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after many years, I finally got around to watching and have now finished Ergo Proxy

I am pretty disappointed. I wouldn't say I went in with very high expectations but I was expecting better. I remember grabbing the series around the same time I got Death Note and while watched the latter summer of 2007 (and the rest is history), took 15 years + acquiring higher-quality version for the former.

Show starts off great and I'm looking forward to the mystery being unraveled and then it drops into like, 8 straight episodes of "Proxy of the Week", many of them bad. A dump of world-building gets dropped during a quiz show (probably the best episode in hindsight, but not saying much), and then the show decides to stop meandering about with 3 episodes left to wrap this up with "big reveals" that we've mostly already surmised. And the show just ends very limply.

Glad I watched it but yeah, don't see it ever going on the rewatch list. Watched it dubbed - googled online before starting which way to go and saw enough positive comments about the dub, but no, it wasn't.

Anyways, will watch a show or two from my non-anime backlog before returning to the top of my "To Watch" queue: Steins;Gate. More excited to watch this show than any since Legend of the Galactic Heroes, which ended up being my #1 all-time, so hopefully not going in with too high expectations there either!!!

100% going to do the sub on S;G in any case, not taking any chances here.