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Watch100Animes
Pointless. I could end the review there. MD Geist has some extreme, mind-numbing blandness and is a total waste of Hironobu Kageyama's musical talents. MD Geist is a poor imitation of what would be fun in an anime set in a dystopia, and unfortunately, it is not even amusing in a "so bad it's good" way.
There is not one time in the 50 minutes of the "director's cut" that there is any reason to care about what's happening other than some decent action scenes that carry little meaning. The characters are non-existent. The story seems like a tech demo or music video with how poorly it gets across any themes or ideas, just an excuse to go from one set piece to another. The main character is a bog standard edge lord without a personality. Who else is there? His love interest is brain-dead. The…
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Soukihei MD Geist is way better than it should be. The overall narrative is simplistic and sometimes incoherent, but that doesn't matter. The characters are more complex than they are at first glance, and by the end subvert all expectations. The Ova is well paced with action throughout, but still leaves enough down time so as it does not become repetitive. The animation is well done throughout, never feeling dated. The design of the “Fightechs” (exoskeletons) is rather unique as is the other machinery used in the anime. And, the music fits extremely well with the visuals. Overall, even with a lackluster story, Soukihei MD Geist is definitely worth watching.
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This motherfucker right here, this is the good shit. This shit goes hard, it rules.
M.D Geist is pure artistic spirit, even its faults deserve praise, the little that there are.
40k fucking WISHES it could have space marines as cool as Geist, the ultimate warrior.
There will never be another anime like this and its a fucking crime. PERIOD.
You will see people argue how its an overhyped, "so bad its good" ancient piece of transitionary animation fiction, a relic of the past to be forgotten. And i tell you now, that those people are not to be trusted. They would tell you that Violence Jack is total garbage; after which they throw the tape into the river. Would you trust a man like that? Because you should'nt, they the are the enemy of art. They will praise Miyazaki and Oishii for all eternit…
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This is one of those 80s OVAs that I think is underappreciated and misunderstood. It does what it's supposed to do. This OVA is not for people who like sweet romance and moe bullshit. It's masculine, powerful, brutal and almost nihilistic. Protagonist might not have any character development, but that's the point.
He's a genetically modified human who was made for only one purpose, to kill. He doesn't care about women, or friendship. He just to kill and eternally prolong the state of war. The ending really captures the spirit of his character, but I won't spoil anything.
The music is good, the graphics are gritty and brutal. In the 80s anime studios weren't scared to experiment, meanwhile about 95% of today's anime series are the same thing recycled over and over again. I enjoyed it very…
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If NGE fans get to say that detractors just "don't get it" then people adding this OVA to Worst Anime lists are in the same boat.
I wasn't expecting much from this show, but, what I found was deeper than I had expected. Geist has no time to waste on needless words, this forces you to actually pay attention to what you see on screen. Upon his release, he spies a broken pocket watch on the ground. He picks it up, and destroys it with a smile. Watch for that smile,it speaks volumes more than any internal monologue could have.
Geist is a battle freak. All he thinks about, all day, every day, is the next battle, fire, blood, explosions. This is how they made him. Every action is weighed and measured by how much fighting it will bring. Geist shows, for example, the ability to delay his battle…
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This week we're doing yet another requested review of a short OVA. This one is from '86. So, this came out when I was a newborn baby who didn't even understand snark, sarcasm or the importance thereof. It was written by Sanjo Riku and produced by the Studio Zero G-Room. A relatively unknown studio that seems to have made nine OVAs and fucked off into the abyss.
I've never reviewed anything of theirs before, though I did watch one of their OVAs back when I was getting into anime and I was just randomly watching anything starring Hayashibara Megumi. And, I've gotta say, I don't recall Saber Marionette R being good. But who knows, maybe I'm just not remembering it that well cause it's been nearly two decades since I saw it. Maybe they're a brilliant studio that had their time cut short. Tho…
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An absolute masterpiece; at what it is supposed to achieve. This infamous ova hilariously fails at story, characterization and apparently even the art sucked before the director's cut.
I'm lucky to have seen the director's cut first. I do not see a steaming pile of shit when I watch M.D. Geist; I see a masterfully crafted piece of sci fi action schlock.
Seeing all the impractically over the top mechanical designs clashing with each other both in universe and aesthetically set to kick ass synth laden jazz fusion is an absolutely killer combo.
