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ai ai - alan kuo

Romaji

na yi tian shi shui xian shuo goodbye
ye xu shi wo huo gai rang ni zou de tai kuai
bu dong bu dong yao zhe me cai nen rang ni ming bai

dian shi li rang ren ku de dui bai
ju zi li de bei ai bu yao jia zhuang ni bu zai
I try I try yong yuan bu hui li kai

dui bu qi yi jing mei you yong
ni yi bu hui zai hui tou
ping le ming qu gai guo que hai shi kong
mei you jie guo

ai ai ai rang wo hai bu ming bai
she me tong tong tong bie zai hu xiang shang hai
Oh baby
ai ai ai rang wo hai bu ming bai
she me tong tong tong bie zai hu xiang shang hai

zai wo jia zhong deng zhe ni hui lai
zhu le ni zui xi huan de wan can
ye xu shi wo huo gai rang ni zou de tai kuai

wo hui zai ni shen bian deng zhe ni xing lai
zhun bei ni zui xi huan de ka fei he zao can
yuan lai zhe shi lian ai zhong yu ming bai

dui bu qi yi jing mei you yong
ni yi bu hui zai hui tou
ping le ming qu gai guo que hai shi kong
mei you jie guo

ai ai ai rang wo hai bu ming bai
she me tong tong tong bie zai hu xiang shang hai
Oh baby
ai ai ai rang wo hai bu ming bai
she me tong tong tong bie zai hu xiang shang hai

zhan zai de yu zhong yao zi ji bie tai chong dong
zhe yi ci wo bu hui jiu zhe yang qing yi fang shou
shi ni bu dong shi ni bu dong qing ting wo jie shuo
yin wei ni jiu shi wo de wei yi wo hui yong yuan yong yuan bao hu zhe ni

Yes I do Yes I do rang wo bao hu zhe ni

ai ai ai rang wo hai bu ming bai
she me tong tong tong bie zai hu xiang shang hai
Oh baby
ai ai ai rang wo hai bu ming bai
she me tong tong tong bie zai hu xiang shang hai

ai ai ai rang wo hai bu ming bai
she me tong tong tong bie zai hu xiang shang hai
Oh baby
ai ai ai rang wo hai bu ming bai
she me tong tong tong bie zai hu xiang shang hai

Yes I do Yes I do rang wo bao hu zhe ni

Englsih

Whoever said that day is a good bye
Maybe I deserve to let you go too fast
Do not know do not know how to get you to understand

White people crying on TV
Sentence do not pretend you're not sad
I try I try never to leave

Sorry have not used
You will no longer go back
Working like mad to turn over but still empty
No results

I do not understand love love love
What is bitterly pain stop hurting each other
Oh baby
I do not understand love love love
What is the pain stop hurting each other bitterly hurt

In my home waiting for you to come back
Cook your favorite dinner
Maybe I deserve to let you go too fast

I'll be there waiting for you to wake up
Prepare your favorite coffee and breakfast
Finally realized it was a love

Sorry have not used
You will no longer go back
Working like mad to turn over but still empty
No results

I do not understand love love love
What is bitterly pain stop hurting each other
Oh baby
I do not understand love love love
What is the pain stop hurting each other bitterly hurt

Do not stand in the rain to their own impulses
This time I will not let go so easily
You do not understand is that you do not understand Let me explain
Because you're my only one I will always protect you forever

Yes I do Yes I do Let me protect you

I do not understand love love love
What is bitterly pain stop hurting each other
Oh baby
I do not understand love love love
What is the pain stop hurting each other bitterly hurt

I do not understand love love love
What is bitterly pain stop hurting each other
Oh baby
I do not understand love love love
What is the pain stop hurting each other bitterly hurt

I do not understand love love love
What is bitterly pain stop hurting each other
Oh baby
I do not understand love love love
What is the pain stop hurting each other bitterly hurt

