Master of Torque - Episode Guide

The chime signaling the end of the work day rings throughout the Hyuga Corporation building. As he heads to the Genesis Café, Dan hides his excitement of finally being able to throw aside his dreary salaryman persona for the rider he really is at heart. After fueling up with a giant plate of napolitan spaghetti, he dons his zebra-striped rider backpack, and sets out on nighttime Route 246 for Sangenjaya on a personal delivery run for his aunt, Sanae.

Meanwhile, Hyuga Corp. is in the final stages of developing the next application of its artificial muscle fibers, the "Marishi Machina," a new powered suit utilizing an electronic interface and artificial muscle fibers to give people with just an average level of physical fitness the superior skills and abilities of a very select group of professional athletes.

As the one in charge of the suit's development, Kotaro is anxious to complete the project quickly. Then, a call comes in from his subordinates. They have located the "Zebra." Kotaro dons the Machina suit himself and heads out into the night in pursuit of Dan.

What are Kotaro's motives? Who is Makina, and why is she lying in wait for them?
A new story is about to begin...

Despite his suit's cutting-edge digital technology, Kotaro yet again loses sight of the "Zebra." His pride in tatters, he rides aimlessly down nighttime R246, as if to calm his frustration-racked nerves and quell his envy.

Dan returns to the Genesis Café and a slightly worried Sanae. Having no parents or kin of his own, Sanae raised Dan like a son, and she can't help but be concerned for his well-being.

But then, freelance journalist Makina appears at the Café. Knowing nothing of Sanae's worries, she approaches Dan—who's relaxing at the counter—tricks him into showing her his Hyuga Corp. ID card, and promptly snares it from him.

What is Makina after? What are Kotaro's true aims?

The fates of these three riders begin to entwine...

Makina exits the Genesis Café with Dan's Hyuga Corp. ID card and her camera in hand. She notices that the surrounding area has been closed for construction, but there was no construction planned for tonight...

Seeing the Hyuga Corp. truck parked inside the construction site, she realizes that there is some kind of connection between the development of the powered suits that her father and Dan's father were once involved in, and Hyuga Corp.'s closely guarded company secrets.

Makina approaches Hyuga Corp.'s suit-testing mobile container to obtain irrefutable proof to back her suspicions with her camera, but the container's computer system suddenly reacts to the pendant given to her by her father, and straps her into a prototype Machina suit—one with an incomplete brainwave-synchronization function.

Who is Makina really? What did her father and Dan's father have to do with the development of the Marishi Machina suits?

The gears of fate begin to turn...

The Marishi Machina suit—the culmination of Hyuga Corporation Chairman Mitsukuni Hyuga's ambition—seizes control of Makina's body, and she begins a wild sprint on an MT-07 toward the new section of the Shutoko expressway under construction. Dan gives chase to try to save her, summoning all of the natural riding talent and instincts that won him the "Zebra" nickname. He struggles to close the gap and catch Makina as the activated power suit propels her forward. Meanwhile, Kotaro has joined the chase, eager not to waste this precious opportunity to finally outrun the Zebra.

Makina's mind is under the control of the Machina suit's digital technology, and Dan is in hot pursuit, using his razor sharp senses to maneuver his motorcycle through the construction-strewn Shutoko. Kotaro, not far behind, is refusing to be defeated by Dan and anxious to prove the capability of the digital suits he's given everything to perfect. What awaits these three young riders as the climax of their chase approaches?

Makina lost consciousness when the Marishi Machina suit developed by the Hyuga Corporation seized control of her body and sent her charging onto the new Shutoko expressway on an MT-07. Luckily, Dan was able to stop her before it was too late. With Makina on the back of his MT-09 Street Rally, Dan began riding back towards the Genesis Café only to be intercepted by Hyuga Corporation chairman Mitsukuni Hyuga. He was waiting for them with an unsettling expression on his face.

Dan was sure that he would be forced to resign his job for getting the heir to the company's presidency, Kotaro Hyuga, involved in this mess. But when Makina confronts Mitsukuni about the truth behind the incident that claimed their parents' lives, Dan is given an order he would never have expected.

Dan keeps trying to avoid facing the trauma he experienced as a child, but is encouraged to find the truth by Makina. Sanae, the owner of the Genesis Café, seems to notice their troubled state and takes matters into her own hands.

Can Dan face his past and free himself of the curse he has borne and reclaim his future with his own hands?

The interlocked gears of fate driving the destinies Dan, Makina and Kotaro begin to move again, and the next part of their story is about to unfold...

Dan Amo hears from Hyuga Corporation Chairman Mitsukuni Hyuga that his mother is still alive. To see with his own eyes if there's truth in his words, Dan goes together with Makina, herself hoping to discover the whereabouts of her father, to the Hyuga Corporation's secret testing facility at the foot of Mt. Fuji.

Seeking to lay claim to the world's emerging market for powered suits, Mitsukuni is bent on finally completing the Marishi Machina suit. He tells Dan and Makina that conducting once again the test that the original development team had done in the past may bring them both what they seek.

They both have their reasons: Dan wants to revive his mother from her cold-sleep; Makina wants to know what her father really desired. They decide to go through with the test, but will doing so finally help free them from the ghosts of their pasts?