List of Ergo Proxy episodes
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The following is a list of episodes for the Japanese anime series Ergo Proxy.
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| 01 | "Pulse of Awakening/awakening" "Hajimari no Kodō" (はじまりの鼓動/awakening) |
2006-02-25 | 2007-06-09 |
| Written by Dai Sato When a series of mysterious attacks involving Cogito infected AutoReivs occur, Re-l is assigned to investigate, and encounters a humanoid monster. Later, she is attacked by two of these monsters at her home. |
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| 02 | "Confession of a Fellow Citizen/confession" "Yoki Shimin no Kokuhaku" (良き市民の告白/confession) |
2006-03-04 | 2007-06-16 |
| Written by Yusuke Asayama & Dai Sato Re-l struggles to convince her peers of her encounters with the monsters, which she learns are called Proxy. She is removed from the investigation and finds that Iggy has had his memories of recent events erased. Meanwhile, Vincent finds himself on the run from a proxy and then the city's authorities. |
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| 03 | "Leap into the Void/mazecity" "Mu e no Chōyaku" (無への跳躍/mazecity) |
2006-03-11 | 2007-06-23 |
| Written by Yusuke Asayama & Dai Sato Romdo is no longer a safe haven for Vincent. He is trying to avoid capture by the authorities. As he flees he comes across the infected AutoReiv Pino. Pino then shows him the way to escape from Romdo to the outside world. Re-l struggles to contact Vincent and uncover the true nature of his involvement with the Proxy. |
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| 04 | "Signs of Future, Hades of Future/futu-risk" "Mirai Yomi, Mirai Yomi" (未来詠み、未来黄泉/futu-risk) |
2006-03-18 | 2007-07-07 |
| Written by Dai Sato Vincent and Pino are taken in by a small commune, the inhabitants of which make a living off the refuse dumped from the Dome. Meanwhile, Raul plans his move to locate and capture Vincent. |
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| 05 | "Recall/twilight" "Shōkan" (召還/tasogare) |
2006-04-01 | 2007-07-14 |
| Written by Seiko Takagi Re-l braves the outside world in order to bring Vincent back to Romdo. While there, Raul commences his plan to capture Vincent by attacking the Commune with patrol drones. Re-l's environmental suit is damaged and Vincent is injured in the attack. Re-l suspicions are confirmed that there is a link between Vincent and the Proxies. |
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| 06 | "Return Home/domecoming" "Kikan" (帰還/domecoming) |
2006-04-08 | 2007-07-21 |
| Written by Yuko Kawabe Re-l's life becomes endangered when she falls ill after exposure to the harsh environment. Hoody hatches a cunning plan to trick Raul and return to Romdo. Quinn leads a group on an escape from the Commune using the Rabbit. |
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| 07 | "re-l124C41+/re-l124c41+" "Riru 124C41+" (リル124C41+/re-l1244c41+) |
2006-04-15 | 2007-07-28 |
| Written by Dai Sato Re-l recovers from her illness. Daedalus shows her the disturbing mechanisms responsible for the Dome's continued survival. Vincent makes his way home, slowly losing his companions along the way, ending up alone with Pino. A group of infected AutoReivs is unleashed on Re-l, Iggy, and Daedalus. The episode ends with Daedalus filling out Re-l's death certificate. |
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| 08 | "Light Beam/shining sign" "Kōsen" (光線/shining sign) |
2006-04-22 | 2007-08-03 |
| Written by Yusuke Asayama & Dai Sato Vincent and Pino stumbles onto war-torn Halos, where they are caught in a war between the dome's human inhabitants and its autonomous AutoReivs. |
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| 09 | "Shards of Brilliance/angel's share" "Kagayaki no Hahen" (輝きの破片/angel's share) |
2006-04-29 | 2007-08-11 |
| Written by Yuko Kawabe Vincent is introduced to a man named Hauer, and learns some truths about Halos and Proxies, discovering a horrific revelation. |
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| 10 | "Existence/cytotropism" "Sonzai" (存在/cytotropism) |
2006-05-13 | 2007-08-18 |
| Written by Seiko Takagi Disturbed by recent events, Raul questions the future of Romdo. Meanwhile, Re-l and Iggy explore a strange antiquated dome inhabited only by primitive AutoReivs. |
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| 11 | "In the White Darkness/anamnesis" "Shiroi Yami no Naka" (白い闇の中/anamnesis) |
