The Animatrix: A Retrospective | KYOTO VIDEO 

You're not a true anime fan unless you parlay your immense professional success into making an OVA, so the Wachowskis definitely get points for that.

"Beyond" was my favorite segment out of the lot. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who shares that sentiment

It's so weird to think about in hindsight but in my household growing up in the early to mid 2000's, we had a lot of animated tapes/DVDs on constant rotation that were critical or commercial flops: "Titan AE", "Treasure Planet", "The Animatrix". My Dad is a super big "Final Fantasy: Spirits Within" apologist 😅

An interesting thing about Beyond is that with time the short only gets more relevant, more potent. The message it conveys is so truthful, so real that whenever it is that we first see it, we probably don't understand it or have trouble fathoming its depth. From that point forward you grow, you mature and eventually you look back on the places that were never supposed to exist, the unexplained mysteries of life and how, like clockwork, they eventually get paved over. Whether that means metaphorically or literally paved over to make room for more parking lots, more fences, more towering walls of concrete.

Outside of the first film, the Animatrix is the only other part of the Matrix series that I like and that I think is actually good. Happy to see you cover it.

I really wish Mahiro Maeda directed more things. Gankutsuou, The Second Renaissance and Blue Submarine No. 6 are all incredibly visually striking works with some really interesting ideas, and while his substantial involvement in the latter two Rebuild films actually has me even more excited to check those out despite the somewhat polarised reception, I would be even more interested to see what he'd do at this point with his own ideas.

The Matrix DVD box set was one of my best holiday gifts, as a Matrix fanboy, thanks for making this

Matriculated is my absolute favorite episode. The visuals and non verbal communication allow us to feel the confusion of the sentinel as well as the curiosity that is leading it further down the path until it values the human lives and wants to save their abductors. They forced it to have empathy which is something echoing something people who do Psychedelic say they experience a "oneness"

I LOVED the Animatrix, but admit that when first watching it, especially in the order that was presented on the DVD, I thought it felt disjointed and all over the place. Thank you for helping to put it in a much better order for viewing. I was lucky enough to see The Matrix in the theater when it first came out, and it will always hold a special place in my heart for several reasons. It was a game changing movie visually, it was mind expanding in its concepts and ideas, the soundtrack (and that of the Animatrix) remains one of my favorites of all time, and it was the last movie where my father, my step-mother, my brother, and myself all went to see a movie together in the theater. I now want to watch all three films, and the Animatrix, in order and just let myself fall into the simple enjoyment of a franchise that I hold so dear.

I FUCKING LOVE The Animatrix. I wouldn't even call myself a Matrix fan, I just love all the ideas and creativity behind most of the shorts. A lot of the themes throughout have stuck with me for years, even if the finer plot details relating to the franchise as a whole didn't. This is legitimately one of my favorite anime movies, and I'm so thrilled that you gave it the retrospective it deserves. Also hard agree, Program is the best out of them, my other favorites being Matriculated and The Second Renaissance.

Bound and Assassins were some of my fave tapes growing up, so cool and fun. Animatrix must be experienced in HD too, so beautiful. remember staying up late to record the world premier of some of the animatrix shorts on MTV, great times.

Been going through the kyoto video backlog as I was sick this week and also signed up for your patreon. Animatrix was something i tried to get into at too young of an age and it pushed me away from scifi studf for a while. But seriously thank you for delving into this animated anthology.

The well-done research and thorough background info presented in this video makes me appreciate a series I already loved even more

Between 2003-2006, I was a teen spending all my time at various friends' houses, and literally all of them always had the three Matrix movies plus Animatrix playing on repeat in the background, and we were smoking weed and doing acid and whatnot on the regular, and I loved it, but that poor android woman screaming I'M REAL!!! remains one of the most emotionally intense and crushing pieces of media I've ever experienced. The first time, I didn't even know the Animatrix existed and had no idea what I was getting into, and I was so fried it felt like it was happening to me, and that moment of seeing that scene for the first time still haunts me to this day and is the first thing I think of when I think about the trans experience. My heart overflowed/overflows for this fictional cartoon robot and her right to be accepted as what she felt inside.

