My short review is Ergo Proxy is a masterpiece anime that has an AMAZING combination of mystery action character development humor complexity and darkness. Not darkness in a horror sense but darkness as in mysterious and unknown. I finished the series and its ending was a little hard to understand but moreso everyone told me that it was complicated and I was expecting so much. If youve watched Game of Thrones Future Diarys OVA ending Monogatari or even NCIS youll be fine. This show is great and I was personally emotionally invested into it. Gotta love badass scene chicks that run around blasting the heads off her enemies while onehanding a shotgun right? My longer and more personal review is I know Im a little bit late to the party. But I do not want to just shove away my feelings for this anime because its 10 or 11 years old now. First off the darkness in the anime was something I havent seen beforeand I love it. No it wasnt scary like Afraid of Monsters it wasnt gruesome like Elfen Lied it wasnt creepy like Tokyo Ghoul it wasnt intense like Attack on Titan it wasnt uncomforting like Future Diary. If I had to compare it to something itd be to Max Payne. Forget that the movie was a failure forget that it was terrible forget that it screwed up in every aspect. Compare it to the first two games if you have to. It had a darkness like that which was present. And it was perfect in my eyes I cant help but crave more. Speaking of Max Payne if you max him a chick added a little bit of teenage scene bitch and made her 19 youd get ReL. Shes also hot as hell lol. I managed to develop a slight crush on her. The strongest part of the show is how well thought out it is. Some writers have the point there characters want to be by the end of the series and rather than making them work for it they just walk right into it. They also have a series of events that they want to have happen but they dont really know where or what will have to happen in order for their story to be what it is or execute their ideas blankly. Ergo Proxys events are defined and the character development is well earned. This show is sort of complicated yeah. I dont really know how you come up with something like this to be honest with you. The 77.7 average score does it a major disservice. Ive been calling it a masterpiece and I believe it has well lived up to that title. Between you and me I think that the people who rated it poorly either never finished the series didnt pay attention or didnt have the mental capacity to understand the ending. Even though the endings not even that hard to understand. The character development is easily the second strongest part of the show. We have ReL who starts off as a spoiled bitch. She then advances to badass. Then to ungreatful easy to harshly judge and hostile. Finally she ends being the badass she always was but with a a heart she cried at the loss of her relative and after having to shoot her friend even though he didnt die. The art gives you a dark mysterious but interesting vibe. Its not bad for being ten years old. It does an AMAZING job portraying the darkness and edgyness that this show has to offer. Im not a fan of scifi anime. Im not a fan of modern day anime at all honestly. But this anime had me on the edge of my seat during almost any episode. Its not perfect though. The fillers like the question show and smile land were god awful. Like talking ninja ostrich from Naruto Shippuden level awful. The first six episodes are also sort of slow and linear. This is where my review gets personal. When I watched it there were things present that I havent really seen since the mid 2000s. It had a bit of 2005/2006 cheesiness that I havent seen ANYWHERE since 2009 at the latest. It had things present like tools technology social norms and habits that were extremely nastolgic for me. I cant really explain it. But that is why Im so emotionally invested into it. Go and watch the first few episodes of CSI or NCIS that will give you an example of what I mean. Or if you dont have the time just take a quick peek at the music video for Wake me up by Evanescence. Things that were advanced cool and basically the flavor of the day back then are present in this show. It has a darkness and edginess that was easy to find in the late 1990s to about 2009 that I have just craved for so long. Ive had shit happen in my life and the reason Im so draw to this vibe is because I havent experienced it since I was young too young to understand the world but happy enough to laugh and smile. After finishing this anime I actually broke down and cried at the realization that 2006 was 10 years ago.