Anvil Anvil is VANTA's heavy frame, and the most heavily armored machine on the coast. Matte black slab plating over a massive frame, hydraulic ram arms that can punch through a bulkhead, and a pilot who has been fighting kaiju since before anyone in Class 7 could drive. It is slow, and it doesn't care. It was built to stand in a doorway and never move, and it has never been knocked down. Built for the last veteran When TIDEWALL took over the coast and the old manual squads were stood down, Kang Moo-jin was the one veteran Kurenai kept, and Anvil was built for him. It's bigger and heavier than Crimson Howl, and every part of it is about staying upright. Where Kurogane closes and Hush watches, Anvil holds. It's flown the way Moo-jin has always flown, the way he learned in the Iron Years when the frames were armored construction rigs: with sticks, pedals, nerve and no hurry. Like every VANTA mech, it can't fire an energy weapon and doesn't drain. It can keep going long after a resonant pilot has nothing left. How it fights Anvil doesn't chase. It plants itself across a road, a breach or a hangar door, and everything has to go through it. The ram arms punch outward on hydraulic pistons with enough force to cave in armor. The slab plating takes hits that would cut any other mech in half. Most fights against Anvil don't end with Anvil beaten. They end with the other pilot running out of time. Loadout Hydraulic ram arms. Arms that fire forward like pistons and punch through bulkheads. Slab armor plating. The heaviest armor on any mech on the coast. Specs Size: Bigger and more heavily armored than Crimson Howl Class: Heavy / hold the line Drive: Manual Pilot: Kang Moo-jin The people around it Moo-jin. Its pilot. In his forties, the last veteran of the Iron Years still flying, and the only adult at the Breakwater the trainees actually trust. Shin. The son of Moo-jin's old wingman. Anvil holds the line so Kurogane can go through it. Aya. The pilot nobody thought could touch it. Spoilers: Anvil in Season One Everything below this line happens in Season One. If you'd rather find out on screen, stop here. In the trial between the squads, Aya draws Anvil and takes it apart joint by joint until both its arms hang dead. Anvil stays standing only because it was built to never fall, and her link runs dry first. The judges score it for VANTA. Moo-jin climbs out of his cockpit in front of the whole Breakwater, looks up at White Petal, and says she won. In the finale, while the four girls face what's under the bay, Anvil and the rest of VANTA hold the shoreline against the spawn fleeing ahead of it so the evacuation can run.