Brain Powerd is an anime television series directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino. The series is set on a future, decimated Earth after the discovery of a mysterious, alien spacecraft dubbed "Orphan". A group of researchers scour the planet for Orphan's disc plates using mecha called "Antibodies" in order to revive the craft, an event that would result in the utter destruction of all lifeforms on Earth. The protagonists Yu Isami and Hime Utsumiya must utilize a special Antibody called "Brain Powerd" to counter the Orphan plans and save humanity.

Brain Powerd was produced by Sunrise. The 26 episodes of the series aired weekly on Japan's satellite channel WOWOW from April 8 to November 11, 1998.[1][2] The series also aired on the Japanese Animax and the Bandai Channel.[3][4] Bandai first released the series on DVD in two halves on June 25, 1999 and September 25, 1999 as the Brain Powerd Perfect Box.[5][6] Seven individual DVDs containing fewer episodes of the series each were released from July 25 to September 25, 2002.[7][8] A "remastered" box set was released on August 24, 2007.[9] Finally, Bandai released the entire series on DVD as Emotion the Best: Brain Powerd on April 7, 2011.[10][11]

The English-dubbed version of Brain Powerd premiered on Animax in South Asia and Southeast Asia.[12] In late 2000, Bandai Entertainment acquired the rights to distribute a dub in North America under the title Brain Powered.[13] As with Silent Möbius, the first few episodes were released on VHS in the region as test marketing for the show.[14][15] Three separate bilingual DVD sets were later released from May 21 to September 24, 2002.[16][17][18] On April 26, 2006, the company released the entire series as Anime Legends: Brain Powered Complete Collection.[19]

The music for Brain Powerd was composed by Yoko Kanno.[20] The series features one opening theme, "In My Dream", written and performed by Eri Shingyōji,[21] and one ending theme, "Ai no Fīrudo" (愛の輪郭(フィールド), lit. "Field of Love"), composed and arranged by Kanno, with lyrics written by Rin Iogi (a pseudonym for Tomino), and performed by Kokia.[22]

