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For the unaware, animation studio Production I.G has worked on some of the most iconic anime ever, from the original Ghost in the Shell<\/em> film all the way up to recent releases like the Star Wars Visions<\/em> anthology<\/a>. For Terminator<\/em> \u2014 which doesn\u2019t have an official name yet, by the way, and is somehow the first animated take on the franchise \u2014 the eight-episode series will be directed by Masashi Kudo, best-known for working on the Bleach<\/em> franchise, with Mattson Tomlin (Project Power<\/em> and Mother\/Android<\/em>) serving as writer and showrunner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n As for where it fits into the Terminator<\/em> timeline, here\u2019s the official premise:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n 2022: A future war has raged for decades between the few human survivors and an endless army of machines. 1997: The AI known as Skynet gained self-awareness and began its war against humanity. Caught between the future and this past is a soldier sent back in time to change the fate of humanity.<\/p>\n She arrives in 1997 to protect a scientist named Malcolm Lee who works to launch a new AI system designed to compete with Skynet\u2019s impending attack on humanity. As Malcolm navigates the moral complexities of his creation, he is hunted by an unrelenting assassin from the future which forever alters the fate of his three children.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n