2006-05-20 | 2007-08-25 |
| Written by Dai Sato Vincent finds a strange book store and an even stranger old man, where he discovers more about his true nature. Re-l and Iggy catch up on the Centzon (the Rabbit, the flying ship that Vincent travels by). |
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| 12 | "When You're Smiling/hideout" "Kimi Hohoemeba" (君微笑めば/hideout) |
2006-05-27 | 2007-09-01 |
| Written by Yuko Kawabe The group is confronted by a vagrant Proxy and its companion AutoReiv, and Re-l puts her new weapon to use. |
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| 13 | "Conceptual Blindspot/wrong way home" "Kōsō no Shikaku" (構想の死角/wrong way home) |
2006-06-03 | 2007-09-08 |
| Written by Yuko Kawabe An infected Iggy becomes enraged and kidnaps Re-l, setting out to kill Vincent. Re-l is again confronted by the homeless AutoReiv. |
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| 14 | "Someone Like You/ophelia" "Anata ni Nita Dare ka" (貴方に似た誰か/ophelia) |
2006-06-10 | 2007-09-15 |
| Written by Naruki Nagakawa While resting in a long-abandoned dome, strange occurrences take place and the trio's lives are endangered. |
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| 15 | "Nightmare Quiz Show/who wants to be in jeopardy!" "Nama Akumu no Kuizu Show!" (生 悪夢のクイズSHOW！/Who wants to be in jeopardy!) |
2006-06-17 | 2007-09-22 |
| Written by Dai Sato & Jun Matsumoto Finding himself in a bizarre live game show, Vincent's trivia knowledge is put to the test as he battles for his life. |
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| 16 | "Dead Calm/busy doing nothing" "Deddo Kāmu" (デッドカーム/busy doing nothing) |
2006-06-24 | 2007-09-29 |
| Written by Seiko Takagi When winds die out, the trio are stranded aboard the Centzon and Re-l finds herself struggling to hold on to her sanity. |
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| 17 | "Never-ending Battle/terra incognita" "Owaranai Tatakai" (終わらない戦い/terra incognita) |
2006-07-01 | 2007-10-06 |
| Written by Yuko Kawabe Romdo is on high alert as they search for the fugitive Raul, who plans to activate a deadly weapon. Meanwhile, the trio discover strange humanoids living inside a toxic cave system. |
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| 18 | "Sign of the End/life after god" "Shūchaku no Shirabe" (終着の調べ/life after god) |
2006-07-08 | 2007-10-13 |
| Written by Naruki Nagakawa The trio reach the devastated Mosko, Vincent's home city, and find that the truths lead back to Romdo. |
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| 19 | "The Girl with a Smile/eternal smile" "Shōjo Sumairu" (少女スマイル/eternal smile) |
2006-07-15 | 2007-10-20 |
| Written by Yusuke Asayama & Dai Sato Pino explores the mysterious Smile Land with the NaKaMa, and confronts the Creator of the city. |
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| 20 | "Sacred Eye of the Void/Goodbye Vincent" "Kokū no Hijiri Me" (虚空の聖眼/Goodbye Vincent) |
2006-07-22 | 2007-10-27 |
| Written by Yuko Kawabe Vincent finds himself trapped within Re-l's consciousness, and observes powerlessly as events unfold. |
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| 21 | "The Place at the End of Time/shampoo planet" "Toki Hate Tsuru Sho" (時果つる処/shampoo planet) |
2006-07-29 | 2007-11-03 |
| Written by Naruki Nagakawa A Cogito outbreak spreads through Romdo and the city falls into chaos. Vincent incites the people to revolt, pushing them to hunt down and kill all AutoReivs. |
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| 22 | "Shackles/bilbul" "Shikkoku" (桎梏/bilbul) |
2006-08-05 | 2007-11-17 |
| Written by Yuko Kawabe As the city continues to crumble, Vincent and Re-l encounter Proxy One. Raul is overcome with regret and despair, and sets out to find Pino. |
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| 23 | "Proxy/deus ex machina" "Dairinin" (代理人/deus ex machina) |
2006-08-12 | 2007-12-08 |
| Written by Dai Sato Pieces are played and revelations uncovered as the final fight commences. Monad makes her return and tries to convince Vincent to join her. |
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[edit] Trivia
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- Episode 1 begins with a quotation from Michelangelo's reply to Giovan Battista Strozzi's epigram for the Night Stature in the Medici Chapel. The opening sequence from Episode 3 onwards features fragments of this quotation in Italian as part of the background graphics montage.
