Reviews

Personally, the series started off shaky and had too much action for my liking. Then again, the producers probably thought it would cater to the mainstream and grasp their otherwise short attention span. Other than slightly too many allusions to Philip K. Dick novels, Orwell's and Gibson's names being thrown around in order to sound smart, and not to mention the fact that it borrowed some (or more) ideas from Spielberg's Minority Report, I'd like to say that I enjoyed it. Abstract concepts like law, justice, freedom, peace, beliefs, rights are all included in this futuristic anime. It is not the job of the law to protect the people it affects, but the job of the people of uphold the law for the system cannot work if people do not believe in its merits.

Character development was interesting to say the least. It was entertaining to see a bumbling girl fill out the role of enforcing the law in a city like this. Maybe seeing her shoulder so much in such a short of period of time was a tad unbelievable. I love it when the antagonists are in a morally grey area. Putting audiences in a spot where they aren't sure whether to hate him or not.

Good job on the lack of romanticism in this anime, I'd hate to see it being lumped in just to fill some episodes even if they weren't related. Also, kudos to Production I.G on the amazing animation. Production quality like this definitely deserves more than just a commendation, although I can't do more. Soundtrack, opening and ending choices were apt as well.

All in all, the anime sufficiently encapsulated the core of Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep: the exploration of what it means to be human. To say the least, I'd really want to see more like this.