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Buried Garbage - M.D. Geist

It was on Sci-Fi's Ani-Monday this week. I watched the first five minutes, then didn't pay attention for awhile until someone's head exploded, continued to not pay attention until the very end where I couldn't stop laughing at the Token Female Character's wooden performance.

Apparently, I didn't miss much.

The main person ballyhooing the title throughout the history of anime in the United States is of course my former boss John O'Donnell, founder and managing director of the once mighty Central Park Media. The man has made Geist, the title character, the logo of his company since day one, and made sure the title was consistently the one held up for all to see. It can be seen pivoting lifelessly at the start of every U.S. Manga Corps DVD in a hilariously dated CG sequence to this day.

My favorite moment is towards the beginning, when a man that narrowly misses death at Geist's hand freaks out and proceeds to scream an elaborate plot recap for episode one.

I'm reminded of one particular incident where we were asked for suggestions in naming the forthcoming Urotsukidoji boxed set.

Well, I've seen a few good 80s OVAs but yeah, this one is just horrible. I like Genocyber, but MD Geist is just barely watchable, though I guess some people like it in a so-bad-its-good sort of way. I'm just glad that they finally put it in Buried Garbage; I've been waiting for a while for it to happen so this is rather exciting. But I guess if it was the guy's first anime then maybe we should cut him some slack.

There is no sport left in ripping on M.D. Geist. It's hard to fathom how someone can see MD Geist and consider it good, or even watchable.

I still don't get all the hate for this good OVA. And I don't view MD Geist as "so-bad-it's-good", but rather, I genuinely enjoyed it. How such a good OVA could get so much hate is beyond me. If you want something BAD, go watch Sword for Truth.

I like both MD Geist OVAs. For the first time ever I have to disagree with Justin with this article. True the animation quality is not the best, and the English dub is terrible (watch it with subs). But it has action, a good enough story for a OVA, and MD Geist is one crazy MF (and he is still cool in my book).

What more can you ask for in a 80s OVA!!?? If you want to bash for it for being too violent there's the Black Lion OVA and the Violence Jack OVAs (FYI I like both of them). Want to bash it for not making sense there's Harmagedon (which I hated big time). Want to bash the animation in OVAs there's the infamous Angel Cop OVAs.

Justin Sevakis wrote:

There is no sport left in ripping on M.D. Geist. It's hard to fathom how someone can see MD Geist and consider it good, or even watchable.

I LOL when I read this comment (and I knew you were going to crack on MD Geist sooner or later).

AirCooledMan_2006 wrote:

I still don't get all the hate for this good OVA. And I don't view MD Geist as "so-bad-it's-good", but rather, I genuinely enjoyed it. How such a good OVA could get so much hate is beyond me. If you want something BAD, go watch Sword for Truth.

I like Sword of Truth, and Vampire Wars (another OVA that gets bashed a lot). Apocalypse Zero and Ninja Resurrection people should stay away from.

I like both MD Geist OVAs. For the first time ever I have to disagree with Justin with this article. True the animation quality is not the best, and the English dub is terrible (watch it with subs). But it has action, a good enough story for a OVA, and MD Geist is one crazy MF (and he is still cool in my book).

I should buy the DVDs sooner or later. Genocyber was good stuff (except episodes 4 and 5, they are skipable). Cybernetics Guardian is Koichi Ohata's weakest work. Good ideas, just didn't work out.

Geist is just ridiculously bad ass! Watching him take down power armor with nothing but a pistol and knife, while callously sacrificing gang members to get into position.. AWESOME!