Master of Torque

2014•5m

The year is 2017, just three years before the city's hosting of the Olympic Games. Dan Amo works in the General Affairs department of Hyuga Corp. while living with his aunt, Sanae. By day, he is a nondescript salaryman, but at night he relishes the sense of fulfillment he gets from riding his motorcycle. Dan appears to be the target of a mysterious group of riders...who are in turn the target of motorcycle-riding freelance journalist, Makina Mikage. Then another rider appears on the scene in Kotaro Hyuga, the heir to the Hyuga Corp. presidency. The threads of an unescapable fate begin to draw these three young riders together...

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Seasons

4 Episodes • Premiered 2014

Dan Amo works in the General Affairs department of Hyuga Corp. while living with his aunt, Sanae. By day, he is a nondescript salaryman, but at night, he enjoys riding his motorcycle. His natural-born riding talent and instincts mean hopeful pursuers only ever see the back of his motorcycle, and has won him the nickname of “Zebra” among the riders of Route 246. Dan appears to be the target of a mysterious group of riders...who are in turn the. target of motorcycle-riding freelance journalist Makina Mikage.

1. Idle Roughness

Hyuga Corp. is in the final stages of developing the "Marishi Machina," a new powered suit utilizing an electronic interface and artificial muscle fibers. As the one in charge of the suit's development, Kotaro is anxious to complete the project quickly. He dons the Machina suit himself and heads out into the night in pursuit of Dan. What are Kotaro's motives? Who is Makina, and why is she lying in wait for them?

2. Understeer

Despite his suit’s cutting-edge digital technology, Kotaro yet again loses sight of the “Zebra.” His pride in tatters, he rides aimlessly down nighttime R246, as if to calm his frustration-racked nerves and quell his envy. Dan returns to the Genesis Café and a slightly worried Sanae. Having no parents or kin of his own, Sanae raised Dan like a son, and she can’t help but be concerned for his well-being. But then, freelance journalist Makina appears at the Café. Knowing nothing of Sanae’s worries, she approaches Dan—who’s relaxing at the counter—tricks him into showing her his Hyuga Corp. ID card, and promptly snares it from him. What is Makina after? What are Kotaro’s true aims? The fates of these three riders begin to entwine...

3. Change Up

Makina exits the Genesis Café with Dan’s Hyuga Corp. ID card and her camera in hand. She notices that the surrounding area has been closed for construction, but there was no construction planned for tonight... Seeing the Hyuga Corp. truck parked inside the construction site, she realizes that there is some kind of connection between the development of the powered suits that her father and Dan’s father were once involved in, and Hyuga Corp.’s closely guarded company secrets. Makina approaches Hyuga Corp.’s suit-testing mobile container to obtain irrefutable proof to back her suspicions with her camera, but the container’s computer system suddenly reacts to the pendant given to her by her father, and straps her into a prototype Machina suit—one with an incomplete brainwave-synchronization function. Who is Makina really? What did her father and Dan’s father have to do with the development of the Marishi Machina suits? The gears of fate begin to turn...

4. Maximum Torque

Makina's mind is under the control of the Marishi Machina suit's digital technology. Dan is in hot pursuit, using his razor sharp senses to maneuver his motorcycle through the construction-strewn Shutoko. Kotaro, not far behind, is refusing to be defeated by Dan and anxious to prove the capability of the digital suits. What awaits these three young riders as the climax of their chase approaches?

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