"It's my job, so i have no choice. Since the dawn of 19th century, those words have unleashed so much brutality from ordinary people who "wouldn't hurt a fly". "It's my job" allowed the Nazis to send the Jews to the gas chambers. "It's my job" enabled East Germany's border police to shoot escapees. Jobs exist for the purpose of numbing human the human conscience... The grammar of genocide were to reach our brains, with our masking in place." Tom Clancy's Anime. But seriously though, seeing an anime on the bones of an insightful novel is a blaze of grace. This is not even along thelines of Ergo Proxy, it could have worked purely as a live-action movie. And not on the focus on action. It explores paramount topics about the newspeak, the societies of control, how the post-911 hysteria can escalate so much that America will force the other world into it's own theatre of security, how terrorism functions as a pendulum against this technocratic domino which makes the world of Genocidal Organ especially tragic. No heroes, only various types of moral freaks. It plays out like Metal Gear Solid 4's war-fueled dystopia if it was not written by Kojima and tackles a similar theme of language as a mass destruction tool the way Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain should have explored better, instead of using it mainly as a buzz word topic.
Turns out that Hideo Kojima befriended Satoshi Ito (under the pseudonym Project Itoh), stating that he was only of the few who understood the concepts behind MGS series.