It’s been several years since we heard anything about Chrome Shelled Regios in North America as the last we had was MVM Entertainment picking it up for UK release in 2014. Funimation brought this series out on bilingual DVD form quite a few years ago and while it had some streaming back then it’s mostly been missing in action from other services for the last few years. That’s now changed as Funimation has brought the show out to Hulu in its complete twenty-four episode run in both the original Japanese language and English language dub.
Based on the light novel series from Shusuke Amagi that ran for twenty-five volumes between 2008 and 2013, the anime series landed in 2009 from studio Zexcs with Itsuro Kawaski directing based on the scripts by Mamiko Ikeda. The original light novels spawned several manga spin-offs and a couple of shorter light novel spin-off works as well.
Plot concept: After the world has fallen into a state of disrepair, humanity has retreated to huge mobile cities named Regios. With the Earth now populated by contanimated life-forms, humanity must defend itself by using weapons called DITE. One young man trying to forget his past arrives in the Regios named Zuellini, but soon catches the attention of those who would use his considerable skills for their own ends.
