Things I've watched recently, part 4: random stuff...
MD Geist: original (dubbed), director's cut (subtitled)
I ran across this old 1980s OVA, and it's every bit as bad as I'd read!
@Professor Who's man-in-the-know Justin Sevakis is best-placed to explain just how awful this episode is in
this reminiscence (entitled "Buried Garbage"!), since he was forced to actually work on the thing during his time at Central Park Media.
Fun fact: according to the scene-setting on-screen text that follows the violent opening salvo, our title character, Geist, "was Commander of Special Maneuvering Force and had the supermundane fighting ability by virtue of the specific biological 'clonning' technology." Oh dear. Even its translation is crap.
Oh, and the dub gives a line of dialogue to the wrong character at one point near the end, creating an unintended "plot" twist.
I've also recently seen Osamu Tezuka's unusual short film
Jumping, the much-fancied
La Maison en Petits Cubes (excellent stuff, and very poignant), and the three OVA episodes of
Dangaioh (also a standout for me).