Episode list

#Episode TitleOriginal Air Date
01"Departing from the Ocean Depths"
Transcription: "Shinkai wo Hasshite" (Japanese: 深海を発して)		April 8, 1998 (1998-04-08)
It starts with a duo of reclaimers, Yuu and Kanaan piloting organic mechanized bots called anti bodies that do the job of gathering so called discs for their Orphan project, the aim of which is to use the discs to have more anti bodies towards resurfacing original Orphan alien mothership from the ocean deep beds. The discs being sentient, one fly's away and starts wrecking a nearby city where after burying itself in the rubbles, it gets found by the lead character Hime and chooses her to be the pilot of it's anti body. Yuu and Kanaan with his anti bodies try to take it, as he deems hime's anti body a corrupted one, but can't do much as it can neutralize his bot's attacks. The he stops chasing the brain powerd one, as it's also carrying children. A full year later, Yuu, disillusioned by the earlier event, has seen the apocalyptic nature of this Orphan project and flees the base of operations with his own anti body, much to his family's dismay.
02"Fated Reunion"
Transcription: "Unmei no Saikai" (Japanese: 運命の再会)		April 15, 1998 (1998-04-15)
Yuu now getting chased by some of his previous comrades, gets saved by Hime's brain powerd and they have a bitter sweet encounter. Yuu agrees with Orphan being the one behind his family's apathy towards the people's suffering so he goes on a lone quest to find some disc researchers, not knowing that Hime's party are tracking him. After finding a scientist, yuu wants to make her reveal her research about the anti body but she gives him the slip and tries to pilot the bot out of curiosity. Yuu tries to stop her, they have a scuffle around the bot and it nearly crash lands close to children's refugee centre. Back at the Orphan base, Yuu's elder sister, Ikie, now calling herself Quincy Issa, vows to kill even her own brother to make sure the Orpahn project doesn't get ruined.
03"Yuu's Battle"
Transcription: "Yū no Tatakai" (Japanese: 勇の戦い)		April 22, 1998 (1998-04-22)
Yuu's sister and Glenn decide to mobilize a force of five anti bodies to go capture Yuu. But he anticipates them and starts building countermeasure in the form of microwave weapons and gathers the help of the scientists. While there the tracker team from Hime'a party come, along with Hime herself. Yuu and Hime have another out of the ordinary encounter. The tracker duo talk to him about being recruited to the other side, but he relents. Then when the attacking force from the Orphan project arrives, Yuu subdues with the microwave weapon. During the battle a tsunami surge approaches, because of Orphan activities, threatening to destroy Hime's childhood home and it's inhabitants. So, then, Yuu heroically keep the tsunami surge at bay until it loses it's intensity.
04"The Hometown Flame"
Transcription: "Kokyō no Honō" (Japanese: 故郷の炎)		April 29, 1998 (1998-04-29)
While recuperating from the ordeal and rescuing people from the rubble, Yuu leaves the place and goes to his childhood home. There he meets his former comrade Kanaan, who gets urged by Yuu to leave the Orphan project, but she refuses, as from perspective, Orphan provides a sense of belonging, saving her from her abandonment issues. But she doesn't reveal Yuu's location, redirecting her teammate, Dain, away. Dain on the other hand, highly suspects Kanaan and questions her dedication. Yuu back at his grandmother Naoko's home. takes a nap, after trying to find some useful info. Then Hime and others arrive there. Figuring why Yuu left Orphan project and meets Yuu there and also Granma Naoko who also got there. At that moment, Dain attacks the place with a doubtful Kanaan tagging along. Grandma Naoko takes shelter and stays safe there. Kanan sees Hime and remembers her from a year ago. After a cheap hit at his childhood home, Yuu finishes off Dain's robot with one strike and contemplates what to do next.
05"Friend or Foe"
Transcription: "Teki ka Mikata ka" (Japanese: 敵か味方か)		May 6, 1998 (1998-05-06)
Two new recruits join Hime's new party, Sazzie, a girl with no regard for ceremony and Komodo, a blue-eyed Yoruba girl and Ogun devotee. At the Orphan project base underwater, Glen decides to put Kannan on recon duty and designates Shiela to shadow her, still big time suspecting her. Kannan tracks the ship base of Hime's party, the Novis Noah ship, where she battles with Hime. Yuu is strictly put on standby. After the recon ends unceremoniously, Yuu sneaks away with his bot and follows Kanaan's trace. They meet at a town, where Yuu again strongly urges Kanaan to switch sides and not let her abandonment issues cause her to be a tyrannical party's lackey. Then Shiela attacks the town, trying to kill them both. Hime following them, joins the fight. Kanaan because of her indeterminateness, fails her bot, but barely gets saved by Yuu and they then mend their rift officially.