Beyond's the favourite because of the concept too. Theres something magical about the small things that happens in life and the short captures it so well

Speaking as somebody who was actually big fan of Matrix when it came out, and was hyped for the follow up movies... The Second Renaissance seriously fucked me up. The whole film is rated PG13, and I did happen to be 13 when I watched it, but man, the imagery in that part was just so unlike anything that I expected. Mind, I lived in Finland, so I hadn't really experienced any kind of mature animation yet. Most I had seen were some heavily censored cartoon dogs fighting bears, and Spirited Away. I should probably give it another watch, now with more mature eyes.

Excellent stuff. You hit on all the beats I felt made the most impact in my favourite shorts. This was a long but very worthwhile one in my personal opinion, and I appreciate you taking the time to give it some justice.

I only appreciated World Record after I saw Redline and recognized Koikes genius.

Really amazing analysis for one of the best animation events of the 2000’s. o7

i love this channel and i appreciate your effort so much

There were 2 others like this that were done later on. First was an anthology series that took place between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, and the second was Halo Legends

Great look back here. I really appreciate you taking the time to really emphasize the mind frame that went parallels with its release towards the movies and anime in general at the time. 😎👍

Thank. Amazing video

I see the Matrix trilogy as something that succeeded _despite_ the Wachowskis. The Animatrix is special because it was their vision transformed through the eyes of so many talented individuals.

Warner Brothers also did an dvd anime anthology surrounding the Dark Knight Trilogy which was situated between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. The best one of those shorts was the one with the kids telling stories about Batman and every story is done is done in different styles. Check that one out if you like the Animatrix especially when you look at it from a anime and comic perspective.

a very beautifully well-made video that gives an underrated anthology its dues. I remember watching this when it first came out and back then Anthologies were never my thing when i was a teen, but the 2nd Renaissance and Last Flight of the Osiris always stuck out in my mind and stayed with me. Excellent job too on covering the development and history, it's always fascinating to know what happened behind the scenes but also seeing how things could have been since we look back on this in retrospect knowing what was to come after and what could have been like with Osiris's animation techniques forever lost to us.

Beautiful work, man!

(edit) I wasn't sure if you would point it out, but I'm glad you mention the "Codename: Kids Next Door" homage to "The Second Renaissance." The funny thing about it, though, is I don't think the target demographic for the cartoon would have had any clue that episode was a parody until much much later, if at all. Then again, I watched the Animatrix when I was 12 and somewhat regretted it because of how violent The Second Renaissance was. I still live with a mark on my mind from the guy's head getting ripped apart by the robot butler.

Great video, as always. I only rewatch the same five shorts because I believe that they are amazing in every way: Beyond, World Record, both parts of the Second Renaissance, and the style for Kid´s story. I don't care for the rest and I still remember the Matriculated and the Osiris as the worst of the film. Whenever there is an animated tie-in with a movie or series, I think of the Animatrix. They did exactly the same with Batman in 2008: Gotham Knight was a series of shorts made by different animated studios filling the gap between Batman Begins and We are ashame of call it Batman 2 (aka The Dark Knight).

That timing of the final shot of the first film with the most sick RATM riff blew my teenage mind back in 99. I actually missed seeing it in the cinema and my first time watching the movie was on an 8 hour flight back when the in-flight entertainment wasn't on demand and they just endlessly repeated the same films on different channels. I rewatched the Matrix at least twice more on that flight, all the way to the end of the credits. By the time the Animatrix came out, I was fully absorbed into anime and somehow found a copy of the Second Renaissance on Kazaa that took something like 3 days to download. Worth every second of waiting and I bought the dvd as soon as it was available in my country. Just in time for the release of the second film.

the music in kids short is excellent. I still bump Who am I to this day when I'm driving

- "Renaissance" it's an interesting "history" lesson, none more, none less - "Program": Cool artstyle, interesting conversation, but not that groundbreaking for me - "Beyond" is also my favorite short. It has that eerie Matrix-feel of the first part of the first film, that the whole time something is not right. And on the other hand: The marvels the kids experience, not from this world, are so wonderfully and emotionally caught on film, especially in the end, when the anomaly gets shut down and "it was all just a dream" for the protagonists. Feelings I had, when a tree I liked to climb at was sawed down. - The visual style of "Kid's story" is also worth to mention: At the beginning, there are clean, but slightly washed lines on the visuals, when he gets chased by the agents, the "reality" washes away into some surreal images. great piece of art! - "World Record": Also cool style, but not as much substance in my opinion I stop at that point, but here's some music from outside the matrix: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5wqv2QHKo9o.html

The Animatrix kinda scared me for some reason. I love them tho. Edit: I just adore the various Anime and Animation Styles of each short set in the Universe of The Matrix.

