#Original Video Animation (OVA)

[chernobog13]

Ken the Eagle as he appeared in the Gatchaman (1994) OVA (Original Video Animation).

[slutpoppers]

[maukiki1-but-cringefail]

Plugging my dumbass amv on here i made at like 4 am (i only got 6 hours of sleep help me)

[laboitediabolique]

Artwork of "Idol Defense Force Hummingbird" commissioned for Anime V magazine, March 1994. Scanned from my personal collection.

[swisidniak]

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[thedakku]

‘Landlock’ OVA Japanese VHS Tape!

With character designs by Masamune Shirow. There are a total of two 45 minute episodes.

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[commandermetallo]

[OVA]-[Original Video Animation]

[malditoportal]

EL HORROR DE REN HOEK 385

SHINSHU SUDAMA HEN (1988)

OVA 3 - ESPADA VIENTO, ALMA DEMONÍACA, OVA 4 - BATALLA SANGRIENTA DE LA MONTAÑA SAGRADA

[yuurei20]

Meet the Seiyuu: Idia’s father the Director is voiced by Onosaka Masaya.

Today is his birthday!

Onosaka has said that originally wanted to become an actor, joining what he thought was a training academy for actors. He later realized it was actually an academy for voice actors.

Since his 1986 debut Onosaka has contributed to over 150 anime and OVAs, 150 video games, 35 drama CDs and more, such as:

・Cardcaptor Sakura (with the Chief Engineer’s Tange)

・Trigun (with Rollo’s Kamiya)

・Petshop of Horrors (with Crowley’s Miyamoto)

・Prince of Tennis

・Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (with Baul’s Koyasu)

・BLEACH (with Fellow’s Sugita, Grim’s Sugiyama, Leona’s Umehara, and Riddle’s Hanae)

・Bungo to Alchemist (with Rollo’s Kamiya, Floyd’s Okamoto, Riddle’s Hanae, Grim’s Sugiyama, Lilia’s Midorikawa, Fellow’s Sugita, Baur’s Koyasu, Trey’s Suzuki, Silver’s Shimazaki, Deuce’s Kobayashi, Jade’s Komada and Ortho’s Aoi.)

[chernobog13]

Package art for the Casshan: Robot Hunter (1993) OVA (original video animation) from Tatsunoko Productions and Artmic.

This was a four episode remake of the original 1973 Neo-Human Casshern anime series, also from Tatsunoko.

[hotwaterandmilk]

I'm seeing "Wedding Peach was unsuccessful" trotted out on Twitter again and it's honestly kind of funny to me. You can dislike the series, but you're rewriting history if you suggest it was a massive commercial flop/astronomical failure — it simply wasn't.

The Wedding Peach TV series maintained viewership throughout its run which is why it aired an entire year's worth of episodes (the full length it was intended to run) and didn't get cancelled like Nurse Angel Ririka SOS, for example.

I'm not going to pretend it did Sailor Moon numbers, dear god, it absolutely didn't get close hence why it wrapped as it did. I would suggest looking back now, that it was the definition of a mid-performing title for the time period. It sold toys decently but not outrageously, it got viewers but not an outstanding number, and it garnered a small but dedicated fanbase of male otaku. All of which is par for the course when it comes to a mid title in 1995.

Wedding Peach DX was produced because the TV series LD sales were decent enough to warrant it. Children were not buying LD box sets at this time, adult fans were and it was this interest that justified the creation of the four DX episodes as direct-to-video releases. If a series doesn't sell well they don't make more episodes, let alone higher quality deluxe episodes specifically for the home video market (and thus for older audiences with spending power).

It is very important to point out that Wedding Peach DX had NO INVOLVEMENT from the original creative team. Tomita Sukehiro and Yazawa Nao did not contribute to its creation, Tadano Kazuko didn't provide designs. Yuyama Kunihiko was the driving force behind the production of the DX episodes and he served as both director and writer for all four episodes (bringing on Wedding Peach animator and soon-to-be frequent Pokémon collaborator, Ichiishi Sayuri to serve as character designer).

