Mature (May contain sex, drugs, and extreme graphic violence)
Vintage:
February 25, 2006
Status:
Completed
Summary:
In a future where the world has been ravaged by a nuclear apocalyse, there exists salvation in a domed city named "Romdo", where humans and their android servants, the AutoReiv, live in. Under the implementation of complete management control, it is a paradise where feelings are literally discarded, and the governing council dictates the way of life the citizens should live. But this utopian landscape is soon broken by a series of mystifying murders. Re-l Mayer, a female inspector from the Citizen Information Bureau, along with her autoreiv partner Iggy, are tasked to solve the murder cases. She is soon attacked by a creature drawn to her which is neither human nor android, and learns about the mysterious phenomena called "Awakening", an event which draws her further into the case...and to the world beyond the limits of Romdo.
Written by DemonEmporer on August 21, 2011 at 10:53 AM
Overall Rating
Excellent
Story: 5
Dialogue: 5
Animation: 5
Entertainment: 5
Authors note:
Right so first off, I seen this anime for the first time at about '99? I can't really remember exactly. At that time, I never really took in the story as a whole and thought it to be slightly .. how ot put it.. confusing in some ways. I've seen it 3-4 times since then(Just re-watched it again), and everytime I re-watch it. I get a new appreciation for how well the story is written and portrayed.
In some ways, I wish they made a follow up. Simply because of the way it ended, but truth be told. I'm glad they didn't. I doubt if there was a follow up it'd be anywhere as good(story wise) as the original due to the way it ended(Ergo proxy battle anime? nty... -.-). *shrugs* Just my humble opition.
Review:
So as always, I'll start out with the story. It's a very unique story to say the least. In both concept and construct. For the most part, or at least the top layer of the story is about a few key questions, "Who is Vincent law" and "what is a proxy". However, as the story progresses, it indroduces you to new questions that may or may not be answered in that one episode. Some of the answers can be kind of obscure though, and thus you can end up feeling slightly confused. In truth if you don't say "WTF is going on?!" at least once almost every episode(Minus the first few), You're either much smater than me, seen it before, not paying attention or very quick witted(And props to you if you are. lol).
Dialogue in this is very important, As important as it is in Death note. Some of the conversations and descriptions of what's happening can be rather complex at times. All in all the dialogue is at times very deep and thought provoking, as elessarshope said it's very philosophical and most of the time serious. It can be rather dark at times too, those with and without hope, serious and not are protrayed as you'd expect them to be(See the difference between Vincent, Pino and Re-L to see what I mean).
Animation wise. Well, it's very dark and grungey. It is a cyber punk anime after all. I mean, a dead world isn't supposed to be bright and cheerful, right? But as far as the characters go they are all very unique and very well designed(even despite all the dark colors used).
So to wrap it all up. As a whole, Ergo proxy is an anime that will probably make you sit back and think, even after coming to it's conclusion. So if you don't like thinking or that type of thing makes your head hurt, this isn't for you.
