OBSCURE O.V.A.S, *Genocyber

Tony Takezaki created a giant one-shot manga in the early 90s titled Genocyber that went on to form a 5-episode OVA series with plot lines that reach far into the future that weren't even covered in the original story. You can see some of Takzaki's biopunk theme in his work on the A.D. Police Files OVA, this however is just a sampling of the carnage that followed in Genocyber. The anime is an anthology with a trio of story arcs set in the same timeline. Cybernetics Guardian director Koichi Ohata helmed this project and was also the head writer meaning he had both feet on the wheel in driving this train off the tracks. Artmic and Artland animated this unwonted production that was splattered with scenes of evisceration and computer animation. Body horror that makes John Carpenter's The Thing look tame is used to pad out the bulk of this heavy metal violence fetish brought to life.

The first chapter of this is one long episode where the research company, The Kuryu Group, is on the verge of building the ultimate weapon just as a new world government is being formed. Their test subjects for this Frankenstein experiment are two sisters, the psychic Elaine and the crippled Diana who has her body modified into a cyborg. Elaine escapes and gets abused by street urchins while avoiding Kuryu hunters, only to eventually be tracked down by Diana in her new robot form who merges her consciousness with Elaine to fuse into the monster known as Genocyber who wrecks the entire city of Hong Kong. The second chapter takes up the next two episodes with Genocyber cutting a swath through the country of Karain which the U.N. and American military fail to stop. The Kuryu Group sends another version of their weapon called Vajra to counter Genocyber who currently looks like a young blonde girl with a bionic torso with Elaine being the dominant personality, the downside to which is Diana mentality slowly driving her insane. The Vajra infects an entire aircraft carrier that morphs it into a fleshy metal abomination but Genocyber counters it as it destroys the entire country. The last two episodes conclude the series after Genocyber has devastated the majority of the Earth further in the future with humans having retreated into the sanctuary called Grand Ark. The remaining population is under the thumb of a religious order that worships Genocyber like a deity that have found the husk of its body as the sisters spirited off long ago. A psychic lady named Mei rekindles the sisters' souls within Genocyber as it ascends to waste nearly all of Grand Ark's citizens.

The entire slaughterhouse tour that is Genocyber was just a sadistic saga of graphic violence. The story is nigh impossible to follow with it transitioning from one arc to another giving the viewer motion sickness with the rapidly shifting plot. The beginning episode had the hint of a decent futuristic horror story, but it just keeps chewing up everything including any human interest as each cast member just gets shoved through a meatgrinder. This whole enchilada is completely skippable and one long meaningless exercise.