BRAIN POWERED (Buren Pawado), based on the story by Yoshiyuki Tomino with art by Yukiru Sugisaki. First published in 1998 and first published in North America in 2003.
PLOT:
The earth is under attack as massive, strange discs rise from the bottom of the ocean, bringing destruction in their wake along with the strange organic robots inside them. A mysterious group known as Orphan is gathering as many of these plates and robots as possible, to study them for reasons known only to their leaders. Yu Isami doesn't care about any of that, though. His parents may run Orphan, but he just tries his best to keep his head low and do what he's told.
When his beliefs are confronted by a mysterious pilot named Hime Utsumiya, he choses to defect and joins her on the giant floating fortress called Novis Noah. There they nurture the robots (known as "Powereds") like children, working in partnership with them like parent and child to oppose Orphan.
