It’s an early hint at what was to come from noted anime screenwriter Noboru “Shou” Aikawa, whose early career was filled with sex and violence anime (including the original Urotsukidoji and Angel Cop ), but has since given us such masterpieces as Fullmetal Alchemist and Twelve Kingdoms. The second two episodes involve the now-complete Genocyber (who is now just Elaine when she’s not completely pissed off) on an aircraft carrier, where she’s been taken in by a delusional nurse suffering from the loss of her own daughter. Another scientist mucking about with evil things finds the wrath of Genocyber , and it all pretty much ends in continued gleeful death and destruction. Unfortunately it all goes to hell in the last two episodes, a plodding and disjointed episode (involving a blind girl, her devoted boyfriend and a cult) made completely unwatchable by a truly odious dub courtesy of Audioworks Producers Group (Manga UK never picked up these episodes). It eventually became a part of my life, to the point where I once identified a ” Genocyber ” ink blot while taking a Rorschach test. read more

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