The longest mecha anime I ever watched, I believe, had less than 30 minutes. And I didn't watch it for the giant robots, pretty colored laser beams and all that crap, but because it bore the signature of one Shinkai Makoto. The guy with Beyond The Clouds, you know?...

Well, anyway, my point is, you wouldn't catch me watching one of those rusty things, unless it had a damn good reason behind it. Like the guy I just mentioned. Or at least some underaged lolies.

In the distant future, the mankind is divided into two powers; Union and Deague. They have continued long war that no one is sure when it began. Union uses manned weapons, Strain, as the main military power, while Deague uses unmmand weapons Tumoru.

Sara Viereck, a daughter of a good family, is a Union's 16-year-old girl who goes to Grapera Space Armed Soldier Academy locates in Cranial Solar System in order to become a full-fledged Reasoner (a pilot of Strain).

16 year ripe you say? Hmm... I think we may have something here! That something is called Soukou no Strain, and it will premier at the beginning of November in Japan. Until then, the anime series' website had the following commercial up for streaming. So I kind of sucked it out, so you can all enjoy it below.

Soukou no Strain commercial