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StatusFinished AiringSeasonSummer 2018StudioProduction GoodBook, Production I.G, Signal.MDSourceOriginal
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Synopsis
Fourteen-year-old Hidomi Hibajiri lives an utterly monotonous everyday life, constantly wearing bulky cat-ear headphones to tune out the world while helping at her mother's quiet cafe. Her bleak apathy is obliterated when an eccentric, bass-wielding alien woman named Haruha Raharu violently runs her over on the street. That night, an immense mechanical robot materializes through the forehead of her awkward classmate Ko Ide. When mysterious horns sprout from Hidomi's own skull, she is plunged into surreal warfare between Medical Mechanica's industrial monoliths and galactic rebel factions, forcing the detached youth to confront her buried adolescent desires.
⚠ Background — may contain spoilers
Production I.G and Signal.MD produced this avant-garde six-part science-fiction anime project, which screened as a theatrical compilation film in Japanese theaters in September 2018 following its American broadcast on Adult Swim's Toonami block. Supervised by chief director Katsuyuki Motohiro, the film served as a long-awaited sequel to the legendary 2000 OVA series created by Kazuya Tsurumaki. Legendary alternative rock band the pillows returned to provide an exhilarating rock soundtrack and new original songs, capturing the frantic kinetic animation, coming-of-age metaphors, and irreverent absurdism that defined the cult franchise.