Ai si ni - alan kuo

Romaji

wo shuo

ru guo wo men shi jie jue ding mei wang hou

wo fa xian bao zhe wo tang zai wo

shen bian de jue dui hui shi ni

ru guo shang tian zai gei wo yi ci yi ci ji hui

bu yong bu yong zai qu xiang

tang zai wo shen bian de jue dui hui shi

莫文蔚-Karen Mok

ai si ni

ai shi ying er chun jie ye shi bao lie

hen bu de yi qi hui mie

ai si ni

tai xing fu hui mei gan jue bu gou ji lie

shei duo you dian fan jian

合唱-Together

Take a look at me (bao zhe wo)

bu yao fu yan yao hong hong lie lie

Baby you will see (yi qi zou)

yao jin ni ji yi cai hui geng zhi jie

wen rou ye bao lie

tong kuai de xuan xie hao jian jue

ai de hao qiang lie

che di de jing pi li jie

柯有綸-Alan Kuo

ru guo wo men shi jie jue ding mei wang hou

wo fa xian bao zhe wo tang zai wo

shen bian de jue dui hui shi ni

ru guo shang tian zai gei wo yi ci yi ci ji hui

bu yong bu yong zai qu xiang

tang zai wo shen bian de jue dui hui shi

莫文蔚-Karen Mok

ai si ni

he ni shi jie han jie bu neng fen bie

jue dui bu neng can que

ai si ni

tai xing fu hui mei gan jue bu gou ji lie

(ni he wo jue dui bu hui bu hui zai fang qi)

shei duo you dian fan jian

合唱-Together

Take a look at me (bao zhe wo)

bu yao fu yan yao hong hong lie lie

Baby you will see (yi qi zou)

yao jin ni ji yi cai hui geng zhi jie

wen rou ye bao lie

tong kuai de xuan xie hao jian jue

ai de hao qiang lie

che di de jing pi li jie

合唱-Together

zheng kai yan hey zheng kai yan

(hai zai deng shen me)

bu zhe yan hey jue bu zhe yan

(hai zai deng shen me)

bu ju jue hey bu ke ju jue again

柯有綸-Alan Kuo

jiu zai wo de shen shang

hai can liu ni de xiang wei

bu guan bu guan he le duo zui

hai zong ji de wo men de ai mei

di yi ci de qian shou

he di er ci de kai kou shou

shou shou shou shou

ni xiang yao de jiu shi wo

bu yong zhe yan de ai qing

yong yuan bu bian de jian ding

rang ni wo xi guan de hui yi

ai jiu shi na me cuo

dang ni liu lei kan zhe wo

hui wei xiao de dui wo shuo

ru guo zhe ge shi jie mei you ni jiu mei you mei you wo

ji shi xing fen hai shi yao bu ting de duo luo

合唱-Together

Take a look at me (bao zhe wo)

bu yao fu yan yao hong hong lie lie

Baby you will see (yi qi zou)

yao jin ni ji yi cai hui geng zhi jie

wen rou ye bao lie

tong kuai de xuan xie hao jian jue

ai de hao qiang lie

che di de jing pi li jie

柯有綸-Alan Kuo

ru guo wo men shi jie jue ding mei wang hou

wo fa xian bao zhe wo tang zai wo

shen bian de jue dui hui shi ni

ru guo shang tian zai gei wo yi ci yi ci ji hui

bu yong bu yong zai qu xiang

tang zai wo shen bian de jue dui hui shi

合唱-Together

zheng kai yan hey zheng kai yan

(hai zai deng shen me)

bu zhe yan hey jue bu zhe yan

(hai zai deng shen me)

bu ju jue hey bu ke ju jue again

Translation

I’ve said

If the world decide to kill of the queen

I’ve found out, the one hugging me,

lying by my side definitley would be you

If the heaven would give me another chance

I won’t even have to think,

the one lying by my side definitley would be

莫文蔚-Karen Mok

Love you to death

Love is pure as a baby and fiecre

I would if we could detroy each other

Love you to death

If (we’re) too happy, then the feelings would be gone beacause it’s not fierce enough

Everyone is a bit dispicable

合唱-Together

Take a look at me (Hug me)

Don’t hald-ass it, need to be strong

Baby you will see (Need To Go Together)

(Need) to bite into your memory so that it’s more direct

gentle and fiecre

The leaked out happiness is a good determination

The good strength in love

completes the exhaustion

柯有綸-Alan Kuo

If the world decide to kill of the queen

I’ve found out, the one hugging me,

lying by my side definitley would be you

If the heaven would give me another chance

I won’t even have to think,

the one lying by my side definitley would be

莫文蔚-Karen Mok

Love you to death

Our world is stuck together, cannot be apart

Definitley cannot damage

Love you to death

If (we’re) too happy, then the feelings would be gone beacause it’s not fierce enough

