Each episode of the Animatrix is approximately 10 minutes long, and within those ten minutes, each director had to create a story that either built on the world that was presented in the Matrix movies, or stay true to the themes and ideas that are in it. This creates some very interesting scenarios. Some of them explore life for those inside the Matrix, others detail the fall of mankind and the rise of the machines, others go into the struggle of those living outside the Matrix. Each one varies on content, from very mild and inoffensive (Beyond), to rather disturbing and dark (Matriculated), and some that are firmly in between (World Record). The artwork on each varies and can be starkly beauiful, and both the dub and sub are perfectly watchable.

Violence/Gore: Some of the images presented here are very violent or disturbing, from people being gruesomely impaled to heads being crushed and exploding. Not every OVA has something violent happening, or has blood being spilled, but you can’t tell which ones will beforehand.

Nudity/Sexual content: Some have sexual undertones- in one, a woman walks around in little more than her undies, in another the couple are cutting off eachother’s clothes during training, turning it into forepay (he eventually is in nothing while she in nothing more than underwear, though you never see any genitals), and in a third, a couple are engaging in similar sexual teasing. In that same one, the characters are stylistically nude- that is, they are floating people-looking things made of different colored lights, and the nudity is like Barbie-dolls.

Theological Themes: AI's can be on the same intelligence level (or higher) than humans, but since the premise of the Matrix...


Other Themes: This can be very dark. Humans don't always win. Not everyone gets out alive. There can be some swearing and some smoking.