Project Zero-X Series

Project Zero-X (Kanji: プロジェクォ‐ゼロ‐エツコ, Hepburn: Purojekto Zero-Ekkusu) or simply 0-X is a Psychological Police Action Drama manga series created by Ayato Ryujin, and adapted to a Netflix Original Anime series by Production I.G., with collaboration works from MAPPA Studio.

Premise
Take place in the current Tokyo, somewhere in not so-far future, the series follows SONARTac Team Alpha, a special operations group specializes in law enforcement terrorist acts, search-and-rescue operations, with members ranging from multi-nationalities ex-spec-ops to ex-military as they address each case, how it affecting them from personal levels.

The team mostly partaking in military operations and special operations. In rare cases, they'll handle on oversea special "unsanctioned" operations.

The series often incorporating literary references, featuring realism point-of-view, thriller actions and portraying the current view of certain countries' societies, political, etc.

Season 1
Following the string of events after the Tokyo Subway Attack, the team accidentally kickstarts an international dispute between Russia and Japan; this ultimately leave Colonel Motoko Kusanagi with no other options but to dismissed the entire team, and label them as "domestic terrorists".

The team then set foots to an off-country site where they found out the one who solds them out was none other than the General of JGSDF, Hirashi Hishikimori, who were temporarily in-charge of the team during their trip to Northern Russia; was hiding in a small nuclear-site bunker in Northern Russia, as well as all of the evidences of charging him with treasonry.

The joint operations (consists of the Disavowed Team Alpha, SAS 22nd Regiment, Russian Spetsnaz and the US' Navy SEALs Team 6) was a failure, at the cost of multiple KIAs of both Team 6 and SAS, further worsening the dispute; and on top of that, results in General Hirashi's death, which then make of the evidence they gathered useless, as they are now officially charged with both "domestic terrorism" and "treasonry acts against Japanese Government".

Season 2
Season 2, titled "Project I-X", happened 2 years after the events of Project Zero-X. During which a former member of Team Alpha and Spetsnaz, Anna Novackova, was taken care of the loose ends to further disassociating her with the former team. However, she was tracked down by Ayato Tokouryo, the former leader of Team Alpha, and the now leader of gruella force, Black Division.

The story soon reveals that Anna had been in Belarus since the beginning, while she was being hunted down by the International Criminal Investigation Group, as she was suspected of killing General Hirashi and leading the Red Square Massacre, which she obviously didn't did the latter. And so, she decided to fight her way back to England, along with the help of Ayato and the team.

In the process, she works alongside the team to take down the remaining Axis forces in England, though she would also have to deal with the fact that the UK and Russia were no longer allies, as the UK and Russia were now at war with each other. Meanwhile, the International Criminal Investigation Group discovered that Anna was no longer in Belarus, but in England, and send a small taskforce to find her.

Ayato and the team are sent to England as well as their former Team Alpha agents, Yamada Kyoko and Madison Taylor, to help take down the a small opponent task force team of ICIG. Ayato and the team soon realize that they were being used as bait, as they are waiting for the International Criminal Investigation Group to arrive to take them out, which results in the capture of the team.

Eiga Trilogy
The Eiga Trilogy, Project Zero-X: The Movie, is the final part of the series. The Eiga is divided into 3 parts, with the first 2 movies clocked at 160 minutes runtime, and the final movie at 175 minutes.


 * The Menace Lonewolf takes place 10 years prior to the beginning of Project Zero-X. The story follows Anna Novackova early life, her bonding relationship with Marcy, and their uncertain future.


 * The Rose Thorn of Sahara takes place 2 years within the timeframe of Menace Lonewolf. The story follows Madison Taylor's early Royal Valkyries and SAS 22nd Regiment services.


 * The End of The Beginning takes place in the current time after the end of Project I-X. After Ayato Tokouryo successfully bail out of a gulag Estonia, he came back to Japan turns himself in for the good, and founded a new SWAT unit along with his former colleague, Uchino Hakazaki. Their first case was also their last, as Han-Song Kyuk bails out of the prison and holding one of their intel hostage, while brutally kills many other responded forces.

Alpha Exclusive Blu-Ray Edition
The Alpha Exclusive Blu-Ray Edition is a limited-time exclusive bundle to hyping up the release of Eiga Trilogy. The edition includes both Zero-X and I-X remastered to 4K resolution and bundled by 2 (meaning each Blu-Ray episodes are a combination of 2 episodes from the original boardcast of Zero-X; e.g 1+2; 3+4, etc.), while also featuring 5 additional episodes that was scrapped/removed from the original version.

The Blu-Ray editon also features a Dolby Atmos/DTS-X surround sound and 10-bit color depth with HDR support.

Original Soundtracks
See also: Project Zero-X/OSTs

Cultural Differences on different countries
The anime was distributed as 3 different version, with little to major differences on each versions. For more details, see here: Project Zero-X\Cultural Diferences

Trivia

 * There are some characters that was either removed/changed completely to fits the currrent standard.
 * Originally, "Project Zero-X" did not have a title, and it was a slice-of-life, sci-fi, isekai series; but upon 5th revision that the idea was scrapped when it was 80% on finalization, to focused on the current style of it.
 * All characters are used to be Japanese, and on 7th revision that features the first non-Japanese Character, Anna Novackova.
 * The current story development plot of Project Zero-X are in 9th revision, with major changes to the plot from 6, new characters added in 7th, furthur polishings in terms of plot and realism in 8th. 9th revision only focused on expanding the stories, characters development and minor changes to current storyline.
 * The episodes' codename are based on hex value (sequence begin with 0x followed by the episode's string), and starting from episode 10, the last number in the sequences is 16, followed by 17-18-19 in the next episodes and so on; the same rule applied to Project I-X as well.