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Year 2047

IMDO, the International Mars Development Organization,

today celebrates the completion of its first Mars colony.

In just a short while,

it will begin accepting the proposed 500,000 immigrants from Earth.

All candidates must pass the IMDOʹs strict screening process.

Hiroshi...

What are your plans?

My plans? Nothing special.

The Earth will be uninhabitable in 10 years anyway...

Only a handful of the ʹʹchosenʹʹ get to go to Mars.

You let a failed exam really get to you.

Thatʹs kind of pathetic.

Slouching around at home wonʹt make things better.

Hiroshi, you canʹt go to Mars if you donʹt study.

Just because you get good grades, donʹt be a smart-ass.

Koyomi, you want to live on Mars?

Yep. In the future,

all three of us will live there.

Sure, youʹll study hard and build us a big house.

Iʹm counting on you.

Listen to you... It looks kind of cushy...

Maybe Iʹll join the military, like you...

A bum like you in the military?

Donʹt talk nonsense.

Get lost.

Akishima here.

Understood. Iʹll be there in 20 minutes.

Itʹs an emergency. Iʹve got to leave.

For work? What about the movie you promised?

Iʹm sorry, weʹll go next week.

Whatʹs up with her?

Sulking about the movie.

Look after her while Iʹm gone.

Where did I put it?

Whereʹs Dad?

He left already.

I was going to give him this.

Fly Safely

Give it to him when he gets back.

Honestly, I always thought things would work out.

That peace would last forever.

But that was a fantasy.

Dad left that day, and never came back.

In September, 2047 A.D.

An unknown asteroid appeared in Earthʹs orbit.

it was named, ʹʹFebruusʹʹ.

It was a base for some kind of intelligent life,

which the military dubbed ʹʹFOSʹʹ.

FOS launched an attack on mankind.

An international military response had absolutely no effect on them.

FOS forces deployed ʹʹThermo-Reactiveʹʹ weapons

to melt the Poles.

Sea water levels rose, and most major cities were quickly engulfed.

Any remaining cities were burned to the ground.

In just 6 days, most of mankind was dead.

After that cascade of chaos, in December,

a supra-national defense organization was formed,

the ʹʹProvisional Government of Integrated Planetary Nationsʹʹ.

All remaining military strength

was formed into the PDFA, ʹʹPlanetary Defense Forces Allianceʹʹ.

6 years since the FOS invasion

Year 2053

Japan Area United, Fuji Base

I joined the struggle

against the countless, black hordes.

Hey, Akishima, giving up?

Wait a sec. Iʹm not done yet.

Lt. Akishima, thereʹs no way youʹll get out of that.

You owe me 2 potato croquettes.

Not again...

24 losses in a row.

Sagawa, youʹre no better.

Want to know a great rumor I just heard?

More gossip.

Someone pulling your leg again?

Just listen for Chrissakes.

Somewhere in this base...

is hidden an ultimate, top-secret weapon.

Its code name is ʹʹKairosʹʹ.

Itʹs the decisive weapon.

Is it nuclear?

Weʹve already seen nukes do nothing against FOS, right?

What then?

Something far more powerful.

- Maybe... - Maybe?

Seems like youʹre having fun.

Major Yoshizawa, when did you get back?

About 20 minutes ago.

Good news for you layabouts, twiddling your thumbs.

The Eastern Russian Area Forceʹs ʹʹTunguskaʹʹ Anti-FOS Offensive

has ended in failure.

Their army groupʹs been annihilated.

Japan Area United is the only one left in the Far East theater.

Orders for a 12th Anti-FOS Offensive using our Prototype GL Force

have arrived from Superintendent General Yoshizawaʹs HQ.

Youʹll be briefed at 0900 tomorrow.

All pilots to stand by.

Headed to actual combat...

But...

itʹs so sudden...

Keep your hair on.

For Chrissakes...

Weʹre supposed to be ready for this.

