Texhnolyze

Texhnolyze is a tragic love story. A bit like Dostyevsky and Shakespeare.

Hi Saed, welcome! Your comment definitely motivates me to get the last in the set!

I could actually understand this watching it once, unlike Boogiepop Phantom or Serial Experiments Lain.

Re-watching it gives a second layer of understanding. There’s more to Texhnolyze. When you already know the plot, your attention can be focused on other things and ideas which people certainly overlook while watching it the very first time.

Hi Grobuka, welcome to cyberpunkreview

I think your comment would also applies to Serial Experiments Lain. Both have very post-modern story narratives which definitely lend themselves to multiple watching to gain better comprehension.

I though the First episode was a pain to watch and need all your attention.
I think i’m getting lazy trying to understand slow paced cyberpunk movies while surfing

Hi Groovykid, Texnolyze and Serial Experiments Lain both have a very post-modern story narrative. I wouldn’t call them slow paced, but they are almost intended to be incoherent for a good amount of time. Only later, after you’ve put a significant investment of time in, do you understand the earlier episodes.

yes SFAM , Lain was definitely a great show and texhnolyze might be one too if you are in the mood for some thinker , wich I was not. You are right and I also think it must be mainly a question of investment of time to apreciate it the way it should be. I’m just afraid to find some rehashed themes.

I love the caracter of pic 5.

This is one of the best cp animes ever made imo second only to lain.

It needs something like personal investigation to find all the connections and happenings in Lain and Texhnolyze together… But it worths multipla watching, its like re-reading Bulgakov, its totally different book each time…
Unfortunately, there´s a psx game that tells the second part of a story (Experiments Lain) and it is nearly unreachable…

PLOT SPOILER (kind of…)

I’ve watched all but the last couple of episodes, but for me the story doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. It seems to have taken 20 episodes for Yoshi to turn the three gangs against each other and for the Class to take control. Every episode seems to be the same: prophet girl acts mysterious, main character says nothing then punches a wall in rage (usually threatening or hurting doctor too), Oonish looks thoughtful, loads of people die. Having said that, the visuals are excellent. It’s just seems that so much effort has gone into the mood and the setting that the creators didn’t spend enough time on the plot. If I watch the series again I’ll probably enjoy it a lot more…

I may be the exception to the rule, but this is my absolute favourite cyber punk anime. Often the characters in this series are knocked for being cold and alien; but I think this results from a misinterpretation of what the characters are. When I watch this series and especially considering the ending, i am of the belief that the characters are physical constitutions of psychological drives. Only when left in particular context and taken in a holistic sense do these characters give any meaning to the viewer. They cannot be isolated and viewed as a singular entity.

I could even see making an argument that the entire show was based on symbolism of a sort of Nietzchean psychological determinism based on competing wills. And the people and groups just happen to represent these wills.

This series moves me beyond anything else, because of the sheer amount of human passion that is expressed. I feel that the aesthetic of this leans far more towards the dionysian, which throws many viewers off, both cyberpunk and not cyberpunk fans alike.

It looked interesting. It sounded interesting. But I just couldn’t really get into it. The story is quite good but it may just be too slow for me.

Worth watching though.

Whilst I have only watched the first eleven episodes for now, it is certainly very fascinating. Though the characters are hard to sympathize with, they still are very real. The plot itself is not yet wholly revealed, but that contributes strongly to my wanting to continue to watch it.

If this is Cyberpunk, then so is Gungrave; do a review on Gungrave, please.

this is definently one of my favorite anime’s, one because it has great action, and two because it has a good plot. i really wish the ending was different, but that may be something that needs to be there to make you think?

I really like cyberpunk-anime like lain, GITS, Bubblegum Crisis - and this sounds cool too, but i heared the finale is really depressing. I think thought-provoking endings are great, but the Japanese often overdo it. So, could someone tell me how ‘bad’ it is (like, everybody dies) without spoiling too much?

