MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Motompa Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Mayank Agarwal Terrible watch, very confusing, I was trying to make sense of it till the end but everything was muddled. It starts off on an interesting dystopia world having lots of mystery but I feel the writer didn't know where to go from that point on. As the series progressed it becomes duller and I had to force myself to watch it so as to complete the series. The pacing is very slow, for a 23 episodes series it has to many fillers, the middle episodes had no relation to the main plot and the ending ones seemed rushed. The whole series seemed to be full of discrepancies, even the animation of the protagonist, the way his face changes from chubby guy to chiseled face just didn't make sense. I watched the English dubbed version and it has one of the worst lip sync and dialogs ever written for an anime.I don't know the reason for the series having such a high rating as I felt it's one of the worst stuff I have seen.

dandbone I liked this cartoon. Apart from two episodes whose point I fail to understand, this was great. The main characters seem to be given proper attention. I especially liked Lil (Ri-l, Real) Mayer who is and acts like a spoiled princess, thus daring to break the usual "polite and shy" template for main characters in Japanese anime. The other characters, robots and humans are well developed and interesting on their own with a special mention to Pino.The story is not necessary original, and even if some may complain it's hard to follow, I never felt for a second confused. The atmosphere was dark, intense, similar to that of Blade Runner.

Haris Krupalija Ergo Proxy is one of those things (including everything in the world) that will make you go "What the f**k?" I want to say this at the very beginning: This show isn't for everyone. If you are a fan of Naruto/Bleach and like mostly action based anime with some or none major questions, you are best far away from Ergo Proxy. Some will say that the show is as slow as the Slowpoke from Pokemon franchise, but it is simply the best way to make these types of show. Just as with Steins;Gate, at the first half you are introduced to at least trillion questions you can't answer. And just when you think you've reached your limits, the answers slowly begin pouring out. And, after all is said and done, you are just sitting there and thinking "Well ... f**k". Ergo Proxy is a wonderful masterpiece - from the art, characters, sound and the very story, everything fits extremely well. After re-watching the show, you will actually notice that all of the answers were right in front of you from the very beginning - it is simply due to fact that we rarely pay attention to details during the beginning of a series that you couldn't grasp it all. If you hate shows without 'OMGWTF THEY BLEW UP THE MOUNTAIN WITH JUST WINKING', then you shouldn't watch Ergo Proxy. Despite of its dark nature, gloomy appearance and particularly anguishing revelations, Ergo Proxy brings forth dozes of questions about life, society and the very human nature. It borrows themes from the famous philosophers of the past, brings up the questions that are best avoided and it makes you think - yes, it will make you think. I can't say that everything in this show is perfect - nothing is perfect for perfection does not exist - but this is one hell of a masterpiece. I didn't find it boring - never. Not even during those 'filler' episodes or at its beginning; somehow, I knew everything makes sense even though nothing made sense. There are a lot of questions left unanswered and that is why I'm hoping there will be a second season of this show - if there is, I'll watch it even if I have to move to Japan and learn Japanese language. 10/10.

SkullyD Ergo Proxy is an oddity among it's own genre. It seems, at first glance, like a typical dystopian/cyberpunk series. But the heart of the series is even darker than it's Blade Runner-esquire early episodes suggest. The series focuses on Re-L Mayer, the beautiful, spoiled granddaughter of the head of the city of Romdo. Romdo is a self-sufficient domed city, one of human-kind's last remaining safe havens after a cataclysm makes the outside world unlivable. Re-L is investigating a series of bizarre occurrences, and becomes entangled with Vincent Law, an immigrant who is working to stamp out a virus that causes the normally agreeable android companions of Romdo's citizens to bug out and act on their own free will. Re-L and Vincent both have terrifying encounters with monstrous and mysterious creatures we will come to know as "Proxies".Vincent runs afoul of the legal system and is falsely accused of murdering his android companion (or "entourage" as they are referred to). Because he is an immigrant he faces grim consequences. With the help of an infected little-girl android named Pino, Vincent escapes the dome, and finds the outside world is not as unsurvivable as he had been led to believe. Re-L eventually sets out to find Vincent and subsequently begins to discover the dark secrets behind Romdo, the Proxies, the androids and even Vincent himself.The series transitions from a fairly standard detective/noir story into a grim and melancholy take on epic fantasy, enveloping those viewers who are willing and patient deep into a world of existential angst. Despite it's intellectual bent, the series finale has a reasonably satisfying emotional payoff.Ergo Proxy's animation is atypical for anime. The characters are rendered in a much more subdued and realistic style and there is beautiful use of rich backgrounds and digital color grading, elevating the series near to the quality of feature length anime. However, there are a few episodes early in the series which are wildly inconsistent in terms of animation quality.The series is mostly leisurely and meditative. There are not many big action set pieces. There is violence and gore, but it's used sparingly and often to greater effect. There is very little humor, and what's there is very dry and quite bleak. There is somewhat of a love story underneath all this, but sex and romance take a backseat, although some episodes play up Re-L's sex appeal. There is a sense of experimentation with several episodes and occasionally the plot thread gets lost when an episode focuses more specifically on the existential angst I mentioned earlier. Sometimes, the series feels overreaching and a little pretentious but it has it's heart in the right place.If you are willing to take the time and invest in this series, Ergo Proxy will reward you. It will challenge you intellectually and occasionally flabbergast you. But it's worth it for the viewer who pays close attention and has some working knowledge of Renee Descartes, Greek myths and progressive rock (trust me, it helps).