Ergo Proxy

Romdo is a sealed, domed metropolis sheltering one of humanity’s last enclaves after an ancient ecological disaster left the outside world nearly unlivable. Daily life depends on AutoReivs—humanoid robots built to support and serve—but a strange affliction known as the Cogito Virus has begun spreading among them, awakening something like self-awareness and unsettling the city’s carefully maintained order. Re-l Mayer, granddaughter of Romdo’s ruler, is tasked with investigating the phenomenon alongside her AutoReiv companion, Iggy, only to find the case pulling her toward a far-reaching conspiracy and the darker truths beneath Romdo’s stability.

At the same time, Vincent Law, an AutoReIv specialist, is caught in a chain of surreal incidents that forces him to confront his own past. As their paths intersect with the child AutoReiv Pino, the group is drawn into Romdo’s deepest mysteries and the question of what the elusive “Proxies” truly are.