Ergo Proxy

[Melancoholic]

Hooray, someone calling her by her real name!

Why has everyone been calling Re-l, Real? The report for her death spelled it clearly as Re-l to start off with. The rest of the A was only shown very lightly and was obviously some kind of plot device or indicator of character... Even though it hasn't been expanded on since. I'm wondering if it's going to be important by the end of the series.

Incidentally, KingKow, we already knew that Mosque, or Moscow, or whatever the city is called, had fallen before the missile was launched. Right back at the beginning Vincent says that he came to Romdeau because of the disaster at Moscow. We never found out what that disaster was, though (or at least I don't think we did...).

[KingKow]

But wasn't there a second launch of the missle, when raul was about to get erased from the directory (I personally didn't get that part at all). Unless Mosque/Moscow are two different places...

[Melancoholic]

When was the first missile fired then? I don't think the original reason for Moscow falling was because of a missile. I think it's more likely it was because of the proxies (and maybe ergo himself).

When this series comes to a close, we're probably all going to have to sit down and try really hard to work out just what in hell actually went on!

[KingKow]

Haha i feel like a forum troll rite now, wutever, but rmb in one episode (i think) Kraul and the Doctor dude, D-something...were talking about how the city (sorry i have a really bad memory)..Romdeau thats it, how they used a long range weapon on Mosque/Moscow before?

[Faebinder]

Yes indeed... Ergo Proxy is my biggest disappointment since Samurai Champloo... I will delete all the old reviews so please resubmit your reviews after you finish the series.

[Nef]

After finishing this series, we now completely realise how rudiculous the fillers are. The pacing in this anime is terrible, im not sure how they can justify fillers when after the completion of the series there are many groslly underdeveloped plot points.

[silverkitsune]

Ok, after watching the entire series:

Yes, the fillers were almost agonizing to go through with.

Too many, way too many useless trivias and references that I really don't care about.

Ending was pretty nice, but felt too rushed. They spent too much time talking and explaining to answer so many of the questions that this series started out with. It almost felt like I was reading up a synopsis of the ending instead of watching a show. Just way too much plot revelations to digest in short amount of time. But, I really liked Vincent's last line: "For I am Ergo Proxy, the emissary of death."

[Melancoholic]

Good ending! Saved the series in my eyes. It's not a classic by any means, but it's still pretty damn good at times. It's well worth an eight out of ten, I should think. There was nothing wrong with the fillers in themselves, plenty of them were pretty entertaining, but looking back on them they were overused, badly spaced and poorly paced. That has to be the one (quite large) gripe with the series.

[SeekerDarksteel]

Im inclined to agree. Regarding comparisons to the disappointment of Samurai Champloo, I'm inclined to view Ergo Proxy as the anti-Champloo. Good ending, but poorly done fillers. Compared to Champloo which had a poor main story, but excellent fillers. All in all I think the disappointment in both of them is more based on the high expectations put on the series. Everyone was expecting something on par with Cowboy Bebop with Samurai Champloo. Ergo Proxy's first few episodes made people expect much better than what followed. Then we get a poor middle. (I think about everything from Vincent accepting he was Ergo after killing Senekis and Kazukis to returning to the Dome could have been cut other than one episode for Moscow).

[Nef]

Hmmmm, maybe i wasnt sharp enough to pick up and any evidence during the show...but i felt that many things that happened in the last 2 episodes had no/not enough devlopmental evidence during previous episodes that may allude the these things happening during the last 2 episodes.

[Cyrimus]

I just watched the last episode... could anyone explain... ?

[Melancoholic]

What exactly do you want to know? Rather a lot happened or was referenced in the last couple of episodes...

[Nef]

For instance, i found it strange how clone Real suddenly turned out to be Monad? Sure that was a cool twist, but really we have no idea why it happened? did Daedulus use Monads genes or something? it would of been nicer if they explained further...Also i thought it was bizarre how there turned out to be some controlling guy apparently pulling the strings in the background, i for one didnt see that one coming and i dont remember any evidence that that would suggest such a thing happening.

I also expected much more development concerning proxies, i really expected to learn the history between ergo and monad and how they ended up together. Well i could go on forever, but you get the idea. Maybe its one of the series that you have to rewatch to pickup things that you hadnt noticed before. In fact i know i wasnt concentrating on a few episodes (sleep was beckoning).

[willxzero]

perhaps the weirdest ending to a anime i've ever seen. it was so good until the last few episodes where i was totally confused. anybody wanna help me explain what happened towards the end of the series?

[tenunda]