Tubi has added one of my favorite moody series to its service this month from the Funimation catalog with Ergo Proxy. The full series is now available in its original Japanese language form with English subtitles for viewing. Owing to it being an older title with more limited licensing done by Funimation when they acquired it, which came on top of Geneon Entertainment originally releasing it, it’s available for viewers in the United States and Canada only.
The twenty-three episode series originally broadcast back in 2006 and was licensed in North America and dubbed by Geneon Entertainment. Funimation holds the current license rights to it and produced a complete DVD collection back in 2012. The series was directed by Shukou Murase based on the series composition from Dai Sato and had Naoyuki Onda as the character designer and featured an opening song from Radiohead. It was animated by Manglobe.
Check out our review of the series here.
Plot Concept: The domed city of Romdo is an impenetrable would-be utopia where humans and robots coexist, and everything is under complete government control, or so it appears. While working on a mysterious murder case, Re-l Mayer, a female detective from the Civilian Intelligence Office, receives a foreboding message that something is going to “awaken.” That night, she’s attacked by a deformed super-being…what was this unidentified monster that attacked her, and who was the figure that came in between them? As Re-l attempts to unlock this spiraling mystery, a metaphysical battle cry leads her to the unknown outside world…
