Secret Level S01e08: Armored Core Asset Manageme...

Armored Core: Asset Management is the eighth episode of the adult animated anthology series Secret Level

After defeating a wave of smaller drones, the Asset Manager refuses to advance to the objective. Instead, he scans the debris. We are treated to a montage of UI elements showing "Scrap Value: 12,000 COAM." The Handler screams at him to move; the Manager replies, "If we don't log the salvage now, procurement will write it off as a total loss. That’s a quarterly variance I won't explain to Tokyo." It is the most horrifyingly realistic depiction of corporate bureaucracy ever animated. Secret Level S01E08 Armored Core Asset Manageme...

“I don’t care,” she said. “Your liquidation value is zero if I leave you functional.” Armored Core: Asset Management is the eighth episode

The Corporation doesn’t call it slavery. They call it Asset Management . That’s a quarterly variance I won't explain to Tokyo

The bunker’s spike punched through the gold chassis and deep into the actuator. Gilded howled—not in pain, but in rage. His AC staggered, one arm hanging limp.