A boy named Kei falls in love with a strange and beautiful girl, who turns out to be a shinma named Ranka who may be capable of granting him immortality. He has been having internal conflicts with his future career in life, let alone doing poorly in school and disliking how his mother compares him to his successful siblings. At the same time, a man informs Himiko that his daughter has disappeared and might have mysterious turned in a doll, which leads Himiko to suspect that a shinma is behind this act... and the girl happens to be one of Kei's classmates. During her investigations, Miyu and Himiko talk again and Miyu intrpoduces herself properly. She adds that it is her duty as a vampire to cast the shinma into the darkness, and that her companion Larva is bound to her through her blood. Later Miyu and Larva find Ranka and Kei in a cathedral, only to see that she has turned him into a doll-like Shinma like her; it turns out Kei liked Ranka not just because of her powers, but because he loved her as a person, and Ranka found herself loving him back so she couldn't just make him into a lifeless doll like her other victims. After viewing how strong their love is for each other, Miyu banishes them both into the darkness together; Himiko witnesses this and comments on how Miyu, despite having won the fight, lost the confrontation as a whole since Kei chose Ranka's love over hers.
Part III - The Awakening of Eve
Eiji Takanaka is a hacker ("netjacker") and expert virtual gamer that hangs out in the virtual arcade, Psycholand. He starts working at C•X (E=X), the company, under the leadership of a mysterious Bishop Won Dai, that controls the shield and the city's information network, known as "The System." His friend Bud starts working at Orange, C•X's rival. Both friends play Orange's spacecraft simulator Cyber Game "_HARD ON¯" (possibly a reference to the Sega game Hang-On), that is actively sent updates and new levels by the company. Orange seeks to complete a network independent of The System, and it uses its games to train fighters unconsciously for its cause.
Eiji goes out with Ryo Narahara, who works at the arcade; together they discuss life in Eden and the songs of Eve, whom Eden's population knows to be an artificial intelligence. She lures him to use his hacker skills to find her contact information. He finds her information deleted when using his terminal, so he and Bud try to find it by hacking the network in Eden's alleys.
At C•X, director Yacob Halm gives a speech about the importance of The System and decries netjackers. Operator Miura Simka privately warns Eiji about his activities, about which she has evidence, but she lets him go because of his invaluable skills. Yacob directs Eiji to use a Garland to catch netjackers. He takes it home to customize it.
Ryo visits Eiji, and they discuss Sion, an operator at Orange that has been challenging Eiji with new versions of the game in real time. His apartment heats up and before it explodes, they escape through the window using the Garland. Sion hacks into the C•X network and finds a program called "Project Heaven." He and his HARGUN units attack Eiji and their Garland units in a battle that Eiji predicted would happen between the two companies. Eiji and Sion end up joining forces as Sion explains that he was testing Eiji to see if he can awaken Eve. The company forces still battle. Eiji takes the Garland under the city and finds Eve's capsule. Eve awakens and addresses Eiji as "Operator 7G."
English Dub, Episode 3 of 4.
Episode 2 - The Decoy Program
Gogul's investigation of a murder pits him against an experimental military cyborg as he tries to rescue his ex-partner. Of note is that during this episode we see at least one other cyber-criminal trying (unsuccessfully) to remove his collar, so it is known that there are more than the three anti-heroes being employed by the Cyber Police unit.
English Dub, Episode 2 of 3.
Part I
Shogo Yahagi lives in what appears to be 1980s metropolitan Japan. He meets Yui Takanaka and discovers her roommates are his friends Mai Yumekano and Tomomi Murashita. Shogo's old friend Shinji Nakagawa shows him a military prototype Garland motorcycle (labeled "Bahamut") that can reach over of 300 km/h. He barely escapes as Shinji is killed by unknown agents.
Shogo uses a public video phone to call Eve Tokimatsuri, a popular singer and TV host, during her show to expose the Garland to the public. The show's broadcast is cut off while Shogo shows Eve the bike (now painted red by a mechanic friend) and explains its capability. He escapes in another chase by agents and soon discovers it can also transform into a mecha.
Shogo helps Tomomi make an action film centered around the mysterious bike and has Yui hide the Garland at night. While looking for film locales, Shogo finds a secret entrance to a hidden, abandoned city and battles with some of the advanced fighters he encounters, most importantly with a military big shot named B.D.
After B.D. is nearly defeated, he informs Shogo about that Bahamut is a supercomputer that controls the events in this world, and that they are actually living on a spaceship, and that the real time is actually 500 years in the future. The military were developing new weapons underground to avoid Bahamut's detection, and that they have cleared "Level 6", Shogo shows mercy and leaves.
