It’s the end of the world as we know it in the new trailer for Terminator Zero

We’re less than a month away from the premiere of Terminator Zerothe anime series set in the dystopian universe of the Terminator film and television franchise. Pending the original co-production between Production IG (Ghost in the Shell, Psycho-Pass) and Skydance, Netflix shared a new trailer for the series on Tuesday, which focuses on the series’ two human leads: computer programmer Malcolm Lee and time-traveling resistance fighter Eiko.

Executive produced and created by Mattson Tomlin (Project power, The Batsman), Terminator Zero brings the Terminator universe to anime for the first time and is set after the events of 1991 Terminator 2: Judgment DayThe series revolves around Malcolm Lee (André Holland), a genius scientist who develops an artificial intelligence that is seen as a threat to the world-conquering AI Skynet.

When Skynet sends a Terminator (Timothy Olyphant) from the future back in time to kill Malcolm and his family, human resistance fighter Eiko (Sonoya Mizuno) travels back in time to protect Malcolm and his children from the robot apocalypse.

This latest trailer offers glimpses of Malcolm’s nightmares about a nuclear attack wiping out an entire city, Malcolm lecturing his son on the virtue of knowledge as a means of resisting oppression, and his desperate pleas to Kokoro to save humanity from impending extinction. We also get a few clips of Eiko in action, fighting off a Terminator attack on an underground resistance base, throwing a Molotov cocktail at a police car in hot pursuit, and planting an explosive on an industrial catwalk while swinging from a rappel line. Basically, being a badass and earning her place in the resistance against Skynet.

It’s been almost five years since Terminator: Dark Fatethe sixth film in the Terminator series which was moderately well received by critics but flopped at the box office. Will Terminator Zero the much-needed boost this franchise needs? We’ll find out when the anime premieres on Netflix next month.

Terminator Zero premieres on Netflix on August 29.