Did I ever talk about Expelled From Paradise? No? Let me talk about Expelled From Paradise.
This is a recently-released film that takes place far in the future. Most of humanity has left Earth, but instead of exploring the stars, they all live in a massive space station called DEVA. The kicker here is that everyone on this station has no physical body-- the humans here have had their brains 'digitized' and everyone lives in virtual reality, sort of like a voluntary Matrix. A hacker gets into this environment and is found to be on Earth, so DEVA sends agents to investigate.
The station has records of everyone's DNA, so it grows bodies for these agents to use when on Earth. The main character, Angela Balzac (rhymes with "ball sack"), is eager to find the hacker first and the biggest share of the reward...credits, or free space, or whatever the hell currency is for them, so she doesn't wait for her body to grow to adult size and instead goes down to Earth in the body of a 16 year-old, AKA this is anime, so we can't have an adult big-tittied blonde woman running around and instead need a teenage big-tittied blonde girl with silly long hair and a higher-pitched voice running around in a 'futuristic' leotard-plugsuit thing, that looks entirely out of place on Earth (where the people are wearing regular ol' clothes) and gives the animators excuses to show jiggling titties and ass shots whenever possible.
This isn't moe crap though. Angela meets her Earth-dwelling partner Dingo, an older more "normal" dude who helps her investigate the hacker. The movie is pretty much split between Angela having no idea of what it's like to have a physical body and experiencing stuff for the first time and then action scenes, which I won't go into detail over because of spoilers. Ditto for the hacker. There's some cool mecha designs and the movie was fairly enjoyable, although the subtitled version I watched wasn't that great, but was serviceable.
The movie had some hype behind it (maybe it was because of the animation, which is all CG) but I thought it was just decent. Reminded me of a better, slightly less serious version of the recent Appleseed prequel movie, I.E. people running around in the desert ruins of old, destroyed cities, battling robots and shit.
Spoilers on the plot/ending if anyone cares:
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The hacker is actually an AI that has gained sentience/emotion. It is actually the AI of a massive space ark, designed for space exploration, whose construction was abandoned, presumably in favor of DEVA, a long time ago. The AI has spent 100+ years gathering materials and is using an old missile launching site to send up materials to the ark, which is in a functional state and cloaked. In an all-too predictable manner, DEVA's leaders are the bad guys and don't want the ark to leave. Angela and Dingo help the AI to get the materials back to the ark and fight off other DEVA agents, who are all also scantily-clad women in mechs. (Since no one else is depicted this way, I guess that's a DEVA thing.) In the end, nobody goes with the AI on the ark, but it's basically said to be more "human" than anyone else anyway. Angela will never return to DEVA and will stay on Earth, hence the title. Yay and stuff.
