Kuromukuro

Kuromukuro
Promotional image, which features Kennosuke Tokisada Ouma, Yukina Shirahane and Sophie Noël in the foreground, and the Black Relic in the background
クロムクロ
Genre	Mecha
Anime television series
Directed by	Tensai Okamura
Produced by	Hirotaka Kaneko Jun Fukuda Kenji Horikawa Mika Shimizu Takayuki Nagatani Takema Okamura Toshiyasu Hayashi Yasushi Ōshima
Written by	Ryō Higaki
Music by	Hiroaki Tsutsumi
Studio	P.A. Works
Licensed by	NA: Ponycan USA Netflix (global streaming rights)
Original network	AT-X, Tokyo MX, BS11, Sun TV, KBS, TUT
Original run	April 7, 2016 – September 29, 2016
Episodes	26 (List of episodes)

Kuromukuro (クロムクロ) is a Japanese mecha anime television series produced by P.A. Works, directed by Tensai Okamura and written by Ryō Higaki, with character designs by Yuriko Ishii and music by Hiroaki Tsutsumi. The series was produced to celebrate P.A. Works' 15th anniversary.^[1][2][3] It follows a student of Tateyama International High School named Yukina Shirahane and a young samurai named Kennosuke Tokisada Ouma, who was born in the Sengoku period and reawakened in the present day inside a mysterious artifact called the Cube. When an extraterrestrial force called Efi Dorg invades Earth with a mission to collect all the fragments of an artifact called the Pivot Stone in order to achieve planet domination, Kennosuke pilots a stolen Efi Dorg mecha dubbed the Black Relic, with Yukina biometrically synchronized as the navigator due to an accident. Along with the help of the defense forces of the United Nations Kurobe Laboratory, the two fight back to prevent the mission of Efi Dorg from being accomplished. The series premiered on April 7, 2016 on Japanese TV channel AT-X while Netflix acquired exclusive rights for streaming worldwide.