Ergo Proxy: Box Set
by Murase Shukou
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Director: Murase ShukouBrand: Funimation
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Japanese (Original Language); English (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 600 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-10-07
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Funimation Prod
Product features:
- Never before released in complete boxset form! The domed city of Romd is an impenetrable would-be utopia where humans and robots coexist, and everything is under complete government control, or so it appears. While working on a mysterious murder case, Re-l Mayer, a female detective from the Civilian Intelligence Office, receives a foreboding message that something is going to "awaken."
DVD Reviews of Ergo Proxy: Box Set
DVD Review: Couldn't stop watching.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is some of the best anime, and Sci-Fi in general, that I've had the pleasure of watching. The story and characters are very engrossing, and it gave me chills like only a few of the best Sci-Fi movies and books were able to do. If you like science fiction but haven't found any interest in anime, please check this out, it will change your mind! The animation is wonderful, and the futuristic cyberpunk setting is believable and unique. The dubbing is excellent, and I enjoyed watching it in English.DVD Review: Counter to the Amazon.com review
Summary: 5 Stars
If you're the kind of person that needs a story to tell literal, straight-forward journey from A to B, (like the person who wrote the Amazon.com review) then this isn't for you. But if you appreciate abstract ideas and subjective story-lines open for interpretation, especially thought-provoking stories that pose existential questions, then you'll appreciate Ergo Proxy.
According to Amazon's reviewer, "Ergo Proxy will appeal to viewers who favor violent action over coherent storytelling and credible characters." I don't recall a terrible amount of violent action. The series is arguably slow, actually. Whoever wrote the amazon.com review missed the point, many times over. The 3 episodes that the Amazon.com review sited as "pointless fantasies" are actually the battles with different proxies in their respective cities: beating the game show was defeating a proxy, discerning fantasy from reality in "Ophelia" was defeating a proxy, etc.
As far as copying from Evagelion, I see no similarities. And the only thing that can be accused of copying from Ghost in The Shell is the robots becoming self-aware due to the Cogito Virus. But that idea is in no way original to Ghost in the Shell. How many sci-fi stories deal with the idea of robots becoming self-aware? Besides, "Cogito" is part of the Latin phrase "Cogito ergo sum" or "I think, therefore I am." I think, think, that Descartes was an antecedent to Ghost in the shell, but don't quote me.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion, and some people enjoy the literal, while others appreciate the subjective. And that's fine, of course; this series isn't going to please everyone. But the points made against Ergo Proxy in the Amazon.com review are unfair and incorrect.
By the way, the art is rather nice, too. Cyberpunktastic.
DVD Review: title
Summary: 5 Stars
I was introduced to this series by a friend and I absolutely love it. It really makes you think. It's not just the same thing every episode.DVD Review: Fills your hunger, but still leaves you having room for more.
Summary: 4 Stars
Ergo Proxy is a sophistocated anime. Not one that is full of action or that has a clear story. You really have to think about the characters, their relationships, and the world they live in when you watch this movie. Ergo Proxy reminded me a lot of "Speedgrapher"(another amazing adult Anime). It's about a high society that falls at the hands of the same person that helped nurtured it. When the curtain falls your left questioning about what is the key factor to life. Just like in Speedgrapher the key was living by your own destiny, and not riding on the rails that had been laid out before you.
Ergo Proxy tells the tale of one man who tries to find himself, a girl who thinks she knows herself but doesn't, and highly positive character that motivates them all. The combination of personalities is interesting. The Main character Re-L is a woman whom you could call "cold" and not be off by a single letter. Vincent the co-main character is a passive-aggressive person who bends to fit the situation(mostly he is collective and passive, but mainly because he doesn't know who he is). Pino the sub-character is the odd ball of the bunch. Both Re-L and Vincent alone are dark characters. Pino is full of light and really brings out the best in both of them because of her innocence.
All of Ergo Proxys strange characters live in post-apocalyptic world. They belong to a highly governed society that has learned to survive by living under strict societal rules. Only the highest level of society knows the truth about it, while the lower society live their lives blindly not knowing the truth. Re-L, Vincent, and Pino all journey out to find this truth. The trek that they go on exposes many lies for them, and opens their eyes to a world that they never thought was possible. There are plenty of plot twist, and mind bogglers in this anime, but you have to put the story together yourself. The anime doesn't just fall into place. Each episode reveals clues and hints. Once you get towards the last disk you start to put things together.
