Line #5 YMMV/Zeiram

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1	* FanficFuel: Connections with The Literature/DirtyPair are common after [[spoiler:Kei's gender reveal]] in ''The Animation''. The movie continuity, however, takes place in ThePresentDay, making this impossible there.
2	* MorePopularSpinoff: More people have seen the ''Iria'' OAV than both movies, primarily because of the former airing often on the Creator/SciFiChannel in the late 90's.
3	* NightmareFuel: Zeiram's skeleton form is very creepy.
4	** Screw the skeleton form, ''Zeiram period''. that thing is basically a mash-up of Franchise/{{Terminator}}, Franchise/{{Predator}}, Film/TheThing1982 and [[Franchise/{{Alien}} a xenomorph]].
5	** Creator/KeitaAmemiya has said that Zeiram's design came to him when he realized it would be rather unsettling to see a man in Edo-period traveling kit (the hat, the scarf, the cloak) walking down a modern street in the middle of the night.
6	** Zeiram's encounter with the poor-quality clone is one of those moments where one has to laugh to keep from screaming in revulsion. Even more so when you realize the clone is Kamiya's actor in particularly grotesque makeup.
7	* SpecialEffectFailure: Narrowly averted in the films, depending on how strong your suspension of disbelief is. In the first film, however, much of Iria and Bob's computer equipment is blatantly bodged together on the cheap by the prop department from random pieces of electronic equipment -- the device that controls their teleporter unit is obviously a Boss DR-550 Dr. Rhythm drum machine with electrical tape over the logo, and one of the keyboards looks like a Yamaha [=DX21=] synthesizer with the piano keys painted matte black. It's explained away in-universe with the implication that they are forced to cobble together their equipment from Earth-based electronics in accordance with the Main/{{Prime Directive}}, so as not to leave traces of alien technology behind.

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