Mardock Scramble was initially planned as an OVA adaptation by Geneon, who cancelled it in December 2006. However, in early 2010, the project resurfaced as a theatrical anime film trilogy, produced by a different team at studio GoHands. The anime is based on Tow Ubukata's Mardock Scramble sci-fi novel series, about a girl who dies as her body is burned by "the bad guy". However she resurrects as a powerfully advanced cyborg, and sets herself on a path for revenge.