Series · 2017
ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept.
ACCA13区監察課
Jean Otus travels between thirteen autonomous districts to inspect the organisation that keeps their kingdom running. His unhurried manner makes him difficult to read. ACCA turns the duties of an auditor into a way of approaching a state whose political relationships are less settled than they first appear.
The inspection department itself is threatened with closure in the opening episode: its superiors argue that a long peace has made it unnecessary. Jean continues to his next assignment under that uncertainty. His travels therefore involve checking the institution’s branches while his own place within it is being questioned.
ACCA was formed in response to the threat of a coup, and nearly a century of peace now makes its necessity a matter of debate. The argument over Jean’s department therefore sits inside an institutional memory: an organisation built to prevent instability has to justify itself when stability appears ordinary.
TV series plus animated Regards epilogue · Approx. 5.8 hours · 13 episodes
2017 television series, 12 episodes, plus 47-minute 2020 animated epilogue Regards: 13 animated story units. Excludes the live reading/music performance and bonus promotions.