Even More Best Retro Anime | OVA Odyssey Vol. 3 

Fun fact about Birdy: She may have been a partial inspiration for Samus Aran as Satoru Okada, Hiromi Kiyotake and Yoshioka Sakamoto have gone on record as being influenced by the original 1985 manga when conceptualizing the first Metroid game. I appreciate how you pointed out Birdy and Tsutomu's character dynamics, but I think it's more nuanced than the “smart one” and the “strong one”. Birdy is a clever and capable officer, but she's also hot-headed and impulsive, and she needs Tsutomu to serve as the voice of reason and help her navigate an unfamiliar human culture. It’s a classic 80s buddy cop story, and you really see the two learn to trust and rely on each other through the series. I also think the writers were wise to make them platonic friends rather than love interests. It’s more meaningful this way. In case you couldn’t tell, I’m a big fan of the OVA, and I’m editing my own 3000-word review of it that I hope to find the time to record soon.

Birdy is real kino. Favourite line is “a surface active agent!”. The newer TV series is pretty good too, especially since the side characters get fleshed out pretty well. The first season is better, though the second season has a kino OP. Only gripe is they killed off Tatum’s character, he’s too good a VA to get ignored like this. Then I read the manga. It’s ok, you’ve still got the same good character dynamic, but it just goes on and on without the plot progressing. Like 100 chapters in and they still haven’t gotten much closer to Christella Revi. Also Guyver exists, cover that.

Man there's nothing better than painted cels shot on film with special effects that use real light.

old good new bad

Dream hunter Rem: This show has a plot but has like every anime genre and trope all in it somehow as well its really crazy in tone.The First Episode is sometimes is in Two parts because it is two storys together but ones after it are stand alone single storys Malice@Doll: Fully CG animation that has a PS1 Cutscene vibe to it about Female Robots in a space ship its very odd. Fight! Izer one; Space Elves,Mecha and Love craft stuff is three episodes long,has sequels but they leave out the horror stuff in those.

For a split second when Dangiaoh appeared, I was like, Guy Awakening of the Devil? And then I was like, ohhhhh yeah. It's the same sort of feeling you get when you see well known actors in B movies.

Silent Mobius sequel aired on tv here. Subbed.

Your scripting and editing is really good

OVA's. Staple of UK Anime fandom. Project A-Ko Alita Love Plastic Little Venus Wars Macross Plus Retrosoective..... Urusei Yatsura, original and redo

Loving your content! Well done! Lots of these I saw on Sci-Fi channel and my friend's Dad's VHS collection! How about ElHazard?! Project A-Ko!? GALL-FORCE! Eternal Story, Odin!

fantastic video! some seriously awesome titles here, a lot I’ve heard of but never gotten to watch! Silent Mobius is incredible, I have it on dvd. I neeeeeed to see plastic little asap lol

That was a walk down memory lane. A few I can dredge from memory - Judge (Yami no Shihosha Judge) is a middling attempt at supernatural horror in which an everyday salaryman moonlights as the Judge of the Dead dealing out justice to evildoers. Most notably, accompanied by his parrot. Doomed Megalopolis - this one was actually pretty good, involving an evil wizard and a decade spanning plot to destroy Tokyo, quite notable because said evil wizard looked a bit like M.Bison. Otaku no Video - one of Gainax's early OVA's, part slice of life comedy, part calling out the fanbase, part autobiography and part love letter to 80s anime. Outlanders - mid 80s schlock that took a fairly decent space opera Manga and proceeded to ruin it by shovelling in everything that was hot in mid eighties OVA - ultraviolence, sex, Urusei Yatsura rip offs. The end result is either terrible or one of the greatest works of unintentional comedy genius ever animated.

Recommendations - Shamanic Princess - a great artstyle and animation, story is good as well, but it's lightning fast and uses "show, don't tell" to such extreme, that you have to figure out absolutely everything about the world. Nekojiru-sou - cruel cat children go to underworld. Trippy. Dai Mahou Touge - an absurdist comedy about a magical princess who suplexes her foes (and breaks their joints). Patlabor - mecha police. Not great, but I love it. Trava - Redline prequel on crack. Detroit Metal City - a sweet and shy boy somehow plays in a death metal band and tries to balance his two personas.

Based video Top content Please make more you absolute Chad

Counterpoint: gooning for Satoshi Urushihara works is allowed

@6:49 "Oh, the humanity". Glorious.

Another awesome video! Always look forward to your uploads bud! Keep it up!

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Was about to ask where the Obamna was, when I saw the Obamna. 10/10

ZEORYMER!!! Seeing Silent Mobius' animation style reminded of it

Got a couple new ones for my list, if I can recommend one; I watched the El Hazzard OVA recently, pretty good

Great series don't stop!👍 For future recommendations I'd throw out "Cipher" (1989) which is one of the best examples of the essence of the 1980's condensed into cinema. As well as being an interesting look how Japanese folks envisioned 1980's America. I can also recommend "They Were 11" (1986) which has a very interesting 70's sci-fi esthetic, and a fun "who-done-it" style plot.

M.D. Giest is the greatest OVA of all time and i will die and that hill.

90's Ovas will always have my heart.♥

All good and great, but you forgot to mention dangaioh song, Cross Fight, one of the best OVA songs there is

I suggest Biohunter, Psycho Diver and Twilight of the Dark Master. They were all released by Urban Vision in the US in the late 90’s and kind of hard to find nowadays.

An OVA I would recommend you is getter robo Armageddon it’s in my top 3 super robot anime

Obligatory "Oh hey the guy who does the monogatari thing uploaded, I cannot wait to see what he has to say about 10 random ass anime ovas from probably the 80s to early 2000s." comment

I'd rent these on VHS

I hope Discotek Media can rescue the licences of Alien 9, Silent Möbius, Moldiver, Birdy the Mighty (booth the 1996 OVAs and the 2008 Decode series), Ninja Gaiden, Plastic Little, Dangaioh, Great Dangaioh, etc. and give them Full HD remaster to release them on Blu Ray in the (near) future before they potentially become lost to the annals of time. They're really working overtime. The imminent shutdown of Tokyo Laboratory Ltd. also comes to mind. That company still has roughly 10000+ reels and master tapes stored in their vaults. If the original owners of those IPs, reels and master tapes don’t reclaim them soon, these reels and master tapes will be irretrievably destroyed.

not enough youtubers with more than 1k subs review classic animu

Idk if this has been recommended yet but armor hunter mellowlink while simplistic is some good fun.

11:25 You didn't even mention how Matthew Lillard, the official voice of Shaggy, voiced one of the villains in Karas

Have you covered Armitage yet? The Armitage series is a lot of fun.

i love your anime videos do more

I think you must have watched the cut version of Plastic Little, because the uncut version is strait up hen-tie. :)

banger vid

Check out Labyrinth of Flames ova

You have a voice for radio! Or RU-vid!

Check out Angel Cop for your next OVA binge.

How about 3×3 Eyes, Ushio & Tora and Cyber City Oedo 808?

Remember, no gooning

How about Compiler?

I absolutely love Birdy the Mighty. I tried to watch the other series almost immediately after but it felt- weird. They are definitely different experiences

more please

Alien 9 is just Moe Gantz

16:30 OMG tell us about more anime like this to avoid

The version of Birdie from 2008 is less funny, more serious.

Hello fellow Catholics

I strongly disagree, Alien 9 is not good.

I love plastic Little for the plot.😂. No real I'm gay so straight can service flys over my head