The final fight scene also stands out; its like a three tiered final boss from one of those ridiculously hard NES games, and just as intense.
Finally, Geist himself is an absolute asshole which does manage to differentiate himself from all the oth…
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Do you want an absolutely batshit crazy and over the top anime? Then this is just what you're looking for. M.D. Geist is widely regarded as a poor production from an objective standpoint, which is true, but it's somewhat understandable due to its status as an experimental work and beyond that there's no doubt about it, it's one of the most solid and right down to earth OVAs I've seen from a time period where animated works were simply a lot more golden, it shines and it doesn't try to be anything that it isn't. It's just fun and gory mindless action, with some absolutely spectacular design work to boot. It does what it aims to do really well and it really doesn't need great characters or story to make it as enjoyable as it already is, at all. It's the spitting image of any dumb testosteron…
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MD Geist: The Most Dangerous Geist was an atrocious one episode OVA series from the mid-80s and tries to be super MANLY without having anything interesting or even all that much bad-ass-ness contained in the show. It feels like a Chinese bootleg of Fist of the North Star and saying that is truly an insult to Kenshiro's unrivalled manliness! If you look at the photo for Genocyber, it proudly displays that it was directed by the same guy who directed this piece of trash. Why in the holy mother of hell did they believe this was a selling point was way beyond me. If I had worked on this travesty, I would've wanted to track down every known copy in existence and destroy it with a sledgehammer.
MD Geist tries so hard... SO hard to be an edgy rule of cool bad-ass show set in a post-apocalyptic…
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This show falls into the "so bad it's good" category.
MD Geist is a product of its era. During the heyday of Arnold making action flicks, this came out to cash in on that genre.
This show follows the protagonist Geist as he murders his way through an OVA. Geist will attempt to kill anything that gets in his way. That includes humans, motorbikes, cars, airplanes, and whatever else.
Very quickly into the show it will become apparent that MD Geist operates on a rule. The main protagonist of the show seems to be self-aware of that rule. The rule in MD Geist is that if you talk, you die. I suppose I should spoiler tag that. Any character that utters a line of dialogue in this show is fair game to die immediately and brutally. It would probably be a very poor idea to play a drinking game to t…
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Most anime fans have heard legends about some TERRIBLE anime that was floating around video stores in the late 1980s. The legend of MD Geist! My friends, I have seen MD Geist, and it was bad. It was REALLY bad. The plot, characters, animation, voice acting, was all absolute shit! At least good old Geist has that awesome 80's power metal to listen to while carving up random dudes. This isn't as terrible as Kite, because MD Geist has no illusions and knows exactly what it wants to be. It wishes to channel the spirit of other big, dumb, 80s action films like Commando and Rambo 3. Geist is like watching a Rambo movie that was animated by children, written by a mentally handicapped man, and directed by a chimpanzee. Overall, I wouldn't waste your time watching the whole thing, but maybe go to y…
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MD Geist is awesome! It's a unique film.
MD Geist is a very unusal lead. He is one of my most favourite characters ever in anime.
MD Geist has a fairly simple, straightforward, story, and works well because of it.
There is no need to be overcomplex, when you can have a badass lead and well written, but straightforward, characters.
It's nihalistic, dark, and straightforward.
MD Geist is the complete opposite of wussy boy anime males. The total and utter opposite. Handsome, powerful, and masculine.
He does nothing you might expect, including when it comes to the female lead. He likes killing, and nothing diverts him from it.
You'll never think of combat knives in the same way again, once you watch it.
Nothing is what it seems.
The female lead, Vaiya, is not what she seems.
Even the 3 b…
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In the year 2013, we have cutesy schoolgirls with high pitched voices, large eyes, and hair that comes in every colour of the rainbow. The 1980s had a different standard for "generic anime", though. That is, emotionless characters that do cheesy things, outdone only by the cheesiness of the overall story.
'80s mecha? Check.
Translators didn't bother changing the Japanese text to English? Check.
Obligatory '80s anime sex scene? Check.
Uninspired voice actors? Check.
I swear some of the sound effects were stolen from lightsabres and lasers from Star Wars. Medical Doctor Geist is easily the worst doctor I've ever seen. All he does is kill people and crush their faces. Does he have any idea how difficult it is to put an eyeball back in its socket?
