Eiko (Sonoya Mizuno) Battles Cyborg Assassin [Video]

As a war between humans and AI machines rages, the animated character Eiko, a resistance fighter voiced by Sonoya Mizuno, battles a cyborg assassin from the future in the official trailer for Netflix’s Terminator Zero, which was released on Wednesday.

Eiko has been sent back in time to protect scientist Malcolm Lee, voiced by André Holland, as he develops Kokoro, or an advanced artificial intelligence as a rival to the malicious Skynet.

“If the Terminator can get to Malcolm, the children will be its next target,” Eiko says at one point in the trailer as Skynet’s unrelenting killer robot hunts for Lee and the anime series’ dramatic stakes rise. The Netflix series from The Batman II writer Mattson Tomlin is set to debut on Aug. 29, or “Judgment Day,” and will premiere opposite The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power on Amazon Prime Video.

The Terminator Zerovoice …