Code Praxis Reification

   

Code Praxis Reification
コードの実践の具体化 (Kōdo no jissen no gutai-ka)
Genre	Apocalyptic Mecha Psychological drama
Anime television series
Directed by	Alex Long
Produced by	Kuramoto Hoshi
Written by	TBD, et al
Music by	TBD
Studio	Broadway Animation
Licensed by	NBC Distribution Webbox (CAS streaming license)
Network	TV Tokyo
English network	PBS 2
Original run	May 1, 1999 – January 30, 2001
Episodes	TBD
Manga
TBD
Anime films
TBD (TBD)

Code Praxis Reification (Japanese: コードの実践の具体化, Hepburn: Kōdo no jissen no gutai-ka), commonly known as Code Praxis, is a Continental mecha anime television series produced by Kuramoto Hoshi and animated by Takuma Sugiyama, directed by Alex Long and broadcasted on PBS 2 from May 1999 to January 2001. Code Praxis is set in 2034, 83 years after the a worldwide nuclear war in the futuristic city of New Calumet. The protagonist is Andrea Davis, a teenage girl who is recruited by Intercontinental Defense Force to operate a giant bio-machine mecha named "Praxis" to fight against the monstrous creatures of "Croesus".

Praxis delves into the livelihoods, emotions and experiences of Praxis pilots and members of the Intercontinental Defense Force as they fight to prevent Croesus from enslaving the global population. Throughout the series, the Intercontinental Defense Force and its aligned characters delve into the history of the world and the intentions of Croesus. It features archetypal imagery derived from a variety of cultures, utilizing Norse, Hindu and Buddhist eschatology. There is a heavy emphasis on the ideological teachings of Landonism and the writings of Aeneas Warren, building off the various socialist apocalyptical writings of Amelia Fowler Crawford. Praxis also delves into positive psychology, drawing from the writings and theories of Carl Rogers.

Code Praxis Reification received critical acclaim for its animation and story building, but has been subject to criticism. Religious and political groups outside the United Commonwealth claim that Code Praxis is a propagandist production by the Continentalist Party (the ruling part of the U.C.C.S), developed to shift the ideology of viewers. Within the United Commonwealth, the show has been criticized for promoting mythological elements contrary to the state philosophies, physicalism and materialism. In 2012, Hoshi, Sugiyama and Long rebooted the series as three individual movies; Code Praxis: Salvation (2011), Code Praxis: Revolution (2014), and Code Praxis: Emancipation (2016). These films were all of supported by Continental Pictures, an arm of the State Committee for Cinematography (SCC), which prompted widespread criticism from both domestic and foreign viewers.

Plot

See also: List of Code Praxis Reification

Croesus entity known as Baron-31 crashing into Indianapolis, 2034.

In 2034, 83 years after the Third World War, teenager Andrea Davis is attending high school at Huron Polytechnic in Michigan. During a science lesson, the children are taught to observe the oxidation of apple slices. During the initial episode the audience is introduced to a slew of classmates close to Andrea, including Oscar Elliott, Jaden Shannon, Antoine Watts and Kymani Rios. At the end of the school day, Andrea and her brother Mitchel board a home-bound intercity train. Watching the scenery go by, Andrea day dreams about Antoine as her attention is directed towards a flock of birds chase one another alongside the train. All while "Love Train" by O'Jays plays, Andrea watches as a meteorite detonates in the distance. Viewers are shown a birds eye view of the meteorite's explosion over Indianapolis and the shockwave which engulfs the the Continental Midwest. The shockwave overturns the train, causing Andrea and her classmates to be thrown from their seats. Citizens are rescued from the mangled train by security forces, whilst Andrea flees in terror into the fields adjacent to the tracks, suffering a nervous breakdown.

Andrea is admitted to the hospital, where doctors discover she has a blood type C-, an extremely rare phenotype that is capable of operating advance organic machinery being developed by the Intercontinental States. During her recovery she watches the news, which laments the loss of the citizens and reports on the death of the party's General Secretary. Agents Robert Bradley, Matilda Wade and Grace Keller of the Intercontinental Defense Force (IDF) arrive to persuade Andrea to travel to New Calumet, the capitol of the Intercontinental Republic of North America. Andrea's father, Aeneas Davis, states that all citizens have the right to freely associate and she can not be forced to join the agents. Andrea refuses to join, prompting the agents to reveal that the strike on Indianapolis was apart of an event known as the Great Reckoning, which will bring about the enslavement of humanity. Wrought with internal conflict, she refuses to labor for the good of society, and is only convinced when agents reveal that her mother was killed in San Francisco during a similar attack.

