Has anyone seen this anime movie. I was browsing on the Anime on demand I found it started to watch it and I like it. It's very good. The art is good. The whole movie is good, I like it. I give it a 4 out of 5.

In a future where a single family's company holds title to 90 percent of the Earth's dry land, ordinary humans are considered parasites on the planet's surface. Persona Century Corporation tolerates their presence, but does whatever it wishes with Earth, murdering villages on a whim and brutally punishing any dissension or resistance. Terrifying "enhanced men" assassins and pinpoint satellite strikes enforce the Corporation's monopoly without mercy.

A few hopeless rebels fight back, and a small group of self-styled "juvenile delinquents" revel in their freedom in Tokyo's remaining free area, the city's Darkside. But the balance of power is firmly fixed until a strange, beautiful, vaguely Victorian man steps out of the alternate dimension that Persona had trapped him in. Taking up residence in Darkside, he names himself after the city and begins offering "Dream Treatments" for those in need of "renewal."

Darkside doesn't have a stated agenda and seems content with a passive role. But his mere presence seems to galvanize stated neutrals like gangleader Mai and former nurse Selia. And as his strange powers give their nascent struggle a fighting chance, the abrupt entrance of a badly-wounded rebel "terrorist" gives it focus and meaning. But Persona Century has noticed both new arrivals and has every intention of clearing the parasites off its land -- at least, the ones that don't know their proper place.

Darkside Blues is a thoughtful, frequently elusive film that draws deeply on paradox for its moods and images. A vicious impending showdown is halted as both sides pause to listen to a blues singer; a placid, contemplative hero absorbs earth-shattering bolts of energy without changing expression; and a young woman shows her deepest emotions by refusing to react to anything around her.

The storyline itself is a seeming paradox -- an artistically fragmented series of characters, encounters and images drifting into a gestalt like a handful of glass fragments forming a stained-glass window. It takes attention and intuition to follow the symbolic leaps-between-moments into the full-fledged flow of the story.

But this is far from a dry intellectual exercise. The contemplative atmosphere is spiced with abrupt, violent encounters between potent powers. It's exciting, it's involving, and it's as multifaceted as a disco ball. There are plenty of questions asked and never answered -- who is Darkside? Why did Persona Century toss him into an alternate dimension when he was only three years old? Can a few individuals break down a planet-sized corporate machine? But the facts aren't the point -- this is a film about opposing ethereal concepts, from death to rebirth. Viewers are left to reach their own conclusions.

With less artful imagery, less finely crafted characters, or less of a sense of drive and focus, this abstraction might be annoying. As it is, it's both a potently beautiful film and a fascinatingly moody puzzle.-From http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue46/anime.html

And here are some pics:
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j98/Xetrox4/darksideblues-tn-01.jpghttp://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j98/Xetrox4/darksideblues-tn-02.jpg
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j98/Xetrox4/darksideblues-tn-03.jpghttp://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j98/Xetrox4/darksideblues-tn-04.jpg
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j98/Xetrox4/darksideblues-tn-05.jpg

So no one here has seen this Anime Movie before?

to be honest , no.
mayby in about a year i'l get round to it *adds to long list*

Hmm, so it's about a struggle against an evil corporation? Heh, sounds like the kind of series I would love. Well, I'll have to look into it.