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bob-weebington
First off, there are several formats of this show: An OVA and a movie. This is the movie, which I consider the better of the two.
Armitage III depicts a futuristic world where people use robots for convenience, sentiment, and occasionally pleasure.
What we get is an action-packed film where the titular heroine is either beating up bad guys or else they're running away from them really fast.
It's also interesting to watch how the relationship matures between the detective and Armitage.
Overall I enjoyed watching this film and the ending was good too. There was also a lot of nice action in the fighting/escape scenes.
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Same as the 1995's OVA, but combined into one film which got dubbed with absent-minded actors, making it inferior by default. Armitage III though plays out like a Shōnen (obviously, with such a titular character) to then subverse it right down to explaining why the suspicious engineers are building replicants as child servants, adding a much more cruel undertone to the cliche, so after the 1st half Naomi Armitage won't get half-naked anymore as she restores her sense of identity and what it's like to be a strong independent thinking woman. Mars colony where Armitage III takes place is even radically anti-feminist compared to Earth, it's implied from the opening shots of an objectified naked butt stewardess robot. So this whole cyber-loli trope stemming from the 80s anime also serves as the…
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Trying not to be biased here, because time has changed my tastes somewhat and other opinions have made me think about it harder than I originally did, so this is tainted. Probably not the right word, but we'll roll with that.
On the surface we have a standard cyberpunk cop story set on Mars, with Naomi Armitage meeting her new partner, Ross Syllabus. He's a cyborg with a deep disdain for electronic lifeforms, and it turns out she is secretly the next big step in that direction.
And looking back this where it's issues lie. An android capable of human conception? Is it even possible? OR necessary? Add some odd interpretations of feminism and it's not the best write looking back. It was okay even though I never realized it was very flawed.
But it was a gateway title for me. One of the fir…
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Considered to be a classic cyberpunk anime, it introduced a wave of cyberpunk and anime fans when this movie was released in 1995. However, it got overshadowed by Ghost In The Shell, which in the US became such a well-known anime movie but Armitage III had strong popularity in Japan, so that kinda counts. Armitage III Poly-Matrix is a must-see anime film for all cyberpunk and anime fans who missed this gem a long time ago.
Welcome to the year 2046. The Earth became overpopulated and therefore, mankind created a colonization in Mars with the help of first type" androids and built the city of Saint Lowell. Seventy years later, the city is inhabited by humans and "Second-type" androids, which are improvements over the first type and this new robots talk and react like real humans. On the spa…
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A product of the early 90's cyber-punk craze, Armitage the Third, like many other cyber-punk movies of the time, focused on robot/human relations and questions about what constituted as being human.
The artwork is hand drawn in painstaking detail, as CGI was in it's infancy at the time, so the background artwork is very rich and complex. The main characters in the American dub were voiced by people who were A-list stars at the time, so you can expect great voice acting.
One last word of warning though: Like many cyber-punk movies of the time, nudity and ultra-violence is prevalent throughout the movie. Certain naughty bits appear on screen with no warning at all.
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