Second film of the Mardock Scramble series. Balot and a severely injured Oeufcoque seem to be at the mercy of an obsessed Boiled. Dr. Easter comes to the rescue and the group escapes to "Paradise" where many secrets of Mardock lie and where Balot will need to come to a decision herself about what she will and can do.
Score
Conisch's jazz-noir soundtrack weaponizes saxophone against cyberpunk dread.
Director
Susumu Kudo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The casino's design borrows heavily from Tow Ubukata's research into actual underground Tokyo gambling dens from the 1990s bubble economy collapse.
GoHands' distinctive 'black bars and bloom' aesthetic here was so divisive that it essentially became their studio signature — love it or loathe it, you know it's them. The technique was pioneered to hide budget constraints but became intentional visual language for Balot's fragmented perception.
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