(You and me definitley will not give up again)

Everyone is a bit dispicable

合唱-Together

Take a look at me (Hug me)

Don’t half-ass it, need to be strong

Baby you will see (Need To Go Together)

(Need) to bite into your memory so that it’s more direct

gentle and fiecre

The leaked out happiness is a good determination

The good strength in love

completes the exhaustion

合唱-Together

Open your eyes hey open your eyes

(What are you still waiting for)

Don’t cover (your eyes) hey don’t cover (your eyes

(What are you still waiting for)

Don’t refuse hey must not refuse again

柯有綸-Alan Kuo

jiu zai wo de shen shang
My body

still remains your scent

It doesn’t matter how drunk I am

(I’ll) still remember our puppy love

(From) holding hands for the first time

(to) the second time you’ve

said

that the one you want was me

(We) don’t need to cover up (our) love

Forever (we) won’t change our steadiness

Customizing to you is a habit in my memory

Love is suppose to be this wrong

Once you look at me crying

(you) will smile and tell me

if this world doesn’t have you, then it won’t have me

Even if excited still have to be non-stop evil

合唱-Together

Take a look at me (Hug me)

Don’t hald-ass it, need to be strong

Baby you will see (Need To Go Together)

(Need) to bite into your memory so that it’s more direct

gentle and fiecre

The leaked out happiness is a good determination

The good strength in love

completes the exhaustion

柯有綸-Alan Kuo

If the world decide to kill of the queen

I’ve found out, the one hugging me,

lying by my side definitley would be you

If the heaven would give me another chance

I won’t even have to think,

the one lying by my side definitley would be

合唱-Together

Open your eyes hey open your eyes

(What are you still waiting for)

Don’t cover (your eyes) hey don’t cover (your eyes

(What are you still waiting for)

Don’t refuse hey must not refuse again

Crazy - alan kuo

Romaji

shǒu qiān shǒu wǒ mén zǒu dào hǎi biān
tǎng zài shā tān shàng mian miàn kàn de lán tiān
bào jǐn bào jǐn wǒ qǐng nǐ bì shàng shuāng yǎn
yī qǐ péi è@ shuì shuì

měi yī cì dāng wǒ mén jiàn miàn
wǒ mén bǎo chí zuì wán měi de jiè xiàn
shě bù de huán shì yào kàn zhù nǐ shuì zài jiàn
huì bù huì yǒu nà mó yī tiān
nǐ bǎ liǎn kào zài wǒ de xiōng qián
jiù suàn yǒu duō mó wēi xiǎn
wǒ bù chè tuì girl

I'm so Crazy
Crazy for you
méi yǒu dào lǐ huán bù jié shù
I'm so Crazy
Crazy for you
gǎo bù qīng chǔ shén mó shì gū dú

měi yī cì dāng wǒ mén jiàn miàn
wǒ mén bǎo chí zuì wán měi de jiè xiàn
shě bù de huán shì yàokàn zhù nǐ shuì zài jiàn
huì bù huì yǒu nà mó yī tiān
nǐ bǎ liǎn kào zài wǒ de xiōng qián
jiù suàn yǒu duō mó wēi xiǎn
wǒ bù chè tuì

hǎo;hào xiǎng hǎo xiǎng nǐ wú fǎ huó xià qù

I'm so Crazy
Crazy for you
méi yǒu dào lǐ huán bù jié shù
I'm so Crazy
Crazy for you
gǎo bù qīng chǔ shén mó shì gū dú
So Crazy I'm so Crazy Crazy for you

kě yǐ zài fēng yī diǎn
yī qǐ wàng le míng tiān
wèi lái lí wǒ mén duō mó yáo yuǎn
guǎn tā shén mó dǐ xiàn
méi yǒu shí jiān làng fèi
ràng wǒ péi nǐ zhí dào yǒng yuǎn
zhí dào yǒng yuǎn

Rap
Um Um.Check it
shǒu qiān shǒu wǒ mén zǒu dào hǎi biān
tǎng zài shā tān shàng mian miàn kàn de lán tiān
bào jǐn bào jǐn wǒ qǐng nǐ bì shàng shuāng yǎn
yī qǐ péi è@ shuì shuì

Englsih

Crazy
Authors: Alan Kuo Composer: Alan Kuo

We walked the beach hand in hand
Lying on the beach to see the blue sky above
Hold me hold you close my eyes
Talk with the accompanying E @

