The animation doesn't just support the action, it IS the action, every frame visceral enough to make you feel the weight of future war collapsing into 1997. Time travel stories live or die on whether you care about the people caught in the loop, and this one makes you watch a soldier and a scientist negotiate impossible choices in real time, knowing one wrong decision ends the world. It's relentless in the way only streaming lets it be, eight episodes that refuse to let you put it down, even when the plot starts doubling back on itself.

A soldier from a future war against the machines arrives in 1997 with one mission: protect Malcolm Lee. Malcolm is working to launch Kokoro, an artificial intelligence meant to stand against Skynet's coming attack on humanity. His creation carries heavy moral weight, since he must keep it from reaching Skynet's conclusion that humans should be wiped out. Malcolm isn't the only one interested in his work. As Judgment Day draws near in August 1997, a relentless Terminator arrives in Japan to hunt Malcolm and his three children before Kokoro becomes self-aware. The clock counts down as past and future collide.