The website for a genetic enhancement company called Nippon Shin Eisei (Japan New Health) features an eerie Flash-based introduction to the Junsui Project, which profiles a genetically-altered individual named Junko (who's at the center of what looks like an alternate reality game or viral marketing campaign).
From the site (which can be viewed only once before an "error message" is displayed):
"For countless millenia, humans have evolved unconsciously, spreading out to populate the world. For the first time ever, we may glimpse our long genetic inheritance... And from it, we may plot the path by which we wish to continue. Junko is the first child of her type ever to be born. She and the other Junsui are the children of ALL mankind. Through the new technology of genetic target augmentation, Junko has been gifted with only the most optimal human alleles. Junsui are the best of all we have ever been, and therefore represent the best way of coping with an uncertain future."
The Nippon Shin Eisei website claims to offer customers access to revolutionary new gene enhancement technology that can ensure the best possible future for their unborn children. Most of the site appears to be password-protected, but if you send an email requesting one of their test kits, you will get the following response:
From: infoSPLATshineisei.jp
Subject: Thank You For Interest in NSEDear Consumer:
Thank you for interest in Nippon Shin Eisei.
Due to overwhelming response, Nippon Shin Eisei has temporarily decided to issue a cessation of test kit distribution by mail.
We foresee the ability to distribute kits again in the near future. We are proud to announce that NSE is currently undergoing a transition to a new office and laboratory facilities which will enable us to accommodate a much larger volume. At which time this becomes a possibility, you will be informed by electronic mail.
If you are in the Matsuyama area, please feel free to schedule a genetic analysis through our office. Please note that samples from both prospective parents are necessary.
Thank you for your interest in the More Than Me and Junsui programs.
Best Regards,
Masa Tatenuma
Founder, NIPPON SHIN EISEI
http://shineisei.jp?Yourself as you wish to be remembered.?
[Link: Junsui Project Introduction]
TheOuster
all a giant scam guys. sorry to ruin it.
[ ]mijonju
oh many this is some crazy cult!
[ ]biteyourself
I replied to PT on Twitter, but they did not answer. Apparently it's a game. I don't feel like putting in the effort to further explore it, but there is a topic about Junko Junsui on unfiction (ARG):
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=28153
[ ]Sublight
Sounds kind of like the Raelians.
[ ]lukas
Maybe you already know this, but the error message is part of the puzzle. Find the words "the enemy" and click on them. That takes you to a page that looks like Google. Do a search for "the enemy" and you will find links to a website for a Russian security firm called "alfa-tsentr". Go back to the fake Google screen and do a search for "alfa-tsentr"... What do you see?
[ ]Koko
After everything you said you are taken to a website where there is a girl in a white room and that's it so far.
[ ]Ueno
There's also the alfa-tsentr site, accounts on Facebook and Twitter, and bits and pieces on YouTube and Vimeo. To probe deeper, see the pages at wikidot and unfiction.
[ ]wobblydenison
Damn...
this is the end of the world.
But I think this is tied in to the new Bruce Willis movie coming out about cloning or something.
[ ]BaKKaNeKKo
FUCK! I just finish looking at the site, it was scarrryyy!!!
[ ]I closed my eyes at the last picture, then suddenly it jumps to vimeo, a video attach to Junko. I don't dare to play it @___@
what's this stuff??! I hope it's an ARG..
Christine
Crap, I think I did it wrong...
[ ]Ankhurth
Evrything is f*cked now... it's over.
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