Plot: Malice is a broken doll who lives in a city bereft of humans. She wanders around until she hears of someone who should be able to fix her. When she gets derailed she is attacked and harassed by a monster. After waking up, she realizes she has become human. The other robots fear the new Malice.
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August 16, 2023
Hardcore sci-fi is pretty niche, so it's often done on a budget, which is a really tough thing to pull off. Malice@doll is a film with a lot of promise, but it doesn't have the budget to do justice to its ideas and concepts. Even so, with very limited means, director Motonoga manages to deliver a pretty decent film, warts and all.
The setting isn't unlike Nihei's Blame! and some of the designs really are outrageous. The music is also very moody, and the plot is interesting enough, it's just a pity that the animation and art style are so crummy. It's like watching outtakes of an old PlayStation game. Still, if you're able to look past that, there's some good fun to be had for hardcore sci-fi fans.