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- Region:Japan
- Type:TV
- English name:The Marginal Service
- Official name:THE MARGINAL SERVICE
- Chinese name:边缘服务
- Other names:ザ・マージナルサービス / 境界敢死队 / 境界服务
- Premiered:April 11, 2023
- Status:Finished Airing
- Tags:Science fiction / Action / Combat / Source original
- Director:迫井政行
- Scenario:猪原健太
- Storyboard:敷島博英 / 西田正義 / 粟井重紀 / 迫井政行 / 小坂春女
- Co-director:中澤勇一 / 藤井邦雄 / 海野イカたろう / 三好なお / 鈴木拓磨
- Studios:Studio 3Hz
- Production cooperation:DR MOVIE / アールケイ / 光の園
- Producers:THE MARGINAL SERVICE PROJECT(Cygames, ハピネット・メディアマーケティング, 日本テレビ, ムービック, キングレコード, 松竹);二瓶茂人 / 菊地公一 / 五味康彦 / 高橋雄一 / 長谷川嘉範
- Copyright:©THE MARGINAL SERVICE PROJECT
- Family:The Marginal Service
- Rating:12+
The Marginal Service
Foolhardy police officer Brian Nightraider is dismissed from the force for a history of reckless behavior that ultimately resulted in his partner's death.
While wallowing in self-pity, the disgraced officer receives a curious invitation from the United Nations Immigration Bureau Special Investigation Unit.
He has been recruited to join the Marginal Service, a secret underground branch of the UN tasked with handling Borderlanders.
Indistinguishable from humans, Borderlanders are aliens that peacefully coexist in society.
But now, a Borderlander terrorist organization has emerged, manufacturing and distributing a potent drug called Confu.
With the Borderlanders' ability to regenerate and blend in as humans, uncovering the drug-trafficking ring will be no easy undertaking.
However, the ragtag group at the Marginal Service are not one to back down from a challenge—even as their work exposes some unexpected figures as Borderlanders.
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EP1 - Leather Jacket Is Slippery
After Brian Nightraider gets fired from the police, he gets a letter from the United Nation Immigration Bureau Special Task Force, Marginal Service. He visits the address in the letter, only to find a bizarre occult shop.
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EP2 - One Step and Riddled With Bullets
Still on the fence about Borderlanders, Brian goes on a mission to find out the truth. In a red costume, he accompanies Zeno, Robin, and Bolts to Jukai, where the drug factory is supposed to be. On their way, their chopper gets shot down by a missile.
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EP3 - Don't Overeat Caviar
Brian and the team attempt to infiltrate Rubber Suit's mansion while he's holding a charity auction, hoping to retrieve a rare item being used to manufacture illegal drugs.
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EP4 - That Absurd Switch
The team tries to crack a mysterious case involving terrorist bombings that seem to be following a clear pattern, but not a clear purpose.
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EP5 - Sexy Santa Lights the Holy Night
On Christmas morning, Brian wakes up to a cyberattack to the Marginal Service, which escalates from embarrassing photos to possible data leakage about the Marginal Service and Borderlanders. Lyra has a good idea of who’s responsible.
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EP6 - Boobs for a Marmot, Air Tank for a Shark
The Marginal Service finds out that Rubber escaped to Higashino Island. They have to get there on a boat, but Cyrus isn't happy about it since he hates nature. Brian happily suggests a fishing contest. But what he manages to catch is a shark.
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EP7 - Making Up Is the Beginning of Another Fight
Brian and Zeno set out to rescue Robin and Bolts, who have fallen into Rubber Suit's clutches. Little do they know that Robin and Bolts are about to discover a secret about their past that will completely upend the mission.
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EP8 - Zombies Prefer Shopping Malls?
The Marginal Service goes to the holding facility converted from a mall, where Rubber is being transferred. After Cyrus conducts a medical check up on Rubber, something strange starts to happen.
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EP9 - An Ounce of Energy Drink Is Worth a Pound of Cure
Rubber is in custody with the higher ups at the UN. Zeno is upset that he can't interrogate Rubber, and suspects that Theodore's hiding something. Zeno collapses and wakes up in Cyrus's lab, and everything starts to look shady.
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EP10 - You're Always Not There When I Want to Hit You
Zeno gets caught up in the investigation of a missing child, but Brian worries that Zeno may end up going too far due to his troubled past.
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EP11 - When You Wish Upon a Star, a Star Shall Have the Guitar and Perfume
Brian is desperate to find Zeno before the rest of the Marginal Service does, and his only choice is to seek information from... Rubber Suit?
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EP12 - Shitty World Will in Fact Come to an End
Having heard the truth from Rubber, Brian is reunited with Zeno in Mt. Minakami and suggests to rescue children together, but Zeno doesn't listen. While they fight, the doomsday for the Earth, another Gray Shock is about to happen.