YMMV / Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - The Motion Picture

• Bizarro Episode: Similar to the Island and Africa episodes. It was not produced by Gainax, has nothing to do with the original plot, and recycles over half an hour of footage (a third of its runtime).
• Complete Monster: Geiger is a scientist who hopes to surpass the late Lord Gargoyle's plan to conquer the world. Kidnapping various politicians, generals, and capitalists and keeping them stored away as brains in jars, Geiger has robotic replicas replace them, hoping to use them to launch a world war that will see two-fifths of the world's population wiped out, and Geiger crowned the Earth's new leader by uniting the remaining populace under his command. Regularly killing his own men for failing him, Geiger's self-entitled claims of being the only one who can lead the human race belie a sadistic megalomaniac who desires control over everybody.
• Fanon Discontinuity: There are few, if any, fans of the Movie, mainly due to the fact that Gainax was forced to opt out at the beginning of production and ultimately had nothing involved with it^note While they are listed as the studio that animated it on My Anime List, the animation was actually done by Sogo Vision, who did work on some of the TV series, but were not in charge, as well as the fact that it had major flaws in continuity, and reset most of the Character Development.
  • Sentai Filmworks evidently feels the same way. The Movie was excluded from their Complete Series DVD and Blu-Ray Sets when they reissued Nadia in 2014, which is a contrast to the original ADV Complete Sets in the mid-2000s, which had included the Movie. The recent 2022 reissue by GKids similarly excludes the Movie from the Blu-Ray set.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: While Episode 39 gives the series closure, the Distant Epilogue doesn’t allow Nadia to explore the repercussions of Gargoyle taking the Secret War public. It’s also plausible and realistic that not every Neo-Atlantean would’ve been aboard Red Noah when it went down. Having surviving Neo-Atlanteans operating from the shadows and without the oversight of Gargoyle (and possibly even tying them into the lead-up to the First World War) could’ve been an interesting, compelling storyline under different circumstances.

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