Ape Escape -On Air- (サルゲッチュ 〜オンエアー〜, Saru Getchu -On Eā-) is a CGI anime television series produced by Xebec based on Sony's Ape Escape video game franchise.
[1][2] When Specter gets ahold of a Pipo Helmet, he becomes intelligent and starts using monkeys to spread chaos around the world.
Using their teleporter and gadgets, Kakeru, Hiroki, Natsumi, and the Professor work to capture the monkeys and stop Specter's plans.
Spike and friends are later joined by virtual girl, Charu, and mech genius, Haruka.
Specter eventually learned about the kind things humans have done for monkeys, protects Kakeru, and returns to being Kuuta.