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Virus Buster Serge
Anime DVD Review
This action-packed thriller, directed by Masami Obari (Battle Arena Toshinden, Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture) has everything anime fans have come to expect from the genre — complex character development, and inventive design along with a plethora of mecha-combat sequences that will leave your mouth hanging open! Virus Buster Serge is a DVD-only release of a four-part "mini-series" that aired originally in 1997.
 The film is a sea of mysteries, with dream sequences seeming as real as the life of the main character, set in Neo-Hong Kong, 2097, when genetic engineering and advanced cybernetics now regularly fuse man and machine. However, the technology that facilitates such melding has become susceptible to computer virii capable of controlling the hybrids and an elite task force is assembled to deal with the resulting chaos. Feeling a little like Ghost in the Shell combined with Bubblegum Crisis, Virus Buster Serge contains both what you expect, as well as a lot of surprises!
Reviewed by Brian Cirulnick, February 2003
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