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I just finished watching Ergo Proxy last week, as I finally got my last DVD in the mail. It was a really great series, one of the better ones I have seen recently. It has a great cyberpunk feel to it as well as having a very nice story line. I love a story that I can get lost in and try to understand it in as many ways as I can. Ergo Proxy is such a story, all of the different hidden meanings and thoughtful subjects really get you thinking about things. The art as well is very amazing, it has some very nice 3D effects and other digital effects making it a very crisp, clean looking anime.The story follows the acts of Re-I Mayer, Vincent Law, and Pino mainly. To be very basic with the story, the series starts out in Romdo, which is a very high tech, yet grim looking place. The world itself has been abandoned and what humans are left on the world, have been put into little “colonies” through-out the world. Most citizens of Romdo live with no idea of the outside world, and strive to become a “Model Citizen”. In Romdo, humans and AutoReivs (androids) co-exist in harmony, it is a very controlled place, everything working like clockwork.

That clockwork is soon upset by a series of murders committed by what seems to be a wild AutoReiv running rampant around Romdo. These murders began to upset the very delicate balance of Romdo. This is when Re-I Mayer takes the leading roll, and begins to investigate the truth behind these murders. She gets herself into quite a situation and starts to realize that the everyday citizen Vincent Law may have something to do with this, even though he has no idea what is going on. That is just the tip of the iceberg on the story, as it really begins to take off after that. They begin exploring the meaning behind the Cogito Virus (A virus which instills human emotions within the AutoReivs, making them have their own free will and soul), and the mysterious Proxys.

I don’t want to say too much about the anime in fear of ruining some really good parts, but if you are a fan of some of the more deeper, storyline-driven animes, such as Evangelion, then I think you will really enjoy Ergo Proxy, it has just the right amount of action, drama, and storyline, all with a nice little twist of subtle comedy and a dap of gloom to keep the atmosphere.

As for people who have already finished Ergo Proxy, I really recommend reading Anikimeiski’s analysis of the last episode as well as Ergo Proxy in general, he really made some very thought-provoking statements, as well as brining my mind to a couple of things I did not even realize within Ergo Proxy.

Anikimeiski’s analysis of Ergo Proxy (SPOILERS)

Posted on January 12th, 2008 under Anime. RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or trackback.