Lt. Akishima...

about this enemy weʹre facing, FOS...

What do you think it really is?

ʹʹExtraterrestrial Hostile Intelligent Organismsʹʹ by military definition.

Some say thereʹs a human cause behind it.

Doubting the authorities?

Honestly, I donʹt know what to believe.

Donʹt think too much.

For me, FOS is about vengeance for my father.

No matter what it is...

I just want to kill.

Actually my brother was a soldier.

He was involved in the design of the Geometric Limbs.

So you volunteered to be a pilot?

He was my brother, but I hardly knew him.

I have no memories of him.

But wanting to get to know him better, I enlisted as a GL pilot.

Is that it?

Yes, but...

do I need a grand cause like revenge?

Not really, but...

I worry whether I can fight or not.

Iʹm not driven by hatred for them...

I was sad when my brother died but...

Jeez, whereʹs the funeral guys?

Capt. Tazaki, howʹd you get here?

Drinking on stand-by to fly?

Booze is banned, you know?

Loosen up.

Want some? Itʹs home-brewed hooch.

As if Iʹd try anything that suspect.

Damn... Made with love for this special day.

Letʹs face it, weʹre...

I wonʹt report the booze, if you grant me 2 hours leave.

Where to, at a time like this?

Itʹs me. Itʹs been ages.

I need to talk. At 0800...

I mean, 8pm, are you free?

Make an excuse to leave your dorm.

Before the FOS attack this was a lively part of town.

Itʹs beyond recognition now.

A hellish world.

For the handful of survivors,

without a military connection, they get no help.

They face either starvation

or a subsistence life of banditry.

Weʹre so lucky to have military protection.

Although some say weʹre just cannon-fodder.

Itʹs been 2 years.

Are you well?

Howʹs school?

OK, I guess...

Whatʹs up?

Thereʹs a big offensive tomorrow.

For security reasons, thereʹll be no evacuation notice.

Civilians may get caught in the cross-fire.

- Wait a minute... - You must go to Mars.

To Mars?

Get the Esperanza II Shuttle tomorrow.

Iʹll send a buddy to meet you at 9am.

Get ready to evacuate.

Donʹt forget your passport, credit card and military-issued ID.

- How about you? - Youʹre going on your own.

I donʹt want to go to Mars alone.

You have to get out of here.

Military family members get priority.

Why donʹt you leave, too? You said itʹs dangerous.

Because Iʹm a soldier.

A soldier?

So was Dad and thatʹs why he died. Youʹll die, too.

Iʹll avenge Dad.

Thatʹs a lie.

You only joined-up to get his approval, right?

But itʹs all too late now. Youʹre a fool.

Focus on your own survival.

Me and Dad is none of your business.

We shut down the Diffuser.

What the hell do you mean?

Opinion is not required.

Youʹre all aware,

the Diffuser is a plasma defense screen protecting the world

and preventing FOS from entering our atmosphere.

Of course! So why shut it down?

3 years ago, HQ had the Research Division

fast-track adaptation of the Diffuser from terra-forming technology.

However...

they only did a makeshift job.

You know where the Diffuser gets its massive energy needs from?

Nope...

Right here!

In the heart of the Fuji Base.

Inside this base is the worldʹs most powerful generator.

Iʹve always suggested we use it,

not in passive defense but to attack the enemy on Februus.

Then last month we completed work

on a Converged Energy Assault Canon,

the D-Cannon.

Is that the one?

I guess so.

Civilian intelligence has just announced,

the receipt of information about a large-scale military offensive.

Neither the PDFA nor the government

has released any official statement.

It is assumed the secrecy is to avoid civil unrest.

Between the shield shut down and cannon firing,

thereʹs a slight time lag.

The enemy will try to exploit this and will surely launch a direct assault.

The D-Cannon needs 14 mins & 40 secs.

Your mission is to defend the base at all costs.