Andrea, and the agents of Intercontinental Defense Force travel to Calumet where she is introduced to Director Fukuhara Masaki. During introductions Masaki is interrupted by reports of an awakening of a powerful Croesus known as Baron-31. Masaki pleads for Andrea to amalgamate with Praxis-12 and defeat the Croesus, but is unable to convince her based on the state's principles. Masaki orders screens within the room to play news coverage of the destruction in San Francisco, using the death of her mother to prompt her to enter into Praxis-12. During algamation process, Andrea undergoes a litany of brutal procedures that sends her temporarily into a state of unconsciousness. During this period of unconsciousness she witnesses a four armed version of her mother, adorned with jewels and a silk gown with a hollowed out stomach (symbolic of postpartum depression). In her dream she attempts to embrace her mother but is unable to as her mother continues to float further away. She awakens during the transportation of her Praxis to Indianapolis, which floats across fields and roadways filled with refugees moving by foot towards Calumet. Flashes from artillery light up the sky, showing the faces of the refugees, which brings Andrea to tears as she contemplates her earlier indecisiveness.

As she nears Indianapolis, a group of civilians on horseback and armed with low grade guns gallop towards the battle. Andrea questions Masaki about the civilians, asking why they are willing to die, Masaki responds, "because they have nothing to live for." Andrea watches intently as the horses gallop across the barren fields, accompanied by the Icelandic folk song "Á sprengisandi". Andrea enters the city, where she discovers Baron-31 harvesting the remaining citizens for a beacon known as a "Margin's Call". Baron-31 detects Praxis-12, and engages in a long winded battle across the destroyed cityscape. During the climax of the battle, Andrea uses the Soldiers' and Sailor Monument located within the center of the city to impale Baron-31. Although victorious, she is severely injured, causing her to fade in and out of consciousness. Before Intercontinental Defense Force helicopters begin to retrieve Praxis-12, Andrea sees the dead bodies of the fallen civilians who followed her on horseback. Her retrieval, and a montage of the destroyed city is accompanied by Valery Polyansky's "Cherubical Hymn".

Andrea awakens in Huron, where she is greeted by her high school friends. Returning to school, Andrea is at first elated to return to her father and friends but is visibly on edge. Sworn to secrecy, her inability to find comfort in others she and her father drift further apart. Her reclusiveness makes her a target to a gang of girls, which causes her to lash out physically. Andrea's father, Aeneas Davis, attempts to use school's disciplinary department to shame the bullies, which causes further hostiles within the household. Andrea attempts to rekindle a friendship with Antoine, which ultimately leads to a series of disastrous social encounters. Antoine declares his indifference towards Andrea, further harshening Andrea's feelings of unrequited love. Matters are made worse, as Andrea and her class are forced to read excerpts of Aeneas Warren's diary which outlined his unrequited love with Madeleine Waldmann. Andrea became enthralled with Sierra writer Judith Fonseca Lestrange, reading her various works and began learning how to recite Lestrange's various poems.

Andrea's time at school is cut short and is called back to Calumet, after another Croesus is reported outside the ruins of Porciuncula. Masaki notices Andrea's depressed mood and attempts to medicate her with various solutions, but to no avail as her blood type causes her to reject the medication. During this interaction it is discovered that Andrea is a product of the Interncontinental Committee on the Reification Deconstruction (ICRD), which sought to eliminate humanity's fetishism with commodity and usher into the world a pure communist society. Masaki claims that the experiment was botched, stating that it instead created a cadre of humans able to better connect with the Praxis machines. After this revelation, Andrea is introduced to four teenagers who were never released back into the world after the failed experiments of ICRD; Yuri Sokolov, Miyazaki Koji, Desmond Mann and Adriana Goodwin. Sokolov and Andrea are dispatched to Porciuncula to deal with the Croesus known as Wadi-29, who is attempting to build another Margin's Call with the harvested bodies of ruin city's inhabitants. During the fight, the three spar throughout the cityscape and the San Gabriel Mountains. In the aftermath of the fight Sokolov and Andrea destroy the Prospector Stone within Wadi-29 and retrieve the Margin's Call to study its purpose.

Andrea asks to see San Francisco, so that she may view the torn landscape, a request that Masaki declines. Suspicion grows within Andrea, as her Praxis counterparts look away as she asks. Andrea grow close with Samantha Mateo, a computer analyst at the Intercontinental Defense Force. Mateo assists Andrea in uncovering the truth about the destruction of San Francisco, revealing that the event was a coverup by the Intercontinental government to conceal the failed launch of the Intercontinental Accelerator & Repository of Emancipated Organisms (IAREO). Andrea, Koji and Mann are sent to Seatte to battle the fourth and fifth Croesus, Kall and Putt. During the battle Mann is killed by Putt and Koji is left paralyzed by Kall, and send Andrea into spiraling depression.