Ergo Proxy is a great anime to watch, I recommend it if your into "thinker" sort of animes. I only give this anime 4 stars because I thought it should have been longer so we could see the characters develop more. 2 episode I felt could have been done better as they were not necessary at all. I thought the story was unique, but sometimes overly confusing. There were many times when I didn't know what was going on, untill I pieced the episodes together. If you like Speedgrapher you will enjoy this. If you haven't seen Speedgrapher...well check that out too it's amazing.
DVD Review: Unexpected
Summary: 5 Stars
I admit that when i first started to watch this show i thought it was going to be a dumb show with some kind of cheesy plot, but as i keep watching i was captivated by the way the story began to play out and even though i could predict where the story was headed most of the time it was still great to see it play out. Some of the episodes leading to the ending where a little confusing and unexpected but overall where a good part of the story where you get to see how the individual characters think and are different from each other and really brings the characters to life. Bottom line is this is a great show and i would recommended to any one who likes anime.
Description of Ergo Proxy: Box Set
Never before released in complete boxset form!The domed city of Romd is an impenetrable would-be utopia where humans and robots coexist, and everything is under complete government control, or so it appears. While working on a mysterious murder case, Re-l Mayer, a female detective from the Civilian Intelligence Office, receives a foreboding message that something is going to "awaken." That night, she's attacked by a deformed super-being...what was this unidentified monster that attacked her, and who was the figure that came in between them? As Re-l attempts to unlock this spiraling mystery, a metaphysical battle cry leads her to the unknown outside world...
Ending theme song, "Paranoid Android" performed by Radiohead
When it premiered in 2006, the broadcast series Ergo Proxy attracted a lot of attention because Radiohead let the filmmakers use "Paranoid Android" as the closing theme. Tough-talking intelligence agent Re-l lives in the domed city of Romdo, a pseudo-utopia where humans and androids co-exist under an all-pervasive regime administered by her grandfather. When monsters called Proxies begin attacking people and robots ("autoreives") develop a sense of self due to the "Cogito" virus, Re-l launches her own investigatition. Along the way, she meets immigrant Vincent Law, who travels with the cognizant cyborg Pino. Violating the laws of the city, she follows Vincent and Pino outside the dome and discovers that the rulers of Romdo have lied: human colonies still exist in the scarred landscape. Re-l also learns that Proxies are god-like beings of unknown origin and enormous power, and that Vincent is the exceptionally powerful Ergo Proxy. The series borrows heavily from Appleseed, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C., but the perpetually fussy Re-l lacks Major Kusanagi's fascination. The filmmakers snarl the already convoluted plot in a tangle of flashbacks and alternate visions that recall the confusing structure of Gasaraki. The narration jumps the track entirely in Episodes #14, 15, and 19, three pointless fantasies that waste time which should have been used to clarify the story. Ergo Proxy will appeal to viewers who favor violent action over coherent storytelling and credible characters. The extras include three behind-the-scenes featurettes, plus Japanese trailers and commercials. (Rated 16 and older: violence, violence against women, grotesque imagery, profanity) --Charles Solomon
(1. Awakening (Pulse of Awakening), 2. Confession (Confession of a Fellow Citizen), 3. Mazecity (Leap into the Void), 4. Futu-risk (Signs of Future, Hades of Future, 5. Tasogare (Recall), 6. Domecoming (Return Home), 7. Re-L124C41+, 8. Shining Sign (Light Beam), 9. Angel's Share (Shards of Brilliance), 10. Cytotropism (Existence), 11. Anamensis (In the White Darkness), 12. Hideout (When You're Smiling), 13. Wrong Way Home (Conceptual Blind Spot), 14. Ophelia (Someone Like You), 15. Who Wants To Be in Jeaopardy (Nightmare Quiz Show), 16. Busy Doing Nothing (Dead Calm), 17. Terra Incognita (Never Ending Battle), 18. Life After God (Sign of the End), 19. Eternal Smile (The Girl with a Smile), 20. Goodbye Vincent (Sacred Eye of the Void), 21. Shampoo Planet (Place at the End of Time), 22. Bilbul (Bind), 23. Deus Ex Machina (Proxy)
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