This is the version that skips the breathing room and just lets the Blue eat everyone. Yuji Kaido wakes from cryo-sleep expecting a cure for his B-cell disease and instead gets 2031: humanity demoted to livestock, insect things splitting people open on screen with no cutaway mercy. Marlene Angel carries the whole thing, a Sleeper retrieval agent who kills without blinking and slowly, painfully learns why that's a problem. The Armor Shrike combat is ugly and desperate rather than heroic, and Second Earth turns out to be its own kind of rot the second you get there. Compilation films usually sand the edges off. This one sharpens them, reframes the story around the two of them, and lands on an ending that isn't the show's. If you like your mecha bleak and your survivors barely worth saving, you already know.

Yuji Kaido wakes from two decades of cryogenic sleep to a world fundamentally transformed. Earth no longer belongs to humanity. Massive insectoid creatures called the Blue have overrun the planet, and what remains of mankind has fled into space to escape them. Sightings go back as far as 2017, and by 2031 the creatures had taken over as the planet's dominant species. Yuji was frozen because of a mysterious illness, meant to sleep until a cure could be found, and he wakes more than twenty years later to learn that the survival of the whole human race depends on him. He joins a band of soldiers fighting the Blue in the hope of a better future. The film is a horror-tinged mecha and science fiction adventure drama.