06"Double Revival"
Transcription: "Daburu Ribaibaru" (Japanese: ダブル·リバイバル)		May 13, 1998 (1998-05-13)
In this episode Kanaan and Yuu talk about the new experience switching sides can bring, Then the central command tracks down a whole bunch of plats/discs strews about somewhere, so they just send Comodo as recon. She goes begrudgingly goes, but she sees that female scientist again, and an eight unit sqaudron of antibodies, approaching the site. After requesting backup, Hime goes and Yuu tags along, in the same bot. Also the tracker duo, taking with them Kanaan with Yuu's bot decides to aid them. Hime's bot, assisted by Comodo, engages the squadron and it's leader Glenn near their ocean deep base. In the brawl, one disc slips away. Glenn's squadron don't wanna bother pick it up, so they stop engaging Hime and go their way. The disc that got left starts reviving and it produces twin brain powerds for Hime and the others to see.
07"Rejection"
Transcription: "Kyohihannō" (Japanese: 拒否反応)		May 20, 1998 (1998-05-20)
Kanaan and Sazzie are trying to get in the new duo of brain powerd, but at that same time the Glenn and the others are plotting a re-assault on these new bots. Hime, Yuu and the others immediately start defending., with the air force giving assistance. One of the Orphan project commanders, Edgar, activates a bright red disc and immediately pursues the brain powerds with a bot just been born, a feat that is supposed to be dangerous. Although initially it appears to be a bit much to handle for the Hime's party, they still pull through it with Kannan and Sazzie duo performing a successful counterblow to this rampaging antibody.
08"At the Port of Call"
Transcription: "Kikōchi de" (Japanese: 寄港地で)		May 27, 1998 (1998-05-27)
Yuu and Hime escort the captain and other important officials to a financier meeting. There he gets frustrated with the financier's naiveness and not heeding his call for more accurate action. Back at the base, Kanaan and Russ see Dain again as a spy collecting secret intel on the organic engine of Novis Noah. The pursuit to catch him fails and he flees with the help of Shiela's bot unit taking sensitive intel.
09"Jonathan's Sword"
Transcription: "Jonasan no Yaiba" (Japanese: ジョナサンの刃)		June 17, 1998 (1998-06-17)
Jonathan Glenn finally makes a bold move, posing as an associate of an arab sheikh wanting to buy the whole ship, in exchange for financing the ship's any number of military projects. He takes the captain, who gets revealed as his mother, grandma Naoko, lil' Kumazo, Geybridge and some other officials as his hostages. He aims to get to the B-plates using the hostages and other sensitive info about Novis Noah. He has Shiela and the others standing by, for getaway purposes. But the Captain activates the voice only protocol, which also lets the other crew know about this situation. Then Geybridge and others lure him to a place where b-plates are supposedly stored and lock out that place completely, ready for any consequences. Enraged, Glenn berates the captain for abandoning him, prioritizing her job, blaming her for conceiving him from a sperm donor, resulting in a lack of father figure. During that time, the other crew use the other children duo, go through a vent space and untie the others, while lil' Kumazo distracts Glenn. Then others disarm his weapon, Yuu comes in with wall strike, but Glenn still gets away with lil' Kumazo as hostage. Seeing his getaway is being thwarted by brain powerd units, he lets the boy go, but not before praising the boy's bravery.
10"Temptation of the Plates"
Transcription: "Purēto no Yūwaku" (Japanese: プレートの誘惑)		June 24, 1998 (1998-06-24)
Captain Anoa, in an emotionally wrecked state, takes up the duty of her captaincy after some time contemplating her failure as a mother. Back at the Neutria base, Glenn is convinced of Orphan's win as he's seen firsthand the collection of all plates in the ship, and as he has bombed the ships engine, does also think that the ship won't be much of a threat anymore. So, he steamrolls the process of finally getting a B-plate. But the b-plate itself seem to be following the ship itself, causing all forces of Novis Noah, to converge on that point to collect, including a desperate Captain, eager to get her honour as a captain. The sentient plate picks up on it, tempts the captain and consumes it. Thus ending the episode on a cliffhanger.
