Metal Gear Solid meets Tom Clancy in this dark and stylish spy anime

polygon.com:

For all the variety and thrills that exist in anime, it can be surprisingly difficult to find a straightforward spy thriller to watch that’s not either a twist on another genre (Spy × Family’s spy action riff on domestic comedies) or inherently supernatural (Darker Than Blue). There’s anime like Joker’s Game, Golgo 13, and Eden of the East, sure. But if you’re looking for a dystopian espionage thriller anime in the mold of Robert Ludlum’s Bourne series, or Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six by way of Hideo Kojima’s Metal Gear series, you can’t go wrong with Shūkō Murase’s 2017 dystopian sci-fi thriller Genocidal Organ.

The third entry in a trilogy of anime feature adaptations of the late Japanese sci-fi author Satoshi “Project” Itoh’s novels, Genocidal Organ is far and away the best of the bunch. Ryotaro Makihara’s The Empire of Corpses is based on an unfinished Itoh story, and boy — does it sure feel like it, while Michael Arias and Takashi Nakamura’s Harmony is pretty decent all in all but can’t quite match Genocidal Organ’s sleek visual style and thematic gravitas.

Set in the near future, Genocidal Organ centers on Clavis Shepherd, a member of an elite black ops team of neurologically enhanced super soldiers tasked with hunting down “John Paul,” the CEO of an international consulting firm linked to a string of conflicts and genocides that appear to follow him everywhere he has traveled. To apprehend John Paul, Clavis is assigned to go undercover and get closer to John’s lover, Luci Skroupova, in the hopes she will inadvertently provide a lead as to his whereabouts.

As he steadily grows closer to grasping the full scope of John’s plan, Clavis becomes increasingly unsettled not only by the moral costs of his own actions, but by