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Series · 2020

Akudama Drive

アクダマドライブ

Several Akudama gather in a room washed in blue and purple light.
The opening brings specialists with different motives into one group. © ぴえろ・TooKyoGames/アクダマドライブ製作委員会

An ordinary working woman is arrested after a misunderstanding in the neon city of Kansai. A group of notorious criminals attacks the police station for a rescue job, pulling her into their plans. Surviving among specialists is difficult when everyone assumes she is another criminal.

The group’s useful skills do not make its members trustworthy. A driver who takes pride in every delivery and a hacker drawn to difficult systems have different reasons for accepting work. Explosive collars turn their next mission into coercion, while a police unit dedicated to eliminating Akudama closes in.

Courier’s dark hair falls across his face in a blue-and-pink-lit close-up.
Professional confidence is a different starting point from the newcomer’s precarious disguise. © ぴえろ・TooKyoGames/アクダマドライブ製作委員会

Courier takes pride in completing a delivery, while the ordinary woman depends on being mistaken for somebody with a specialist role. Their unequal starting points make the same job mean different things. Professional confidence may help the group keep moving, but it does not give the newcomer the experience or appetite for danger that the others assume she has.

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The heroine’s dark-haired face is seen through warm reflections in a city window.
© ぴえろ・TooKyoGames/アクダマドライブ製作委員会
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