Anime from the guy who brought us... (err, for those of you who are familiar with anime) M.D. Geist and Genocyber, Koichi Ohta. The only thing I like about this anime is the mecha and monster designs. It was know wonder why I was able to pick this up for $1.50...
This is probably sometime in the future... there is this company where this guy called John is the poilot for the testing of this new powersuit (the lamest looking design in the anime btw;) againgst a rival cybernetic suit thingy. There is a blonde broad involved who likes John, and is pursued by Adler- the creator/pilot whatever of the rival cybernetic suit thingy. This John guy is kidnapped (I think), and then made into the Cybernetic Guardian by this weird vampire esque cult (who claim he was one of the kids from his home town who was implanted with the seeds of hate when he was a kid...) - this huge scary looking ass thing that is a crossover between mecha, monster, and a wolf. Goes on a rampage, and... nah, I just can't, this anime is soo bad, I can't be bothered to tell you what it's about... in the end the Adler guy is destroyed in his Genocyber contraption, and John is able to operate the Cybernetic Guardian transformation of his own free will, and gets the girl.
I think maybe there wasn't more released because it was a flop in Japan. Actually, sci-fi anime has alot more success outside of Japan, in countries like America and Europe than in it's native Japan. For a long time, manga artist Shirow Masamune was more famous in America than in Japan, as was Guyver creator Yoshiki Takaya. The anime that tends to fair better in Japan is family based anime, and drama anime which documents everyday life... sh't like Doraemon, Anpan-Man, GTO, Future Boy Conan, Dragonball. Sci-fi anime in Japan isn't recieved my a mass audience, unless it gets a cinematic release.
One thing I don't get with this anime is the design for the Genocyber... the anime itself, Genocyber (1993), the main creature, Genocyber, is a biological humanoid weapon, whereas the Genocyber in Cybernetics Guardian is a six legged-cybernetic battle tank.
Anyway this anime is terrible. Character development is practically non existant, and the script is terrible. For sci-fi/horror anime, this one is terribly cliched in what you'd expect to see in it, after having first discovered anime like 14 years ago. You know when you see anime where the hero transforms into a mecha or mecha monster? -there's a ton of them, and they basically all have the same premise... guy who was used as a guiena pig can transform into a combatant creature does battle with evil corporation and theres a girl involved, and if it ain't a corporation, it's a weird ass cult organisation. There's a few of them that are actually great, such as the Guyver, Genocyber, or Devilman. And then there's the rest which are just stoopid. Cybernetics guardian is stoopid. I could slate it more, but it's just stoopid, and thus my rating is...
2.5/10
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