MD Geist fought a lot of guys, but I hon…
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This show is kinda a mess. I don't even know where the begin. I feel as if this kind of show is only fun if you are watching it with some friends and making fun of it, throwing popcorn at the TV, and then muting it and adding in your own voices.
First of all, at the end of the show Geist gets some sword out of nowhere, where does it come from? Biggest plot hole in anime history. Where did that sword come from? The world may never know.
There's no reason to put an unnecessary sex scene. What was the point of that scene, seriously? I couldn't take the show seriously after that.
The sound was pretty meh. I could have sworn they stole half the sound effects from Star Wars, not to mention the cheesy 80's anime music that doesn't accomplish anything in regards to building a mood. The voices w…
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You've just had your lunch money stolen for the eighth time this week, your Dad's out on a 'business trip', and Rage Against the Machine isn't around for you to pour your angst into today. Welcome to the 90's, jerk face. Sit your ass down on that water-bed, slide this burnt VHS you got from Gerald on into the TV, and experience a journey into the most fantastic slice of storytelling gold since Tolkien, Lucas, and Henson got together to create Lord of The Star Labyrinth. Oh, they didn’t? TOO BAD MD GEIST TIME.
1. THE STORY: I’m not going to ruin anything for you, but Geist shrugs narrative structure of yesteryear because, well, it is too bad ass for that. Bam! People are dying! Bam! Welcome to Fist of the North Star minus ATATATATATA. Bam! Geist is naked, and you know he’s the hero, becaus…
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Unfortunately I have only been able to watch a dubbed version of MD Geist. The dubbing for MD Geist is the worst dubbing I have ever seen. Even the old Godzilla dubs didn’t seem as if the intent of the voice actors and their director had been to ensure no one would be willing to sit through the entire thing. So atrocious are its subtitles I find it difficult to believe it had been anything other than willful. The show was likely bad on its own but I will never know unless I can find a good subtitled version. So absurdly bad is the dubbing that I can honestly say the show is significantly better if you mute it; no matter what your imagined dialogue is it will be better than the mockery the dubbers saddled it with.
While the nature of the dubbing makes reviewing the content of MD Geist diffi…
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You can't go wrong with violence. Add a few squashed heads, some bloodspray and a few impalements, and the entertainment value of even the most mundane stories gets jacked up a notch or two. MD Geist is somewhat of an infamous title, partially because it has its fair share of gooey, squishy, splashy gore and partially because of its banal story which has earned it the title of "worst anime ever" in the minds of some critics. MD Geist is not quite that bad, but it proves, surprisingly enough, that even gratuitous lazers and head-crushing aren't enough to make a good anime.
Story: 2
MD Geist starts out with a fairly cool Mad Max turned cyberpunk vibe, as mecha and soldiers in powered armor slaughter each other with various machine guns, lazers, and cybernetic appendages. Our hero, Geist, i…
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With this film i came to anime, specially to endtime and scifi.
Its not the best animemovie i ever saw, but it is my base for all my anime ratings.
Its a classic movie, good style, many gore and violence. Something between Mad Max, Dune and Gundam Wing.
Ok, if not everybody think this is a good movie, but fans of the last days will love it.
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The story is a pretty cool concept, but they leave alot to be guessed at. Plot is pretty vague and if you watch it as a story about a psycho who somehow has the ability to operate any mecha armor better than anyone else, you won't be too disappointed. He is a crazy psycho killer, and he's in an anime with pretty bad animation by today's standards. But, he kicks ass in pretty cool action sequences and it has it's gorey moments. It has pretty cool mecha battles and some profanity and nudity which is typical of alot of early 90's anime. Check it out before purchasing as it may not be your style if you like GunSword or Gasaraki for their mecha.
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Wow, I'm honestly surprised that this is the first review for M.D. Geist on MAL.
Particularly surprised considering how old, "well-known" and (in)famous this particular one-episode OVA is. M.D. Geist is really not any better or worse than most of the subpar anime series that was released to the U.S. from the early 80's to the early 90's. In some circles, it's particularly infamous but not so much for what it actually is or how bad the story is, but more on that later.
Story: 5 (Medicore)
The story begins in the far future, where humanity has colonized space. One of the planets, Jerra, lost contact with Earth and civil war broke out between a grassroots rebellion and the ruling planetary government. To counteract the rebels, the government created the M.D.S., or Most Dangerous Soldier (y…
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