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Decades in the future: The earth has turned into a giant junkyard, so
everybody who can afford it has moved to Zalem, the floating city, and
those who have remained on earth just dream of saving up enough to get
there one day - even if that's probably just a lie of the gouvernment to
give the surface-dwellers hope. Actually though, the people of Zalem need
those on earth for spare organs, so much so that organ theft has become a
major problem, especially since there isn't any police on earth anymore,
only bounty hunters - who are often employed by the same people as the
organ thieves, people like Vector. Strolling through the scrapheap
called earth one day, cyberdoc Ido stumbles upon the remains of cyborg
Gally, whom he manages to totally reassemble, and she turns out to be the
sweetest and most kind-hearted of girls - ever. Until one day Ido is
attacked by organ thieves, and she saves his life by taking them apart,
single-handedly. It only now becomes clear Gally is actually a warrior
cyborg, and has everything it takes to become an ace bountyhunter. Gally
though is more interested in Yugo, a boy about her age who earns a meager
living fixing stuff. He figures this way he can one day earn enough money
to go to Zalem, which is all he ever talks about. Gally figures she can
help him by becoming a bounty hunter - and does just that, earning good
money in no time. Meanwhile Vector decides it's a good idea to take Yugo
under his wing, and he makes him one of his organ thieves. Eventually,
this pits Gally against Yugo, something Vector, who has been gotten
worried that Gally is growing too powerful, has anticipated. Somehow,
and without Gally to fault, Yugo dies in the conflict, but is saved by
Vector's business partner Chiren, a former friend of Ido's gone rogue -
who somehow has found her own conscience when seeing Yugo dying. As a
thank you so to speak, Vector later takes Chiren apart, to send her organs
to Zalem - after all, she always wanted to go to Zalem, right? Gally and
Ido go after Vector and eventually take him out, but in the meantime, Yugo
comes to as a freshly assembled cyborg - and his newfound strength makes
him go slightly bonkers and thus he now wants to climb to Zalem on one of
the service tubes - but dies in the attempt ... Nothing
completely new perhaps, but a pretty nice made-for-video anime that
manages to combine ultra violent outbursts and lyrical moments set in an
insane science fiction world as seemingly only the Japanese can. What
makes this movie work better than others of its ilk is that its characters
show some depth that help them rise above their stereotypical origins, as
well as some nice story ideas (like the floating city) that stick with you
for a while. Pretty cool, actually.
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