Shinji Aramaki's post-apocalyptic anime thriller runs on familiar lines: in AD 2131 a super-sexy female soldier called Deunan is captured and taken to a creepy Huxleyesque utopia called Olympus, created in the midst of postwar rubble, where humans coexist with placid "biaroids" - semi-human cyborgs without destructive emotions.

A garbled and unrewarding plot is spun out from this situation, although the visuals are impressive. The effect of superimposing 2D animated figures on photorealist 3D cityscapes is odd, though certainly distinctive.