Mecha-ude

Mecha-ude (メカウデ) started as an animation project created by Okamoto & animation studio TriF Studio with an action manga flare. The project succeeded in collecting $65,000 in 2016 on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. CyberConnect2 president and CEO Hiroshi Matsuyama, and Hiroto Niizato later joined the project. Singer Eve will be providing the theme song, and a cast of famous voice actors will be bringing life to the characters.

Plot
The resistance organization ARMS fights against the Kagami Group. The Mecha-Ude Wielders who belong to ARMS are being targeted, and their Mecha-Ude are being stolen. If the stolen Mecha-Ude cannot be retrieved, their human owners will die. Alma is one of the Mecha-Ude targeted by the Kagami Group, and he is being protected by the Mecha-Ude Wielder Aki. Aki believes that a former rival of hers, another Mecha-Ude Wielder, may be involved in this case. To find the truth, she ignores her supervisor’s warnings and sets out to do her own investigation. Hikaru and Alma are dragged along with her. Subtlety is not one of Aki’s specialties, and she decides to start interrogating every Mecha-Ude Wielder in the city. Tonight she’s about to head out to do more interrogations, and a very annoyed Alma and Hikaru will be going with her…