Every time we met
We maintain the most perfect boundaries
Thing is to look at homes you do not say goodbye
Will there be a day
Your face against my chest
How dangerous even if there
I do not retreat girl

I'm so Crazy
Crazy for you
No reason is not the end
I'm so Crazy
Crazy for you
What is a lonely confused

Every time we met
We maintain the most perfect boundaries
Thing is to look at homes you do not say goodbye
Will there be a day
Your face against my chest
How dangerous even if there
I do not retreat

You can not live Really Want

I'm so Crazy
Crazy for you
No reason is not the end
I'm so Crazy
Crazy for you
What is a lonely confused
So Crazy I'm so Crazy Crazy for you

Can be a little crazy
With about tomorrow
How far away from us the future
Who cares what the bottom line
No time to waste
Let me accompany you forever
Forever

Rap
Um Um.Check it
We walked the beach hand in hand
Lying on the beach to see the blue sky above
Hold me hold you close my eyes
Talk with the accompanyig

friends forever - alan kuo

Romaji

tīng shuì yǒu yī zhǒng nàn guò yào jīng lì duō nián yǐ hòu cái zhī dào shì shuí de cuò
zhǎo bù dào suǒ wèi de lǐ yóu jiě shì gèng hǎo de shēng huó tā jiào zuò shén mó
yǒu shí hòu kāi jiāng huái niàn dà huǒ chuǎng huò
qí zhù shàn chē yī qǐ huī hàn zǎo yǐ zǎo yǐ shēn suō
yǒu duō jiǔ méi lián luò yǒu duō jiǔ méi qù lián luò

Whenever you go forever péng yǒu
xiàng yuē de yè yóu hū xiào jiēbaby
Whenever you go forever péng yǒu oh yeah
shí jiān tā zài zǒu huí yì xiǎng yào shàng suǒ now

bù guǎn nǐ dào nǎ lǐ qù wǒ yī dìng zài zhè lǐ péi nǐ
bù guǎn nǐ dào nǎ lǐ qù wǒ yī dìng zài zhè lǐ péi zhù nǐ

english

I heard there is a sad experience of many years later to know who is to blame
Can not find reasons to explain the so-called better life for what it is called
Sometimes the trouble to open pulp miss everyone
Riding a bicycle with the sweat had already stretching
How long How long did not go without contact contact

Whenever you go forever friends
Meet the night baby roar Street
Whenever you go forever friends oh yeah
Memories of the time you want to lock it away now

No matter where you go I will stay here with you
No matter where you go I must be here with you

Save me - alan kuo

Romaji

shei shuo yong heng cun zai
wo men zai qi dai
hao bu que ding de xian zai
mo ri lai lin de tai kuai
shi yan hai shi bu geng gai

Save me zhe zhong kuai le bu zai bei shang ai de tong kuai
Save me mei you yi han zao yi que ding xia shi ji
zhi shuo gei ni yi ge ren ting
zhi dao mei you li qi yan yu
Save me ai ni wo mei you bao liu

xing lai zhong yu ming bai
yi lai shuei hui lai

hao bu que ding de xian zai
mo ri lai lin de tai kuai
shi yan hai shi bu geng gai

Save me zhe zhong kuai le bu zai bei shang ai de jian dan
Save me mei you yi han zao yi que ding xia shi ji
zhi shuo gei ni yi ge ren ting
zhi dao mei you li qi yan yu
Save me

wo zong shi wang ji can tong de jiao xun hai bu xiang fang qi
jiu suan you tian ni zhu ding yi yang hui li qu

wo zong shi wang ji can tong de jiao xun hai bu xiang fang qi
shi yin wei you ni suo yi cai you qi ji

Save me zhe zhong kuai le bu zai bei shang ai de jian dan
Save me mei you yi han zao yi que ding xia shi ji
zhi shuo gei ni yi ge ren ting
zhi dao mei you li qi yan yu
Save me

