Last Hope, also named Unit Pandora (), is a Japanese-Chinese anime television series produced and animated by Satelight. It is created and directed by Shōji Kawamori alongside Hidekazu Sato and written by Toshizo Nemoto. It premiered online in Netflix in Japan on March 29, 2018 with a local televised broadcast on Tokyo MX and its affiliate stations on April 4, 2018. A worldwide release through Netflix went online on September 15, 2018. Plot The series takes place in the year 2038, seven years after the Xianglong Crisis when a quantum reactor exploded and caused a chain reaction that destroyed civilization. It also spurred a rapid evolutionary process that turned most animals into bio-mechanical creatures called BRAI (Biological Revolutionary of Accelerated Intellect), that gradually become a threat to humanity as the city of Neo-Xianglong establish the creation of MOEV (Multi-purpose Organic Evolution Vehicle) mecha to fend off the BRAI. Leon Lau, a scientist previously exiled from Neo-Xianglong for his role in the Xianglong Crisis, provides a stable quantum reactor called the Hyper Drive to enable the MOEV of the established Pandora Unit to combat a series of BRAI that are being enhanced by a similar device created by the mysterious Sieg. Characters A brilliant yet eccentric scientist under Lon Woo who was a central figure in the Xianglong Crisis, spending five years in the wilderness in exile outside Neo Xianglong before being allowed to return as a member of the Pandora Unit. Her real name , she was adopted by Leon as his "little sister" after her brother died and followed him in his banishment from Neo Xianglong. Although they are not related by blood, she thinks of Leon like a big brother while establishing rules in their family contract to keep him in line. A sniper who loves women and cats, Doug was finishing an assignment in Xianglong when the "Xianglong Crisis" struck and turned his life into a tragedy. Seven years later, Doug works as a bounty hunter before being hired to join the Pandora Unit. Although he is a friendly and talkative "mood-maker", when looking down the scope of his rifle, Doug has the cold eyes of a beast which played in his code name "Eye of the Tiger". Having lost her parents at a young age, Queenie Yoh was adopted by the master of dojo in the mountains where she trained in the "Sky God Fist" style