IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix

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IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix (Japanese: IGPX ??????·????? Hepburn: Ai Ji Pi Ekkusu: Inmotaru Guranpuri) refers to two separate American-Japanese animated series co-produced by Production I.G and Cartoon Network. The first is a "microseries" consisting of five 5-minute episodes and the second is a 26-episode animated series loosely related to the first. The Immortal Grand Prix is a tournament between teams of gun-wielding mechs. As Team Velshtein is injured the random drawing chooses Team Suzaku led by pilot Takeshi Noa as the one to face Team Sledge Mamma a trio of cybernetically enhanced cyborgs. At first Team Suzaku does not have weapons because their mechanic U-Matsu forgot them. Amy delivers weapons from Velshtein but Team Suzaku has a hard time controlling them. Amy's cat co-pilot Luca takes control and knocks Timmer out of his mech. Liz out of ammo uses her capoeira image training. She is eventually at the mercy of an opposing pilot and surrenders. The Sledge Mamma mechs shoot at Takeshi but Amy jumps in to save him and is knocked out of the game. After being kicked around by the Sledge Mamma mechs Takeshi reveals his plan. Using his ninjato and shuriken he knocks Dimmer and Yammer out of their mechs and wins. However the series ends on a bitter note as Velshtein's owner Hamgra blackmails Team Suzaku to merge their teams and allow him to add cybernetic enhancements to their pilots or else he will make them pay for the weapons they borrowed. This conflict is never resolved due to the end of the microseries.

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