Mardock Scramble: The First Compression (2025)

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Alternative Titles Information Statistics Available At Resources Synopsis Visit MALxJapan MALxJapan -More than just anime- Characters & Voice Actors Balot, Rune Penteano, Œufcoque Welldone the Pussyhand Septinos, Shell Boiled, Dimsdale Medium the Fingernail Dr. Easter Mincemeat the Wink Flesh the Pike Rare the Hair Staff Opening Theme Ending Theme Reviews Interest Stacks Recommendations Recent News Recent Forum Discussion

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Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Mardock Scramble: Asshuku

Japanese: マルドゥック・スクランブル圧縮

English: Mardock Scramble: The First Compression

Spanish: Mardock Scramble: The First Compresion

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Information

Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 8, 2010

Producers: Aniplex, Starchild Records

Licensors: Sentai Filmworks

Studios: GoHands

Source: Novel

Genres: Action, Sci-Fi, Suspense

Theme: Psychological

Duration: 1 hr. 9 min.

Rating: R+ - Mild Nudity

Statistics

Score: 7.41¹ (scored by 28,799 users)

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Ranked: #2283²

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Popularity: #2594

Members: 74,778

Favorites: 176

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Synopsis

Rune Balot is a down-and-out teen prostitute in Mardock City. One day, she's picked up by an ambitious casino manager named Shell who gives her everything she could want. Renewed by a false innocence, a false past, and now the false life Shell has given her, Balot feels grateful. However, she can't help but be curious about why he's done so much for her, so she does some research about his past on a computer. This turns out to be a mistake which will change her life greatly. When Shell finds out what she's done, he attempts to burn her to death by blowing up her car.

Due to the high crime rate in Mardock, a new law called "Scramble 09" has given police carte blanche to take extreme and otherwise illegal measures to revive crime witnesses. With this in mind, they allow a professor to bring Balot back from the brink of death by reassembling her entire body with reinforced synthetic fiber. When she finally wakes up, her confused mental state eventually turns toward revenge as Shell is revealed as her killer.

(Source: Nippon Cinema)

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Adaptation (Manga)

Mardock Scramble

Sequel (Movie)

Mardock Scramble: The Second Combustion

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Characters & Voice Actors

Balot, Rune

Main

Hayashibara, Megumi
Japanese

Penteano, Œufcoque

Main

Yashima, Norito
Japanese

Welldone the Pussyhand

Supporting

Tanaka, Masahiko
Japanese

Septinos, Shell

Supporting

Nakai, Kazuya
Japanese

Boiled, Dimsdale

Supporting

Isobe, Tsutomu
Japanese

Medium the Fingernail

Supporting

Wakamoto, Norio
Japanese

Dr. Easter

Supporting

Touchi, Hiroki
Japanese

Mincemeat the Wink

Supporting

Miyake, Kenta
Japanese

Flesh the Pike

Supporting

Waki, Tomohiro
Japanese

Rare the Hair

Supporting

Kanai, Mika
Japanese

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Nakanishi, Go

Producer

Kishimoto, Reigo

Producer

Kudou, Susumu

Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Foster, Steven

Script, ADR Director

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Ending Theme

"Amazing Grace for Balot (アメイジング・グレイス for Balot)" by Minako Honda

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6 Recommended

4 Mixed Feelings

4 Not Recommended

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Nov 7, 2019

mouthpiece

Recommended

Review up to the second movie. Will edit as I watch more.

This trilogy of movies had a rough time while getting green light for production. It was originally planed to be animated by studio GONZO, but after its almost bankruptcy the project was handed over to a new studio on the block, called Go Hands. This studio and the director haven’t made any good anime so far (their roster is full of crappy ecchis) but the final poject can’t possibly be any worse than that piece of shit that is GONZO. So I like this change.

So what is this show about? It is based on ...

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Nov 25, 2022

DewDue

Mixed Feelings

My 3 AM thoughts on this 3-star movie that I watched 3 months ago.
This review is written out of boredom.
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I randomly got the urge to watch "Hellsing Abridged" (not to be confused with (Hellsing Ultimate), and during that scene in Seras' backstory, I got reminded of this movie's beginning.

So, in the most generic cyberpunk-ish dystopian advanced civilization, we follow this particular big shot with an underaged girl wrapped in his arms on a perfectly dark night in a perfectly isolated automobile in a perfectly isolated woodland, doing what the night asks except it's far from romantic. After a few minutes of doing his _thing_, the ...

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Aug 9, 2022

RyanSpring

Not Recommended

This review is for the entire three movie trilogy, not just the first movie, as they are essentially one giant movie broken up into three parts.

I purchased the DVDs for all three of these after watching a trailer and reading the base premise. Dark, hypersexual and hyperviolent? That is about as up my alley as it gets! Unfortunately, I think that representation is significantly overblown and there's not nearly as much of any of those things as certain reviews would have you believe.

I didn't like this series as much as I'd hoped I would. It has a lot of problems that there just isn't any ...

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