Genocyber
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Cover of the manga
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ジェノサイバー (Jenosaibā) |
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| Genre | Cyberpunk, mecha, horror, drama |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Tony Takezaki |
| Published by | Byakuya Shobo |
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| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | 1993 – 1994 (canceled) |
| Volumes | 1 |
| Original video animation | |
| Directed by | Koichi Ohata |
| Produced by | Masashi Abe Minoru Takanashi Shin Unozawa Shinji Aramaki |
| Written by | Shō Aikawa |
| Music by | Hiroaki Kagoshima Takehito Nakazawa |
| Studio | Artmic |
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| Released | May 24, 1994 – July 21, 1994 |
| Runtime | 45 minutes (episode 1) 25 minutes (episode 2-3) 30 minutes (episode 4-5) |
| Episodes | 5 |
Genocyber (ジェノサイバー Jenosaibā?) is a 1993 Japanese cyberpunk manga series by Tony Takezaki. One volume of the manga was published and the story remains unfinished. It was adapted into five-part original video animation (OVA) series in 1994. The plot of the anime differs significantly from the manga. Both are notable for their extreme graphic violence.
The OVA was produced by Bandai Visual and released in North America by U.S. Manga Corps. Genocyber was also released by Manga Entertainment's UK and Australian Divisions in The Cyberpunk Collection but only episodes 1-3 were released in these regions; this collection also included two other cyberpunk OVAs, Cyber City Oedo 808 and A.D. Police.
Set in the near future when the world's nations are beginning to form a new global government, the first OVA is centered around a young girl named Elaine, and details the development and creation of a "Genocyber", an ultimate biological weapon created by combining the powers and consciousness of two psychic sisters. Funding for the project, which is under the direction of a mad scientist, is provided by the Kuryu Group (called Kuron in the English dub), a huge Japanese corporation that is a world leader in military research. Starting off in Hong Kong, the story follows Elaine, a young mute girl who is unwittingly dragged into the ambitions of a scientist who wants to combine the powers of the Elaine and her crippled sister, Diana, to activate the Genocyber. Both being children of a former colleague of the scientist, of whom he betrayed his research over to the Kuryu group so that they could to receive funding for the research.
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