Master of Torque

The year is 2017, just three years before the city's hosting of the Olympic Games. Dan Amo works in the General Affairs department of Hyuga Corp. while living with his aunt, Sanae. By day, he is a nondescript salaryman, but at night he relishes the sense of fulfillment he gets from riding his motorcycle. Dan appears to be the target of a mysterious group of riders...who are in turn the target of motorcycle-riding freelance journalist, Makina Mikage. Then another rider appears on the scene in Kotaro Hyuga, the heir to the Hyuga Corp. presidency. The threads of an unescapable fate begin to draw these three young riders together...

3. Change Up

Makina exits the Genesis Café with Dan’s Hyuga Corp. ID card and her camera in hand. She notices that the surrounding area has been closed for construction, but there was no construction planned for tonight... Seeing the Hyuga Corp. truck parked inside the construction site, she realizes that there is some kind of connection between the development of the powered suits that her father and Dan’s father were once involved in, and Hyuga Corp.’s closely guarded company secrets. Makina approaches Hyuga Corp.’s suit-testing mobile container to obtain irrefutable proof to back her suspicions with her camera, but the container’s computer system suddenly reacts to the pendant given to her by her father, and straps her into a prototype Machina suit—one with an incomplete brainwave-synchronization function. Who is Makina really? What did her father and Dan’s father have to do with the development of the Marishi Machina suits? The gears of fate begin to turn...