The Animatrix: Beyond

Original title: Beyond

Video
2003
13m

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Adult Animation Anime Cyberpunk Animation Sci-Fi Short

A young girl and a group of children discover that an abandoned house contains a wondrous nature to it.A young girl and a group of children discover that an abandoned house contains a wondrous nature to it.A young girl and a group of children discover that an abandoned house contains a wondrous nature to it.

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7.6/10

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Hedy Burress

Yoko
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Tress MacNeille

Housewife
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Kath Soucie

Pudgy
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Pamela Adlon

Manabu
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Tara Strong

Misha
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Jill Talley

Townspeople
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Jack Fletcher

Townspeople
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Julia Fletcher

Townspeople
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Dwight Schultz

Townspeople
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Tom Kenny

Townspeople
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Matt McKenzie

Agent
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Trivia
The city in "Beyond" takes place in the area in Tokyo where the production company Studio 4°C is located.

Quotes
Yoko: [First lines] Yuuuuki! Hey girl. Time to eat. Oh, Yuki's my cat...

Connections
Edited into The Animatrix (2003)

Soundtracks
HANDS AROUND MY THROAT
Written by Nicola Kuperus, Adam Lee Miller, Tim Holmes (as Timothy David Holmes), Richard Fearless (as Richard Maguire), Dan Bitney,
Ken Brown, John Herndon, Douglas McCombs and John McEntire
Performed by Death In Vegas
Courtesy of Concrete/BMG UK & Ireland Ltd.

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Featured review

9/10

Amazing piece of work

Beyond is, hands down, the best of the Animatrix shorts, a simple story about a woman who explores a "haunted" house in search of her missing cat. It's a bit difficult to understand if you haven't seen The Matrix Reloaded, but it does address one point that was made in that movie that I had hoped they would go into in more detail, namely ghosts, vampires, werewolves and other paranormal phenomena being entirely the result of a glitch in the Matrix. Beyond is a haunting piece reminiscent of the "Labyrinth" segment of Neo-Tokyo, an obscure anthology of anime shorts by Rin Taro (Metropolis), Yoshiaki Kawajiri (Ninja Scroll) and Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira).