Despera will also feature as its series director Ryuutarou Nakamura, the director of Kino no Tabi and Ghost Hound, among other things (he also did art on my first anime ever, Unico). The wirter attached to the project is Chiaki J. Konaka, who also worked on Lain and Ghost Hound, as well as Princess Tutu and Hellsing.
As for the story, it's an alternative history story set in 1922 Tokyo (that would be the Taishou era, for you Japanese history majors) and revolves around a teenage girl named Ain, who is able to build strange machines without any particular scientific background.
Sounds kind of cute.
