In a far dark future, a resistance fighter [Malcolm Lee] discovers that SKYNET software can be reprogrammed, but against the orders from the residence leaders, the young “rebellious” resistance fighter secures the conscience of a new AI interface [Kokoro] by traveling back into time to “adjust” the earths future. A terminator is sent back to prevent the adjustment and must fight its way through several hostile and friendly force to try and prevent a rewrite by the new AI which could spell certain doom for SKYNET and the human resistance that apparently joined forces to prevent a change to their now co-existing timeline. But the catch is, which master is better to serve under, a master that already exists where you know your fate, or a master that holds unimaginable power and which truly has yet to reveal its true intentions with you? - Let fate decide.
THE GOOD - With any Japanese animation film, the visuals are stunning at times with dark imagery. There is some use of CGI that is incorporated into the series. There's plenty of violence and some intense scenes from the far future that awaits mankind. The voice acting is okay.
THE BAD - The story arc is slow at times. Character development is offset with a projection of overdone voice acting of emotion that just seems a little boring and useless to convey. The series attempt at horror just lacks impactful presentation and some of the robot designs are plane and truly a dire attempt at presenting a feel of today's inept technology concept development.
POST MORTEN - It' hard to present a horror/SciFi series that sets a tone for a dark future when three kids are involved. Where the concept of the first Terminator film provided a glimpse of leaving the fate of the world in the hand of grownups, this series falls into the plight of leaving our future up to our kids. I think that message was used up in TERMINATOR 2, but used more as an inside joke created by James Cameron to commercialize the franchise. Keeping the series serious and focusing on the darker side of dealing with unstoppable machinery should have been the real focus of this series. This was hard to watch and I had to go back and watch the first two real films to get back to the more believable world of Cameron's dark future.
⭐️⭐️💫 [2.5 of 5 Stars]
