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Texhnolyze

★ 7.5 4K votes 2003–2003 1 season · 22 episodes Ended Fuji TV
Existential dreadMortality and meaninglessness confronted head-on.This show: 10/10BleakGrim and heavy, with little easy relief. These shows sit with suffering instead of softening it.This show: 10/10AtmosphericMood and place thick enough to touch.This show: 9/10Dark toneShadowy mood and subject matter, a shade short of outright bleak.This show: 9/10Slow burnDeliberate pacing where the payoffs are earned over long stretches.This show: 8/10CynicalDeeply distrustful of institutions and human motives.This show: 8/10Criminal underworldOrganized crime, gangs and the criminal life seen from the inside.This show: 8/10AnimeJapanese animation traditions and grammar.This show: 8/10
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Starring
Michael ForestLiam O'BrienPatrick SeitzShizuka ItôCarrie SavageJustin Gross
Starring
Michael ForestLiam O'BrienPatrick SeitzShizuka ItôCarrie SavageJustin Gross
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About

"A slow descent into industrial despair and identity"

Texhnolyze is set in Lux, a decaying underground city where power struggles between crime factions and industrial elites turn violent, and where losing limbs to mechanical replacement is common. A near-silent enforcer gets pulled into the city's collapse after a brutal attack leaves him maimed. The show is slow, oppressive, and philosophical, favoring long wordless stretches and mood over exposition. It rewards patience with a hypnotic, dread-soaked atmosphere rather than action, building toward a bleak meditation on identity and decline that lingers long after it ends.

Watch it for

the unmatched atmosphere of decay and existential dread built through silence and mood.

Maybe skip if

you need dialogue-driven plotting or dislike unrelentingly bleak, glacially paced storytelling.

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

All Seasons

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Season 12003
7.73K228h 26m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Stranger7.0
17623 min
▶2Forfeiture7.2
15123 min
▶3Texhnophile7.4
14323 min
▶4Synapse7.5
14123 min
▶5Loiter7.6
13723 min
▶6Repetition7.6
12923 min
▶7Plot8.0
13023 min
▶8Crucible7.8
12223 min
▶9Wiggle7.6
12323 min
▶10Conclusion8.1
13423 min
▶11Vagrant7.4
12223 min
▶12Precognition7.7
12023 min
▶13Vista7.5
12123 min
▶14Rejection7.5
11923 min
▶15Shapes7.5
12223 min
▶16Strain8.0
12223 min
▶17Dependence7.9
12123 min
▶18Throne7.6
12223 min
▶19Heavenward8.0
13123 min
▶20Hades8.0
12923 min
▶21Encephalopathy8.3
13823 min
▶22Myth8.1
14723 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Michael Forest Bunken Kohakura
Liam O'Brien Haruhiko Toyama
Patrick Seitz Keigo Onishi
Shizuka Itô Ran
Carrie Savage Ran
Justin Gross Ichise
Satoshi Haga Ichise
Taliesin Jaffe Inui
Victoria Harwood Doc, Eriko Kaneda
Jason Charles Miller Shinji

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