Caro m' è 'l sonno, e più l'esser di sasso,
Mentre che 'l danno e la vergogna dura:
Non veder, non sentir, m' è gran ventura;
Però non mi destar, deh! parla basso
Welcome is sleep, more welcome the sleep of stone.
Whilst crime and shame continue in the land;
My happy fortune, not to see or hear;
Waken me not - in mercy, whisper low.
- In Episode 2, the baby carriage falling down the stairs during the Central Mall massacre is reminiscent of the Union Station shootout scene in the film The Untouchables, which is itself a reference to the Odessa Steps scene in The Battleship Potemkin.
- Episode 3's title is taken from the title of a science fiction novel "Прыжок в ничто" (Leap into the Void) by Alexander Beliaev.
- In Episode 3, Re-l Mayer's ID Card No. is re-l124C41+ (homage to Hugo Gernsback's Ralph 124C 41+), a word play - Real one to foresee for one.
- In Episode 4, the character Hoody is reading poetry by Joë Bousquet, a 20th century French surrealist poet who later had enormous influence on Gilles Deleuze. Also at the beginning of the episode Vincent is pouring milk into his alphabet cereal, the letters float up in such a way to spell "Misfit". "Misfit" meaning one who is unable to adjust to one's environment or circumstances or is considered to be disturbingly different from others.
- In Episode 5, Hoody mentions a boat called the Centzon Totochtin, named after the group of 400 rabbit-deities from Aztec mythology.
- Daedalus watches video files of Re-L in Episode 6. The first three digits in each file number (Re-014081004, Re-001030805, Re-017120609 and Re-008041502) appear to be Re-L's age at the time (14, 1, 17, and 8 years old, respectively).
- In Episode 7, the Amrita immortal cell line is named after Amrita, the drink of immortality in Hindu mythology and such Dharmic religions.
- In Episode 8, base commander Patecatl, first officer Omacatl and the female prisoner referred to as Mayahuel in the end credits are named after Aztec gods. This episode also features a number of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland references, including two of John Tenniel's illustrations (Gardeners Two, Five and Seven, Alice and the Queen).
- In Episode 10, one tombstone has the words "Chief Writer Dai Sato" engraved on it. Dai Soto wrote most of the Ergo Proxy episodes.
- In Episode 11, the bookstore is named after City Lights Bookstore.
- In Episode 11, the bookstore owner quotes Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "On the Origin of Language" and Heraclitus' writings on Logos and Bios.
- In Episode 13, the title Conceptual Blindspot (構想の死角?) is also the Japanese title for the TV series Columbo 1st season episode "Murder by the Book" (1971).
- Episode 14 pays homage to John Everett Millais' painting Ophelia.
- Episode 15 parodies the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? game show. The shift from the image of a Neolithic man wielding a bone as tool to the image of a spaceship is reminiscent of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- In episode 17, the long-ranged ICBM is named Rapture, as in Christian eschatology.
- In episode 18, the title "Life After God" is taken from the title of Douglas Coupland's collection of short stories Life After God. A particular scene during which Ergo Proxy kills the autoreiv that holds his memories resembles the scene from Blade Runner when Roy Batty kills Tyrell.
- In episode 19, the episode "eternal smile" mimics Disneyland, in which the creator Will B. Good is an exact replica of Walt Disney. The two characters who accompany Pino through her journey in this episode seem based upon the two main characters from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. This is furthered by the constant reference to Will B. Good as "the creator".
- In episode 21, the title Shampoo Planet is taken from the title of Douglas Coupland's novel Shampoo Planet.
- Episode 22's title - "bilbul" - is drawn from the Hebrew word בילבול, which means "bewilderment".
- In Episode 23, Daedalus' duplicate of Re-l is given wings, and thus flies too high into the sunlight, which causes her to die. This is a direct reflection of Icarus from Greek Mythology whom is given artificial wings by his father Daedalus and perishes when he flies too close to the sun. In this episode is also a statement made by Proxy One to Ergo Proxy saying, "Certainly, the Ark and the Cradle were necessary for your education." The statement refers to the journey taken by Vincent Law on the Rabbit into "the dead, ashen world spread out before [him]..." as well as his reclaiming (or actually, discovery) of Proxy One's memories. Both events mirror the Jewish parables of Noah and his Ark, and the finding of the baby Moses in the cradle of reeds (a small craft of bulrushes coated in pitch).
[edit] References
- Ergo Proxy WOWOW - WOWOW's official episode listing of Ergo Proxy.
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