#ovas

[absolutedream-art]

Dart and Copper got some voices! They did a fantastic job! ^^

#dart #copper #mewtwo #rowlet #comic dub #OVAS #Youtube

[omercifulheaves]

Gunbuster (1988)

#anime #ovas #mecha #gunbuster #hideaki anno #studio gainax

[scapegoat-fanverse]

Cain & Mabel by Scapegoat Fanverse [Comic Drama Part #1]

OVAS have started dubbing Cain and Mabel and it is beautiful

#pokemon #scapegoat fanverse #cain and mabel #fennekin #zorua #pokemon comic #ovas #mew and mewtwo #Youtube

[luckynightkryptonite]

#80's anime & manga #anime & manga #classic anime and Manga #Crying Freeman #OVAs #1988

[weeblmaodotcom]

Watch the Darkstalkers OVAS , Meme by Weeblmao.com

#anime #Animememe #Animememes #Animeme #Animemes #Darkstalkers #GoodAnimeme #GoodAnimemes #OVAs #watch

[hisui-cotton]

About 4 or 5 years ago I came across a short series called Shamanic Princess and was really enchanted by it. I wanted to to do at least a small write up on it because while it is only about 6 episodes the story is fairly concise. They pack a lot of atmosphere and interesting design/worldbuilding in just a few episodes and it's just really nice. It's not a perfect series by any means but if you're looking for something with interesting character work to check out, this is one I'd recommend and say has the biggest draw because of how the characters bounce off each other. Right now it's available on Crunchyroll but if you're resourceful I'm sure you can find somewhere else if you need to!

The anime today is Shamanic Princess, a short OVA series by Triangle Staff. There was a short time where Crunchyroll had gotten a bunch of older anime and so I decided I’d check some of them out. This was one I appealed to me because of how few episodes it happened to have, I assumed it may have been something similar to Blue Submarine, where it was a series cancelled before it was done or rushed but the story seems to have a complete round out. As most OVAs go, the experimentation of animation, unique storyline, and overall production makes for a really compelling short series overall. It takes it’s own fun spin on the magical girl genre too taking the “magic” part to be almost tangible rituals.

From a very ominous start we’re introduced to the world of magic that shamanic princess is takes place in with almost persona like shadows lurking about. Tiara, our protagonist, seems to be on alert yet also a bit bratty in some ways too, almost princess like, especially so for a college student. Following what turns out to be a bad scouting mission, Tiara returns home to her “castle” to sleep. The big draw from here on is the missing parts of the story, Tiara is on a mission to “capture” Sarah, whom she almost somberly confronts in her dreams. The next morning she is transferring into a new college, meets an old rival, Lena, to whom we find is also well aware of what Tiara’s mission seems to revolve around. The most OVA like part of this episode comes in this following night. The characters have what seems like a playful rivalry and it only comes to confirm that the characters are not just rivals in this mission but enemies. They fight harshly with spirit creatures they summon and begin to ramp up the fight only for Tiara to be interrupted by Kagetsu, the man who has stolen the Throne of Yord and is using it on Sarah. He doesn’t enter the conversation, or conflict, beyond impeding Tiara. It’s after when Tiara retreats and Lena approaches Kagetsu that their alliance is confirmed and that Lena lays forth that she’ll kill Tiara if she needs to. The episode concludes with a follow up fight where Tiara finally goes to her full power.

A lot of the formula between this episode and the next is this power play. Tiara and Lena going back and forth between their fight and feelings for Kagetsu’s situation. Tiara is the obviously more powerful to Lena and yet Lena is the one standing by Kagetsu. In time we also learn that Kagetsu and Lena were is love, that something separated them and now Kagetsu has taken something from their magical society that is powerful enough to put all three in this conflict. Fairly obviously I suppose, this leads to a love Triangle of sorts, not just where the girls find conflict in love for Kagetsu but where they find the idea of love in eachother similarly. In a lot of ways this is also what kept me around in the story where I could understand each characters desire for connection and love in the way they’ve seen it through each other.