This is the strategy for todayʹs final anti-FOS offensive

Its code name is ʹʹPlan-Zetʹʹ.

ʹʹPlanzetʹʹ?

Analysis of our previous offensives

shows that our enemy possesses adaptive intelligence.

In other words, theyʹre ʹʹsmartʹʹ.

So any specialist weapon systems

or strategies used before will be ineffective.

Hence the development of the armored mobile attack vehicles,

we call the Geometric Limbs. These are the weapons you will pilot.

In other words, while you get your D-Cannon thing ready to fire,

we just buy time, right?

Thatʹs correct.

The D-Cannonʹs durability is such, that it can only fire once.

This will be mankindʹs last assault against FOS.

Destroying their base will finish the war.

However, if we fail,

human life will be over.

The end of mankind...

Training you three to this level,

cost the same as building an entire star ship.

Prove to us that the 2 years was worth it.

That woman pisses me off.

That hit the spot.

Superintendent General Yoshizawaʹs daughter becomes a major in the Combined Fleet.

The military elite family connection, huh?

Jealous or something?

No way!

High rank or title mean nothing.

I know what you mean but,

the higher-ups always have the best chances of survival.

Isnʹt your sister, Koyomi?

She just got into the Military Academy, right?

Sheʹs got an elite future ahead, too.

Maybe sheʹll turn out like our beloved Major?

Quit it, will you?

For a kid to have a chance in life, putting her in a military facility

was the only option I had.

I lost my wife, daughter and parents.

Take good care of your sister.

Itʹs an order, understood?

Yes, I intend to do so.

Anything wrong?

Your sisterʹs not here. Whereʹs she got to?

Did you look for her?

What the hell is she thinking?

Commence energy diversion from Diffuser to D-Cannon.

All GL pilots, stand by for take-off.

We have visitors.

All Geometric Limbs, take-off.

Let ʹem taste our hospitality!

Koyomi...

Aiming the big gun at our base, huh?

Ignore the small fry. Get the mother ship!

Affirmative.

Iʹll keep the fighters busy. Hit the carrier.

Good, go!

Piece of cake! The simulator was way harder.

Distance, 14,200...

Wind direction, 86 degrees.

Speed, 31 knots...

Why donʹt you shoot?

- The windʹs too strong. - Shoot, damn it!

Theyʹre acting as shields.

Come on, keep shooting!

Out of ammo.

No back-up mags, Captain.

Damn, Iʹm out, too!

That was close...

The GLs donʹt stand a chance for close-in combat.

Not now!

Behind you!

Kaori!

Brother...

Iʹm sorry...

Sagawa!

Kaori!

You bastards!

Wait, you idiot.

They killed my father, too!

You forgetting my order?

What are you doing?

I canʹt let you die!

Captain Tazaki!

Take good care of your sister.

Captain!

Goddamn it...

Why?

No enemy detected within 100 kms of base.

All wings return to base.

Capt. Tazaki and Lt. Sagawa are...

I know. Itʹs a small price to pay.

A small price?

My father killed a space monster 28 years ago,

and was worshiped as a savior.

He then rose to the top of the military.

As daughter to that kind of man,

no matter what I do or where I go,

people assume I ride his coat-tails.

The success of this operation

will secure my reputation.

Iʹll show those useless bastards on Mars!

How come?

Why?

How am I different from my father?

Is this the limit of my ability?

Whatʹs a child doing here?

My brother...

Whereʹs Lieutenant Akishima?

No idea...

Koyomi.

Hiroshi!

You fool, why are you here?

Whatʹs going on?

Pull the trigger, Akishima.

Plan-Zet has failed.

Itʹs the end of everything.

If you wonʹt shoot...

Why did you do that?

Whatʹs the point of dying? Taking responsibility for your troops?

Responsibility?

Donʹt make me laugh.

You wouldnʹt understand

what this war really means to me.

Since I failed to destroy the FOS

Iʹve no more reason to live.

