Ergo Proxy inside of themselves: the idea that there are two personalities inside a person and noted that René Descartes' phrase ""cogito, ergo sum"" was the inspiration for it. Satō stated that they originally did not want to explicitly express the concepts of Gnosticism in the anime. However, their personal beliefs ended up reflecting the ideas of Gnosticism and realized how well these terms fit and decided to use them. At first they intended to have Vincent as the leading protagonist and Re-l as a supporting character; however, as they fleshed out her character, she became a much stronger character and began
Ergo Proxy two DVD box collection on September 25, 2012 and August 22, 2012 respectively. In Australia and New Zealand, the "Ergo Proxy" DVDs were distributed by Madman Entertainment, the first volume released in March 2007. The first volume of "Ergo Proxy" was released in the UK by MVM Films on August 6, 2007. The English dub of "Ergo Proxy" aired on ABC2 (the national digital public television channel) from July 3, 2007 to December 4, 2007. In Canada, the English dub aired as part of Anime Current, an Anime Television block, on pay-TV digital channel G4 Canada from July 26, 2007