Quantcast

BALDR FORCE EXE Resolution

Title:BALDR FORCE EXE Resolution
Overall:Unevaluated
Keywords: , , , , , , , ,
Notables: R1 License - FUNimation

In a future networked world, the option of existing in the virtual network world rivals the real world (or wired reality). The hacker group known as SteppenWolf have decided on one final hack-attack before disbanding and have set their sights on attacking FLAK, the UN Cyber Security Bureau’s servers. And everything went very wrong. Their leader, Nonomura Yuuya was killed in the cyberworld, and while the remaining three hackers succeed in jacking-out, they returned only to be arrested by the army. One of the STEPPENWOLF team, Soma Toru finds himself forcibly recruited into FLAK as an anti-hacking 'diver'. While working for the ‘otherside’, Toru still harbors strong resentments at those who killed Yuuya. But the ongoing battle and competing agendas between FLAK, the VSS security enterprise and the FEI DAO terrorist group appear to be converging on a single point in cyberspace.

Based on the Cyberpunk computer game by GIGA.

4 OVA Episodes. Animation by Satelight

Episode Details 
01
OverallArtAnimationCharacter Design MusicSeries StoryEpisode StoryReviewer
Unevaluated Jan-Chan #

The first episode is out as a fansub.

And what a very interesting first episode it is. Reminiscent of the story of NEO in the Matrix movie or any one of a number of those classic cyberpunk scifi novels, the main character of Souma Toru is a brooding and complex young man, who gets pushed into a corner with very few options. But just don’t expect him to just sit there quietly, while those around him attempt to manipulate and use him for their own ends.

And whenever they jump into cyberspace, they appear suited in heavily armed mecha units which they use to invade other server systems (this is the weakest link in the story).

But I am looking forward to the next episode.

"Classic cyberpunk characters were marginalized, alienated loners who lived on the edge of society in generally dystopic futures where daily life was impacted by rapid technological change, a ubiquitous datasphere of computerized information, and invasive modification of the human body."

Lawrence Person, "Notes Toward a Postcyberpunk Manifesto", first published in Nova Express issue 16 (1998), later posted to Slashdot.



Last updated Monday, December 04 2006.

Other Sites
NameURL
Official Japanese OVA Series Web Site http://www.trinet-ent.com/baldrforce/
Wikipedia entry for CYBERPUNK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk
Wikipedia entry for SteppenWolf (Novel) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppenwolf_%28novel%29
The main character is a member of a hacker group named SteppenWolf
A good list of Cyberpunk Scifi Novels http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/books.html

Community Anime Reviews

anime mikomi org