Built around a brother, a sister and the towering war machine they pilot, Pacific Rim: The Black is a 2021 anime series that carries the giant-robots-versus-giant-monsters premise of the feature film Pacific Rim into a serialised, character-driven story.

What is Pacific Rim: The Black about?

Two siblings, a teenage boy and his younger sister, are on their own and searching for their parents. Their one real asset is a Jaeger, the enormous mobile weapon that in this world serves as humanity's answer to the monsters that threaten it. The search is as much about survival as reunion: every stretch of ground they cross carries the risk of an encounter that a machine built for two trained pilots may or may not be able to handle in the hands of two kids. Episodes of roughly twenty-five minutes follow that journey step by step, keeping the family question at the centre as the action escalates.

About the cast

No individual voice performers or director are listed for this entry, so the credits belong to the production as a whole. What the series relies on is the sibling relationship at its core: the bond between an older brother and a younger sister gives the Jaeger sequences an emotional stake that a straightforward monster-fight show would lack.

Context & significance

Pacific Rim: The Black is an animated spin-off rather than a remake. It takes the mythology established in the live-action film, the Jaegers, the monsters they were designed to fight, and the pilots who operate them, and asks what that world looks like from the ground, through characters who never signed up to be soldiers. The action, adventure, animation and science-fiction tags cover the surface, but the format matters just as much: a serialised anime with short episodes lets the story build gradually, spending time on quiet stretches of travel before each confrontation. For anime audiences, the mecha lineage is a familiar one; for viewers who arrived through the film, animation opens up a scale that live action struggles to match.

Watching Pacific Rim: The Black on Ktime

Pacific Rim: The Black is available on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, which makes it equally suited to viewers who prefer the original audio and to younger family members following along in Farsi. Reading this page costs nothing; playing the episodes requires logging in with a K-Time account. The player, menus and catalogue are all in Persian.