Variable Geo
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Variable Geo description
Waitresses compete in the VG Martial Arts Tournament to see who's the strongest: they slide a card into a sort of parking meter and an arena appears wherever they happen to be. The winner gets $10 million and some prime real estate; the loser loses her clothes--in front of the audience. Yuka is favored to win, but her best friend Satomi needs the money to pay for her little brother's operation. Opposing them is the current champion Madame Reimi, who is attached to the vast Jahana corporation, where a sinister staff is involved in illegal biomedical experiments. With its ridiculous plot, physically overdeveloped but psychologically underdeveloped characters, and gratuitous female nudity, Variable Geo is, simply, fan service trash. (Rated 15 and older but more appropriate for over 17: violence, violence against women, grotesque imagery, nudity, risqué humor, torture, alcohol use) --Charles Solomon |
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Variable Geo Customer Reviews
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This is like those old fighting-game based anime movies of the 90's
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After reading some of the reviews of it here I had high hopes for this show and bought the DVD. I like watching good fighting shows with girls fighting, I was hoping this would be one of them. But after watching, this 3-part OAV series (like a movie, essentially) wasn't that great. It was roughly about the quality of the original, old Street Fighter 2 anime movie, or some of the other older anime fighting-game based movies (Fatal Fury, Battle Arena Toshinden, etc). The story proceeds in a similar fashion to those shows, namely being some rigged-up story that doesn't necessarily have to do with the game (I've never played the Variable Geo games but I wonder if the same story dealing with reincarnation and technological body-possession existed in them). Then the various fighters appear one-by-one and fight briefly, then lose and go away never to be seen again. This is the fate of most of those fighting-game anime movies because there are too many fighters in the original game and it is hard to cram them all into a single movie.
After watching, I totally agree with the following earlier review:
"Fatal Flaw: Takes a Silly Concept Seriously, April 3, 2000
I thought 'Variable Geo' sounded like a hoot, so I picked up up. The first ten minutes are the tone I would have expected... but after that, the concept of warrior waitresses is started to be taken seriously not only by the story, but, the episodes assume, by the viewer as well. It's a flaw that turns what could have been a fun romp into a rather excrutiating 80 minutes."
I also thought fighting waitresses sounded hilarious. I was hoping for both good fighting sequences and also a hilarious story revolving around waitressing and funny conversations. But instead, the waitress element pretty much doesn't come into play in the movie at all, the only thing it does is define their clothing as they go around fighting each other in the street. Again, it makes me wonder if the video games are the same way or was some weird insidious crime-organization plot cooked-up just for the movie (as is usually the case for fighting game movies).
There are much better serious girl-fighting animes out there. Metal Fighter Miku is pretty good, still one of my all-time favorite animes after more than 10 years. Natsuki Crisis is another girl-fighting classic, but it was never released in the USA!! I really hope someone eventually remembers to pick this 2-episode OAV series up for domestic release.
Anyway, my ratings for Variable Geo are:
Directing - 2 of 5 stars. The serious tone was a mistake and the show feels kind of cheesy in a bad way. Not terrible though for an anime made 10 years ago.
Story - 2 of 5 stars. Plot was about some weird criminal organization and a bad woman trying to live forever, and stuff. Not about waitresses, boo.
Drawings - 4 of 5 stars. I like Takahiro Kimura's (Godannar) style of people but he didn't draw as good 10 years ago as he does now.
Animation quality - 4 of 5 stars. Excellent but I was expecting more from Takahiro Kimura who usually creates shows with great animation. Fight choreography-wise, Variable Geo is somewhat lacking as well.
Music - 4 of 5 stars. Not bad at all. Not amazing, but still a positive.
Oh yeah, the voices. Watch the sub version, the pink-haired little girl is Pikachu!! Hahaha! And she does sound exactly like Pikachu. I never knew Pikachu could talk, it's very funny. |
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