Trigger Inc. (Japanese: 株式会社トリガー, Hepburn: Kabushiki-gaisha Torigā), also known as Studio Trigger, is a Japanese animation studio founded by former Gainax employees Hiroyuki Imaishi and Masahiko Ōtsuka on August 22, 2011.
In the forests of the Pacific Northwest, young couple Spike Witwicky and Carly Spencer stumble upon a crashed spaceship. In discovering what's inside, their lives are upended forever as the two are thrown into a centuries-long civil war between alien robots that can transform.