Anime & Manga Cybersix Retrospective

[Bear Ribs]

Having glanced back over this old anime I thought I'd do a bit of retrospective on it. Cybersix came in in the last months of 1999 and extended into 2000, being made by a joint Canadian/Japanese animation studio and based on an Argentinan comic book... that was published in Italy for some reason. The many cooks that went into making the show kind of do spoil the broth (specifically it's nigh impossible to figure out the metaplot) I think but it also gives the show a very unique feel.

Visually I think it's one of the most striking shows ever made. You can never mistake Cybersix for anything else, it's just too unique in both setting an animation style. Same with the music which seems French influenced because why not? Every other nation had a hand in making it.

It's set in a small town in Argentina with a massive angel statue in the center, and said angel will appear somewhere in virtually every establishing shot of the town. The general narrative is a sort-of monster-of-the-week plot with a Nazi doctor building genetic and cyber-enhanced monsters and unleashing them on the population. Cybersix is his greatest failure and enemy of course. It's kind of unique in having a perfect justification for why she doesn't just shoot him: Dr. Reichter uses a specific chemical cocktail to power all his creations, including Cybersix. She has to kill monsters in order to keep herself fueled up. Consequently she's in the situation of needing to constantly thwart his efforts because she needs to eat his monsters, but can't thwart him too hard because she needs him to make another monster next week so she can eat it too.

Oh, and apparently you can get it totally legally on YouTube where all the episodes are available free.

 

[Captain X]

The premise sounded somewhat interesting to me, but to be honest I ended up not finishing the series because I found it pretty boring. Probably the most I got out of it was that I found the protagonist hot, and found it amusing that she rule 63'd herself as a disguise. Looking back at my old review of it, I guess I was left with the impression that in spite of the protagonist having a stripperific costume, it seemed like the show was aimed at a younger audience, and the humor that there was largely missed with me and I found little else to like about it.

 

[ATP]

Having glanced back over this old anime I thought I'd do a bit of retrospective on it. Cybersix came in in the last months of 1999 and extended into 2000, being made by a joint Canadian/Japanese animation studio and based on an Argentinan comic book... that was published in Italy for some reason. The many cooks that went into making the show kind of do spoil the broth (specifically it's nigh impossible to figure out the metaplot) I think but it also gives the show a very unique feel.

Visually I think it's one of the most striking shows ever made. You can never mistake Cybersix for anything else, it's just too unique in both setting an animation style. Same with the music which seems French influenced because why not? Every other nation had a hand in making it.

It's set in a small town in Argentina with a massive angel statue in the center, and said angel will appear somewhere in virtually every establishing shot of the town. The general narrative is a sort-of monster-of-the-week plot with a Nazi doctor building genetic and cyber-enhanced monsters and unleashing them on the population. Cybersix is his greatest failure and enemy of course. It's kind of unique in having a perfect justification for why she doesn't just shoot him: Dr. Reichter uses a specific chemical cocktail to power all his creations, including Cybersix. She has to kill monsters in order to keep herself fueled up. Consequently she's in the situation of needing to constantly thwart his efforts because she needs to eat his monsters, but can't thwart him too hard because she needs him to make another monster next week so she can eat it too.

Oh, and apparently you can get it totally legally on YouTube where all the episodes are available free.

Good story,in my opinion.And i bet,that MC survived and come back to her boyfriend.

 

[Bear Ribs]

Good story,in my opinion.And i bet,that MC survived and come back to her boyfriend.

The full story actually exists in the Argentine Comic Books (Note that while translated to Italian and French, those runs didn't finish due to conflicts between the countries and paper costs). There's been a few fan translations but I'm not aware of any that did all 45 volumes into English.

Do note that Cybersix was a mature comic, and mature by Argentine standards which aren't American ones. It goes significantly further in violence and drug use than the cartoon ever could, and Cybersix winds up topless quite a few times.

 

[Captain X]

So naturally someone thought they ought to make a kid's show out of it.

 

[Bear Ribs]

So naturally someone thought they ought to make a kid's show out of it.

I quit being surprised by this kind of thing in the 80s when I saw Terminator and Alien action figures being hawked to 10-year-olds who wouldn't be let into most theatres to see Rated-R horror films.