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Buried Garbage - M.D. Geist

The TV series is another one of those "it gets better" titles that people talk about. The first story arc with Shin is full of horrendous, ridiculous filler that slows the story down. And unfortunately most people give up there. I actually think the animation became very good for 1980's TV animation around the middle of the show.

AirCooledMan_2006 wrote:

jsevakis wrote: Wow, lots of replies! Let's see... AirCooledMan_2006 wrote: I hope someone rescues MD Geist and re-issues it for dirt cheap. I don't think it's expired, I think CPM probably owns it outright (since they co-produced the Director's Cut and the sequel). It's just out of print. I don't think any DVD could be released much cheaper than the $5 you can currently find it for online. I keep forgetting CPM co-produced it. Still, they should put it back in print (Both on DVD and Blu-Ray), along with iTunes downloads. That reminds me: Is CPM dead, or just hibernating? We haven't seen a new license from them in fecking ages!

I think they're still technically hibernating, but like you said it's been half of forever since they've done anything, so considering them done probably isn't much of a stretch.

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.

But what separated him from other heroes of his caliber was, instead of some stoic hero, he's a complete not-so-nice-person the whole time. And that was interesting. Many others heroes were a bunch of self-righteous pricks that kissed puppies and only ate vegetables; this Geist would probably eat puppies, or probably have if they were around then. It just felt different.

Of course, I still enjoy characters like Kain from Blood Omen.

Geist has his place, but I sure would like someone to one-up him. We need an Anime Conan. Not kind of, but seriously macho. Not a parody, but the real "chew bubblegum and take names, and I'm all out of bubblegum type."

I'd like to take this opportunity to pointlessly observe that the R1 Shin Hokuto no Ken DVDs were beautifully, beautifully done.

AirCooledMan_2006 wrote:

jsevakis wrote: Wow, lots of replies! Let's see... AirCooledMan_2006 wrote: I hope someone rescues MD Geist and re-issues it for dirt cheap. I don't think it's expired, I think CPM probably owns it outright (since they co-produced the Director's Cut and the sequel). It's just out of print. I don't think any DVD could be released much cheaper than the $5 you can currently find it for online. I keep forgetting CPM co-produced it. Still, they should put it back in print (Both on DVD and Blu-Ray), along with iTunes downloads. That reminds me: Is CPM dead, or just hibernating? We haven't seen a new license from them in fecking ages!

I think they're still technically hibernating, but like you said it's been half of forever since they've done anything, so considering them done probably isn't much of a stretch.

Much of the programming for the Ani-Monday block is coming via Manga's new partnerships and distribution agreements with Bandai Entertainment, Inc. and Central Park Media Corporation.

Greed1914 wrote:

AirCooledMan_2006 wrote: jsevakis wrote: Wow, lots of replies! Let's see... AirCooledMan_2006 wrote: I hope someone rescues MD Geist and re-issues it for dirt cheap. I don't think it's expired, I think CPM probably owns it outright (since they co-produced the Director's Cut and the sequel). It's just out of print. I don't think any DVD could be released much cheaper than the $5 you can currently find it for online. I keep forgetting CPM co-produced it. Still, they should put it back in print (Both on DVD and Blu-Ray), along with iTunes downloads. That reminds me: Is CPM dead, or just hibernating? We haven't seen a new license from them in fecking ages! I think they're still technically hibernating, but like you said it's been half of forever since they've done anything, so considering them done probably isn't much of a stretch.

Well, they need to get back up and get some more anime. I hear there's a whole bunch of Geneon shows that haven't yet been rescued. If FUNimation doesn't get them, someone else will. **wakey wakey CPM**

BTW, I just want to know, what really caught the attention of CPM enough to license M.D. Geist, as I think it flopped big-time in Japan?

areaseven wrote:

BTW, I just want to know, what really caught the attention of CPM enough to license M.D. Geist, as I think it flopped big-time in Japan?

Probable bacause it would be a perfect fit for the Testosterone Filled, Logic be damned Action Movie scene of the 80's in the US, it's not like the 80's OVA scene wasn't filled with loads of this type of entertainment, the OVA was designed to break the shackes of network tv, toy companies and the censors...

me getting schooled

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This anime was one of the most chauvinistic, sexist, needlessly mindlessly gruesomely disgustingly and revoltingly violent pieces of trash I have ever had the misfortune of suffering through.

And that why it is so much fun, its unapologetic, balls to the walls action, Geist its the ultimate personification of nihilism, he was created as an ultimate weapon and then got shoved to a satellite by his own people... you would be mightily pissed off too and with a sincere wish of exterminating them all in the most nasty ways possible!!!!

In this world filled with namby pamby characters, M.D. Geist stands as a beacon of the what the ova could bring to the table unshacked by censorship, a product of its age