Holy guacamole! Now I'm intrigued to watch the Animatrix. Thanks! 😎👍🏽

Really great breakdown of this! I remember catching the majority of this on either Video On Demand (There's a quaint memory) or a late night rebroadcast back in 2004 or 05. The imagery of "the Second Renaissance" regarding the soldiers did at the time strike me as a reaction to the way the US was acting in Iraq and Afghanistan at the time, who's reputation was starting to diminish by 03. Also I hadn't thought about that webcomic you flashed at 20:37 in YEARS. Damn near a jump scare.

Gotta disagree about "Detective Story" but thanks for doing this retrospective I really enjoyed it. Loved the Animatrix

They also commissioned some cool american comic book projects around that same time

I was 14 when The Matrix hit theaters in 1999 and it opened my eyes to the world of fiction. I consumed everything that followed, and while I still enjoyed the sequels and Animatrix, by the end of 2003, I had moved on like many others. 20 years later I still think about how much of an influence the trilogy + Animatrix had on me during my high school years.

I remember hearing in the extras of the DVD that doing the sketchy style on Kid's story was an extra chore as they had to manually do an extra pass to create color-boundary layers. I have been thinking about it since then. And it does sound plausible. Until... Until one remembers that while they added that step, they also did skip the cleaning and inking phases of the animation pipeline. Going directly from rough sketches to coloring. And what are those stages? Essentially, they create those clean lines and closed areas that the color crew can use for flood-filling areas. So I have a theory that the process didn't really add extra work, as it added one step but removed two. It's just that the perceived planned time savings by using the rough drawings probably didn't add up to that much compared with the traditional style. Which exaggerated the feeling of time spent on the short. I guess it's also a thing where it's harder to hand animation work over to trainee inbetweeners. So the shots were stuck with more experienced (and more expensive) key animators for far longer than usual.

I downloaded this around 2010 and have watched it since same as the Batman ova shits fire

35:47 What’s crazy about Beyond is that it’s semi-referenced in Thor 2!

36:55 It's kinda funny to me you mentioned Den-noh Coil here since the Beyond short, from what you described, sounds like an lost episode from that series.

You should do a video on Uchuusen Sagittarius next

I think World Record is still my favourite. I'm a sucker for stories about humanity pushing beyond the boundaries of evolution to grow further, be it positive or negative. Being able to go so far and get to the brink of the truth before being yanked back into a false reality honestly made the machines far more of an antagonist than any of the movies did. It's such a cruel punishment for trying your hardest to achieve something most people think is impossible through classic human determination.

Brows Held High reference? I was expecting an essay about Shakespeare to start at any minute

I don't know why exactly, but I never experienced the "fall" of The Matrix. For me and the people I talked to over the years about it, it was and continues to be cool and thought-provoking. And this goes moreso for the Animatrix, it is such a wildly diverse work with such a wealth of ideas. I am perplexed by your low appreciation for A Detective's Story, as for me it showed just how artificial the Matrix is - as in Program, you get to experience a fantastic version of a known place and time. You can even read it as saying that the Matrix is Fiction itself, that taking the blue pill means burying yourself in media and taking the red pill engaging with the world that badly needs revolutionary action. It goes farthest outside of the box of "1999 western city life is fake and a system of slavery hidden by illusion" by attacking the modernity of it, moving the plot to a good half century earlier. It is not just a program run for a few people for a time, we see many people in this alternate Matrix, as how do we know that the Matrix is limited to the 1999 scenario? Why not run many different scenarios in parallel, keeping different populations separate? It was creative and threw a wrench into the cogs of the perfectly handcrafted lore, so I would have expected someone who appreciates a story to maintain a degree of mystery to see what that short does to the whole. The Matrix did so well in capturing the zeitgeist that getting out of the contemporary setting served to make it more universal besides serving to keep things weird and malleable. If it wasn't for the tour de force of Second Renaissance it would be my favourite short just for how it shakes things up. And as always thank you for delivering such a meticulous analysis in such an easily accessible format.

NOTHING is more parodied than the dance scene from Charlie Brown Christmas.

