YMMV / Genma Wars

• Americans Hate Tingle: Westerners may find it hard to believe that Harmageddon was one of the highest grossing anime films of 1983 and inspired many other anime that came after it. Overseas, it remains an obscure movie at best, and has received mixed to negative reviews.
• Complete Monster:
  • The Great Genma King, also known as Dar, is the Galactic Conqueror who is behind all the events in the series, as well as the Maoh King's atrocities. Having already conquered Earth, the Genma King is reincarnated inside of Ran, where he uses his powers to try and have her kill Gin. After he's reborn, the Genma King is taken to the past alongside Loof and Gin and renamed Dar. In the past, the Genma King allowed all the Genmas to transform the world into a totalitarian state, which allowed all the Genmas to Rape, Pillage, and Burn as they pleased. Seeking to destroy all of humanity, the Genma King had genetically-advanced apes place nuclear warheads into space in hopes of turning the planet into a wasteland. During the finale, the Genma King pits Loof and Gin against each other so one of them would become the new Maoh King, which would also lead to the Genma King's travesties occurring once again in a new timeline. Despite his young appearance, the Genma King is really a vicious conqueror who longs to eradicate humanity multiple times over.
  • The Maoh King, or the Wizard King, is the tyrannical ruler of a post-apocalyptic Earth and is largely responsible for the end of human civilization. Desiring an heir with immense power, the Maoh King abducts helpless women and forcefully impregnates them against their will. The Maoh King establishes his ruthlessness by remorselessly feeding one of his sons to monsters even though he successfully defeated his opponents. When the Maoh King conceives two boys with a young woman named Non, he raises Loof in his castle, only to banish and attempt to execute him when he was transformed into a human. While he claims to have genuinely loved Non—and even requested to see her again—upon discovering that she was murdered, the Maoh King continues his pursuit of an heir as if nothing had happened. Despite sending his sons into the past to prevent the rise of the Genma Tribe, it is made clear he is doing it for personal reasons rather than out of altruism. Reviled for his sick love of rape, as well as his Hair-Trigger Temper, the Maoh King ruins everything around him out of sheer boredom.
• Designated Hero: Loof and Gin. Despite the viewer being supposed to sympathize with them and their tragic backstories, they commit many horrific acts that makes them almost as bad as the Genma. For example, Loof (the nicer and more noble twin, mind you) rapes his love interest upon seeing her for the first time.
• Esoteric Happy Ending: The series ends on a supposedly uplifting note with the Genma being wiped out and mankind left to eventually rebuild itself according to the narrator. With that said, however, the twins have utterly failed to prevent modern society's downfall and prevent their timeline from coming to place, not to mention most named characters in the show have been killed. Even the Big Bad's survival is ambiguous at best.
• Fair for Its Day: While Harmageddon's anti-racism aesop and easy resolution is heavy-handed and clumsy at best, it was basically unheard of for Japanese media to directly confront anti-African racism without the use of allegory or applicability, let alone an anime movie, let alone in 1983, let alone through the medium of a main heroic protagonist having to confront and overcome her own biases as a crucial step to saving humanity rather than "just" making a despicable villain a racist on top.
• Moe: Non and Meena.
• Narm: The bad animation and lazy art direction, combined with the cheesy dialogue, the major contrast between the cartoonish art style and the extremely, extremely heavy handed plot, the constant use of Gratuitous Rape in practically every episode, and the overall nonsensical nature of the story made this anime a major target for ridicule.
• Squick: Most of the Gratuitous Rape scenes from this anime usually involve the Maoh King forcefully impregnating women using his Psychic Powers.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: Due to the series' extremely bleak tone, sympathetic characters dying left and right with jerks outlasting them and the protagonists' propensity to screw up and fail to save anyone - and that is when they aren't being jerkasses.

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