Ergo Proxy (2006– )

In a post-apocalyptic future humans live in peace with androids in a domed city. However, a strange series of murders has intruded into bored inspector Re-l Mayer's life.

Stars:

Rachel Hirschfeld, Taliesin Jaffe, Liam O'Brien

Cast

Series cast summary:
Rachel Hirschfeld	...	Pino (23 episodes, 2006)
Taliesin Jaffe	...	Additional Voices (23 episodes, 2006)
Liam O'Brien	...	Vincent Law (23 episodes, 2006)
Karen Thompson	...	Re-l Mayer (23 episodes, 2006)
Travis Willingham	...	Iggy (11 episodes, 2006)

Storyline

In a post-apocalyptic future humans live in peace with androids in a domed city. However, a strange series of murders has intruded into bored inspector Re-l Mayer's life.

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Plot Keywords:

murder | domed city | future | make up | flashback | 

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Taglines:

What kind of world will you find outside the walls of paradise?

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Genres:

Animation | Adventure | Crime | Mystery | Sci-Fi

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site [Japan]

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

25 February 2006 (Japan)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Geneon Entertainment, Geneon Entertainment, Manglobe

Technical Specs

Runtime:

25 min 25 min (23 episodes)

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Daedalus Yumeno can be written as Yume no Daedalus. Literally "the dream of Daedalus". Daedalus was the father of Icarus and built him wings with wax to escape from prison. But as Icarus flew too close to the sun wax melted and he dropped to death.

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Goofs

At one point of the show, Re-l Mayer's eyes are brown. Her eyes are blue.

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Connections

Referenced in Fireflies in the Garden (2008)

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Soundtracks

"Paranoid Android"
(Ending Theme)
Written and Performed by Radiohead

User Reviews

it well worths the time to watch it...

a rare case of an anime that successfully blends a series of genre clichés with its own originality and spirit, has very interesting writing quality (including rather good dialogues and surprising plot turns - that do not steer the series away from its focus), shifts very quickly from action to introspection and interpersonal relation - and doing so relies both on content, cinematographic quality, onirism.

the series is not completely accomplished: the last episodes somewhat feel not fully coherent and the dialogue writing seems to be slightly worse, making understanding appear harder of how it really is. but these are minor faults.

somebody has compared these last episodes with the last eps from evangelion, but this can become misleading: here there's no quirkiness-as-fan-service, no futile conceptual aggressivity towards the audience. what takes place here is an attempt (sometimes a bit too "innocent") to provide the watchers with a series of starting points for personal thinking.

i'm tempted to say that this TV series is on par with oshii and kon best works in the animation movies, clearly better than what i saw (not much) from gits sac, and incredibly better than the average anime production.

the story and the psychological and philosophical exploration seems not finished, and the "ending" feels not completely satisfactory. thus, dear manglobe, we would appreciate another series; thanks.

highly recommended.