion cumulative views in the YouTube domain. Based on content that reaches SNS users, it is expanding into a wide range of media mixes including goods, games, music, comics, and novels. * webtoon is a registered trademark of NAVER WEBTOON Ltd.

Company Profile Plott Inc. Representative Director: Shota Okuno Established: August 2, 2017 Location: Da Vinci Ogawamachi 5F, 2-4 Kanda Nishikicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo Official Website: https://plott.tokyo/