11"Sister and Brother"
Transcription: "Ane to Otōto" (Japanese: 姉と弟)		July 1, 1998 (1998-07-01)
In this episode, after the disappearance of the captain, the acupuncture lady is appointed as the new leader of the ship. And then the ship hosts a financier meeting, there Yuu's dad appears much to the chagrin of Yuu. Then a dual perspective outside of the conflict between Orphan project and Novis Noah discloses itself. As it turns out, there are people who want to support both the Orphan and Novis Noah, as they see it back up of each other. If the Orphan supposedly delivers on it's energy toward cosmos promise, then all's well; but on the flip side if it isn't then it's also a good plan have Novis Noah as a shelter ship. Yuu's sister, Ikie, calling herself, Quincy Issa attacks the base, and she fights intensely with Yuu. Although it's still his sister deep down, she is her Orphan project to the point of wanting to end hostilities with her brother. Exhausted by this family dynamic, Yuu leaves the Novis Noah for some contemplation.
12"Independent Course of Action"
Transcription: "Tandokukō" (Japanese: 単独行)		July 8, 1998 (1998-07-08)
After finding Yuu at a local restaurant while shopping, Hime with the other children start bickering with him. Then Yuu's father gets seen. Yuu follows him and sees him in a warehouse making some shady deal. The deal goes awry, Yuu saves his dad and then some of the discs connected to the deal gets scattered all over the town. Using this commotion, Yuu's dad flees again with Yuu following him. He tries to convince him to stop all this, but in vain. Yuu follows him with his bot, with lil' Kumazo tagging along. They get to an unexplored section of the Orphan ship, where Shiela catches lil' Kumazo sneaking along. Yuu then urges Shiela to give up Orphan's poisonous dream and not let her trauma to get used by. They have a scuffle. With the help of other brain powerd, Yuu & Kumazo escape the lair.
13"Stately Surfacing"
Transcription: "Dōdōtaru Fujō" (Japanese: 堂々たる浮上)		July 22, 1998 (1998-07-22)
The Orphan ship finally has started surfacing, causing grand tsunamis & killing many people. Then a plan to stop this gets afoot. Yuu is really saddened by the fact he couldn't stop all of this. To counter Novis Noah's plan, a grand battle unit led by by Glenn finally starts an assault on it, with the bots from the other side defending the plan instruments. The climactic battle has begun.
14"Are Souls Solitary?"
Transcription: "Tamashii wa Kodoku?" (Japanese: 魂は孤独?)		July 29, 1998 (1998-07-29)
The battle is going on and the plan halt the Orphan ship from surfacing becomes a success. But before delivering the final blow the UN central command orders the Novis Noah ship to end this mission at that critical point. Yuu is distraught again as his rival Glenn just admitted to get intimate with both his sister and his mother, and used that to question his determinacy, which led to Yuu not able to fare better against him this time. Back at the station, Geybridge decides to not pay heed to the order to suspend the attack, rather keep on going to fully submerge or maybe destroy the Orphan ship.
15"Perfect Breakthrough"
Transcription: "Itten Toppa" (Japanese: 一点突破)		August 5, 1998 (1998-08-05)
16"The Uninvited Guest"
Transcription: "Manekarezaru Kyaku" (Japanese: 招かれざる客)		August 12, 1998 (1998-08-12)
17"Beyond the Curtain"
Transcription: "Kāten no Mukō de" (Japanese: カーテンの向こうで)		August 19, 1998 (1998-08-19)
18"The Depths of Love"
Transcription: "Ai no Fuchi" (Japanese: 愛の淵)		August 26, 1998 (1998-08-26)
19"The Moving Mountain Range"
Transcription: "Ugoku Sanmyaku" (Japanese: 動く山脈)		September 16, 1998 (1998-09-16)
20"The Governor's Ambitions"
Transcription: "Gabanā no Yabō" (Japanese: ガバナーの野望)		September 23, 1998 (1998-09-23)
21"A Problem of Hallucination"
Transcription: "Genshi Sakusō" (Japanese: 幻視錯綜)		September 30, 1998 (1998-09-30)
22"All or Nothing"
Transcription: "Kenkon Itteki" (Japanese: 乾坤一擲)		October 14, 1998 (1998-10-14)
23"Sweet Memories"
Transcription: "Suīto Memorīzu" (Japanese: スイート·メモリーズ)		October 21, 1998 (1998-10-21)
24"Tricking Memories"
Transcription: "Kioku no Itazura" (Japanese: 記憶のいたずら)		October 28, 1998 (1998-10-28)
25"Orphan's Hesitation"
Transcription: "Orufan no Tamerai" (Japanese: オルファンのためらい)		November 4, 1998 (1998-11-04)
26"Flight"
Transcription: "Hishō" (Japanese: 飛翔)		November 11, 1998 (1998-11-11)

References

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