Geneon Entertainment's promotional campaign for the Ergo Proxy anime series includes free showings of the first episode for anyone who registers for Geneon's G-Spot fan club.  Registration is free until the end of the year and anyone who has registered can view the first episode of the series until November 21st.  Geneon has also opened an official Ergo Proxy Website where fans can watch trailers, download wallpapers, and also watch the first episode.

The highly anticipated Ergo Proxy anime features some of Japan's top talent (see 'Ergo Proxy in November') including director Shukou Murase (Samurai Champloo, Witch Hunger Robin) and writer Dai Sato (Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo).  Ergo Proxy is the kind of science fiction thriller that should appeal to hardcore anime fans.  In a futuristic domed city a few robots become infected with the cogito virus (a reference to the French philosopher Descartes famous dictum, cogito ergo sum -- I think therefore I am) and start committing a series of brutal murders that threaten to upset the city's delicate balance of power.  Meanwhile the government is experimenting on an advanced human-like life-form known as a 'proxy.'  With numerous references to philosophers from Rousseau to Husserl, surrealist poets, Hugo Gernsback, Michelangelo, Aztec gods, the Battleship Potemkin (and The Untouchables), Ergo Proxy is shot through with enough allusions to appeal to the college-educated core of science fiction anime fans who appreciate anime's willingness to take on the most profound existential and philosophical questions addressed in literary science fiction.