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Texhnolyze Volume 1 
Details
Director: Hiroshi Hamasaki
Catalogue Number: MVD2087
Certificate: 15
Date Released: June 6th 2005
Screen: 16:9 Widescreen
Languages: English - Dolby Digital (2.0) Stereo
Subtitles: English
Duration: 100minutes
Special Features
- Interview with Yoshitoshi Abe & Yasuyuki Ueda
- Alternate Dialogue Outtakes
Synopsis
The Future, Inhumane and Beautiful
Ichise's grief only allows him to enjoy the pain of the fighting pits in the underground city of Lukuss. However, when a gang punished Ichise by cutting his arm and leg off, his will to live overcomes the odds and attracts the attention of the ruling Orugano syndicate that controls the cybernetic Texholnyze technology which is usually reserved for the elite.
Meanwhile, an outsider has come down to the city and, along with a young psychic girl, the dominos are beginning to fall in the seething unrest of the city as their paths slowly intertwine with Ichise's.
Episodes:
Rogue 01: Stranger
Rogue 02: Forfeiture
Rogue 03: Texnophile
Rogue 04: synapse
Cover
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Review
Texhnolyze has started off at a very slow pace, the city and the situation have been explained but I feel we’ve only just scratched the surface of the characters. It’s going to be interesting seeing how these characters develop over the course of the series, probably because no character traits have really been set in stone. The character development, much like the story, has been left in a very fluid state, where they are free to interact and shape each other as the creators see fit. Due to this fluidity it’s going to be hard to predict how each character will react and I feel this will make the series much more interesting as it progresses.
The most surprising thing so far has been the level of violence and the depiction of this. There are numerous gun fights, as well as Ichise having his limbs cut off, but none of this has been glamorised, a nice change and one that doesn’t lose any overall impact, if anything it makes the violence seem more violent.
While writing this review I came to a strange realisation, that as much as I had enjoyed the episodes I really did feel as if I was an outsider in this setting. The vision of the future on display here was not one that I felt comfortable with and this resulted in me feeling like an impartial observer. Overall though, I enjoyed the first disk of Texhnolyze, it’s really got great potential as a series and one that I hope it can live up to. (Anime-On-DVD)