I absolutly LOVED Lain, I just started to see the first ep. of this one, looks more of the same, wich is good XD

re the ending, it is fairly dark but no more so than the rest of the series. I would say it is more ambiguous and philosophical than depressing. In keeping with the rest of the series, there is a showdown between factions involving a lot of violence

Thank you very much for the review without it i would surly never seen this series. Only a minor thing but it kept nagging me after i had watched it, for all the time spent in Lux and talk of the city i never got a impression of the people that actually inhabit the place besides the gangsters and the class.

Really worth downloading… a very original series featuring an interesting mix between mythological and technological themes.

I loved this one! I found each and every character to be quite interesting. The end was very sad tho.

I watched it already but I’ll probably re-watch it again. I was very sleepy while I was watching some episodes so I believe I missed lot of stuff. But from what I’ve seen I can easily say that Texhnolyze is one of the best and also most complicated cyberpunk drama out there.

Texbnolyze is defenitly one of my favorite anime series, It is really dark and minimal and so is the music and it works just right. This is Not a series to rush thru, it really takes time and patience to watch, but the story is really worth the effort. If u pick it up I would suggest that you watch it early in the day after a wake and bake so that you give the series your full attention, in my opinion I think everything is done perfectly accept it could be longer.. also if you enjoyed it check out Akira Ghost in the shell 3 movies and 2 second gig series, Appleseed 3 movies also, Gungrave, Bubblegum Crisis, Armitage, Ergo Proxy, Cowboy Bebop, Ad Police, Animatrix, Dead Leaves and many i Have forgoten

this anime is also one of my favourites
In some parts it’s full of action and in some others you just lean back and try to look at the beautiful drawings.
The only thing that I didn’t liked was that the different persons didn’t get explained much, there are loads of interesting characters, each one of them could fill a anime by their own, so it’s a bit of thrown away potential.
But it truly has one of the best endings of all films I’ve ever seen.
good to watch, hard to understand

I’ve just watched this (episodes 1 - 22) today/tonight.

And whoa. You can’t really describe it any other way. It’s got that sort of fatalistic, beautiful, Philip K. Dick-type flawed-ness to it (did that make sense to anyone other than me?) that makes it a truly satisfying experience.

Sorry, mind was blown. Still haven’t recovered :P.

I liked serial Experiments Lain and I’m a huge fan of Boogiepop Phantom, and I have watched the first few episodes of this series. The only thing I’m having a hard time with is the slow movement of the plot. Does it get faster later in the series?

aestheticbend, thanks for pointing out Nietzsche! It hadn’t come to me at all while watching the series (finished it like 10 hours ago), but there is SOOOO much that seems to resonate back to this philosopher in the series, even to the simplest of subjects such as Übermensch that you don’t even have to think critically about to make the comparison.

Now I am pretty much hyped to go read the works of Nietzsche in detail and re-watch Texhnolyze.

As far as how much I enjoyed it… not even close to Lain, but definitely worth it. I assume it will be much better when I re-watch it and realize from the start everyone is part of a whole (well, hell, they were that way to begin with, but in the actual sense - which happens to be the metaphorical sense, haha, since the world isn’t physical).

I hope you got to the last few episodes, because that’s when everything really gets fucked up…and thus awesome.

That really hits the nail on the head. Each of the characters must viewed in the greater context of the story. That is why, as several have mentioned on this post already, that this is a very rich anime the 2nd time through - you pick up so many character details that are missed the first time.

A fantastic series. Its one I plan on watching a third time through when I get a chance.

***SPOILER***
A very tragic story..its the freaking curtain call for the human race so yes…its morbid, violent, characters are very cold and the series has a very unique and un-happy feel through and through. Ichise is so interesting…he in essence becomes humanity’s greatest hope as he increasingly becomes less and less human as the tech is strongly incorporated into his being….that and he is just totally badass.

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