Project Arms - The Claws That Catch (Vol. 1)
High school student Ryo discovers that his right hand, which was injured in  an accident years earlier, was implanted with "nano-machines," microscopic  robots that turn it into an "ARMS," a powerful metamorphic weapon. Hayato and  Tomoe, two transfer students at his school, possess similarly lethal  mechanical appendages. All three students are attacked by assassins sent by  the mysterious organization "Egrigori," which also involves sinister twin  boys who recall the child experiment victims inAkira. This 2001 TV  series obviously had a very low budget, and the blue-tinted visuals do little  to bolster the threadbare plot (Ryo's friend Katsumi is taken hostage twice  in one episode). The inevitable slow-motion fight scenes quickly give way to  camera moves over still art, and the characters change appearance from scene  to scene so radically, it's often difficult to tell who's supposed to be  doing what. (Rated 13 and older: considerable violence, profanity)--Charles  Solomon