SUMMARY
In a future where the world has been ravaged by a nuclear apocalyse, there exists salvation in a domed city named "Romdeau", where humans and their android servants, the autoreivs, 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. Real Mayar, 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 Romdeau. [Source: ANN]
SERIES INFORMATION
Year: 2006
Categories: adventure, drama, horror, mystery, psychological, science fiction, supernatural
Director: Shukou Murase
Production: Manglobe Inc. and Geneon Entertainment Inc.
Episodes: 23
EPISODE 1 WALKTHROUGH
So now we're done with the formalities:D let's get to the main subject:
Ergo Proxy is one of a few animes I have watched that are extremely psychological, it gives you headaches from times to times and in some episodes you get lost in the story and you might need to re-watched 1 or 2 previous episodes just to keep track of the story and get a better understanding of upcoming events.
WARNING: THE FIRST EPISODE WILL BE ALMOST COMPLETELY SPOILED ON YOU BY READING THE INFORMATION BELOW, PLEASE DON'T READ IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO WATCH IT WITHOUT ANY SPOILERS.
After passing this point there is no going back, let's Go! :arrow:
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NOTE: Click on the images to see at larger size.
The episode starts in a lab with one human scientist and multiple robots(autoreivs) monitoring what seems to be an important subject.
The subject wakes up for some unknown reason and moves (more like teleport) at a high speed in a random manner then breaks the glass, the team immediately leaves the room to avoid any casulties after an evac alarm notification.
In a different time, we're brought to a room of a guy who wakes up, drinks from a bottle of water, gets ready and he takes off on his bike at night. as he drives the traffic light turns into red which makes him stop the bike suddenly and fall.(lol, the idiot :lol: )
With a "heavy"(didn't know how to explain it better than that :P) and confident man's voice we hear someone speaks the following words:
"In that instant, I understood everything. The workings of the Creator and the totality of malevolence. We will not be able to oppose them, however, we must punish them. I can hear the heartbeat.... of beginning"
Here ends the introduction and the real deal begins. The same guy we saw in the introduction "Vincent Law(Vincento Law)", an immigrant from Mosko, goes on a mission to deal with infected with a disease called "Cogito Virus" autoreivs which gives them emotions and that makes them act in unwanted way by Romdeau's system aka The Adminstrator.
The Heroine, Real Mayer(Lilo Mayer) an autoreiv crime detective, goes to meet Vincent Law to gather information about the disease.
And then she goes to inspect the immigrants' section for any leads, and while she was at it:
This part of the episode is damn great, the presentation is top notch and the musics suck you into the atmosphere of the anime. As Real(Lilo) was inspecting the building, a creature fell down from above, luckily she notices it at the very last moment and dodges getting hit by that being.
"It" ran away from the building and Lilo is left with a diseased autoreiv and another robot that tried to kill her, luckily again, she manages to get out of the situation unharmed.
*skipped some part*
After a hard day's work our heroine gets back home, sits down for a minute thinking about that creature and why the authorities try to hide its existence
Anyways, our heroine undresses to take a shower (I love these parts :oops: :P)
But she notices..... something, there is a writing on the toilet's mirror.... with Black Blood! :o
Right after she saw it, the ceiling trumbled down and a huge creature fell down from above, our girl froze, she couldn't speak a word, standing face to face with that creature who looked down upon her and smiled while a drop of tear fell from his eye. Lilo was dead scared and shocked by that scene, it's like as if she was looking at a Death God, who was there to collect her soul. (NO! please don't die please don't die :cry: )
This scene is so well-done, my hair stood up while watching this part and what makes it even better and better is the MUSIC! It puts you in an undescribable moment filled with joy, wonder and mystery. Pics can't capture the greatness of these moments, one needs to witness it with his own eyes to know how much work was spent on such a masterpiece.
At that very instance, another black creature jumped into the scene, hitting the one terrifying Lilo and throwing him away from her, the monsterous creature managed to counter-attack by grabing and throwing the second one also away from Lilo(Real). Both were looking at each other without saying any understandable word. Lilo fell asleep from that shock and this is where the first episode ends.
"EPIC! WOW! I'll watch the WHOLE anime today!" That was my impression right after I finished watching this episode. If I'd give this anime a score it would be between 9.0~9.5, there are a few drawbacks but thay don't eat up much of the score. If you're an anime fan Go and Watch it...NOW!
I wouldn't suggest this anime to non-anime lovers but this episode will sure let you crave to know what will happen in the later episodes. Also since this is my second blog, what do you think of adding pictures as thumbnails? (the way I did), is it better this way or next time I should just put them there as is? even if they take so much time to load?
Also, if you know of an anime or manga that is similar to this one please, state that in your comment, I'd be glad to watch it 8). Btw, I almost always prefer Japanese voices over English ones when it comes to anime with very very few exceptions here and there (like Kenshin the OVA).
I hope you guys enjoyed it. Please leave a comment and thanks for reading :)
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