You sign up to escape one cage and end up in another where you're literally called a piece of meat on a stick. The show moves like its own soldiers, fast, brutal, no room for sentiment. Six episodes to watch kids figure out that every system designed to use you works exactly the same, whether it's the one you were born into or the one you chose.

Akira's stuck in a suffocating Japan with no future, so when his friend Pupkin suggests military service as an escape route, he takes it. The catch: he joins an orbital drop unit for one of the solar system's warring trade federations, where soldiers are nicknamed Yakitori because they are considered expendable. The 70% casualty rate isn't exactly welcoming propaganda. Serving alongside misfits drawn from several other nations, Akira pushes back against a fate that seems decided before he ever deploys. Six episodes of action and science fiction adapted from a military sci-fi novel by Carlo Zen.