Save me
Save me
zhi shuo gei ni yi ge ren ting
zhi dao mei you li qi yan yu
Save me

english

I miss you - alan kuo

Romaji

I Miss You - Alan Kuo

I miss you I miss you
I miss you I miss you

ni cong lai mei you li kai guo wo de shen bian
wo men de gan jue
hao xiang zuo tian cai jian mian
hai ji de san sui na yi nian
ni dai wo shang di yi tai de mo tuo che
yao wo gen ni yi yang de gan shou
na su du na feng kuang

ni de yi zi yi ju dou hai zai wo de er bian
yi qian de wo duo me bu xiang ting
ke shi xian zai de wo que lao lao ji zai xin li
bu zai ku qi bu zai wei xiao
zhe shou ge xi wang ni ye neng gou ting de dao

zai hui la zai hui la
xim ai a lang xim ga a tia
zai hui la zai hui la
xim ai a lang xim ga a tia

I miss you I miss you

ni de yi zi yi ju dou hai zai wo de er bian
yi qian de wo duo me bu xiang ting
ke shi xian zai de wo que lao lao ji zai xin li
bu zai ku qi bu zai wei xiao
zhe shou ge xi wang ni ye neng gou ting de dao
ting de dao ting de dao
zhe sheng yin shi ni pei wo yi qi chang zhe

zai hui la zai hui la
xim ai a lang xim ga a tia
zai hui la zai hui la
xim ai a lang xim ga a tia

Oh Please gao shu wo
ni hui zai ci chu xian zai wo mian qian
Oh Please gao shu wo
yao wo zen me zuo cai dui
Oh Please gao shu wo
zhe yi qie yi qie ni dou ting jian
Oh Please gao shu wo
shen me shi hou ke yi ting zhi wo yi ge ren
zai ye li ku qi

zai hui la zai hui la
xim ai a lang xim ga a tia
zai hui la zai hui la
xim ai a lang xim ga a tia

zai hui la zai hui la
xim ai a lang xim ga a tia

shi zhe zhong
xin tong de gan jue
xin sui de shi jie
you shui neng liao jie

shi zhe zhong
xin tong de gan jue
xin sui de shi jie

shi zhe zhong
xin tong de gan jue
xin sui de shi jie
you shui neng liao jie

shi zhe zhong
xin tong de gan jue
xin sui de shi jie

english

I Miss You
Authors: Alan Kuo Composer: Alan Kuo

I Miss You I Miss You
You never left my side
We feel
Seems to meet yesterday
Remember the old year
You take me on the first motorcycle
Want me to feel like you
That speed was crazy
Your words are still in my ears
I do not want to hear how the former
But now I was sure to remember
No smile no cry
The song I hope you can listen to

Goodbye friends adieu Rights
Heart of a loved one will be hurt Gan
Goodbye friends adieu Rights
Heart of a loved one will be hurt Gan

Your words are still in my ears
I do not want to hear how the former

But now I was sure to remember
No smile no cry
The song I hope you can listen to
To listen to hear
The voice you sing with me

Oh Please tell me
You will once again appear in front of me
Oh Please tell me
How can I right thing to do
Oh Please tell me
All you have heard it all
Oh Please tell me
When a man can stop me
Crying in the night

This is
It hurts
Heartbreak world
Who can understand

Doll's Head Lyrics

I did what I had to do
A madding voice told me to
Rip the head off the baby doll
Lying in the bed down the window
Down, down the street
Off the end of the block
Where a council of cats
Chit-chat, "Go, rip it, too."

Oh, look at those baby blues
One claw buried down those baby blues
See her head tossed
Around and about
Pretty pout, what a girl
See her curls
Like a can of worms
And she squirmed
I saw you do that
Don't ruin my bed you're dead

La-la-la-la-la-la...

Carrying You Like A Baby Lyrics

What I saw now, listen carefully now
I whisper to you with a hollow breath now
My hand pressed against your heart
The wicked hand gags your mouth

Kissing stars
And the mirror peers
Supertitously now
Cutting shards of glass
I am pain, I am pleasure
I am the sound of silk against skin

And now I start carrying you like a baby
And how you would cry like a penitent man

Would I relly want to love you now?
When how I could and would wound you now?
Moonlight shines on your flushed skin
Beautiful creatures, you daze my heart

And you will calm my sorrow
Beautiful blue blanket girl
And I will hold on to you
Till I bleed for you

Midnight City Lyrics

Walk swift
As the light shifts
Dampen my lips
Wet earth on my fingertips

Past the flicker of lights
On moonlit nights (I can see nobody else)
Parading down
Is the sorry crown
(Who's to know where she could go?)

