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After
battling through the aftermath of a ruinous global war, female supersoldier
Deunan is introduced to Olympus, a utopian city shared by people and
genetically engineered ‘bioroids’, who lack extreme emotion and reproductive
function. When the human-led military turns against this ‘upstart’ species, the
consequences could be calamitous… Set in a now-familiar post-apocalyptic
universe of robo-rubble, sparkling citadels and supercomputers wired up to
wrinkly old sages, Shinji Aramaki’s anime action-adventure is outstanding in
technical if not narrative terms. Opening with the kind of fight scene you can
expect on your home console in a few generations’ time, it offers astonishingly
rendered cityscapes and car chases and naturalistic organic movements – though
the actual character design tends towards the large-eyed schoolgirl type. Which
isn’t to say the women are weak: in fact they dominate, with the enemy
identified by the attributes of maleness, anger and militarism. The story
remains inane, though, crow-barring great wodges of indigestible exposition
between scenes of various kinds of hypertechnology pummelling seven shades of
shit out of each other.
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