What nonsense! Does life mean nothing to you?

Sagawa and Captain Tazaki died!

But youʹre still here and must protect this base.

I wish I could praise their honorable deaths

but sadly they died in vain.

The enemy will soon take over Earth.

Whatʹs that?

Time remaining before the base self-destructs.

Thereʹs no stopping the sequence.

Why are you doing this?

This is... ...my last mission.

Koyomi.

The base will eeplode in 2 mins & 50 seconds.

Can we get out? Itʹs less than 3 minutes.

Thereʹs an underground shelter. Itʹs our only hope.

Nothing happened.

- What? - Whatʹs that?

I am Superintendent General Yoshizawa.

The fact that this image is being played

means the strategic situation is lost.

But do not despair yet.

Where you stand now isnʹt a shelter.

Itʹs the control room of Kairos, our last resort.

Kairos?

Weʹre inside it?

Kairos is a double-edged sword.

Thus I wanted this only for defense

and never as a weapon of attack.

That is the nature of the Diffuser.

But now it must be too late for that.

I am ordering you to deploy Kairos.

No, this is not an order.

I entrust you with the last hope of mankind.

The Kairos System follows the operatorʹs thoughts.

The power of a strong will, will vanquish our enemy.

I pray you will bring about a second chance for humanity.

Hey!

Koyomi.

Head out that way.

What about you?

Brother?

I have to go.

Why? Weʹve been lucky to survive.

Why do you have to take more risks?

You still want to avenge Dad?

Itʹs not that.

Dadʹs not coming back.

But that doesnʹt mean I canʹt do anything.

I donʹt get it...

If we do nothing, the Earth will be destroyed.

All our memories and dreams...

our everyday lives...gone.

As if they never existed.

Arenʹt I right?

But you donʹt have to be the one to do it.

Somebody else will...

It doesnʹt have to be you.

Isnʹt that right?

Koyomi...

I am that ʹʹsomebodyʹʹ.

There are times others can do it...

But there are also times no-one else can.

I was given something precious

by Dad and my colleagues.

And now, Iʹm giving it back.

Iʹm off.

Iʹm coming, too. Iʹll come with you.

- Koyomi. - Slap me if you like.

But Iʹm not moving from here.

Why...?

Because I believe in you.

And...

because weʹre family.

Koyomi.

What is it?

An enemy attack.

Once weʹre done, we go home.

And Iʹll take you to a movie. Itʹs my treat.

Donʹt you dare forget.

Kairos, take off.

Target the asteroid, Februus.

Go, Kairos.

Kairos beam.

Deploy Diffuser!

We canʹt get close enough.

What can we do?

Maybe itʹll dismantle itself entirely.

We canʹt wait for that to happen.

Weʹve lost the Diffuser!

Great, itʹs coming towards us.

Great, itʹs coming towards us. My beamʹs out...

Look down!

Damn.

Is it trying to smash us into the Earth.

The impact of something this big...

...will destroy the entire world.

Itʹs getting hot...

Is it trying to bake us?

Koyomi! Hold on.

Brother...

Dadʹs safety charm...

Koyomi!

Dad... Help us, please.

I beg you.

Is this the end?

Is it no use?

Is all weʹve done for nothing?

Why?

Dad...

What should I do?

Dad? Help me!

Donʹt be so spoiled.

How dare you?

Itʹs your world. Itʹs up to you to defend it!

If not now, when?

If youʹve got life in you, fight!

Hiroshi!!

Koyomi...

Hold on...

Thank you...

Koyomi...

Thank the lord...

Youʹre awake.

Iʹve been out about 3 days?

Maybe 30 minutes.

Major...

Why?

Must there be a reason?

Maybe itʹs not for you.

Remember what you said?

That youʹd take me to a movie...

Not that any are playing.

I knew that, silly.

But they will one day.

Without a doubt.

Supervision : Cedric Littardi