The Orbital Children

 A new, 2022, anime currently on Netflix, this 6 episode ONA was a good series to watch.

Especially as it deals with both the dangers of being to reliable on technologie, as well as product placement steering lives.

In 2045, the world is greatly dependant on AI and the internet, and when some children win a trip to the Anshin space station they think the world is theirs.  They meet Touya and Konoha, the last of moon born children and who carry a special brain implant.  However, those implants malfunction, and they have to get round to the problem or they will die.

When an accident occurs, the children must rely on each other though, and overcome the earth and moon differences in view and beliefs, as they are seperated from the adults and need to find a way to escape the perils.  As they need to work together, their views on each other change for the better during a spacewalk.

They learn the control crew also survived, but is stuck in ops, meaning they need to manage by themselves until the rescue ship arrives.  But it seems a terrorist hacker group, John Doe, is behind it all, trying to ressurect the intelligence of Seven.  This was a super AI that had to be shut down as it wanted to destroy humanity, and by the ways of the Seven Poem the group tries it again by enabling it to grow on a comet.  As the children discover this truth, Nasa is revealed to be a John Doe consiprator and she blows herself out of the airlock after the children overcome her.

Konoha realises she is nothing less then the key to the future, and starts merging with the poem and the Seven intelligence.  However, she starts to die from the effort, and Touya connects with her consciousness through their implants.  Fusing together, they learn the new Seven intelligence is nothing but a tantrum throwing child, and by overriding the cognitive locks on their drone they teach it about the world.  This results in the computer disintegrating both itself and the comet, and changes the ending of the predictive poem as Konoha lives.

Six months later the kids have regular lives on Earth, as the intelligence, now in microparticles circling Earth, gathers them for one last time and cry out to them...

A really good and intelligent series, taking a look at the danger of a world completely dependent on the internet and AI's, resulting in an AI becoming so smart the world solely relies on it.  But it also tackles the idealogy of two very different sorts of people learning to overcome their indifference toward each other and build a better future one step at a time.

Surely check it out on Netflix, it's worth it!