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Aug 19, 2008 4:38 AM
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Started interesting, then went really random, then sad at the end... Interesting, but not as good as Final Flight or Second Renaissance...

Top 5 of Animatrix:

1. Second Renaissance
2. Final Flight of the Osiris
3. Detective Story
4. Kid's Story
5. Matriculated

Overall, some good, some bad... but still good if you like the Matrix.
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May 20, 2009 5:16 AM
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Here is my top:
1. Detective story
2. Program
3. Second Renessance
4. Beyond
5. Kid's story
6. Matriculated
Of course I'm fond of Matrix movie, so I enjoyed most of Animatrix episodes, especially Detective story, where

Jul 12, 2009 1:54 PM
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Boring in my opinion. I agree that it started off good, then the middle part got really drawn out, the ending was pretty cool though.

5/10 from me.
Oct 13, 2009 2:43 PM
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Worst one by a mile
Oct 14, 2009 7:10 PM
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Worst one. I was AAAAAAGGGHHH MY EYES throughout the whole thing.
Jan 17, 2010 11:53 AM
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My favorite Ova's were World Record and Kid's story. 6/10
Dec 7, 2012 10:01 AM
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Interesting take on Drawn and CGI art, a magnificent take on colors and story a great final episode on this epic Anime take of The Matrix!

A great OVA in general 9/10
Mar 9, 2013 1:04 PM
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had an interesting concept, but the ending felt rushed and it ended really awkwardly in my opinion. it didn't really leave any time for the weight of what just happened to sink in.
Oct 9, 2013 11:15 PM
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Didn't really like this one. Didn't like the art or the story. Why does everyone have to die in like 5 minutes and why did that one robot decide to carry her instead of killing her like the rest.

5/10, final score for Animatrix 7/10.

Ranking of all of them.

1.The Second Resistence
2.The Kid's Story
3.Final Flight of the Osiris
4.Beyond
5.World Record
6.Program

8.Detective's Story
9.Marticulated
Apr 27, 2014 3:56 AM

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The first 3 parts were a good prequel to the whole story. Some side story's here and there, overall a fine bonus material.
I used to be a big fan of the matrix franchises. Too bad that the whole hype around matrix died out for me a long time ago.
Jul 5, 2014 6:31 PM

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This one would have been great if not for the horrendous art style.
Nov 30, 2014 1:34 AM

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Character design felt western.
I didn't like this.
Also they got wiped out way too easily.
Sep 21, 2015 5:59 PM

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This one's definitely marmite. I love it but I've always been a sucker for Peter Chung / Aeon Flux, which this basically is.

IntroverTurtle said:
Why does everyone have to die in like 5 minutes and why did that one robot decide to carry her instead of killing her like the rest.


They harvest people innit. I guess the others couldn't be taken alive.

hentai_eucli said:
Character design felt western.
I didn't like this.
Also they got wiped out way too easily.


It's Chung, he's western and has never dwelt on action-for-action's sake. It seemed like a fairly big fight, just offscreen.
Watanabe's were as, if not more, western though surely.
Mar 5, 2016 9:57 AM

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I loved this one. I loved the other episodes, too, but this one felt majestic.

1. Matriculated
2. Detective story
3. Beyond
4. Kid's story
5. Program

6. World Record
7. The Second Renaissance
8. Final Flight of the Osiris
Apr 9, 2016 11:22 AM
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I like all stories, I think they were amazing. Especially art, it was refreshing, something different! 10/10
Oct 1, 2016 6:21 PM
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I like the stories and designs in these shorts. this kinda make me hate anime, because it's deceiving... only 0.000001% of animes are as interesting as this. The only weak point is the Final Flight... epidose, which is very much like the movies.
Jul 17, 2021 4:32 PM

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The Final Flight of the Osiris was like a ps2 cutscene lol
Apr 23, 2023 11:16 AM

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Was not expecting a Wilhelm scream
Apr 23, 10:17 AM

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The only good episode in this entire anthology was the fifth one. The rest were aggravatingly boring and/or visual atrocities.


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