Hear that? That’s the sound of me GNASHING MY TEETH IN FRUSTRATION. Isn’t the first rule of narrative to show, not tell? Why on earth are we getting filled in on events just by people talking to Re-L? It’s sloppy story-telling born about by the erratic structure of Ergo Proxy, and it does my [...]
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Real Mayer, an inspector for the Intelligence Bureau of Romdeau, encounters a mysterious creature/monster while investigating a series of murders. In her quest for the truth, what will she find? (c. 2006, Rating: Average)
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…and then he woke up and it was all a dream! (and they had tea and cakes and lived happily ever after) Is it just me, or have approximately half the episodes of Ergo Proxy not actually happened? And yes, I know it’s not real (or re-l?), you know what I mean. Anyway, a Proxy named Swan [...]
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I always knew Walt Disney was a shapeshifting futuristic monster. It’s interesting to see Manglobe attempt Western animation in this rather odd little episode about Pino getting a message to steer clear of a Proxy who’s happy to play God with his own theme park creations. However, whilst I enjoyed the episode a great deal, [...]
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Hige sees off the dark horse of the year with extended musings on the subject. PINO FOR PRES~~
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The Boukensha-tachi get to Moscow. They check Vince’s answering machine but all the messages are garbled. They head home again. Meanwhile, Daedalus makes babies and Raul goes loopy. Monad, you slut! You give your pendants to all the boys! Anyhow, that was a bit… insubstantial. I have NO idea why Raul was [...]
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In another 13 days and 14 or so hours Geneon will launch the Ergo Proxy dvd site. So right now what we’re left to look at is a less-than-good looking flash count down and a trailer. What’s so interesting about this? Well the trailer isn’t dubbed. Which is kind of weird. Maybe I’ve been [...]
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So, I just finished Ergo Proxy. After my stunning victory regarding the show, I’m left unable to puzzle something out. At the end of the last episode, Vincent is saying something along the lines of thousands of humans finally returning to the Earth that was rejuvenated. So what’s the deal. Is the planet that he is on, [...]
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Ergo Proxy is a science-fiction series with a healthy dose of mystery and action. It’s set in a post-apocalyptic world, in which the regular earth has become uninhabitable. The only places where people can live is in certain air-tight domes. This story begins in one of these domes: Romdeau. It’s a highly controlled society, which [...]
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Heh, this was one of the few times at which a Deus ex Machina actually felt good. Probably because of Pino’s role. When we saw her wandering through Romdeau, I kept thinking that something bad would happen to her, but she actually didn’t play a role in this final arc at all. The creators just [...]
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The first half of the finale has started, and it really was awesome. You really can classify this as the answer-episode, as lots of revelations are made. This is going to be a rather short entry, as I already have episode 23 on my computer, just waiting to be played. So, - Ergo Proxy/Vincent escapes [...]
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And we’re finally back in Romdeau, in which Ergo Proxy has three episodes in order to conclude its story. So far, strange things have happened, interesting things have happened, twisted things have happened, but these things haven’t been anything amazing yet. Let’s hope that the final two episodes will be able to deliver. Anyway, we [...]
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Hige reviews episode twenty of Ergo Proxy and WTFers approvingly.
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This episode’s Proxy has the ability to delude someone’s mind. You could describe it as bringing its victim in a dream-world. In this dream world, The Usagi has arrived in Romdeau, after which Real turned Vincent in and hid Pino away. Afterwards, she was taken in by Daedalus and his assistant: Swan, in order to [...]
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Thanks to calm weather, the Daiboukensha-tachi get stuck in the middle of nowhere for a few days, and Real slowly gets more and more wound up by Pino’s constant piss-taking and Vincent’s bad habits like never putting the toilet seat down and missing a spot when he shaves. However, eventually she stops obsessing about [...]
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I loved this episode! It was another wacky one, but seriously, I kept smiling over the entire episode. Heck, I’m even smiling as I type this. Pino was SO awesome during this episode. Not to mention the huge wave of symbolism. If you ever need to smile for one reason or another, watch this episode! The [...]
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Vincent is on a strange TV show, hosted by what I believe is a Proxy named MCQ. If Vincent gets to 1,000,000 points in 30 minutes, he wins a fridge, a bike, a plasma TV, and a microwave; moreover, if Vincent wins, MCQ dies. However, if MCQ (the winner of 25 previous challenges) [...]
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Summary: Raul has lost the favour of the council and is now frantically trying to escape from auto-reivs sent to capture him. The following scene takes us back in time to before his fall from grace and we see him enter a high security room. Meanwhile Pino, Real and Vincent are getting ever closer to their goal, [...]
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Honestly… there aren’t few anime who would let their characters make a long journey to some distant place, only in order to discover that the key to solving their problem lies in the place it all began. But for some reason, Ergo Proxy is one of them. And actually, there’s nothing wrong with such a [...]
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This episode when I first saw it had me thinking “okay never seen an animated quiz show before, but this is fucked up”. Though at least it’s a new way of providing a back story and giving out more plot information. Some of Vincent’s answers to questions are also pretty amusing. The episode opens with nine [...]
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