Genocyber Complete Collection SDBD

I had the first 2 episodes on VHS in the 90s. Never saw the end. :-( Until now! :-)The SD quality of this release is actually an advantage. Sometimes remastered versions look too clean and digital. This release is simply the best version ever and it fits on one Blu-ray. The file size for all the episodes is over 10GB. With the higher x264 compression, this release beats a 2 disc DVD release.I have added a few screenshots.The Blu-ray comes in a paper case and the cover art is the same. However, there is an alternate green cover on the back, which I simply prefer. This is why you can see different covers of this release on the internet. I hope my pictures help you :-)

I love this anime it's awesome I don't know why it always gets a bad rap it's just for fun watch it for that and you'll enjoy it cut loose enjoy the gore so what if it doesn't have much of a story The Art Is Awesome it's fun it's thrilling it's exciting

I love this release of Genocyber so much. It definitely is so good that you have to replace your old Central Park Media DVD of Genocyber to get this. It is such an upgrade and I'm so so glad Discotek got the rights to it. Here's hoping for an M.D. Geist SD-BD Release 😁🤞

Old school violence and appeal, it looks good but, not the best story some scenes are beautiful and others horrible recommend 15+ to watch

I was really excited to watch this given it’s reputation for extreme classic anime ultra-violence. I’m a big fan of that era and style of anime especially the other OVAs usually mentioned along side this one, so I thought it would be a perfect addition to my collection. Very disappointed. I’ve never written a review about anime before but this one made me want to. The plot is all over the place, obviously heavily inspired by Akira with none of the execution. But if you’re interested in Genocyber, you’re probably not here for the plot more so the gore. The violence is brutal and disturbing even by modern day standards, but the rest of it is soo boring and badly written that it feels like a chore to get to the blood and guts. Watch a compilation of the violent parts on YouTube or something and you’ll see everything worth seeing. Also episode 1 is really the only part “worth”mentioning and from there the quality continues to fall, so if you need to see what the hype is about just watch part 1, save your time and money and don't get the collection.Discotek Media has released way better classic anime series on bluray, so nothing against them. Go check something else out instead.

I watched it but did not really care for it

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 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 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 just gets shoved through a meatgrinder. This whole enchilada is completely skippable and one long meaningless exercise.

its an upscale and has too much artifacting, looks like they went to a pirate site, downloaded the video, upscaled it and laughed their way to the bank. worst blu ray release they have done which is VERY RARE of them to do a bad release like this one.

So happy after so long hunting for the full series

タイトル『ジェノサイバー 虚界の魔獣』ディスク1枚/OVA5話/480p一般的な国内プレイヤーで再生出来ます（再生環境/SONYの2015年～の最廉価プレイヤー『BDP-S1500』）。タイトルで日本語音声と字幕《OFF》を選択すれば、後は普通に鑑賞する事が出来ます。映像特典は、US版トレイラー・US/UK版クレジット・短編小説（英語です）？。なお、本編は以下の通りです。1話「ジェノサイバー誕生」2話「対決！ヴァジュラノイド（前後編）」3話「アークド・グランの神話（前後編）」少々ネタバレを含みますが、ヒロインが研究所から脱出＆パートナーとの出会い＋別れ＆超能力解放＆死亡＆真の力発揮・ライバル出現＆打倒＆和解＆融合・強敵出現＆打倒・黒幕出現＆黒幕の特殊部隊出現＆打倒・とにかく全て崩壊のネタを45分の尺の中に収めるという神技的な脚本で繰り広げられる第1話はちょっとしたものです。そして続く2話（前後編）と3話（前後編）。物語が尺に対して詰め込みまくっているので、唐突過ぎる点なども多々見られますが、ゴリッゴリの趣味全開グロSFバトルものに仕上がっているのは、個人的に点数高いです♪国内では配信のみで（VHSのみ）、円盤の販売がされていないので、SD画質とは言えブルーレイで手元に置けるのは有り難い限りです。今、過去の様々なOVAが北米版で次々に販売されているので、昔追いかけきれなかった作品の続きが見れてホクホクです♪