What inspired these to be fanservice dreck to the level they ended up being is honestly beyond me. I mean the otaku market definitely wanted more episodes featuring the characters (and more songs featuring the seiyuu, if you want to see how keen otaku were for FURIL please see this post) but part of what they liked about the characters at the time was their (barfbarfbarf) perceived purity and innocence. The DX including panty shots and swimsuits kind of threw them for a loop. Even now, if you look at discussions about the DX among otaku there's a bit of a divide in opinion.

The DX episode sales were (as far as I can tell based on magazines from the time) also mid, but enough to cover four episodes. Three and four don't seem to have sold as well as one and two, but again the stats from the time aren't comprehensive. I think the fact that there weren't any after episode four says it all, honestly. OVA episodes are expensive to produce and it was extremely common for them to stop immediately if the sales weren't there. DX didn't justify its existence beyond those four episodes and Yuyama moved onto a far more successful project in Pokémon.

On that topic, I think it's important to note that Wedding Peach was OLM's first television series (albeit a coproduction with KSS). If it and the studio's adaptation of Mojacko hadn't made some level of profit it would have been quite difficult for them to adapt Pokémon. Neither Mojacko nor Wedding Peach set records with their viewership or sales numbers, but they both did "OK". It was in Pokémon however, that that OLM truly found a successful property with the series still running today. Sometimes you've got to have a few runs at producing things before you find success. Wedding Peach was one of these early runs, a project where a lot of people cut their teeth but one that didn't justify its own continuation beyond a certain point. Just a very standard media mix from the mid-90s, in other words.

Wedding Peach is a problematic title with indifference through to outright objection to representing love outside of heterosexual romance. Looking back now it feels like an absolute dinosaur on so many levels. Between the anime's fatphobic episode and Momoko dropping some gender essentialism, I'm not surprised people want to relegate it to the dustbin of history.

However, I think it is very telling that Tomita Sukehiro, when presented with the opportunity to tell a similar story in the modern day, chose to represent not just queer love, but platonic and familial love in Wedding Apple. While he can't undo the regressive and cringy elements of the original series, as a creator he has progressed and I'd like to think we can all continue to improve our outlooks and output as we grow.

Disliking Wedding Peach in the modern day is completely understandable. I'm not going to pretend anyone should watch it in 2024 without knowing that it is a camp, cheaply made relic of a time when heterosexuality was considered magic. However, just because it pandered to all the worst things trending at the time doesn't mean it didn't sell enough products or hold enough viewers to justify its production. It did, it just wasn't a strong enough property to go beyond that and that's representative of mediocrity rather than mind blowing commercial failure imho.

[lacrimasaintegabriel]

Question: is it just me, or am I getting sick and tired of hearing Hellsing Ultimate abridged references in every media related to Hellsing in general? (Please do not defend me on this)

TBH Everytime when I looked up videos of the OVA or the Hellsing OSTs on youtube or any slight fanart of the characters,

EVERY QUOTE FROM THE ABRIDGED FLOODED THE COMMENT SECTION.

YES, EVEN THE QRTS IN TWITTER WERE FLOODED WITH IT.

And this is even the worst part: some “fans” refer the abridged over the original because it is too “dark” and brushed off Alucard’s actual personality and his own past along with Seras, Integra and the other characters and would recommend/include the abridged instead because it’s “funnier” than the original source.

When will anime fans will talk about the original source without having to include the abridged for once, IMO, this is already disheartening to me. Yes I know it gained Hellsing some little popularity but the abridged instead overshadows the original plot and I kinda find the jokes really outdated and old.

[laboitediabolique]

Print advertisement for the UK VHS release of "Appleseed" and the second volume of "Cyber City Oedo 808", Manga Video, October 1994

[lueduar01]

What does OVA mean? I like the style of the Amazing Digital Circus stuff but I'm lost on the concept :D

OVA (Original Video Animation) are animated productions intended for consumption on Beta, VHS, Blu-ray and DVD.1​2​ OVAs have their origin in the 1980s, where a generation of young animators opened their own freelance production houses and independent after having worked for large or medium-sized television animation production companies. Likewise, these productions were not tied to any type of limitations, call it censorship of any kind, and were carried out with as much freedom as possible to expand the market to mature sectors, equivalent to manga productions that also satisfied various sectors in the market. 3 Outside Japan they have been called OAV due to their correct pronunciation in the original English animation video; However, in Japan it continues to be called OVA to avoid confusion with the acronym AV.