Angel Blade: Ultimate Edition - Tokuteneizou

When livable ground gave way to toxic wastelands, humanity built cities in the sky — which sounds like progress until you meet the people running them. Moena Shinguji is a regular college student living in one of these elevated urban zones when she discovers she can transform into Angel Blade, a powered-up heroine with a very specific mission: protect women from the mutant forces of Dark Mother, a villain operating out of a mysterious castle with some genuinely unsettling intentions toward the city's population. She's not doing it alone — there's a ninja-lineage policewoman and a supermodel with hidden depths involved too, which is a more interesting support crew than most shows bother with. This is a one-episode special cut from the third volume of the Angel Blade OVA series, so it assumes you already have some context going in. The tone is classic late-night adult anime — dystopian sci-fi set dressing, transformation sequences, and action that leans hard into its mature rating. Character designs come from Masami Obari, whose style carries a very specific old-school aesthetic that fans of that era will recognize immediately. If you watched Cutey Honey or La Blue Girl back in the day and you know exactly what you were getting into, this fits comfortably in that same space. It is what it is — an adult sci-fi action piece from 2004 with no pretense about what it's going for.