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Ergo Proxy

★ 7.8 19K votes 2006–2006 1 season · 23 episodes Ended WOWOW Prime
AnimeJapanese animation traditions and grammar.This show: 10/10DystopiaOppressive imagined societies and the people caught in them.This show: 9/10PhilosophicalBig questions of meaning, ethics and existence.This show: 9/10Intellectual challengeRewards close attention and theorizing.This show: 8/10Post-apocalypticLife after civilization's collapse.This show: 8/10Existential dreadMortality and meaninglessness confronted head-on.This show: 8/10Mystery boxCentral riddles sustained across whole seasons.This show: 8/10AtmosphericMood and place thick enough to touch.This show: 8/10
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Starring
Kôji YusaAkiko YajimaRie SaitôSanae KobayashiHikaru HanadaHouko Kuwashima
Written by
Shûkô Murase
Starring
Kôji YusaAkiko YajimaRie SaitôSanae KobayashiHikaru HanadaHouko Kuwashima
Written by
Shûkô Murase
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
0150300450600

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About

"Cyberpunk existentialism dressed as a detective story"

In a domed post-apocalyptic city where humans live alongside robotic companions, a strange virus starts making machines self-aware and murderous. A guarded detective's investigation into these killings pulls her into a much stranger conspiracy involving a masked entity called a Proxy. The show is moody, cerebral, and steeped in philosophy and existential dread rather than action spectacle. Pacing is deliberate, sometimes deliberately disorienting, with a heavy atmosphere of decay and unease. It rewards patience and attention, functioning more like a slow-burn psychological puzzle than a typical adventure series.

Watch it for

the moody atmosphere and genuinely strange philosophical detours few anime attempt.

Maybe skip if

you want fast-paced action or a tidy, easily explained plot.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12006
7.78K2310h 24m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Hajimari no kodô - awakening7.6
51827 min
▶2Yoki Shimin no Kokuhaku: Confession7.8
44027 min
▶3Mu e no Chouyaku: Mazecity7.8
40827 min
▶4Mirai Yomi, Mirai Yomi: Futu-Risk7.5
37627 min
▶5Shoukan: Tasogare7.5
35827 min
▶6Kikan: Domecoming7.8
35427 min
▶7RE-L124C41+7.7
34027 min
▶8Kousen: Shining Sign7.8
34027 min
▶9Kagayaki no Hahen: Angel's Share8.1
35127 min
▶10Sonzai: Cytotropism7.6
32327 min
▶11Shiroi Yami no Naka: Anamnesis8.1
36727 min
▶12Kimi Hohoemeba: Hideout7.7
32227 min
▶13Kousou no Shikoku: Wrong Way Home8.1
34427 min
▶14Anata ni Nita Dareka: Ophelia7.7
33027 min
▶15Ki Akumu no Quiz Show! Who Wants to Be in Jeopardy!6.4
34727 min
▶16Dead Calm: Busy Doing Nothing8.2
51527 min
▶17Owaranai Tatakai: Terra Incognita7.7
31327 min
▶18Shuuchaku no Shirabe: Life After God7.7
30727 min
▶19Shoujo Smile: Eternal Smile6.7
32527 min
▶20Kokuu no Seigan: Goodbye Vincent7.7
32327 min
▶21Toki Hate Tsuru Sho: Shampoo Planet7.6
30027 min
▶22Shikkoku: Bilbul8.0
31527 min
▶23Dairinin: Deus Ex Machina8.3
49230 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Kôji Yusa Vincent Law
Akiko Yajima Pino
Rie Saitô Re-l Mayer
Sanae Kobayashi Daedalus Yumeno, Dorothy
Hikaru Hanada Raul Creed
Houko Kuwashima Kristeva
Yôko Sômi Derrida, Narration
Hidekatsu Shibata Husserl
Yû Shimaka Berkeley
Atsuko Tanaka Lacan
Yuri Lowenthal AR Disposal Unit Employee C
Patrick Seitz Raul Creed, Guest 2, Rioter

Crew

Shûkô Murase

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