It sells you a bright monster-of-the-week road trip and then quietly tells you every human being on Earth is dead except the girl in the passenger seat. Yakumo walking toward Shinzo isn't a quest for treasure, it's a kid chasing a rumor that her species still exists, and the show is honest enough to make that hurt. Mushra, Sago and Kutal start as a hothead, a smug water guy and a fat cat who cooks, and the reveal that they're three pieces of one legendary warrior recontextualizes every Hyper form you cheered for. Lanancuras looms over the back half like a promise the series actually keeps. Then there's Kutal stirring a pot at a campfire for a girl who will outlive nothing, feeding the last human out of pure stubborn kindness. Cheap-looking early 2000s CG hides a genuinely bleak extinction story.

Yakumo Shindou wakes from five centuries of cryogenic sleep to a world she doesn't recognize. Humanity has been nearly wiped out by the Enterrans, a genetically engineered race created to save mankind from a deadly virus. The Enterrans won the war against humans and their robots and renamed Earth as Enterra. Before humanity fell, Yakumo's scientist father put her to sleep in the hope that she would find Shinzo, the human sanctuary, and restore peace between the two races. Yakumo gained special powers from a meteorite impact, the same event after which the Enterrans turned hostile. Three Enterrans, Mashura, Sago and Kutal, join her quest to recover her lost memories and locate Shinzo. Together they travel across a transformed world, uncovering secrets of the past, while other Enterrans will stop at nothing to keep humanity from returning. The series mixes adventure, drama, fantasy and science fiction.