Malice@Doll has a MAL score under 7 (4/26), something shocking to see on this website that really operates on a four point scale even if it's nominally ten points. If an anime scores under 7, that MUST mean it's bad. This is not true for Malice@Doll. Malice@Doll is scored under 7 because of the rough early CGI animation. What many viewers do not understand is that the CGI enhances the experience rather than detracts. The characters in Malice@Doll are robots. They have smooth skin and mechanical movements. Their existence is the uncanny valley. This is what makes the CGI serve them. It is a story about whatthe technology we make could become, and the brand new computer generated visuals encapsulate that.

If there was anything Chiaki J. Konaka understood it was how terrifying the rapid advance of technology in the 90s and 2000s was. Malice@Doll is a horror story preying on the truth that the technology we created has the capacity to far outlive us. It is a story about how scary it would be to exist in a world where the purpose you were created for no longer exists. It is a story about how terrifying it is to have a body when true bodies no longer exist. It is a story about inherent horror of being human.

Malice@Doll is about the gross parts of humanity like flesh, sex, and existentialism. The technology we created is going to outlive us, trying to fulfill a purpose it physically cannot, and when you think perhaps it would be better if they were human, able to chase their own emotions and desires, you're faced with the reality that the life of a human is as equally terrifying, just in a different way.