Æon Flux 

Æon Flux is a mysterious and amoral secret agent from the country of Monica. Her motives or background are left unexplained, as are those of her antagonist/love, Trevor Goodchild. On her ... See full summary »

Creator:

Peter Chung

Stars:

Denise Poirier, John Rafter Lee, Julia Fletcher

Cast

Series cast summary:
Denise Poirier	...	Æon Flux 10 episodes, 1995
John Rafter Lee	...	Trevor Goodchild 10 episodes, 1995

Storyline

Æon Flux is a mysterious and amoral secret agent from the country of Monica. Her motives or background are left unexplained, as are those of her antagonist/love, Trevor Goodchild. On her missions, she deals swift, bloody "justice" to all that oppose her. The second season episodes of this series were unique in that Aeon died at the end of every single episode.

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Plot Keywords:

agent | secret agent | 2d animation | future | surrealism | 

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Genres:

Animation | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-MA

Details

Country:

USA South Korea Japan

Language:

English

Release Date:

30 June 1991 (USA)

Also Known As:

Aeon Flux

Company Credits

Production Co:

Colossal Pictures,MTV Animation,MTV Networks

Technical Specs

Runtime:

30 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

It has been considered that the cartoon may have been a possible influence behind South Park (1997). In that cartoon, the character Kenny McCormick is killed off in each episode, but at the beginning of the following episode, Kenny is alive, only to die again.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Trevor Goodchild: The unobserved state is a fog of probabilities, a window of and for error. The watcher observes, the fog collapses, an event resolves. A theory becomes a fact... What is the truth? Tell me, if you know. And I will not believe you. Things are never what they seem. Clean gloves hide dirty hands - and mine are dirtier than most... Without truth, there can be no justice. Justice will be done!

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Alternate Versions

2005 DVD release features modified versions of several episodes, with improved special effects and coloring, and alternate versions of some scenes substituted for the original televised versions. In addition, newly written and produced scenes were added to some episodes in order to improve continuity. All dialogue by the character Clavius was re-recorded by another actor for the DVD release.

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Connections

Edited into Creating a World: Aeon Flux (2006)

User Reviews

Acquired taste............

I am not a experienced anime viewer at all. I have never enjoyed any cartoons at all to be exact. This was the first that I liked.

I think what makes this particular series hard to watch for most, is that there is no dialogue, which for American viewers, is a must. We thrive on it.

I enjoyed this series because it was the exact opposite of what I had been accustom to all the years before.

I do agree that it is a little cheap in terms of the relationships, and how fast Aeon's decision making is, but I do believe that is the point of the show, that there is no time, and no room for error.

This is no more evident then the episode "War" where she is killed, because she continues to make eye contact with a soldier in her army that is attempt to save them both from eminent death.

I believe that this series was intended for the very experienced anime viewer, but it actually made the crossover to popular audiences, with no anime experience, such as myself. And now, I actually give anime a shot when I see new shows.