the original manga is written by Hideyuki Kikuchi and like vampire hunter d and all his other works darkside blues iconoclasticly mixes cyberpunk with gothic/baroque style. pretty awesome.
the anime only scratches the surface of the whole story and leaves most of the stuff that happens unclear.
what i recognize is, that Hideyuki Kikuchi was heavily inspired by william gibson's neuromancer triology with the hole subject of a global company ruling the world which belongs to an god-like family living in space (the Tessier-Ashpool family in neuromancer).
which is awesome, too, because william gibson is the best dude in history
edit:
oh, i forgot. you can watch the whole movie on youtube. sadly, with atrocious englisch dub.
