Synopsis
Mardock Scramble: The First Compression (2010) is a Japanese noir anime — part thriller, part drama, part action — you can watch online on iFILM. Rune Balot, a teenage prostitute in Mardock City, is set on fire inside a rigged car by the man who pretended to save her.
She survives, rebuilt as a cyborg whose skin answers to electrical signals and bonds with Oeufcoque, a living weapon that can become anything she needs. That makes her the only witness who can put away Shell, the casino fixer who tried to erase her. Staying alive until the trial means deciding what she even is now — a person, or another tool someone else controls.
Directed by Susumu Kudo from Tow Ubukata's novel, this is the opening chapter of a three-film arc, with Megumi Hayashibara voicing Rune. At seventy taut minutes it never coasts. Cold, brutal and unafraid of its young lead, it suits viewers who want their sci-fi grim. Stream Mardock Scramble (2010) online on iFILM.
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