This thing burns through its whole apocalypse in four episodes and dares you to keep up. A meteor drops M34 on Earth, the virus turns people into monsters, and NOA's answer is to shoot nanomachines into its soldiers and let them transform, which is exactly the kind of blunt sci-fi logic that either delights you or doesn't. The hook isn't the monsters, it's the psychic link between the two leads, a romance conducted over a channel neither of them fully controls while everything outside is dying. Yes, the 2001 CGI wrestles the hand-drawn work and loses more than it wins, and the plot has holes you could drive a transport through. But it's Resident Evil by way of Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040, it never pads, and it commits to the sentiment in that title. Watch it in one sitting, argue about it for a week.

When a meteor strikes Earth, it carries a deadly life form called M34, a virus that turns people into savage monsters. Most of humanity is wiped out, and governments set up agencies to fight back. One of them, NOA, puts nanomachines into its soldiers so they can transform and battle the infected. Then the virus mutates and grows too powerful for NOA to contain, and the world's survival comes to depend on a 16-year-old girl who has the power to defeat it. Across four episodes, the series blends action, mecha and science fiction with drama, mystery and romance.