Sky Girls

Television anime

Sky Girls (スカイガールズ) is a Japanese anime franchise produced by Konami and animated by J. C. Staff. A 30 minute OVA episode was released on August 25, 2006 and a television series adaptation aired on Chiba TV from July 5, 2007, to December 27, 2007.

In the year 2071, humanity sees the appearance of mechanical cell clusters, known as WORMs. The technology begins sweeping away the human race on a massive scale, destroying one third of the human population in just under two years. This leads humanity to overcome their national differences, and unite as a single force. Not being able to turn the situation in their favor, humanity decided to permit the use of weapons of mass destruction. Finally, they succeeded in the annihilation of the WORMs, but after paying an enormous price, and wreaking havoc on the planet. All the major continents were broken apart. Antarctica disappeared, and half of the remaining land mass was submerged. The largest damage this war caused was the loss of 90% of all military age personnel, namely men in their twenties and thirties. Over a decade later, the WORMs re appear, to the surprise of those who thought they were eliminated.

Several characters from the series saw releases as action figures in Konami's MMS line. The series has had a collaboration with the Busou Shinki arcade game Battle Conductor which had Sonic Divers usable as equipment. The series has had a long running series of pachinko machines, with three lines: Sky Girls: Yoroshiku! Zero (2013), Sky Girls: Zero Futatabi (2015), and Sky Girls: Zero no Tsubasa (2020).