The film not only takes place in the wake of the fictional detonation of a homemade nuclear bomb in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo - a city known as the site of the longest military siege of the 20th century - but explicitly in the wake of the September 11 attacks. Where Genocidal Organ fills the gaps left by other espionage-themed anime of its ilk is in its world-building and deference to a fictional universe that exists in conversation with our own. To apprehend John Paul, Clavis is assigned to go undercover and get closer to John’s lover, Luci Skroupova, in the hopes she will inadvertently provide a lead as to his whereabouts.Īs he steadily grows closer to grasping the full scope of John’s plan, Clavis becomes increasingly unsettled not only by the moral costs of his own actions, but by dawning realization of something he had never thought possible - the existence of a previously undiscovered region of the human brain that, when stimulated, elicits uncontrollable acts of mass violence and extremism. Set in the near future, Genocidal Organ centers on Clavis Shepherd, a member of an elite black ops team of neurologically enhanced super soldiers tasked with hunting down “John Paul,” the CEO of an international consulting firm linked to a string of conflicts and genocides that appear to follow him everywhere he has traveled. Ryotaro Makihara’s The Empire of Corpses is based on an unfinished Itoh story, and boy - does it sure feel like it, while Michael Arias and Takashi Nakamura’s Harmony is pretty decent all in all but can’t quite match Genocidal Organ’s sleek visual style and thematic gravitas. The third entry in a trilogy of anime feature adaptations of the late Japanese sci-fi author Satoshi “Project” Itoh’s novels, Genocidal Organ is far and away the best of the bunch. Polygon is diving into the world of espionage throughout fiction and pop culture history with Deep Cover, a two-week special issue covering all sorts of spy stories and gadgets.
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