I loved all the Matrix media except for Resurrections. The first one is of course my favorite but I have several things I love about Reloaded and Revolutions. The Animatrix was brilliant. Great expansion in the Matrix universe. The video game, Enter The Matrix was fun at first, but I never bothered beating it despite reaching the Logos vs Sentinels mission for both characters. Nowadays it looks really bad but it's fun to watch walkthroughs for nostalgia's sake

Great video. Good timing even as i recently watched a video titled "GSC The Real Animatrix" here on YT. Cool stuff.

The ending of the Second Renaissance Part II stuck with me as a kid.

And here's another bit about the Animatrix, It has a rather interesting relationship with one of the properties that flashes by in the final thoughts section. The Wachoski's did mention an RPG going by in the specials. That RPG was Cyberpunk 2020, and it gets even better when you stop to hear stories of the different editions for that ones road to Red and 2077 in our realm. Prior to the first boxed set for the first edition, R Talsorianwas known for two other RPGs that would not be out of place on a shelf next to 80s weeb culture in the form of Mekton for Mecha fans and Teenagers from Outer Space for those more inclined for Urusei Yatsura and the budding Harem market. But the cyberpunk movement in japan was just taking off in japan the same time it was here in the states. And so the lone anime or manga that showed up in the first two editions of the core rules was Akira, but just barely. It would take for there to be expansions in 1993 and 94 to help flesh out the list with several up and coming titles in the form of Appleseed and Bubblegum Crisis to be considered for if they were to do a 3rd edition. And then the strangest thing happened. Just as the work was going forward on the lead up to that third editionwas being published, Here comes The Matrix and while there were plenty of other projects, There was one that was so ambitious that it needed other writers to help out because it was 2002 and Everquest is saying MMOs are here to stay, so why not make one for the Matrix? This then delays Cyberpuunk v3 for three years to 2006, putting it up against the upcoming project by Apple called an iPhone... Oops. Also v3 came out with imagery done in Bryce and action figures as opposed to the drawings that everyone was used to for prior editions. And so Cyberpunk was put put on life support waiting to either flatline or be revived. This is where a Polish devteam Comes in after surprising everyone with two amazing dark fantasy RPGs Called The Witcher. the Studio, CD Project know that they snat just put out Witcher related games for the games produced internally And so reach out for a wacky Idea, Why not make an open world RPG in Cyberpunk and make it another official timeline extension to 2020? The hype train had officially left the station and jumpstarted life in the RPG once again, so that there would be a clear path forward, R Tal also during those years of preproduction worked out how to revive the RPG for an entirely new generation. In 2019, just as the hype for the 2020 release of 2077 was reaching boiling point, Red escaped in both a starter box and core rulebook form. And then 2020 came and went, and while yes 2077 came out, it came out broken and in need of dozens of patches for the next few years, but CDPR had also greenlit Trigger to make Edgerunners. And thus making Cyberpunk to be the second tabletop RPG to get a screen adaptation. Only beaten out by D&D in 1983 and 2000. Sorry OWoD fans but Kindred doesn't count, as it actually needs to come out and say that it on the title card, and not be prone to a wiki walk.

the way you likened 'beyond' or it's character designs to the first hour of kh2 sold me ENTIRELY on it, I love media that has that feel so much, shame that ironically the rest of kh2 drops it lol

Another top tier KB vid! It's kind of amazing to think that one of the biggest game changers in action movie history and pop culture was done by two Trans anime nerds. And yeah using that success to get their favorite anime directors to contribute to their vision is something a lot of us DREAM to do. Especially in a time where anime was starting to get popular but wasn't in the mainstream where it was seen as something perverts and nerds only like

38:50 Beyond feels like: "this may not be real, but it you could do a bunch of cool stuff, so... I don't care." the matrix is so real that only a certain group of people can even perceive it , and even fewer actually want to leave. neo only leaves because he wanted answers. he only rebels because of the oppressive rules. like a gamer mad at game developers. but make the game fun and everyone would love it ( I play apex at least 4 hours a day).

I've always thought the Animatrix had some of the best Matrix content. Beyond is still one of my favorite anime shorts of all time; such a simple story--hell, it's almost NOT a story, mostly just kids playing around with the Matrix's broken physics engine, but it's so beautifully animated and unpretentious (at least until the last couple of minutes, when the agents show up). It's one of the few pieces of Matrix media that makes the world feel almost real. You should do Star Wars Visions at some point; the latest season has some non-anime shorts that are some of the best Star Wars stories to come out of the Disney era. That Cartoon Saloon short, damn--it kind of has the feel of the Gendy Tartakovsky Clone Wars series, and it has one of the best twists I've seen in years--not because it can't be guessed (though somehow reviewers misread it entirely as a happy ending, when it is anything but) but because it's built up so well. It doesn't feel like a rug pull, more like a monkey's paw situation, but you understand all too well why the character would take that kind of risk.

