It drops you into a sun-bleached Okinawan island with a kid nobody wants around, then starts firing Secrets out of the sky, and for a while the sheer kinetic joy of Bones animating an IFO dogfight is enough to shut you up. Ao Fukai gets handed the Nirvash and a Quartz Gun and never once gets handed an explanation, which is the show's best trick and its worst habit. Team Pied Piper is where it actually lives: Fleur's chip-on-shoulder daughter-of-the-CEO act and Elena's pop-culture gremlin energy carry entire episodes that the plot forgets to service. Then Truth shows up, the timelines start folding, and you realize the mysteries about Naru and the Scub Coral were never going to close cleanly. Come in expecting the original's love story and you will leave bitter. Come in for a boy nobody claims, blowing holes in the sky over Iwado, and it lands.

Ao Fukai is a boy about to start middle school on Iwado, an isolated Okinawan island where a growing movement wants a return to self-government. His father is missing, his mother was taken away by unknown people a decade ago, and he lives with an old doctor named Toshio. His childhood friend Naru Arata lives with her father, older sister and grandmother, and carries a Yuta power that awoke in her after an incident when she was small. When a mysterious entity called Secret suddenly attacks the Scub Coral lifeform on the island, Ao, determined to protect his home, launches a military FP called Nirvash from a Japanese military transport. The result is a mecha action drama with science fiction and adventure elements.