He then sneaks inside Eve's recording studio, and finds out that she is actually a computer simulated idol. In his anger at the state of the world, he nearly rapes Yui, but she supports and understands him anyway, and they have a romantic night. He confides in her everything he's learned about the world and watches martial law unfold on the city.
As the military clears "Level 7" of Eve's protection, B.D kills the Brass, manipulates the Prime Minister, and obtains financial support from the wealthy, notably Mai's father. Agents kill Tomomi and steal her master tapes, and a grief-stricken Mai returns to live with her father. Eve contacts Shogo through the Garland to ask him to help reactivate her reveals that the human race destroyed Earth, that there were actually 2 ships that left earth successfully and that Bahamut simulates the era of the 1980s because it was the most peaceful and full of love.
Shogo goes back to the underground city, and battles with the military, but is defeated by B.D., who returns Shogo's mercy by sending him back up to surface. Badly wounded, Shogo deserts the broken Garland and apparently walks back to Yui's place.
English Dub, Episode 1 of 4.
OVA 3 - Fragile Armor
Miyu reluctantly turns to Himiko to help her save Larva, who has been kidnapped by a shinma, in exchange for information regarding the shinma. Himiko faces the soul of an armored samurai standing in their way, performing a ritual spell to defeat it. Miyu is impressed and then she explains that Larva came to her as a shinma, intending to kill her before she realized her purpose as a vampire, but she awoke to her powers as they spoke; then she bit him, and he became the first living being whose blood she drank. After this, Larva was punished by the other Shinma by having his face and voice sealed away with a mask, tying him as Miyu's servant. To fulfill her part of the deal Himiko, first unaware for being used as bait, looks everywhere in town to find the whereabouts of the armored samurai, only to run into a shinma named Lemures, who captures her and says he believes that Larva should not fall into the hands of Miyu. Miyu appears and releases Himiko, only to be captured by the armored samurai that Himiko confronted, and then Larva frees himself and saves Miyu. Then Miyu burns Lemures to cinders, instead of sending him into the darkness, as punishment for what he did to Larva. Soon after, Miyu reveals to the armored samurai that he was once a human, but he was placed in a suit of armor after using his wife as a sacrifice. Anguished by this, the armored samurai raids the town, only to be gunned down by the police department. Himiko asks why she didn't let the armor believe that he was a Shinma from the start, and Miyu says she cannot just let others forget their humanity since she cannot do that herself.
Episode 3 of 4.
Part II
Shogo has been living underground for several months, hiding from the military and police. He teams up with the motorcycle gang "Trash" and reunites with Yui, who is part of the gang. While watching Eve's new music videos, Shogo sees her occasionally interrupt her video and ask for "Operator 7G", her codename for Shogo. In space, B.D.'s military has been fighting the alien race (the "Dezalg"), which uses an octopus-like penetrating weapon. As the fighting goes on, B.D. searches for Shogo, luring him into stealing another Garland. Shogo gets the Garland, escaping the trap, and uses it to contact Eve.
Trash has a showdown with the military in the city, where martial law is still in effect. In the battle, many of the members of Trash are wounded, including Yui. Lightning and Cindy help Shogo take Yui to Eve.
Shogo meets with Eve, who tries to heal Yui and reveals that Megazone is returning to Earth, but the planet has been protected by A.D.A.M. (Absolute Destruction of Available Mass), which is programmed to destroy anything approaching the Earth except a select subset of the population chosen by ADAM. Eve admits A.D.A.M. is beyond her control, but she wishes Shogo the best and sends him off to reunite with Cindy and Lightning of Trash. B.D. arrives, apparently to challenge Shogo, but B.D. admits his helplessness in his position and also wishes Shogo good luck.
A.D.A.M., determining that both the Dezalg ship and Megazone are hostile, destroys them. As Megazone 23 disintegrates, Eve sings a mournful dirge for the people who die aboard the ship. Eve manages to save a few survivors—among them Shogo, Yui and members of the Trash gang—by gathering them into the Bahamut tower. The tower serves as an escape capsule that jettisons the survivors from the dying Megazone and deposits them on a revived, re-greened Earth. Shogo deduces that the destruction will come soon, then sees Yui coming out of Eve's chamber. They start to step out of the building and see that they have landed on a peaceful Earth.
Part II is notable in abandoning the traditional anime style for more realistic looking characters. In addition, it contains more (if not most) explicit scenes of violence and sex than its predecessor & successors. The show also shows strong reference to cigarettes & beer consumption.
English Dub, Episode 2 of 4.