Bravo good sir, bravo

2:10 Mercenaries fans just had a conniption.

And don't forget to drink your Powerade. We have quotas to meet.

I watched animatrix recently and It feel like it inspired a lot of the shorts in love death and robots is very similar

newgrounds "The Matrix Has You" series was formative to me

I was young at the time but i do remember when anime was scene as a weird thing for kids and nerds. It wasn't until the 2010s when japanese comics and cartoons gained mainstream respect in the english speaking world. This stuff, as i learned as an adult, was always respected in europe lol

I remember seeing the last 5 minutes of this when I was 8. I was so confused as I didn't even know what The Matrix was despite every parodying it. Strangest thing about it was it on tv during Christmas.

4:00, that didn't age well knowing Drew Goddard is helming a 5th installment

39:58, we certainly don't want that... ENTER THE MATRIX

I miss the era of early 2000s anime/anime movies like Lain, Perfect Blue, Jin roh, Ghost in the shell, Evangelion (before it became a meme) etc. It was anime that mainly was a reaction to the ever changing world and new found interest in mental health. They often had stories that showed in an artistic view how it can/already is affecting us as a society. Modern anime just doesn't have the depth that the older animes tend to have outside ofcourse of pretty one dimensional anime like Fist of the north star/Dragon ball z/Love hina etc.

Dude. You are in my Top 3 YT channels right now besides RedLetterMedia and... and... umm... Dude, you're in my Top 2 YT channels!

14:44 where it gets fun

I avoided The Matrix™ sequels like the plague because "cool and funny" internet reviewer types convinced me to. After 2 recommendations from people I trust, I gave the movies a chance 2 years ago, and now the trilogy is one of my favourite fictional things ever. A few small flaws here and there, the movies are largely gr8/10. The anime tie-ins did something extra to just being cool: gave the Machines more depth (they could not bring themselves to completely wipe out their creators). The first Bluray box has A LOT of bonus features, while later box set has correct colour balance (this means double purchase :)

And I thought the only animated Matrix remake was that one scene at the beginning of Wishology

Animatrix was good. They also did a whole pile of tie in comics from world class talent. In a resolution so low they were virtually unreadable on the pc CRTs of the day. Luckily print versions evolved much later where you could read the text.

I liked ENTER THE MATRIX, and still like it. I watched The Matrix when it first came out. Yes, MATRIX one waa way more impactful than the rest of the trilogy...but imho? Matrix RELOADED was the best of the trilogy...with all three being dope. The Animatrix Idk was supposed to be a failure and I loved each of the anime joints you watched as a kid, plus I solidly agree with your father regarding Final Fantasy. This video of yours? Exceptional. Very well done. Hongera.

"World Record" kinda reminds me of Aeon Flux, visually.

Professor showed these films in psych class. definetly made during the final anime boom, the last time meaningful content was produced.

Anthology films are in general difficult to pull off cause its far more dependent on the viewer's taste than any other genre. I think it also didn't help that most of the stories were downers. The Matrix is a bleak setting but i think the action and spectacle of the movies always kept it back. Second Renaissance is an especially hard watch and then things only get worse...

"according to the people that knew him..." wait... 'knew'? had to google. Phew...According to both Wikipedia and IMDB, Koji Morimoto is still alive as far as I can look up.

About halfway through, and I'm enjoying the video. Preamble is a little long, but still a worthy inclusion. Just, one thing, I'm irked by the phrase "wire-fu" being attributed to Shaw Brothers and Yuen Woo Ping. While I certainly haven't seen even most of the filmography of the studio and the director, and wires are used to enhance certain movements, I don't think "wire-fu" is the right descriptor. It denotes a very floaty, fantastical style used in classics by King Hu and re-exposed to the west by Crouching Tiger, but for grounded, complex correography like the best of Shaw and YWP's own work, that term just isn't accurate, I think.

source list?

Do Den-noh Coil!

I always thoughts at the Matrix Reloaded was better than the first and third movie, never understood the hate for it. For me kind of like The Empire Strikes Back. Accept everyone likes that movie.....🤣

Beyond was my favourite back then, all the others were too artistic (or horrific xD) for the teenage me. Well, maybe except for the one with the athlete.

