Reviews

For all the powerful and creatively disturbing iconography, the detailed art design, and the gratuitously over-the-top gore and violence displayed in some of the best quality animation you can expect from a 90's OVA, at the end of the day, Genocyber feels like a uninspired rehash of a lot of tropes and ideas previously and posthumously seen in other cyberpunk media.

With a plot that is convoluted at best, and utterly nonsensical at worst (especially as it goes along each subsequent episode), a main character who barely has a semblance of a personality (let alone any clear arc or direction), and a flat cast that is there just to kill time until their inevitable demise comes around, there's really nothing to get out of this OVA besides the colorful ultraviolence in all of its beautiful hand-drawn glory one already looks for. And while it's there, the amount of filler you have to go through to get to those supposedly good parts doesn't really justify the effort.

If you're still curious about it, the first episode is the only one worth a cautious watch.