“You stay in here, you hear me? When I get back I’m gonna beat that baby out of you!” A redheaded teenager says to a pregnant middle-aged woman. This scene sounds bizarre, but it is par for the course in the 2002 anime, Genma Wars. Genma Wars is a series whose productions and history are possibly more interesting than the story itself and the 2002 TV adaptation by E&G films is the icing on the confused, frustrating cake. Starting in 1967 as a collaboration between two of Japan’s most esteemed science fiction writers, with adaptations involving legendary artists and British rock star Keith Emerson, the series would fall into obscurity resulting in a later adaptation used to exploit the death of the series’ creator for profit and eventually leave behind a legacy of failed animation projects.