I was there for the whole Matrix rise and fall. I didn't see the first two movies back when they were released, but I did watch the animatrix at a friend's house and it blow me away. Soon after I watched the first two movies hyped to be ready for the theatrical release of the third. While I liked the first move, I thought it wasn't as interesting as the animatrix made this world to be. As for the second, I was somewhat confused to what was really going on, but still enjoyed the stunts. By the time the third one was released, all the philosophical mumbo jumbo and the action scenes became tiresome. It is hard for me to tell why, but in the end the movies didn't resonate with me in their narrative. Menawhile I see myself going back to the Animatrix from time to time, either to watch my fav shorts or the whole thing, even sharing it with people who considered themselves matrix fans and didn't know it existed. Seems to me that the Wachowskis created a world much more interesting than the narrative they tried to portray in their movies. A world so rich with potential, worth exploring for every inch of it's posibilities, and that's what I feel the animatrix did.

27:32 Butlerian Jihad. Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

The Animatrix is better than all 4 Matrix films.

A small addition, there is a reason while the multi-racial cast works in the movies. The humans of Zion are plucked from all over the planet. So it is not a nation of old, but a brand new fruit salad made up of everyone. This isn't forced by a government policy, or unrealistic, it is entirely logical.

Bro if you like The Slayers check out Lost Universe.

"Sisters"

Yay it’s unblocked now!

26:57 "The balls on the Wachowski 'sisters'..." Not anymore.

Assassins came from the Watchowskis? Even butchered that movie is awesome

2:17 aha...i remember when these two were the Wachowskis Brothers... and used to make good movies..

The matrix and animatrix, are the only two good films in the franchise. The other 3 are just meh not good but not trash either

15:15 "The sisters..." Shows footage of two men. Oof.

Matrix 2 and 3 are amazing, fanbois are dumb. 26:36 That's a stupid critique. Artists reveal as much as they want and you take it or leave. Fanbois whining because the movie didnt fit their headcanon is not the movies fault.

Excellent video retrospective.👌🏿😎🌴🌙 I have to be honest, you kind of annoyed me while you kept saying Wachowski sisters, when they are originally born The Wachowski brothers, seeing how you’re speaking of past movies, you need to acknowledge them as they were called in the past, the Wachowski Brothers. . . So what if they changed their gender, that’s their foolish decision. You need to learn to speak on the truth of their true nature.

Disagree entirely on "Resurrection". Andy (I'm not going with Lana) might have made it a literal F.U. to Warner Bros. with the script since he either had to do it or WB would have done it without him, but it was still a bad and unneeded film. I'm a big fan of the original movie, and most aspects of the sequels (though parts of them were pushing it into realms of stupid and overblown at times), but the universe of the films were excellent in scope. Interestingly, if you look at the "John Wick" series, they can actually be continuations of that world, just in a different sector of the virtual reality sim since they contain both Neo and Morpheus, as well as a world that is extremely implausible in design and where Neo/John is still formidable and nearly indestructible, considering the amount of times he should have been quite dead (like the fall from the hotel rooftop. He would not have gotten back up from that). Then there is the fantastic "Kung Fu Hustle", which is definitely in the Matrix reality, just the Asian sector. I have the Trilogy on Blu-ray, as well as all of the comics that were released in trade paperback. I liked the "Animatrix" shorts too, and they basically gave rise to the superb "Love, Death and Robots" series, since the format to those are done in a very similar fashion.

You can call them sisters all you want...you know ridiculous you sound calling two dudes sisters?

This is probably the fairest review and retrospective on the Animatrix I've seen and well produced too, I want to put this in my favs but why did you keep saying siblings when Lana and Lilly Wachowski are sisters, and a couple other trans and lesbian quips? Your opinions and all that but they feel misplaced here.

Thank you for this awesome video! By the way, for more information on how The Matrix is a trans allegory, watch Aranock’s video essay “The Matrix Is Intrinsically Trans”: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KGzSGkmV5e8.htmlfeature=shared

Don't you mean Larry and Andy? They were still outwardly men at that rate and credited as so with the Matrix, at least for consistency sake (or is this to not get censored by the YT panel) for historical accuracy.

Only the original Matrix movie is excellent. The Animatrix has some good parts. But the sequels are all crap.