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Sunday, August 15, 2010

Some people only seek help AFTER detonating islands... tsk, tsk.

So... AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Or maybe, GAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

Stress makes us do things we regret. Like destroy Hong Kong. Oh and apparently rend people asunder in horrible scenes of vicious carnage.

Scream with me as we dissect a horrifyingly messy anime delight of mine, GenoCyber!

WARNING: NSFW! Horrifying scenes of violence follow, only click the jump if you're steeled for nightmarish visions of brutal violence and language.





(Holy shit... Without pulling ANY punches, this AMV sums up the original feature's events and carries right in though the third OAV. NOT safe for work OR people averse to horrific scenes of violence.)

Tony Takezaki's effort of love is shown in horrifying detail as GenoCyber comes to life in animation.

A pair of twin girls are born after an experiment goes awry: One as the mind with no use of her body and the other as the body with extremely little use of her mind and limitless psychic power at her command.

The vile Kyuru group seeks to combine the girls into an ultimate weapon, GenoCyber. The blueprints are there and the nutjob running the place is confident he can merge the two together the way that they were originally intended with one as the mind attached to a body of limitless power.

This is SOOOO about to be the winter of their discontent.



(Opening of GenoCyber's english dub, Dr. Morgan explains the all-purpose psychic plot insulation device that powers this series: Vajura. Then stuff happens.)

Elaine, girl of the body, is running loose in Hong Kong. Again. After a child is beaten by a local hooligan for a goof up with some counterfeit money, Elaine finds him and takes him to a field where she's found by one of her handlers whom she is forced to kill brutally. The boy wakes up to see Elaine looking at him as she's standing above her handler's corpse.

Meanwhile, a detective who suspects ties to the death of a Doctor Morgan rustles some feathers back in the Kyuru building where he meets Diana, girl of the mind, who gives him a grisly image of himself in pieces. Diana is then tortured by her "father", Kenneth Reed, and sent to retrieve Elaine, who has spent the last day or so befriending the boy she saved.

Diana finds that she has some competition in a trio of company cyborgs sent from home office looking to collect Elaine. They lose one member when they get close enough to take her friend and the authorities collect Elaine and take her to a hospital. The hospital becomes a hellhole after Kyuru descends and quite literally butcher everyone in the building.

All points converge when the company Cyborgs interrupt a showdown between the sisters and hold Elaine's friend hostage. Diana capitalizes on a distraction and forces her hand... THROUGH Elaine's midsection! Killing Elaine forces an unintended fusion that goes horribly wrong as Elaine becomes the mind of Diana's cyborg body as GenoCyber and goes on a rampage that lasts for four additional OAV episodes and causes the apocalyptic end of mankind.

WOW!

So as far as the original anime is concerned, it's awesome. It's got this strong element of wrist-slashing tragedy with wild action and horror pushing this sad, gut-wrenching tale onward. I don't usually dig on depression, but this is a great example of genre hybridization in a complicated and enduring story.

As far as the follow-up OAVs are concerned, we see Genocyber (as Elaine) taken aboard a UN flagship transporting the new Kyuru Group Vajranoid, which goes kill-crazy in its attempt to destroy Genocyber. The military misunderstands the situation and Genocyber spends the next 100 years fucking people up.


(Latter two eps action sequences, note Genocyber turning into a dragon? Dude. Seriously... Dude?)

In the last two episodes we see that GenoCyber has destroyed the world and what's left of Kyuru decides to nuke it... or something. Genocyber lays dormant as the world becomes surprisingly soviet in its organization. Good 'ol communists, can always count on them to make the most of your misery, right? So the world sucks and GenoCyber's is sticking out of a rock face at the back of an underground church and is awakened by the plight of traveling psychic whose boyfriend was framed for murder and is a guest by the authorities. In a blood soaked conclusion, the series reaches a definitive end with a comparatively preferable end.

Parts 2-5 are kind of lacking. They don't have the budget or overall presentation quality that the original had and the story goes from flimsy to absolute shit as it blunders forth.

I'd add more, but that first video really adds all the emphasis I could hope to inject.

Oh wait! It's PISS ON THE DUB time! Actually, it's not that bad. Well, okay, it's absolutely awful. The worst point being the last two episodes, they erode your intelligence as you watch them. They're shitty episodes anyway, but the dub makes them lethally bad.
This is a good example of abusing the F-word. They use "fucking" in front of every word out there. It's obnoxious. To clarify, the difference between the cursing in Cyber City and Genocyber is that CC did so in an appropriate context where guys given multiple life sentences curse in an eloquent fashion. Genocyber on the other hand is unnecessary curse city full of potty-mouth assholes dropping the f-bomb left right and sideways because it makes the dub more "extreme" and naughty to make all the little grade school kids swoon with its tawdry dialogue.

Big FUCKING whoop... They could all be sucking helium before reading clean, politely written lines instead and the gory visuals alone would traumatize me enough. Don't need to hear fuck fuck fuck when drills are boring through peoples heads at random and then there's the tentacles and brains with teeth.

Naughty words are fun and all, but like in shitty rap music you need to learn to pace that pottymouth appropriately or you just sound like an idiot who discovered cursing for the first time.



Provided you can handle what you see in the first video, I can't recommend Genocyber enough. It's an exhilarating experience that is possibly one of the most potent flavors of anime shock treatment for the uninitiated without the freaky sex stuff of AD Police Files. It's probably the finest thing that Tony Takezaki was ever involved with and the most deserving of the phrase "fucked up" out of anything I'm likely to list on here.

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