The Animatrix

Studios: Madhouse Studio 4°C Square Pictures

Produces: Square Enix HoriPro Warner Bros. Japan

Description:

1. The Osiris Nears Its End As the Osiris crew discovers an impending attack on Zion, one member rushes into the Matrix to warn their people while the others fight off the seemingly endless wave of Sentinels. 2-3. The First and Second Renaissance Artificial intelligence reaches a tipping point as robots gain human-level intelligence. What ensues is a brutal war that results in the defeat of the human race and their entrapment in the Matrix. 4. The Boy Who Woke Up A young man learns that his life is nothing more than a simulation created by machines that rely on humans for energy. With the help of Neo, he escapes into the real world. 5. Feudal Combat Cis and Duo engage in an intense virtual battle set in feudal Japan. 6. Breaking the Record A record-breaking runner briefly escapes his simulated world, only to lose all memory of the experience when he returns to the real world and is confined to a nursing home. 7. Beyond the Haunted House As a young woman searches for her lost pet, she befriends a group of Tokyo kids who take her on a spooky adventure through a glitch in their computer-generated world. 8. The Hunt for Trinity A detective named Ash is hired by a mysterious organization to track down the notorious hacker, Trinity. 9. Matriculation When a group of scientists capture a robot and enter it into a fantasy world, things quickly spiral out of control as the robot's friends arrive and attacks ensue. The last remaining scientist and the robot face isolation in their computer-generated realm.