[Refrain]
I am tiptoeing, no way of knowing
Take everything, save for my heart

She weeps
As the day creeps
Sandman crosses
Up a flight of stairs
He blows his kisses

[Chorus]
Walks are long and lonely
Down midnight city
The streets are dark and empty
Down midnight city

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

ERGO PROXY

Ergo Proxy (エルゴプラクシー Erugo Purakushī^?) is a science fiction suspense anime television series, produced by Manglobe, which premiered across Japan on 25 February 2006 on the WOWOW satellite network. It is directed by Shukō Murase, with screenplay by Dai Satō et al.. Ergo Proxy features a combination of 2D digital cel animation, 3D computer modeling, and digital special effects. The series features cyberpunk, steampunk, and gothic elements, and focuses heavily on the psychology and mentality of its protagonists.

Plot

The story begins in a futuristic domed city called Romdo, built to protect its citizens after a global ecological disaster. In this utopia, humans and AutoReivs (androids) coexist peacefully under a total management system. A series of murders committed by robots and AutoReivs infected with the Cogito virus (which causes them to become self-aware) begins to threaten the delicate balance of Romdo's social order. Behind the scenes, the government has been conducting secret experiments on a mysterious humanoid life form called a "Proxy". The Proxy beings (described as God-like and Immortal) are believed to hold the key to the survival of mankind.
Re-l (pronounced "Rielle", also represented by the spelling "REAL" in the Romdo citizen database) Mayer is assigned to investigate some of the murders with her AutoReiv partner, Iggy. She encounters a Cogito virus-infected AutoReiv and a fast and flexible monster. She later learns that the monster was a Proxy. The other central character, an immigrant named Vincent Law, is revealed to be connected in some ways with this proxy. After being hunted down, Vincent lives for a while on the outside of the dome. He later leaves for Mosk city, his birthplace, in an attempt to recover his memories. Re-l rejoins him to try to discover the truth behind the Proxies and the domes. It is revealed among other things that domes are all created by Proxies as well as the people inhabiting them who are created in special incubators.
In the domed city of Romdo (and possibly in other domed cities), various sections of the 'government' are referred to as Bureaux: the Intelligence Bureau, the Health & Welfare Bureau, and the Security Bureau, among others.
The AutoReivs are referred to as either 'Companion' or 'Entourage', depending on their role.
The humans in the city are grown in artificial wombs, but this appears to be more of a form of control over the population rather than an absolute necessity. Likewise, when a new person is grown, they are done so to fulfill a specific purpose, thus ensuring that person's future place in society through a "raison d'être" (i.e., a "reason for being").

Characters

A number of characters in the supporting cast are named after various figures taken from both history as well as mythology. Most notably, names of significant profiles in philosophical and psychological sciences appear throughout the series. The Proxies could almost be supporting characters, since they play such a vital role in the series. Though it is stated that there are many Proxies, only a few have been named: Monad, Senex, Kazkis and Ergo Proxies, as well as Proxy One, MCQ and Will B. Good. A sixth which Re-l sends back to Romdo with Iggy, is never named.

Main characters

Re-l Mayer
: Voiced by: Rie Saitō (Japanese), Megan Hollingshead (English)(credited as Karen Thompson); Inspector Re-l Mayer of the Citizen Intelligence Bureau (市民情報局, Shimin Jōhōkyoku^?) is in charge of investigating a series of brutal murders apparently committed by AutoReivs infected with the Cogito virus. She is also the granddaughter of Donov Mayer, the Regent of Romdo. Given her privileged status, she expects respect from people around her, and speaks as such (she addresses Vincent as "o-mae"). Re-l accompanies Vincent on his journey in order to learn more about the mysterious Proxies.

Vincent Law: Voiced by: Kōji Yusa (Japanese), Liam O'Brien (English); An immigrant from Mosk working for Romdo's AutoReiv Control Division (オートレイブ処理課^?) within the Temporary Immigrant Sector FG (暫定移民区域FG^?), set up to hunt and dispose infected AutoReivs. Vincent appears driven to become a Model Citizen, but ultimately fails to suppress the burden of his traumatic past and flees from Romdo. He seems to have a deep connection to the second Proxy, having left his necklace at the scene of the first Proxy site.

