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 cybercrime, terrorist acts and 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
Originally "untitled", the series begins with the latest addition of Team Alpha, Yamada Kyoko. At the same time, the team started to takes on both in-country and overseas "unsanctioned" operations.

Following the string events after the Tokyo Subway Attack, the team accidentally kickstarts an international dispute between Russia and Japan. While the team on their way to recover the assets in Northern Russia, they then discovered that they were baited, and the reinforcement unit that they returns fire was an elite unit of Spetsnaz.

This ultimately leave Colonel Miyoko Daniels-Hikari 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; wwas hiding in a small nuclear-site bunker in Northern Russia, as well as all of the evidences of charging him with treasury.

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 "treasury 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.

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Episode List
Project Zero-X/Episode List (Anime) Project Zero-X/Chapter List (Manga)

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.