Line #36 Anime/ID0


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3	In the distant future, the discovery of the new mineral "Orichalt" has allowed humanity to expand beyond the Sol System. On the constant lookout for Orichalt, humanity has developed I-Machines, robots that operate in extreme environments. I-Machines function by transferring a human pilot's consciousness into the robot's operating system; in that sense, the human becomes the machine.
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5	Maya Mikuri, student at the Academy planetary alliance, is handling investigation and excavation work on an asteroid in the Albireo star system, accompanied by her teachers. But following a malfunction with her robot, Maya finds herself being rescued by an I-Machine group calling themselves Excavators. The group is part of Excavators GP, a business dealing in Orichalt excavation, and every one of them has their own unique quirks. The Excavators agree to return her home if she helps with their work.
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7	''ID-0'' is a [[AllCGICartoon CGI anime series]] produced by Sanzigen, premiering on April 9, 2017, for the spring 2017 anime season. Creator/{{Netflix}} has licenced it for worldwide streaming and released it on October 6, 2017.
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9	Not to be confused with [[Film/IndependenceDay ID4]].
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13	!!''ID-0'' contains examples of:
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15	* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:The protagonists rebuild Excavators and continue their journeys together.]]
16	* {{Blackmail}}: Adams extracts from Karla some specific information about Orichalt [[spoiler:by offering her the chance to return to her human body.]]
17	* BigFriendlyDog: Fa-Loser, for all intents and purposes, even if it's technically an Evertrancer form of some alien creature.
18	* BitchInSheepsClothing: The professor from episode 1 seems like a nice, affable guy. Come episode 2, we find out he was performing an illegal operation. He also had Maya declared possibly dead, and shifted all the blame onto her.
19	* BlindJump: To escape the United Planets Forces, the ''Stulti'' executes an unplotted jump while already in the middle of a jump executed by the ship which has captured them. This ends up dropping them outside the known jump network.
20	* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:After seizing control of the Rajeev superstructure, the reunited Adams, Jennifer and Alice depart from the Sol system to explore the universe and ensure the Rajeevs never threaten humanity again, but not before Adams makes peace with Ido/Kane.]]
21	* BodyBackupDrive:
22	** I-Machines operate by sing the Mind Trance (MT) system, which transfers a human pilot's mind into the robot to facilitate activities. The system works over long distances, and the I-Machines serves as a secondary body for the pilot if, for whatever reason, the human body is unreachable. This becomes a problem for Maya, as she worries she will be permanently stuck in her I-Machine after the ship containing her human body departs without her.
23	** Evertrancers are people who permanently transfer their minds into their I-Machines for whatever reason, such as Ido. If their I-Machines are destroyed, [[DeaderThanDead they die without any chance of coming back]].
24	%%* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Adams looks like a textbook example.
25	%%* CoolBike: Rick uses a huge one to transport his fellow Excavators.
26	* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:In the finale, the Excavators gets cleared of all charges and can start anew. Maya returns to the academy, while Karla becomes the new [=CEO=] of [=MT=] Industries. Amanza chooses to remain with Excavators, and Ido and Adams get to bury the hatchet before the latter reunites with Jennifer and Alice and leaves for parts unknown.]]
27	* ExpositionDump: The military captain from episode 3 rattles off a huge one. Essentially spelling out all of the crews backstories for the viewer and Maya.
28	* TheFaceless: Grayman, Ido, Rick and Karla's faces are not seen for the duration of the first episode. Justified, because [[spoiler:they don't have any]].
29	** Played for laughs when Grayman [[spoiler:tries to calm an upset Alice by making a funny face - with the face he doesn't have.]] [[spoiler:''It works anyway.'']]
30	* FantasticRacism: Evertrancers are shunned and discriminated against, and it's actually illegal to be one.
31	* TheFederation: The United Planets Forces is the local space government.
32	* GovernmentConspiracy: The Government knows most everything about [[spoiler:the origin of Orichalt and the nature of the wandering planet, but suppresses this information due to its importance to the interstellar economy.]]
33	%%* HumongousMecha: I-Machines.
34	* ImportedAlienPhlebotinum: [[spoiler:Orichalt]] is said to be a creation of some alien civilisation created and released in an attempt to communicate with the others. They later deemed it an error and a danger, and created [[spoiler: the wandering planets]] to collect it — [[NeglectfulPrecursors without any regard]] to wellbeing of anyone around.
35	* MadScientist: Actually a whole Trio of them, developing the Mind Trance system -- [[spoiler: [[TwoGuysAndAGirl Kane Arisugawa, Adams Chevalier and Jennifer Records]]. Arisugawa is TheUnfettered doing everything ForScience, Adams is his UnknownRival, largely [[CorruptCorporateExecutive handling the business side]] of the company, and Jennifer's role hasn't been explored in depth so far.]]
36	* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: Miguel Jump seems to be named after Miguel Alcubierre, a Mexican theoretical physicist who proposed a first more-or-less scientifically sound theory of FasterThanLightTravel in UsefulNotes/TheNineties. The way it's shown in the series also mimic the features of the space-time bubble proposed by Alcubierre.
37	* NeglectfulPrecursors: A civilisation that rumored to create [[spoiler: the Orichalt and the wandering planets]] seems to be cheerfully negligent of all other (possible) races around. It also seems to be extinct.
38	* PortalCut: The ''Stulti'' jumps while tethered by a United Forces capital ship. Their jump field ends up slicing off a significant portion of the forward prongs on the capital ship, taking Amanza Volchkova's trance pod with them.
39	* PublicDomainSoundtrack: The final battle is set to "Soran Bushi", a traditional Japanese song.
40	* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Ido is in fact Kane Arisugawa, the scientist that originally developed the Mind Trance system.]]
41	* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: The [=MT=] system allows pilots to use I-Machines as naturally as human bodies.
42	* ShoutOut: The opening titles carry mild overtones of ''Anime/CowboyBebop''.
43	* SleazyPolitician: Uraku Hakubi, an apparently influential mover and shaker within the Federation government, who cooperated with Adams in various nefarious schemes.
44	* SpaceIsNoisy: The series averts this during its space sequences, which lack any sound effects. Even asteroids striking the shields of a ship do so in silence.
45	* TheStinger: Episode 2 ends with the Excavators verifying the Orichalt recovered by Ido and Maya, only to find a girl among the ore.
46	* TitleDrop: In Episode 4, Ido reveals that the reason he has no memory of his life before becoming an Evertrancer is because, when he first gained consciousness, he had an ID score of ID-0. This is also [[MeaningfulName the reason for his name]].
47	* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Kane, Adams and Jennifer play this painfully straight, though the ensuing LoveTriangle gets somewhat lopsided. While it's implied that Adams has feelings for Jennifer, and the later looks to having been has set her eyes on Kane, the latter's only passion is science, [[TheUnfettered to the point of using everyone as pawns]] in a BatmanGambit [[ForScience to get more data]].
48	* {{Unobtanium}}: Orichalt is a mineral used by humanity to develop a spatial network of communication and distribution goods. However, its properties are not fully understood, so theories warning against its use were published; but humanity had become so dependent on it, getting rid of Orichalt was out of the question.
49	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never see what happens to Maya's professor after he frames her for information theft. [[spoiler:We don't even know if he gets his comeuppance after Maya gets exonerated.]]
50	* WeaponizedTeleportation:
51	** Orichalt is used like this, either by [[HurlItIntoTheSun warping targets into the sun]] or warping in dangerous objects, like asteroids, explosives or even a solar flare.

Context Anime / ID0