Pino: Voiced by: Akiko Yajima (Japanese), Rachel Hirschfeld (voice actress) (English); An infected Companion type AutoReiv owned by Raul Creed and Samantha Ross, Pino served as a surrogate child to the couple. She was scheduled for decommissioning after the Creeds were granted a real baby son by the government, but the untimely deaths of Samantha and her new son prompted Pino to flee Romdo. She accompanies Vincent on his journey. The character of Pino was given this name as a reference to Pinocchio, and Pinoko from Osamu Tezuka's Black Jack.^{[citation needed]} and also to the painter Pino Daeni.

Production

Manglobe initially approached Shukou Murase with a bare-bones vision for a futuristic detective thriller, which included the title, a plot outline for episodes 1-3 and a design concept for Romdo City. Beyond that they let him develop the idea towards a more existentialist slant.

"There was almost too much freedom," he laughs. "A show slated to be on a commercial network carries restrictions according to the time slot," he explains. "Sponsors often have requests intended to help propel the work to hit status; and merchandising entails another set of requirements altogether. By comparison, all Ergo Proxy had to deal with was a DVD release and a TV broadcast over a pay satellite channel."

At first they intended to have Vincent as the leading protagonist and Re-l as a supporting character; however as they fleshed out her character she became a much stronger character and began to steal the spotlight from Vincent. This gave them the opportunity to split the narrative between the two characters instead of having a single protagonist lead the story.
In an interview, Dai Satō describes the project:

It is set in the future. A group of robots become infected with something called the Kojiro [sic] virus, and become aware of their own existence. So these robots, which had been tools of humans, decide to go on an adventure to search for themselves. They have to decide whether the virus that infected them created their identity, or whether they gained their identity through their travels. This question is meant to represent our own debate over whether we become who we are because of our environment, or because of things that are inherent in us. The robots are all named after philosophers: Derrida and Lacan and Husserl.

– Dai Satō

Asked about how he devised the title Ergo Proxy, Sato replied "It's cool."

Media

Anime

Main article: List of Ergo Proxy episodes

In Japan, Ergo Proxy aired on pay-TV satellite broadcasting network WOWOW from 25 February 2006, concluding on 12 August 2006. Ergo Proxy was then released on DVD from 25 May 2006 to 25 January 2007, spanning nine volumes.
The series was licensed by Geneon Entertainment USA for Region 1 release, which began on 21 November 2006 and spanned six volumes. The English dub of Ergo Proxy premiered on Fuse TV on 9 June 2007and a complete DVD collection was later released in December 2008.
On July 3, 2008, Geneon Entertainment and Funimation Entertainment announced an agreement to distribute select titles in North America. While Geneon Entertainment still retains the license, Funimation Entertainment assumed exclusive rights to the manufacturing, marketing, sales, and distribution of select titles which included Ergo Proxy.
In Australia and New Zealand, the Ergo Proxy DVDs were distributed by Madman Entertainment, the first volume released in March 2007. The first volume of Ergo Proxy was released in the UK by MVM Films on the 6th of August 2007. The English dub of Ergo Proxy aired on ABC2 (the national digital public television channel) from 3 July 2007 to 4 December 2007^[8]. In Canada, the English dub aired as part of Anime Current, an Anime Television block, on pay-TV digital channel G4 Canada from 26 July 2007 to 27 December 2007

Soundtrack

Two soundtracks, featuring the compositions of Yoshihiro Ike, have been released in Japan; the second, Opus 02, was also licensed by Geneon and packaged with a special edition of the first Region 1 DVD.^{[citation needed]}

Manga

A manga spinoff, called Centzon Hitchers & Undertaker (センツォン・ヒッチャーズ&アンダーテイカー Sentson Hitchāzu & Andāteikā^?) and illustrated by Yumiko Harao, was serialized in Shogakukan's Monthly Sunday Gene-X, beginning in March 2006. It was later released in two graphic novel compilations, the first in August 2006 and the second on 19 February 2007.^]

Reception

NewType USA said, "We're even more excited by the premise of the show, which features complex drama surrounding the strikingly beautiful crime investigator Re-l Mayer, and an intricate sci-fi setting, incorporating robots, living in human society and a grotesque array of unique monsters. With its tremendous supporting cast and carefully woven plot..." Katherine Luther of About.com praised it for its cyberpunk themes and mix of 2D and 3D animation as well as it's deep psychological storyline, calling it creepy intense and "edge-of-your-seat-delightful".

