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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Wasn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be. Not very good, but no less than an average 80s OVA. The monster designs were really cool and it was paced well enough to keep you from getting too bored. The animation was pretty bad though, and the story was very silly/unremarkable. Speaking of the story, I didn't find it to be particularly "nonsensical" either. It was just your generic "alien/god presence wants to destroy humanity because people are evil!" fare that you see in a ton of Japanese stuff. The hallucinations were also just generic "the sins of the past will haunt you" type of thing. An even 5/10. Wouldn't recommend it to anyone but gorehounds or retro anime fans. |
| Yeah, it was bad, but nothing outstanding bad. Just a generic sci fi horror flick, and it looked okay for that. Kind of like watching one of the weaker Friday 13th or Halloween movies. |
 "Your sight, my delight. Will you marry me?" |
| If they had put the focus on the alien, and put the speech of god taking revenge on humans on the toilet were it deserves to be along with the unnecessary romance that gave us the plot hole in which the power of love saves them all. Then maybe this would have been a half decent short, but they didn't. At least the vagina dentata mouthed alien design who attacks with tentacle penises was kinda cool, or maybe i am just desperate to see something not horrible on this thing. |
| I Never seen anything so bad like this in my entire life. |
| I enjoyed this, but probably not for the reasons the creators intended. I have a theory that this OVA was a secretly brilliant piece of drug-trip dreamscape. The theory I am about to tell is entirely pulled from my own ass, and I realize that it is almost certainly nonsense. However, if it can enhance someone's entertainment of this anime, then please consider it as unofficial canon. Spoilers past this point... if anyone still cares. This theory hinges on that very last ending shot while the credits were going up: the painting of the cyborg-girl imprisoned in the techno-chamber, asleep. The girl was the character Moria, the psychic, and the machine she was trapped in was a long-term stasis chamber, made to keep her alive while harnessing her psychic abilities. The space station needs a psychic core for their ship to function, either as a type of super computer or possibly as a precognitive navigational system (like the navigators in the novel series "Dune"). This entire OVA, from start to finish, was Moria trapped and subdued inside the machine, only semiconscious, dreaming of a better life outside of her current existence. It was all her subconscious mind trying to give her some relief from her real life. She is a gentle person by nature, but years (possibly decades, or maybe even centuries) of being treated as a computer system have pushed her to the point of murderous intent, and she fantasizes about destroying the crew members around her. Her abilities allow her to know all their dirty little secrets, and in her dreamscape she generates a creature who taunts them with their sins, while also claiming to be a messenger of God, the deliverer of Justice. Still, her gentile and good nature is quite strong and will not allow her to harm them directly, which is why she must do so vicariously through the "alien". She still, even now, can not allow herself to fully realize how low she has fallen, and how much bitter resentment has built up within her. The one survivor she escapes with, Buzz, is a handsome young man who promises her a future in her dreaming world, one with love and family. These are things she can never have in the real world. Perhaps he was a guest on the space station at one time. It was probably something brief, so Moria's mind noticed him, but never built up resentment toward him. The ending was Moria's wish to "die" in the arms of her love, but then... then what? She then has to confront the real world again, as the fading of her dream begins to threaten the dark fantasy. She has to go back to work, back to the lowest level of sleep where she is almost conscious again. She has to trudge through the ugliness of what her own mind has become, dragging her wounded fantasy man along with her. And that's when we get the one shot of Moria as she truly is, the panning still shot of her encased in the Machine, embedded inside the space station, drifting through the sea of stars in perpetuity. |
| Nice final, pretty with both lovers, inside the "alien-God" in front of a light, the light of a future if we believed in the girl´s premonitions!!!! In my personal taste, it´s an Ova very devalued!!! All is simple, all is common, all is ordinary from the characters, scenes, development, draws, music.... ALL, but I liked it just!!!! |
| This was awesome, y'all just have crap taste |
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| Yah, though it wasn't "good" I think the reviews for this one are over blowing things a lot. It was stupid, it went through a laundry list of japanese sci-fi horror cliches, there were a few interesting ideas, but they were never explored, the art and animation wasn't the best, but in the end it was a fun watch. If you want true bottom of the barrel stuff, I suggest the second Nora OVA. |
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| I saw a trailer online and decided to watch this. I took notes while watching and even wrote a review. This anime is so forgettable everytime I see the name, I have to remind myself what it is. |
Awoo :3 |
| lol Moira: *sees a disfigured corpse nailed to a wall, blood smeared all around it* Scott: "What's wrong, Moira?" |
| I love how the doctor appears impaled for no apparent reasons and nobody gives a shit. Aside of that, the OVA isnt THAT bad, just generic and cliche |
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| Well it wasn't that great, but it's not that bad, personally I liked it, it could've been better, the death scenes were great and the alien design was cool it reminded me of Velgax LOL, the ending was really interesting, it was left to the watcher's imagination so it's all good, I'll give it a 7, it's not a masterpiece but it's still enjoyable.  |