To be fair, this isn't intended to be a stand-alone cinema experience. It is the first two episodes in a spinoff series based around the film from 1995 and the manga that inspired that. As far as it goes, the animations themselves do what you'd expect from the opening of a series: they introduce us to the principal characters and to their scenario in a city where AI is now dominant and where human beings are even more paranoid about the toxic effects of corporate and technical globalisation. Fortunately, there is a section of the public security police that is assigned to trying to root out th…
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