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Category: Anime Reviews

Ergo Proxy

Posted on February 5, 2011May 23, 2016 by Chris Kincaid

Earth is a wasteland. Ravaged by consumption, humans avoid the environment in domed utopian cities. In one such city, called Romdo, a series of murders committed by AutoReivs, androids, disrupts the delicate utopian balance. Re-I Mayer and her AutoReiv Iggy is assigned to investigate. A young immigrant named Vincent Law and a mysterious virus called…

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Mobile Suit Gundam 00

Posted on February 3, 2011May 23, 2016 by Chris Kincaid

Rebirth begins through destruction. The year is 2307 AD. Fossil Fuels are depleted. In response, the nations developed massive solar power arrays that orbit the Earth. The heavens are connected to the dirt through three orbital elevators.Each elevator is controlled by one of the three power blocs: the Union, Human Reform League and the AEU….

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Cowboy Bebop

Posted on February 2, 2011May 23, 2016 by Chris Kincaid

Cowboy Bebop opens in the year 2071, a time when Earth is damaged from a warp gate accident and mankind has terraformed and colonized the inner planets. The series follows the mishaps of the spaceship Bebop and a group of bounty hunters. The show blends the wild west with science fiction where bounty hunters are…

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Chobits

Posted on February 1, 2011May 23, 2016 by Chris Kincaid

Every college student needs a computer who can carry on a conversation. Chobits, created by Clamp, tells the story of Hideki Motosuwa, a student trying to qualify for college. Hideki dreams of a girlfriend and a persocom, an android used as a personal computer. One evening he finds a trashed persocom with long flowing hair….

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Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

Posted on January 31, 2011May 23, 2016 by Chris Kincaid

One thousand years after a war devastated much of the Earth, humanity clings to existence at the fringes of a vast, polluted forest inhabited by monstrous insects. Only Nausicaä, the princess of the tiny realm of the Valley of the Wind, grasps the environmental significance of the forest. She sees beyond petty wars and national…

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Wolf’s Rain

Posted on January 30, 2011May 23, 2016 by Chris Kincaid

The world dies a slow freezing death. Long thought extinct, wolves know of a legend that just might save a few lucky souls. When the Lunar Flower blooms the gate to Paradise shall open. Wolf’s Rain is set in the far future during the next Ice Age. Humanity is secluded to a harsh short life…

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