Soukou No Strain

Information:
Type: TV Series, 13 episodes
Year: 1 November 2006 – 14 February 2007
Age rating: PG-13 – Teens +13
Summary:

In the distant future, the galactic Union is in a war with the mysterious Deague. The Union’s strongest force is made up of mecha called Strains, operated by users called Reasoners. These Strains as well as many other ships, are capable of going into “Sub-lightspeed travel”. To be a Reasoner, you must have a Mimic, a machine fused with the brain cells from the reasoner before the reasoner was even born.

Sara Werec, an orphan, is the focus of the story. In the first episode, she despairs that her brother Ralph, an incredible Reasoner, will be going 130 light years away to the front line, and according to general relativity, even if he survives, when he comes back home, she’ll be long dead. She decides that when she grows up, she will join the war, too, just to see her brother again.

Sara grows up to be the star Reasoner of her academy. One day, the planet is suddenly attacked by the Deague. The enemy force is headed by a strangely powerful Strain, whom Sara attempts to engage. The pilot takes out Sara (destroying her Strain and Mimic) and kills all of her friends. Sara escapes from her Strain alive and follows the enemy pilot into a forgotten lab near the Academy. The pilot retrieves a little girl in stasis and Sara recognizes the pilot as her brother. She calls to her brother, who barely seems to recognize her as he returns to his Strain and leaves. She declares that she will find out the truth of what caused her brother to become this way.

Genres: Mecha,Military,Psychological