Recently started watching the new anime series "ergo proxy"

It is a science fiction anime TV series from Geneon Entertainment and Manglobe, directed by Shukou Murase, with screenplay by Dai Sato et al.. It is about a future earth, where the environment is totally ruined, and the majority of people live in domed cities, where the environment and human behaviour is strictly controlled, and where each human has to keep (and is largely dependent on) a so called "entourage" of robots. The City administration observes and controls the citizens's lives directly or indirectly through these robots. The story begins with some robots getting infected by a so called "cogito" virus, which, as the name implies, raise the robots to sentience.

It is a very interesting series: Ghost in the shell meets Isaac Asimov's Robot novels meets George Orvell's 1984.

Highly recommended..

cheers

Caves of Steel.. Isaac Asimov is the equal of J.R.R. Tolkien in Science Fiction genre. Not only hei is one of the pioneers, he had the greatest imagination. I'll take a peek at this anime. Thx!

Thank you delenda, I will look forward for this anime. This anime seems interesting, since I kinda like the apocalyptic/futuristic settings like in Akira and GITS. That combined with the Human/Robot theme seems a good story to evolve. Though the graphics seem to be too dark for my taste, on the bright side the animations does look superb.

The official site including some trailers -> http://www.ergoproxy.com/

Asimov was and still is the grand master of the science fiction genre. The first science fiction books I have ever read were the foundation trilogy books(I was ten years old then..). I guess, except a couple of short stories I have read every single book he has written. It was particularly interesting to see how he tied the Foundation series of books with the Robot series (By the way, R. Daneel Oliwaw is my favorite Sci-fi character to date). He certainly inspired a lot of sci-fi authors.