The Daughter of Twenty Faces — Season 1, Episode 8: The Human Tank
Animation, Action & Adventure • 22 min • 1 season, 22 episodes • ★ 3.6/10
Episode synopsis
Chiko slowly settles into a normal life at school and makes friends, though the excitement craving Shunka remains adverse to Chiko. Meanwhile, Uncle Genji, an old family friend of Chiko's, asks for Akine's help for a pharmaceutical company looking for two rogue scientists: Nozomi Kayama and Takashi Tsuya. The missing scientists, who had been researching ways to create an ulimate soldier, a human tank, have used themselves as test subjects and now seek out Chiko, believing that as the Daughter of Twenty Faces, she has the data from during the war that will cure them. When the scientists end up taking Shunka instead, Chiko must come forth to save her. While Dr. Tsuya dies from being unable to control his body any longer and violently attacking everyone, Dr. Kayami escapes and warns Chiko that she will likely be targeted by many wanting to obtain the "legacy of Twenty Faces."
About The Daughter of Twenty Faces
Eleven-year-old Chizuko Mikamo is a victim; she is aware that her cruel relatives have been slowly poisoning her, but she can't do anything to escape her fate except starve herself. Luckily for her, the infamous thief, Twenty Faces, has arrived to steal her household's most valuable treasure: Chizuko herself. Alongside Twenty Faces, Ken, Skipper and the rest of the gang, Chizuko travels to exotic lands and strange places in search of valuable treasure. But, as she soon discovers, there's much more to the mysterious Twenty Faces than she could ever have bargained for.