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As Satoshi Kon's 2004 broadcast series continues, it grows darker, more unsettling, and even more intriguing. Each scene raises more questions than it answers. Is junior high school student Makoto Kozuka the assailant known as Lil' Slugger, as police detectives Keiichi Ikari and Mitsuhiro Maniwa believe? Or is he a "two-bit copycat" who may become a victim himself? What links exist between Kozuka's fantasies of "The Holy Warrior" and the attacks occurring in Tokyo? Why were all the victims people under stress, who believed they'd been driven into corners? Kon keeps the audience in a perpetually shifting limb
As Satoshi Kon's 2004 broadcast series continues, it grows darker, more unsettling, and even more intriguing. Each scene raises more questions than it answers. Is junior high school student Makoto Kozuka the assailant known as Lil' Slugger, as police detectives Keiichi Ikari and Mitsuhiro Maniwa believe? Or is he a "two-bit copycat" who may become a victim himself? What links exist between Kozuka's fantasies of "The Holy Warrior" and the attacks occurring in Tokyo? Why were all the victims people under stress, who believed they'd been driven into corners? Kon keeps the audience in a perpetually shifting limbo, undercutting assumptions and calling what seemed to the facts of the story into question. Paranoia Agent will frustrate viewers who expect a straightforward narrative that fits conventional anime patterns. But it stands out as a fascinating, disturbing, and highly original work by a talented director at the top of his game. (Rated 16 and older: violence, tobacco use) --Charles Solomon
The detectives interrogate the boy arrested for the Lil' Slugger attacks, he claims to be a "Holy Warrior" who has only begun to help those waiting to be saved. However, he also only claims two of the five attacks! Just as the detectives begin to find witnesses and think they are uncovering the truth, a rash of attacks fuel the hysteria- especially the two inside the police station! As the police begin to doubt their own beliefs, even suicidal citizens begin to believe a golden bat can solve their problems.
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Manufacturer: Geneon [Pioneer]
Release date: 11 January 2005
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0013023237896 UPC: 013023237896
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