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There is some spoilers into this, there is also me telling you that watching this is not worth any of your time.

Ergo Proxy is one of these promising series that your friends tell you to watch and declare as "masterpiece."

It was one of the series i expected to love the most, i thought it was going to be consistently good, and the first episode kinda told me that my friends were right, it had a lot of potential to it, it was promising, it had a touch of atmospheric space that got you into it, but what made this series so appealing in ... the first episode fastly changed for some The Room Avant-Garde crap. I mean, i compare The Room to this, but i can give the credits to Wiseau atleast, for even trying.

Trying to immerse yourself into a toilet world where babies shit frootloops and babies give birth to adults, is more easy than to immerse yourself into that piece of crap that is Ergo Proxy.

Story - 2 First episode had structure, but it threw it fast away to try to be experimental, but you don't get experimental much with the biggest clichés in mystery storytelling. Ergo Proxy makes you fall gradually into an abyss of boredom. Episode 16 is probably the most boring and monotonous episode i have ever seen in an anime. Period. Episode 4 and 5 were a boring redneck vibes, monotonous piece of audio visuals that made you think more about what you're doing with your life than the child who just got killed, at this episode 4 i knew i f*cked up. Forever after come with what has already been done in the past, but way less ambitious and just... hahh.


Art - 4 Ergo Proxy succeeded in being interesting until episode 3, where you could clearly see that the structure was collapsing, and that the universe stopped being rigid, complete, real, unique to itself. It just became some trashy decor you'll see in an amateur movie with no skills for backgrounds whatsoever. The background, the environment was lacking in realism, it was lacking in everything it had no wish to make you immerse into it. It made you feel like they were trying something, while trying nothing at all. The visuals in it kept degrading like everything else.

Sound - 5 Sound was okay, sometimes it went off from what was happening on the screen, but i mean, this came out in 2006, and you can't expect the sound to save your background, your script, storytelling, you can't. Sound was probably the best thing about this show, it was mediocre but way better than the show itself, i would have listened to an album of the OSTs of Ergo Proxy instead of the show itself, if only i knew back then.

Character - 1 Characteristically speaking, Ergo Proxy had nothing to offer, neither Re-l or Vince had any depth, substance, or any characteric traits that made them interesting in the first place, nahh, it was the contrary, they never helped to try to keep that show alive and interesting, they were one of the core of why Ergo Proxy was painful to watch. Re-L could only complain and cute cute fanservice while being a complete dumbster while Vince was one of the most shallow and dense character in anime history.

Enjoyment - 1 Kill me, kill me please, it's probably what i was feeling deep inside. Why i am watching this while i could just rewatch Tokyo Ghoul first season, which is way more well executed and thoughtful than this thing, which is just edgy in the irritating sense. Edgy to be edgy. It tells you a lot when you remember something for how bad it was.

Overall - 4 This thing clearly has Velvet Underground and Lou Reed vibes to it, poor Lou Reed, i hope he is not associated with this, because it would only
be a shame to link a legend with this stuff that was so bland and empty,
it was just like watching nothing at all. It would just be an utter insult to Lou and his works. This show is a 4, first three episodes were watcheable, after it's just a downfall in a pool of garbage crap that never ceased to smell. I really wished i could get back the time i spent on it,
but it's too late, unfortunately.

What could i say about this? Other than my eyes and even my heart eat every seconds of it. I was under hypnosis, without any will to get out of it, at ease, i was absorbed, i have been the victim of Tenshi no Tamago. Once i got in, there were no way i could have find a way to escape. How would describe this movie in a word? Parasite, this movie got into myself and i will never forget this sweet experience.

Story - 10

Tenshi no Tamago is a well done absurd fiction artwork. It's powerful. I just had to let myself be nurtured by ... all that deepness growing more and more deep inside my brain. Not a second it stopped to captive my attention. The story was that metaphorical cherry that just kept sucking my brain until it went out of it's juice, my empty, my void felt fill, and my fill felt void. I knew that there were a more profound message that i was unable to catch, and that thought of not being able to understand the core of the story made me sad. But i believe deeply that the story was a wonderful, splendid way to project the hidden side that nobody has right to talk of human. Outside and inside are two different things, from any angle you try to analyze.

Art - 10
The art is magnificent. Bringing the atmosphere to its max richness. Every little detail is a dessert to the eye. It didn't try to surpass each other, it fastly told you that it had that sort of strong sense of identity throwing itself at you, like it or not. It stands with everything else. The darkness was infallible, the mood was destructive. I could have just wanted to reach out a hand and get stuck into it. The art might be 1985s, but it's one of the most beautiful art i have seen in Anime. I wanted to be one with it, to form one with the eyes pending through that dark euphoria slowly giving all of its love, all of its way to love, to my eyes.

Sound - 10

Cradling, beautiful, simple, but even simple is ashamed. The tempo of this piece of art, i have never seen a so well done one in Anime. Every little sounds into that Anime had a little expression grabbing you and trying to drown you into its lake of beauty, of integrity, of own nature. I felt like i was the egg waiting to be hatched, but i was never prevented to do so.

Character - 10

Characters was not the core of Tenshi no Tamago. But the words implemented there were always put at the right place, and added its own little special feeling into it. Characters weren't really characters while being characters, there were sounds, arts, stories, enigmas. They were needed, they added, and gave us their due.

Enjoyment - 10

This is my best experience in Anime. Enough to shake. This is the real thing there. That was something written with a great mindset. I couldn't have asked better. It even went way more up than my expectations, who were already huge. It once entered my brain and it will never come out.

Overall - 10

This anime is great, there is nothing else to say. It's an experiece for you to experience. What you take from it is purely your personal. Either way, this anime is underrated, and deserves way better than it's actual rating.