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After watching Lain last week and finding it Meh, this week I watched 'Texhnolyze'... And also found it pretty Meh. Especially the beginning was super exhausting because it could have been explained in 5 minutes (or 1 episode max), but is dragged out to like 3 episodes. And barely anyone talks in these episodes. The upside of those episodes is that you get to watch an r-slur suffer I guess?

Anyway, the middle part is better, but still not super interesting. Made the impression of a more or less generic mafia movie to me. I usually enjoy stuff like that, so that part was okay to watch. But the anime really only gets interesting towards the end, when they resolve some story stuff. There still is some stuff that made no sense to me, for example why the chopped of limbs dude joined oonishi in the first place, after literally wanting to murder him only seconds prior. Seemed like a random 180 turn to me. Also, after they discover that the outside world is only by ghosts (were they literal ghosts or some kind of computer projection), why not take the rest of the hole people up and repopulate that world? Just because a tunnel collapsed? The doctor could have saved the hole people but chose to rather indulge in her own suffering.

This might sound pretty negative, but I didnt hate the show. I dont know if I would recommend it to someone, but if you plan on watching it you should know that it gets better after the first couple episodes, and the last few episodes are the best part of the anime.

After texhnolyze I also watched the first 'Ghost In The Shell' movie, I liked it and will probably keep watching. I also think about watching 'Ergo Proxy', any thoughts about that are appreciated.

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KazuhoYoshiiFan arr/drama 1yr ago #2786594

Interesting that you didn't like the beginning. I really enjoy it, especially the parts with Yoshii up until his tragic death. It's the middle that's the weakest imo since it's mostly Organo infighting that I don't really care about. Mizuno makes for some decent comic relief though, lol.

>why the chopped of limbs dude joined oonishi in the first place, after literally wanting to murder him only seconds prior. Seemed like a random 180 turn to me.

Onishi was the one who let Ichise live, which is why he starts working for him. It was the other Organo dude who worked for Onishi, Ishii, that chopped of Ichise's limbs, who he kills later.

>Also, after they discover that the outside world is only by ghosts (were they literal ghosts or some kind of computer projection)

The ghosts are interesting and I think it's a little bit of both. Same sort of technological mysticism going on with the obelisk and Ran. Ichise's father is a ghost of someone who is dead, but Saginuma appeared first as a ghost and he was still alive. Also, you can see Sakimura start to become shimmery the last time we see him, when he's lowering Ichise back down into Lux.

>why not take the rest of the hole people up and repopulate that world? Just because a tunnel collapsed?

I don't think it would've changed anything. Also, anyone who was Texhnolyzed would've had their body parts fail to work without the obelisk.

>The doctor could have saved the hole people but chose to rather indulge in her own suffering.

Maybe true. Once the people of the Class reject her research she gets all hopeless and kills herself like the cuck beta female she is.