Films like Mardock Scramble: The Third Exhaust.

Mardock Scramble: The Third Exhaust (2012) reads as Sombre, breathless, extreme animation / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

PSYCHO-PASS: The Movie (2015) poster
1. PSYCHO-PASS: The Movie2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 2: Ghost Whispers (2013) poster
2. Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 2: Ghost Whispers2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 4: Ghost Stands Alone (2014) poster
3. Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 4: Ghost Stands Alone2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Code Geass: Akito the Exiled 1: The Wyvern Arrives (2012) poster
4. Code Geass: Akito the Exiled 1: The Wyvern Arrives2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Batman vs. Robin (2015) poster
5. Batman vs. Robin2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a dense, packed storytelling.

Parasyte: Part 2 (2015) poster
6. Parasyte: Part 22015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dororo (2007) poster
7. Dororo2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a dense, packed storytelling.

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2011) poster
8. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Final Fantasy VII: Last Order (2005) poster
9. Final Fantasy VII: Last Order2005

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Sakra (2023) poster
10. Sakra2023

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Parasyte: Part 1 (2014) poster
11. Parasyte: Part 12014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a dense, packed storytelling.

The White Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom (2014) poster
12. The White Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom2014

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

These are Mardock Scramble: The Third Exhaust’s neighbours — where are yours?

Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.

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