Project Arms

25min

Animation

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Action & Adventure

ARMS is an manga series that is heavily influenced by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The series is created by Kyoichi Nanatsuki and Ryoji Minagawa. In 1999, the manga received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen. The manga was adapted as an anime series called Project ARMS. It stars a young man named Ryo Takatsuki, who at the beginning of the series believes that he was in an accident causing his right arm to be severed from his body. However, as the story progresses, it is revealed that he was actually a test subject for experiments involving genetics and an "ARMS" nanomachine implant, along with 3 other youths: Kei Karuma, Takeshi Tomoe, and Hayato Shingu. They all meet under strange circumstances and after many battles they set off on a journey to rescue Ryo's girlfriend Katsumi Akagi who is kidnapped by the Egrigori. The Egrigori are the creators of the ARMS technology.

Episodes

Cast

Vibration

1. Vibration

25min

7th Apr 2001

We see the opening flashback through young Ryo Takatsuki's eyes. A strange voice asks him if he wants power. Ryo has been crushed in a building collapse. As the doctors work on him he hears the list of his injuries, especially the fact they can't save his right arm. Growing weaker, he wonders if he is dying. Desperate, he screams he is not ready to go yet. The voice accepts. Cut to the present day, the modern–day Aisora City, part of greater Tokyo. We see a typical Japanese high school, a couple of multi-storied buildings surrounded by athletic fields. And rappelling down the side of one of those buildings is 17-year-old Ryo, who is looking at some swifts nesting on the side of the building. Down below, Ryo's irritated girlfriend, Katsumi Akagi, demands he come down immediately! Ryo complies with good humor, and they and other students start cleaning up the grounds. Suddenly Ryo badly cuts his hand on some glass. His shocked classmates see the cut heal almost instantly. Ry

Trance

2. Trance

25min

14th Apr 2001

The boss holds Katsumi hostage, and introduces himself as Claw. He demonstrates his name by popping several nasty claws out of his cyborg hand. Claw knows Hayato, who has already killed five of Claw's fellow agents. But of course he's not normal, he's an ARMS just like Ryo, one who has an arm of immense power. Hayato is stunned: Ryo's not an enemy? Ryo doesn't care, he just wants Claw to release Katsumi. Claw says if they surrender, he won't kill them . . . maybe. Katsumi suddenly breaks free and runs towards Ryo, but Claw strikes at her from behind. Ryo can't get to her in time! Suddenly Hayato is there, grabbing Claw's arm with his own mutated limb and protecting Katsumi. Hayato screams that it's all his fault that they got involved in this mess. He'll take care of Claw, they need to escape now! Ryo and Katsumi flee down the ruined hospital's corridors. Suddenly Ryo stops. He tells Katsumi to run home, he's going back to help Hayato. Katsumi protests that's too dangero

Nightmare

3. Nightmare

25min

21st Apr 2001

Intercept

4. Intercept

25min

28th Apr 2001

Counterattack

5. Counterattack

25min

5th May 2001

As the twins continue their rampage throughout the school, Hayato is stuck fighting Plus, while Minus comes out of the ceiling and engages Ryo. Plus and Minus overwhlem their opponents, but Takeshi appears and turns the tables around.

Flash

6. Flash

25min

12th May 2001

Trust

7. Trust

25min

19th May 2001

Keith, the mysterious Egrigori agent, makes his prescence felt after knocking out Hayato. Al sends Minus after him, but Keith easily defeats Minus, and kills Jeff. But when he turns to Al, Takeshi saves him with White Rabbit speed. Keith leaves, but leaves an invitation to the ARMS users to go to Abumisawa village, site of the deaths of Hayato's parents. To get more advice, they go to Juzu Shingu, master of the Shingu fighting style, for information on ARMs, Egrigori, and Abumisawa. Al joins the team, on the condition that they cooperate in his experiments to find out what ARMS are made of. After Juzu takes out Takeshi and Hayato, Ryo nearly catches Juzu with Jabberwock. After a few parting words with Juzu, the gang goes to Abumisawa, with Katsumi sneaking off with them. Their trip gets more exciting when they are held hostage by armed militia bent on preventing them from going to Abumisawa.

Stranger

8. Stranger

25min

26th May 2001

Illusion

9. Illusion

25min

2nd Jun 2001

Jabberwock

10. Jabberwock

25min

9th Jun 2001

Evolution

11. Evolution

25min

16th Jun 2001

Beat

12. Beat

25min

23rd Jun 2001

Blue Men

13. Blue Men

25min

30th Jun 2001

Welcome Rain

14. Welcome Rain

25min

7th Jul 2001

Showtime

15. Showtime

25min

14th Jul 2001

Satan (The Devil Cliff)

16. Satan (The Devil Cliff)

25min

21st Jul 2001

Heaven (Advent)

17. Heaven (Advent)

25min

28th Jul 2001

Gehenna

18. Gehenna

25min

4th Aug 2001

Snark Hunt

19. Snark Hunt

25min

11th Aug 2001

Crisis

20. Crisis

25min

18th Aug 2001

Wish

21. Wish

25min

25th Aug 2001

Knight

22. Knight

25min

1st Sep 2001

White Rabbit

23. White Rabbit

25min

8th Sep 2001

Venom

24. Venom

25min

15th Sep 2001

Judgement

25. Judgement

25min

22nd Sep 2001

Fly

26. Fly

25min

29th Sep 2001

First air date

7th Apr 2001

Last air date

30th Mar 2002

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

ja

Networks