“are you also a machine? what is your function? i am a doll. to gratify is my function. but now there is nobody to comfort. so i have a stroll every day. assess me. it appears that i am faulty.”
malice
@doll is truly a one of a kind. like it probably is terrible, but it just so amazing in the exact same way. it’s about a robot prostitute who transforms into a human in a dystopian world where humans are all extinct, and earth is ruled by dolls and robotic creatures. she adapts to her new life after transforming into a human, as the robots around her react and are also infected with the disease of humanity. malice
@doll is a very surreal, artsy kinda anime. it values philosophical depth over any form of story or narrative. it’s a mechanical, dark, claustrophobic nightmare and uses early 2000s cgi animation that’s highly adjacent to ps1/ps2 that creates a really uncanny, puppet-like look to all the characters. the main aim of this 3 episode anime is some provocative statements, discussing the body-horror of an unknown transformation: as she turns into something completely foreign to her, shows how artificial intelligence just mirrors human acts, rather than actually desiring them, and through the other dolls, shows how humanity almost felt like a disease to them, as they’re all consumed in pain. it’s grotesque, weird and disjointed. malice
@doll certainly isn’t for anyone, but to me it’s the prefect surreal body-horror anime of a prostitute sex droid metamorphosing into a human, and the aftermath of that.
