Kids wake up from cold sleep with powers they don't understand, stationed in three cities to fight an enemy that's already winning. The show spends six episodes feeling like every other magical-girl-soldier anime, then episode seven pulls the floor out and suddenly you're watching something that knows exactly what it wants to say about sacrifice and what it costs to protect people who will never know you saved them. The soundtrack arrives exactly when the plot needs it most, carrying scenes that the animation budget couldn't quite reach on its own.

Decades of war against an otherworldly enemy called UNKNOWN have left humanity fighting to survive. When the invasion began, Japan's children were put into cryogenic sleep to keep them safe. Upon waking years later, they discover they have each developed a unique supernatural power, known as a World. The strongest of them take charge of defense cities in Tokyo, Kanagawa and Chiba, holding the line against the UNKNOWN that emerge from the Tokyo Bay Gate. Childhood friends Ichiya Suzaku and Canaria Utara lead Tokyo, siblings Kasumi and Asuha Chigusa run Chiba, and Maihime Tenkawa and Hotaru Rindou oversee Kanagawa. Clashing personalities and petty rivalries keep the three cities bickering, but when the UNKNOWN suddenly step up their attacks, the leaders have to learn to cooperate or risk losing humanity's last line of defense. Qualidea Code is a twelve-episode action fantasy with supernatural battles at its center.