Viper's Creed is a sci-fi anime series produced by Sony Pictures Japan, with animation work done by AIC Spirits and Digital Frontier. The story revolves around the members of a private military company (PMC), and the uneasy tension between them and the regular military after a war that caused massive environmental destruction. The anime, whose chief director is Shinji Aramaki (Appleseed, Ex Machina), will begin airing in Japan on January 6, 2009.