Part III - Day of Liberation
Eve takes Eiji outside Eden to the ruins of Megazone to check on Bahamut and explains its control of Megazone and guidance back to Earth. They see Eden's outside machinery stretching out further to maintain the city. Eve activates Bahamut to run diagnostics on Eden, which reports status as normal. Eve wonders why Shogo did not wake her and asks Bahamut what happened to him. Bahamut directs her to the last remaining file on him in the next room, which contains the original Garland (from Part II) and a disk.
As Eve and Eiji return to Eden, Sion prepares to take over Orange from its leaders who only want to crush C•X. In the battle, Bud is brainwashed and fights for them but is killed in the process, despite Eiji's attempts to save him. They reach Bishop Won Dai, who they now know to be a Megazone survivor, to stop Project Heaven, which was planned to launch Eden into space to save Earth from humanity again. As the city starts to rumble in the execution of Project Heaven, Eiji shows Won Dai the disk, and he recognizes it and snaps out of his trance, realizing he has been connected to the system for too long. From his last words it is hinted that Bishop Won Dai actually turns out to be Shogo, though how he ended up in the system after Part II remains unknown. As he dies while Eiji attends to him, Eve takes the Bishop's place to stop Project Heaven as the program is within her. She kisses Eiji (and "Shogo") goodbye through the glass shield that now surrounds her and brings the city back down, opening it back to nature. The city core, now controlled by Eve, launches into the sky, leaving the rest of the city on Earth. Eve tells Eiji that she will pilot the core to the Moon to destroy ADAM as well, thus freeing humanity from all of its artificial computer overlords. After watching Eve rise into the sky, Eiji returns to the streets to find Ryo waiting for him and the fighting over.
English Dub, Episode 4 of 4.
OVA 1 - Unearthly Kyoto
A spiritualist named Himiko Se is sent to Kyoto to help the daughter of a rich family named Aiko, who has been lying dormant for sixty days, and no doctor or priest would be of any help for her. After determining through examination that Aiko has been possessed, it seems Himiko is unable to release the spirit. A rumor is spread about a vampire in the area who has killed five people, which is confirmed with Miyahito, who witnessed his girlfriend being murdered by the vampire. Himiko is later attacked by this vampire at night, only to be saved by another vampire in the form of a young girl, later recognized as Miyu, who tells her that she shouldn't get involved into something out of her league. Himiko later witnesses Miyu taking Miyahito's blood, and he falls into a dream-like state. She makes more research and finds out that Aiko's parents died after donating all their blood to save their daughter, who later started saying she was a vampire and only then fell in her coma. Himiko returns to Aiko's home and then Miyu appears, explaining that Aiko is actually possessed by a shinma named Raen; this shinma deceives Aiko into thinking that she is a vampire living with her human parents. Then Miyu pulls Raen out of Aiko, banishing it into the darkness, unfortunately killing Aiko in the process. She concludes that Aiko would've survived if she had taken Miyu's own blood, but she's not sure about it being the best solution. After all of this, Himiko then swears to find this obscure vampire girl once again, and Miyahito is seen still in his trance.
Episode 1 of 4.
OVA 4 - Frozen Time
Himiko goes back to the city of Nara, she spent her childhood to confirm whether a dream she had was real or not. She goes to her old home and sees it's been torn down; however, the place suddenly changes into an old but still on its feet Japanese home, with a ghastly room where a woman and her husband are frozen alive. Miyu shows up and says that this is actually her home and that she was normal until she turned thirteen years old, which is when she started craving blood and ultimately defeated Larva. She explains to Himiko that, after several days of confusion and agony (including her accidentally draining her classmate dry and killing her, and her human friend Akiko trying to offer her her own blood only to be turned away by Miyu's mother) she eventually figured out that her mother is a guardian shinma and her father is an immortal human, whom the mother exchanged blood with (like Miyu herself did with Miyahito). Miyu is summoned by the shinmas to become their new guardian, but she rejects her new nature as a vampire and runs away with her mother, refusing to drink blood again; the father remains there and is easily captured. Miyu is momentarily exhausted and dying for blood, so she gives in and drinks her mother's blood, making her collapse. The shinmas catch up with them and seal Miyu's parents away as punishment for disobeying: Miyu is told that the seal will be lifted if she can gather all the rogue shinmas, and because it may take centuries to accomplish, she is granted immortality and eternal youth. When Miyu is done with her story and disappears, Himiko is back to the empty spot and then she remembers another detail from her childhood. She remembers seeing Miyu when she was about five years old, and Miyu looked the exact same as she does now...
Episode 3 - Crimson Media
The freak murder of three geneticists leads Benten to investigate one man's quest for immortality, as well as finding a young woman transformed into a vampire with telekinesis because of this quest.
English Dub, Episode 3 of 3.