Ergo Proxy

This show is pretty cool. I've seen upto episode 4 and it's just getting better and better. Vincent is a pretty interesting character and little Pino is just adorable. It seems she has some kind of connection with Vincent which I hope they'll get around to explaining.

In this episode:

Spoiler:

....it looks like Vincent is this "other" Proxy. His dream-state he was in after escaping the Proxy after him in the mall (in episode 3) seems to suggest another being who seems to be with him but whom he can't see. He's not totally aware on the train but it seems someone left him and he comes back to his senses.

In episode 4 when Lil looks over his living quareters, she finds 2 sets of a towel, toothbrush and toothpaste on either side of the sink, and 2 mugs on either side of the bed. Why two? Was he a kind of schizophrenic?

The map she finds in his room leads her to the lifeless body of the other Proxy. This might be coincidental, but I reckon it was killed by Vincent's Proxy - or by Vincent himself.

Pretty neat!



Jam it back in, in the dark.

Heh, episode 5 was pretty cool. I agree the ending really had me wanting more...

Spoiler:

.....I can't believe the vessel everyone's talking about is right under everybodies' noses. And I would never have thought that Lil would go all the way outside just to retrieve Vincent. And Proxy's sudden appearance was cool, but I was disappointed that we only had that one brief look at him.

What was with the attack by the Techibi anyway? Were they trying to attack Lil as well, or was it just Vincent overreacting when he saw it swooping in? (like at the end of episode 4?)

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I've still to see episode 7 since I've been waiting up on Yoroshiku's subs, though lately it's started to take much more time for their releases to come out.

Can anyone comment on Anime-Jiyuu's work? Are they any good? At least are they as good as Yoroshiku? If so, and they seem to be able to release stuff pretty quickly, I might just have to switch over to them. Yoroshiku just take too damn long now.

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Just saw episode 7 by Yoroshiku. I'm just amazed at what's going on here. It's so cool!!!

Spoiler:

....so now Vincent and Pino are all alone. One human and an autorave on a vessel heading to Vince's home town, apparently the same place where the other Proxy was brought in from....? What's the secret to this place? What will Vince find there?

Now that a "must be fake" death certificate has been issued, Re-l should be able to move about a little more freely, that is if the director can actually believe Daedalus' deception. So what's next for our heroine? Is she gonna split Romdeau and head out to look for Vincent again? And what was Daedalus on about in the beginning when he mentioned something about Re-l's recuperative powers? Is she beginning to to develop strange powers or something? *gasp* - can she now survive outside?!

Looking forward to the next episode for sure!!!




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So what, are Pino-no-Usagi any good then? I'm seriously considering just downloading from them for episodes 15 onwards. Are their subs for episode 15 fairly decent?

Shinsen aren't on holiday anymore, they're still putting out Blood+ and have even started doing Night Head Genesis and FLAG. Heck, they've started doing Demonbane as well. They sure aren't in any hurry to get back to work on Ergo Proxy it seems....



I was speaking idiomatically.

If you really wanna know then you can go to the website Foshi linked to in his post (#362) earlier on this page and spoil yourself silly......like I did.....

Yeah, well that was my own fault.





What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Wow! Finally got around to finishing off this series, and despite spoiling myself beforehand, these 2 episodes were great!

So there you have it, the real backstory to the state of the world:

Spoiler:

Humans destroyed their world (probably by that chemical accident that killed what, 80% or 85% of the world's population?) and the remaining survivors split in their shuttles. Before they left, they created the Proxy Project, where 300 Proxies would create domed cities and citizens to live in them. In some way, this helps to "heal" the planet (didn't get that part) and once the planet reached some level of normalcy, the Proxies and their cities would die making way for the returning humans.

Okay, maybe I didn't quite get as much as I would've liked. Still, it was an awesome series and I enjoyed it immensely.

Though I was a little surprised by the relationship between Pino and Raul Creed:

Spoiler:

....I know that Pino was a companion autorave for Raul Creed and his wife and child, but after his family were killed in the mall, Raul doesn't return home. Pino is waiting for him and when she hears a noise at the front door she says "papa" but finds the auto-rave hunters instead. I had always thought that it was the then unknown "papa" who had sent the hunters after Pino....

In the end, we see Raul was very attached to Pino after all.

The end shot was awesome.




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