Ergo Proxy doesn’t have a 1:1 correspondence of mythological figures to its own characters. You could say one of two things about this:

The writers of Ergo just pasted some Gnostic names onto their opus in an attempt to sound deep, after learning that “a flawed creator creating flawed creations” was a Gnostic theme.
They decided to let their own Creator — not to mention the Proxies, Re-L, and Vincent — fill numerous spots in mythology at once.

Ergo’s storyline is a complicated (some would say convoluted) and sometimes abstract one. Since it’s not always literal, that abstraction points me more toward #2. Plus, I like to give writers the benefit of the doubt.

Monad vs. Yaldabaoth the Demiurge

To Gnostics, the most fundamental belief is that the creator of this earth is not a true god, but a “demiurge.” This is Yahweh, Allah, Jehovah. That’s where the heresy comes in. This being’s very existence is basically a mistake, but it was powerful enough to create the material universe — and the little beings who populate it. Now, these folks aren’t bad, and in most Gnostic teachings Yaldabaoth isn’t either, but there are two truths here:

A flawed creator can only create flawed things. The Statues actually tell Re-L that they’re all the flawed products of a flawed creator. This theme continues to trickle down to the AutoReivs, the flawed creations of humans.
We, as fleshy beings, are prisoners of a material world. In this case Romdo is analogous to our own universe, in which we live perfectly happy lives until we acquire a glimpse of Gnosis (meaning knowledge, called “truth” in the anime). At the point where you know, your soul’s desire for more knowledge supplants your ability to be happy in slavery. All of its equivalent domes, represent potential similar planes of existence. Yes, both The Matrix and They Live are bigtime Gnostic flicks, according to some.

The one in Gnostic myth who brought Gnosis and saved us from this prison of slavery is Christ, but more on that in a second.
Some Gnostics break it down further, where the Demiurge was served by beings called Archons who did his laundry. In this case, I think there are two possible routes:

The proxies are in fact Archons to The Creator, who is the primary Demiurge.
The Creator is the real and truest God, known as Monad, while the Proxies are various Demiurges. Each domed city in this case would represent a material universe like our own.

Either is likely, but either way the central theme is what’s important: the Demiurge stands as gatekeeper to the realm of Light, and thus true God and Gnosis. I think that’s obvious in this case, since the Proxies rule over the false realities of the domed cities.

Sophia (Monad)

Monad is represented by numerous æons — emanations of God, also semi-analogous to traditional Christian angels — who come in pairs of descending importance. On the lower end of that, in the realm of Light, is Sophia and Christ.
From Wikipedia, paraphrased from the Gospel of Thomas (part of the Nag Hammadi), here’s what happens when the pairs operate independently of each other:

When an æon named Sophia emanates without her partner aeon, the result is the Demiurge, or half-creator, a creature that should never have come into existence. This creature does not belong to the pleroma, and the One emanates two savior æons, Christ and the Holy Spirit, to save humanity from the Demiurge. Christ then took the form of the human Jesus, in order to be able to teach humanity how to achieve gnosis; that is, return to the pleroma.

Well, that says a lot about the other Monad — the one in the anime — who is inexplicably tied to Ergo, and of course it says plenty about Vincent and Re-L as well. Vincent is the obvious Christ-figure of the story with his return to Romdo in earthly form, and when he and Re-L come back to Romdo again, they occupy the same body for a time.

When things start to both confuse and click simultaneously is when Monad Proxy herself returns to Romdo, but as Daedalus’s creation, a false Re-L. The names are obvious here, with the literal translation of her untimely end from the Icarus/Daedalus myth, although I think it’s only marginally related. But If Monad is Sophia to Vincent’s (Proxy) Christ, and Re-L is somehow also Sophia to Vincent’s (human) Christ, then that would tie them together fairly well.

What’s it mean?

There’s far more to cover in Ergo Proxy besides these three loose Gnostic parallels — for instance, the cogito virus, whose purpose bears a funny resemblance to another semi-Gnostic cartoon’s Human Instrumentality Project.
But regardless of whether I ever tie it all together, the point is the same as why Gnosticism still has an appeal as a religion (though please don’t consider this as anything other than and endorsement of an anime):
It values knowledge, thought, interpretation, and freedom of intellect over the material, the easy, and enslavement. it eschews easy answers in favor of learning for ones’ self.
But unlike this material existence, at least I’m able to do it a second time in hopes that it’ll make more sense.