I really love the overall atmosphere through the story though. Theres this feeling of almost cyclical longing throughout the the atmosphere of the story, whether it’s romantic, nostalgic or just to connect with someone in general. Everyone feels lost in there sense of what they want and unsure, yet they know there is something they feel a longing for. In the classes there are two particular moments where this longing is somewhat reflected between Lena and Tiara. When Tiara watches Lena in class, it’s while they have a lecture on the beauty in conceptual ideas like functionalism and rationalism, Tiara even later reflecting she envied Lena, likely for that sense of maturity she emanates and natural sense for logic. Likewise when Lena looks to Tiara they have a lecture on the greek story of Daphne, the nymph turned to a tree. In it Apollo is plauged by cupid’s curse to pursue Daphne who is uniterested in him. In a final act she calls to her father a river god and asks for his help. In hopes that it will save her from Apollo’s pursuit, her father turns her to a tree. Although Lena’s power better fits the story of the girl turned to a tree, I think that Lena’s view on Kagetsu is what’s really in reference here. Lena feels this ever present longing of affection and desire and sees that in Kagestu. Yet it seems that Kagestu only has affection for Tiara and so Lena is left alone with that desire. Even when Lena’s thinking of Kagestu though, there is this feeling of Tiara being the focus of it. She knows the place of Tiara’s affection among the sibilings and recognizes that Tiara did her best to accept Lena into that space. As a result I feel both’s feelings end up being more about eachother than their situation, where they envy the other’s ability to react a certain way to their predicament and as a result pursue that for themselves in the series. They strive to better themselves by becoming eachother in some ways, they see what the other does wrong and yet also see everything that is wonderful about them.

The story definitely tries to rush it’s climax. Just as the story pushes it’s emotional confrontation it spends too much time overexplaining why it is emotional. It tries to play with it as being a taunt from the Throne but it takes so much time and limits so much of the action that it ends up falling flat. It should also be noted a lot of the reviews and notes on this series you’ll see likely say things along the lines of “watch episode 5 and 6 first then 1-4” but I’d say that isn’t necessary. In some ways it spoils the mystique and focus on the emotional story telling of episodes 1-4. You don’t truly have to understand the backstory to understand the emotional stakes of a story. Those episodes are still worth the watch, just don’t feel too pressured to do it in the “5-6, 1-4” order because people say it should have been done that way. You honestly could watch just the first 4 episodes and feel like you have a classic OVA experience of a short contained story by the same logic of watching them out of order. But I’d still recommend it if you like “dark magical girl” as an aesthetic, it’s not too dark but still carries a good maturity in it’s story telling with interesting magical elements. If you have the time and just want to try an older anime, I’d say this is an interesting one to check out.

#anime #shamanic princess #anime post #anime club #anime review #anime classic #Hisui Notes #magical users club

[comfortfoodcontent]

Miki Jounouchi and Hayato Kazami from the Future GPX Cyber Formula Double One OVA

Art by Takahiro Yoshimatsu

#future gpx cyber formula #future gpx cyber formula double one #ova #ovas #miki jounouchi #hayato kazami #anime #90s anime #90s #1990s #takahiro yoshimatsu

[alephskoteinos]

Kid Capes had me thinking about something. Last month he posted something about Jimenez's demon fusion form in Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey that honestly fascinated. He said that the tattoos that appear on his body represent his rejection of the world.

It's pretty difficult to tell what all of these tattoos are, though ironically we have some idea what a few of them are. One appears to be a diagram of the Mundus Archetypus, seemingly a Christian alchemical diagram representing the cosmos, while another at least looks like the Shefa Tal, the sign of the Priestly Blessing in Judaism which also appears in Kabbalah texts. The square symbol on his hand looks like a variation of the Labyrinth of Knossos, though I have seen some SMT fans think of it as a representation of the journey of the soul to God or to the divine. A little ironic considering Jimenez's opposition to the God of Law (meaning in practice the Christian God), but nonetheless the occultism of it all does suit the rejection of the world in favour of the hidden world of the divine.

