Broken Blade: Book One - The Time of Awakening

You're an anomaly on Cruzon, unable to wield the era's ubiquitous quartz. But your defect becomes a weapon when war erupts. An antique golem awaits a pilot like you. The Athens invasion looms. Director Amino's steampunk dystopia takes cues from *Heavy Metal*, alluding to mecha anime's curious taste for medievalism.

Streaming availability changes weekly. Check the Where to watch panel above — we re-pull TMDB's JustWatch index every week. If nothing's listed, the film is between licence windows.

Our similarity graph picks 6 films based on shared director, keywords, mood-cluster overlap, and MovieLens user co-rating — niche-biased away from blockbusters. Full list: /like/broken-blade-the-time-of-awakening-2010/.

Tetsuro Amino directed Broken Blade: Book One - The Time of Awakening in 2010. See Tetsuro Amino's full filmography, where to start with Tetsuro Amino, or where to go after you've seen everything by Tetsuro Amino.

Broken Blade: Book One - The Time of Awakening was released in 2010 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 51 minutes.