The American government sends intelligence agent Clavis Shepherd and his team to track down this mysterious man to stop it once and for all.įor a movie that’s based upon a book that was released back in 2007, it’s fascinating and also frightening to see how relevant the original source material is today.
However, outside of their borders, many countries are suffering waves of genocide with a man named John Paul somehow at the centre of it all.
The story is set in 2020, in an alternative reality where Bosnia’s capital city, Sarajevo, has been wiped out due to terrorist attacks, setting a wave in motion for the Western world to counter terrorism by transforming it into surveillance states. Now Genocidal Organ is making its way across to UK cinemas, completing the trio of films and showing exactly what made Project Itoh’s debut novel so critically beloved in Japan. This was due to the original animation studio Manglobe going bankrupt, cancelling the original release date of late 2015 but thanks to the original staff being passionate about the project, they created a new studio to finish the film and it was finally released earlier this year in Japan. Two of them have already been released in the UK – The Empire of Corpses and Harmony – but the adaptation of Itoh’s debut novel, Genocidal Organ, was met with many production delays. From literary characters crossing over in a zombie apocalypse to dystopian futures questioning the idea of human consciousness, it’s not surprising that Noitamina went to great lengths to get his three original works adapted into full length anime films.
Project Itoh (pen name for Satoshi Ito) may have had his life cut tragically short due to cancer and only have four novels to his name, but he had a talent for creating fascinating and layered stories.
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