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5.0 out of 5 stars
the best volume so far!, June 9, 2007
This review is from: Ergo Proxy, Volume 4: Wrong Way Home (DVD)
this is by far the best volume of the series, but im sure its gonna get better. this is one of the first series that blows my mind with all the philoshophical referances and its "you cant trust the ones around you" delliema. so full of action, and the effects are super! id recomend this series to anyone, and hellsing if you like things of that nature.
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I can't believe in myself, June 5, 2007
This review is from: Ergo Proxy, Volume 4: Wrong Way Home (DVD)
spoilers included
The 4th volume of Ergo Proxy is just as enjoyable as the first 3 installments. The highlight episode here is the first one. Iggy finally gets the spotlight and we see some of his alone time in Romdo away from Re-L. Ultimately he returns to take Re-L back with him, its here that we learn he has been infected with the cognito virus. He thinks she has been ignoring him and his only wish is for her to need his servitude. I want spoil much else, but he makes the ultimate sacrifice to save her in the end. There is also a less-serious "game show" episode and another thought provoking episode involving multiple Re-Ls and Vincents. I continue to adore this show and am very much looking forward to how they will wrap up this stunning series. Check my reviews for the other volumes
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Good series entry., July 19, 2007
This review is from: Ergo Proxy, Volume 4: Wrong Way Home (DVD)
Ergo Proxy is unabashedly dark and (to borrow a word from a recent issue of Anime Insider) "pretentious." It's about a dystopia and is replete with allusions to postmodern French philosophy. Okay. Once you get passed that, it's really pretty good. Vincent (the protagonist in the story) is a kick. He is SO spaced out, it's funny. He has an identity problem. On the surface he's a very unassuming, gentle character--but actually (in his unpredictable, Mr.Hyde mode), he's a Proxy (a cunning, unconrollable monster). Re-l(a female security agent with the hard-bitten personality of Sam Spade)is so intrigued by Vincent she tracks him down in the widnerness outside Rondo, and tags along with him on his journey of self-discovery.
Now to this volume in the series. It's worth purchasing for the last two episides. Episode 15 is called "Who Wants to Be in Jeopardy?" It's a hilarious, out-of-nowhere parody of TV game shows. Seemingly unconnected to the rest of the story, it's actually in this episode that the writers provide us with a little bit of history of the world in which the story takes place. (A long overdue catch-up.) But the gem of this volume is the last episode. It's a treasure! Vincent, his little sidekick Pino, and Re-l are going nowhere fast in their sailing craft. There's no wind, little food, and nothing to do but get to know one another (meaning, one another's foibles and idiosyncracies).It's hilarious! But more than that, it's profound. We watch Re-l CHANGE. She starts to soften, relax, chill out! And the pace of the episode reflects what's happening. Re-l's transformation comes slow and halting--and the episode moves along slow and at times threatens to lose its rationale and just . . . stop!
This last episode (#16 in the series) is itself worth buying the series for. (That's my opinion.)
Ergo Proxy gets some getting used to. It's a bit on the bizarre side and doesn't make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside after watching it. Nihilism haunts its shadows--and depression attends it. But when it's good, it's very, very good!
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