Texhnolyze

Genre : Cyberpunk, Crime Fiction

Information:
Type: TV series, 22 episodes
Year: April 16, 2003 – September 24, 2003
Rating: PG
Summary:

In the beginning of the story, Lux is the battleground of three factions: the Organo, the Union, and the Racan. The Organo is a mafia-like organization that is linked to the manufacture and sale of Texhnolyze prosthetics. Its leader, Onishi, can “hear the voice of the city”, and is credited with the current peace in Lux. The Union is a populist or luddite-type group whose primary motivation is to interfere with Texhnolyze, which they think “destroys both the body and the mind”. They view the Organo as esurient and parasitic. The Racan are a marauding and violent group of Texhnolyzed youths, bound only by their “freedom”. There is also the “Class”, privileged individuals living in an adjacent sealed city, who are the intermediaries between Lux and the surface, and “Gabe”, a village where the historic leaders of Lux live, worshiping Ran, a young prophetess who can see the future.

Ichise, a prize fighter, rejects his promoter’s girlfriend when she plugs her fingernail in his eye during sex. Angry, the promoter mutilates him, a common punishment. Left to die, he is saved by “Doc”, a member of the Class who lives in Lux to conduct research on “texhnolyze”, that is, prosthetics. As Ichise rejects his new limbs, she tells him that she used his dead mother’s cell to build them. Ichise escapes, but Doc uses her influence on Onishi both to find him and have him protected from the Organo.