This series is incredible in so many ways. The art is distinct, beautifully bleak, and yet everything from the fashion styling to the character designs and post-industrial brutalism of the backgrounds pulls you into the world effortlessly.
The story is nihilistic but not without humanity, starting off as a slow burn, exploring the characters and the circumstances that shaped them. Then, things pick up quickly, escalating into events that touch on the politics and bureaucratic maneuvering surrounding the characters, before the slow burn becomes a raging inferno of catastrophy both personal and social.
If you're looking for a series that combines science fiction, the characterization of literature, and the artistic style so rare to find among the recent flood of boilerplate fantasy isekai manga going around, Fool's Night is for you.
P.S. I can't be the only person who loves the clever wordplay of combining austerity (the political practice of removing crucial government support programs and welfare) and city into "Austercity", right? I'm a little jealous I didn't think of it!