Japan, being home to robotics pioneer Daiwa Heavy Industries, strongly protests this ban, but is unable to prevent its passage.

network is constructed—270 off-shore installations that cover Japan with an energy field, nullifying all communication with the outside world and making satellite surveillance impossible.

Vexille is the sole SWORD agent to evade capture, and only her lover Leon survives to be taken to Daiwa's headquarters.

Maria, the head of the resistance, details the 10 years of secrecy while SWORD studies Japan in shocked horror—the islands are a lifeless wasteland.

But there were unforeseen side effects; the conversion was imperfect, resulting in the infected humans losing their free will and becoming just lifelike machines.

The Resistance plans to draw the Jags along a service bridge to Daiwa's corporate headquarters, which now stands in the middle of Tokyo Bay.

The town council forces the ceramic gates open, destroying Tokyo and enabling the Jags to enter Daiwa's headquarters.

Vexille and Leon are rescued by a SWORD helicopter just as Daiwa headquarters collapses into the bay, along with every Jag in Japan.

The original soundtrack and music to the series features an electronic, techno, urumee melam and trance theme, and features Basement Jaxx, Boom Boom Satellites, Asian Dub Foundation, Dead Can Dance, Carl Craig, The Prodigy, DJ Shadow, M.I.A, with singer Mink providing the theme song "Together again" and Paul Oakenfold handling the music score production, which was co-written with Ian Green and Michael J McEvoy.

A review of the DVD on website IGN gave this film six out of ten, finding it difficult to follow and riddled with plot holes.

They also found fault with the soundtrack, particularly Paul Oakenfold's score: "A couple of tracks manage to rise to the occasion, but for the most part, Vexille's tunes feel limp and repetitive.

A Blu-ray Disc version was released on the same day as the 2-Disc special edition and includes exactly the same features as its DVD counterpart.