is a Japanese anime television series by director Takuya Satō and illustrator Yoshitoshi Abe. The series aired in Japan from October 3 to December 19, 2018.
Plot After spending 10 years in stasis, a robotics engineer awakens to a war-torn world and a fight for his life against machines that he and his father had a hand in creating.
Characters
(Japanese); Adam Gibbs (English) Derrida is an engineer who contributed to the technology of the automata called DZs that has brought forth a new civilization in the near future. He is Nathan's colleague and Jacques's son. He escaped from being pursued by Andrei and sought refuge in an underground lab, where he accidentally slips inside a cryostatis chamber. He awakens ten years later to a war-torn environment, where he meets Vidaux and Mayuka. They agree to help him find a way to end the war.
(Japanese); Natalie Hoover (English) Yuri is Mage's friend who does photography as a hobby.
(Japanese); Bryn Apprill (English) Mage is Nathan's daughter and Yuri's friend.
} (Japanese); Brian Mathis (English) Vidaux is a former police inspector turned hitman from the Destruct company who travels with Mayuka. He encounters Derrida and helps him end the war.
(Japanese); Dani Chambers (English) Mayuka is Vidaux's adopted daughter. Vidaux killed Mayuka's biological father out of revenge after Vidaux's wife was killed in a hit-and-run.
(Japanese); Howard Wang (English) Graham is the AI navigator installed on Vidaux's custom car.
(Japanese); Colleen Clinkenbeard (English) Donna is a mercenary from the Destruct company nicknamed "The White Death" and hired by Andrei to kill Derrida. She was previously a researcher named Angelica Klein, who had a psychotic break following a seventeen-day lab experiment with a DZ who copied her personality.
(Japanese); Seth Magill (English) Nathan is Derrida's colleague and Mage's father. He and Derrida found a bug in the underlying programming language of the DZs and helped Derrida create a patch, but Andrei was against authorize a recall. He is killed by Andrei when he was trying to flee the city with Derrida.
(Japanese); Phil Parsons (English) Andrei is Derrida and Nathan's boss at the manufacturing company called Rebuild. He paid off Jacques to reject having a patch made to fix the bug in the DZs. Ten years later, he hires Donna to kill Derrida, but he later hires Schmidt to do the job when he disagrees with Donna's methods.
(Japanese); Ben Bryant (English) Jacques is Derrida's father and the inventor of the DZs. He is shot to death by Andrei's agents after Derrida previously tried to give him the patch.
(Japanese); Garret Storms (English) Schmidt is a government bureaucrat who is hired by Andrei to apprehend the patch from Derrida shortly after Andrei disagrees with Donna's methods.
(Japanese); Brad Kurtz (English) Hund is one of Schmidt's subordinates.
(Japanese); Christopher Llewyn Ramirez (English) Katze is another one of Schmidt's subordinates.
Production and release Kadokawa originally announced the series at its Anime Expo booth on July 1, 2017, under the working title "Project D". The series was directed by Takuya Satō, written by Kenji Konuta, and animated by studio Geek Toys. Illustrator Yoshitoshi Abe provided the character designs for the series, while Koji Watanabe adapted the designs for animation. The series' music was composed by Maiko Iuchi and produced by Kadokawa. Sound for the series was directed by Yukio Nagasaki at Half HP Studio. The opening theme, "Paradox", was performed by Quadrangle, and the ending theme "Toki no Tsubasa" was performed by M.A.O and Himika Akeneya under their character names. The series consists of 12 episodes. Some characters' names allude to historical and literary figures, such as French philosopher Jacques Derrida and Chrétien de Troyes' novel Yvain, the Knight of the Lion.
The series premiered aired from October 3 to December 19, 2018, on Tokyo MX and other channels. The series is simulcasted by Crunchyroll, while Funimation produced an English dub. The first four episodes premiered on Crunchyroll on September 22, 2018. Crunchyroll and Hikari TV Channel broadcast the episodes four weeks ahead of its TV broadcast.
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