Last Hope (TV series)


Last Hope, also named Unit Pandora, is a Japanese-Chinese anime television series produced and animated by Satelight. It is created and directed by Shōji Kawamori alongside Hidekazu Sato and written by Toshizo Nemoto. It premiered online in Netflix in Japan on March 29, 2018, with a local televised broadcast on Tokyo MX and other stations including MBS TV on April 4, 2018. A worldwide release through Netflix went online on September 15, 2018.

Plot

The series takes place in the year 2038, seven years after the Xianglong Crisis when a quantum reactor exploded and caused a chain reaction that destroyed civilization. It also spurred a rapid evolutionary process that turned most animals into bio-mechanical creatures called BRAI, that gradually become a threat to humanity as the city of Neo-Xianglong establish the creation of MOEV mecha to fend off the BRAI. Leon Lau, a scientist previously exiled from Neo-Xianglong for his role in the Xianglong Crisis, provides a stable quantum reactor called the Hyper Drive to enable the MOEV of the established Pandora Unit to combat a series of BRAI that are being enhanced by a similar device created by the mysterious Sieg.

Characters

;Leon Lau
;Chloe Lau
;Doug Horvat
;Queenie Yoh
;Gren Din
;Cain Ibrahim Hasan
;Cecile Sue
;Jay Yun
Jay has long charcoal colored hair with a single red streak on the front right side.
;Mr. Gold / David Kin
;Sieg
;Hao Wang
;Fau
;Lon Woo
;Fiona Sue
;Edgar Kin
;Emilia Valli

Media

Manga

A prequel manga adaptation and a 4-panel spinoff were announced. The prequel manga, titled Jūshinki Pandora 0, is serialized on Pixiv's website.

Anime

On October 17, 2017, it was announced that Shoji Kawamori's latest project had been revealed to be an original TV anime. The series is directed by Shoji Kawamori and Hidekazu Sato and features animation by Satelight. Toshizo Nemoto is writing the series. Risa Ebata provides character designs for the series. The opening theme is "Sirius" and the ending theme is "Spica"; both are performed by Bump of Chicken. The songs "New Generation" and "Meteor" by Shiena Nishizawa and the song "Kanashimi to Tomo ni" by Megumi Nakajima are used as insert themes in the series.