There's some cool stuff on this.

I am by no means am an anime fan, but there was some of the smoothest, most vivid, most beautiful and stark images on this set of 9 short films. The combinations of styles, CG, story and art direction was truly unique.

I'd give 7 of the 9 episodes a 4/5 or a 5/5 and 2 episodes a 3/5.

Who else picked this up and what do you think?

Yep I got it and love it.The CGI on the Flight of the Osiris is incredible.Really love The Second Renaisance parts 1 and 2,breathtaking animation

Much love Pochacco

Any plot?

savoirfaire said:

Any Anibreasts??...whistlin!

DexMSR said:

Some beautiful anibreasts, including a pair that gets brutally torn off the skeleton of an android during the fall of human civilization.

CAMILLE4U said:

Yeah, there's a plot, sort of.

Each story is about 8-12 minutes long, and ties directly to the matrix somehow.

Final Flight of the Osiris: Is about a ship, the Osiris, that discovers a tunneling drill designed to reach Zion. A woman is sent to the Matrix world while the ship battles sentinels. The woman has to send a package to an informant before the ship is destroyed. Tragic ending, breathtaking CG animation.

The Second Rennaisance, part I and II tells the tale of the rise of androids and the fall of robots. Incredibly grim and brutal, this anime gave me shivers.

Kid's Story is about a kid that learns about the Matrix (the kid that's always following Neo around in the second Matrix), and believes in it so strongly that he wakes up from it by himself. Animation was sketchy, with cool distortions showing mutating and morph-like gestures when the characters moved.

Program is about a computer training program designed to test the will of future Matrix soldiers. Animation was incredibly well done, but not in any particularly unique style

World Record shows a man so determined to break a world sprinting record that he will destroy his muscles to do it. His mind reaches such a state of extreme physical stress that we see him running out of his pod because the mind couldn't withstand the physical pressure anymore.

Beyond is the story of a computer glitch in downtown Tokyo, in witch a house becomes "haunted". A bunch of kids explore the home and have a bunch of fun without really questioning it.

A Detective Story was very cool, using photocopied or photographed black and white backgrounds with animated characters and moving objects. The case was about a detective who was investigating Trinity. Trinity wanted to take him to the other side, but unfortunately, he started to morph into an agent, so she had to shoot him

and

Matriculated was about a group of people who captured a robot, and connected it to a computer program, give it a human body in the program, and tried to invoke the human emotion on it in order to make it turn to their side.

Animation-wise, they were all extraordinary. Script and acting wise, they were of varying quality.

I highly reccomend to anybody that likes any type of animation OR the Matrix OR Sci-Fi OR Experimental Art OR Brilliant Marketing Tactics
[This message was edited Wed Jun 4 14:37:52 PDT 2003 by savoirfaire]

I just got it today and I was floored by it. The Final Flight of the Osiris left me speechless. I love the whole thing but a few stand out like, the Osiris, Beyond, A Detective story, and Program. I'm about to watch it again.

The best part was the sword fight scene in the Osiris. It's a good sequence with Chinese straight sword techniques versus a Japanese samurai sword (a katana I think). Plus the chick's hot...