When Haruko runs over Naota with her scooter and brains him with a bass guitar, his world doesn’t just get turned upside down—it gets incredibly weird.

Straight from the creators of the groundbreaking Matrix trilogy, this collection of short animated films from the world's leading anime directors fuses computer graphics and Japanese anime to provide the background of the Matrix universe and the conflict between man and machines. The shorts include Final Flight of the Osiris, The Second Renaissance, Kid's Story, Program, World Record, Beyond, A Detective Story and Matriculated.

1973 film by Eiichi Yamamoto

A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.

A mysterious suicide and a series of unmanned robot run-aways sparks off a Police investigation into the suspicious software on-board thousands of industrial robots around Tokyo.

In 2030 AD, even if the intention to run around as light and electrons is concentrated in one direction as the computerization becomes generalized and the information network becomes more sophisticated, by the time the "lonely person" becomes an "individual" as a complex. Is an era when it is not computerized. It depicts the activities of the "Public Security Section 9" (commonly known as "Ghost in the Shell"), which was established as an independent counterintelligence unit under the direct control of the Ministry of Home Affairs to counter complicated crimes. There are a wide variety of top-secret missions such as cybercrime investigation, terrorism deterrence / arrest, VIP protection, and corruption detection, but one incident emerges as it is carried out.

1997 film directed by Hideaki Anno

岩仓玲音的同学四方田千砂自杀了。没有任何前兆的自杀事件让同学们不知所措，一周后，玲音收到了千砂的短信。明明已死的千砂居然以手机短信和玲音开始了交流。回到家，玲音用爸爸给她的电脑开始与千砂联系。当谈及为何自杀时，千砂回答说“因为我已经不需要身体了，没有身体，我可以在wired网络之间继续活着。”不解的玲音继续调查千砂的事件，发现wired网络之中隐藏的巨大秘密，玲音自己的身世也出现了谜团。玲音面对网络世界中的真相，耳边不断响起千砂的话“我生存在wired中，因为神在那里。”

2001 Japanese anime film by Shin'ichirō Watanabe

2004 film by Mamoru Oshii

旅行者奇诺（Kino）骑着她那会说话的摩托车汉密斯（Hermes）到各个国家旅行，在每个国家奇诺都只停留三天，在她体会了该国家人民的文化、风俗之后，她便离开并前往另一个国家……

　　--世界は美しくなんかない　そして それ故に 美しい--

　　--The World Is Not Beautiful,Therefore It Is--

　　--这个世界并不美丽，然而，又因此而美丽--

1985 OVA film by Mamoru Oshii

1997 anime film directed by Hideaki Anno

1999 film by Hiroyuki Okiura

　　突袭世界的大灾难“第二次冲击”后，世界在废墟之上重建。14 岁的少年碇真嗣被父亲碇元渡叫到第三新东京市。本以为能见到父亲迎接的他，却见到名为“ 使徒”的巨大生物与军队交火。危急之下，特务机关 NERV 的葛成美里将真嗣救下，并将其带往碇元渡所统领的 NERV 总部。但迎接真嗣的，却是是父亲冷酷地命令：驾驶称为“EVA”的巨大人型机器人与使徒战斗。本已表示拒绝的真嗣，看到重伤的替补驾驶员绫波丽后，决定遵从父亲的命令。就这样，从未受过作战训练的真嗣，准备驾驶 EVA 初号机迎战使徒。 不断袭来的使徒，身份不明的绫波丽，从德国来的驾驶员惣流·明日香·兰格蕾，14 岁的少年要面对远超自己能力的挑战。而碇元渡不动声色地观察一切，一个称为“人类补完计划”的神秘计划正在按照他的计划实现。

In 2071, roughly fifty years after an accident with a hyperspace gateway made the Earth almost uninhabitable, humanity has colonized most of the rocky planets and moons of the Solar System. Amid a rising crime rate, the Inter Solar System Police (ISSP) set up a legalized contract system, in which registered bounty hunters, also referred to as "Cowboys", chase criminals and bring them in alive in return for a reward.