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Anime: Ergo Proxy, Reviewed by Hexfix93.

February 12th, 2008 by Hexfix93

Utopia, Dystopia. a Future tale. Character driven. Interesting story. Starts kind of slow and drags in parts. But over all this is a great anime series. I love the art style. Starts out with the main character not knowing what or who he is. I don’t want to give away to much so. Any how, there are these regions in their world, with ergo proxy to watch over each. The autoraves are probably my favorite aspect of the entire story. They are personal slave robots for the rich aristocrats of the cities. Some use the autoraves to replace people. Somehow the autoraves inherit a soul and makes the humans freak out. Over all this is a very psychological anime. But don’t worry, because there is enough action stuff to keep it from getting boring. The art is well done and very end of the world looking. The music is pretty good too, I love how they use the “paranoid android by radio head” as the closing credit music.

This really makes the cyberpunk in me happy. This is definatly one of the better dark animes out on the market today. I highly recommend renting or buying this series. I give this anime a 4 out of 5. Click here to buy Ergo Proxy.

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5 Responses

vampiricmaggot Says:
February 12th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
seems cool, i haven’t watched animes a very long time ago, but had been really into it times ago…
my fave was always inuyasha and ‘x’ i liked much too
digital_sacrilege Says:
February 12th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Glad you watched this. I have the first 3 volumes. Love it dearly, great imagery, great story. Definitel defines Utopia-Dystopia. Re-L is so hot!
deZtornmind Says:
February 12th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Ergo Proxy is slow moving it’ll make you fuckin’ kill yourself. Honestly man, I don’t know how you sat through this. I watched every episode and it was just painful. The art is fantastic as well as the mood, but the story is so lacking that it just kills the entire piece.

I love cyberpunk, and there’s not that much anime of it so you do have to appreciate what you get, but you have to call out the bad ones, and Ergo Proxy is not an enjoyable watch. For that matter, neither is the Ghost In The Shell TV series.

I admit there’s some good scenes in Ergo Proxy, but you’re in for hours of boredom if you commit to it.
XxJabxX Says:
February 13th, 2008 at 2:29 am
Hey cool. i love this show. its really great. and i love cyberpunk as well. ^^
deadsoul Says:
February 20th, 2008 at 3:35 am
this has to be the 1st anime that i bought because i loved the art work on the box. i managed to get vol. 1 special edition which the box art had this pencil and blow pen type art with Illustrator and Photoshop elements inked in. The art work in the show is fantastic, yet the dialogue and some story elements had my eyes rolling back. just the cheese factor of plain dialogue made me say, “oh brother.” the series does pick up and becomes confusingly interesting.

i just hope the remaining volumes get released in the U.S. because geneon who publishes it is now bankrupt and buried. it’s one of the reasons why i hesitate to buy an anime series…