I typically inclined myself to not get tattoos because, to be honest, I mostly just wanted to get tattoos after getting more musculature (which tbh I really still have yet to get around to doing), but I like the idea of having a lot of tattoos with a dark esoteric theme as well as representations of ancient pre-Christian religion and magic forming a similar artistic body which similarly represents an embodied rejection of the modern world, following the form of anarchistic Gothic Insurrection (read up on Claudio Kulesko for that concept). I've had ideas on what tattoos I might like anyway for a while now, so I guess I should draw up an "astral body" representing what I figure that should look like.

For a little bit I also thought about the anime Dark Myth (Ankoku Shinwa), which I think is arguably my favorite "bad" OVA just for its mesmerizing, almost Lovecrafitan magical take on Japanese religious mythology. In the anime, the protagonist is basically the reincarnation of the hero Yamato Takeru, who has eight holy marks on his body. He gets these holy marks from various parts of Japan, which all collectively form what is supposed to look like Orion in the sky.

This all forms an elaborate astrological myth connected to all sorts of Japanese symbols and myths all converging around the idea of the Horsehead Nebula ("the dark nebula") as the appearance of the god Susano-o, and as a dark deity whose power threatened to swallow the sun and the moon and destroy the whole world, and was repelled by the divine might of Yamato Takeru, a manifestation of "the Atman", and now "the Atman" must decide to stay on earth or leave to discover the secrets of the universe, while the "dark nebula" follows him everywhere.

It's all wild as fuck but I kind of like the idea of following the basic form on some tattoo ideas. Though I'm not exactly into face tattoos.

#shin megami tensei #shin megami tensei: strange journey #jimenez #chaos alignment #tattoos #occult #esoteric #gothic insurrection #art #ovas

[grayluforever]

#OVAS #Bisca is a graylu shipper #graylu #gray fullbuster #ova 2 #ova 7 #ova 1 #memory days #school academy #christmas fairies

[horrorgasm]

#Iczer-1 #Iczer One #anime #horror #OVAs

[abybweisse]

Do u think Undertaker's personality is an act?

Undertaker's personality

I think it's partly an act. As 136649, he seems to have been much more serious, more like William's seriousness and knowledge of the rules mixed with Grelle's skill and aptitude for collection.

I have a feeling that Vincent gets his sense of humor from their mother... and Francis/Frances gets her seriousness from their father, Cedric.

And Cloudia/Claudia's sense of humor rubbed off on Undertaker, particularly when she died. This might even include something about her cinematic records.... Undertaker might have somewhat forced himself to be more like Cloudia/Claudia. Either that, or it was by accident. (Attacked by her cinematic records, or something like that, like William being attacked by Thomas' cinematic records in the "Story of Will the Reaper" OVA.) 🤔

In the "Making of Black Butler II" parody OVA, there are some interesting things going on, like Undertaker taking the Viscount of Druitt hostage and terrifying him with a locket associated with his mother... Sebastian walking through a lab full of humans in tanks of green liquid (a Mother3 reference)... characters randomly claiming to be related... and Undertaker telling Grelle he doesn't need to laugh anymore. Though these scenarios are jokes, some of them might have hit upon underlying truths in the manga series, since the scenes seem to be based on snippets of things Yana-san told the anime staff plus some of the fan theories that were circulating at the time.

#black butler #kuroshitsuji #undertaker #personality #will the reaper #making of black butler ii #making of #ovas #anon asks #i answer #answered asks #observation #thoughts #sep 15 2022

[shironezuninja]

I hope the new compilation video of the Mew & Mewtwo Comic Animations on Youtube indicate that more are being dubbed soon.

#danger mouse #professor von Squawkencluck #professor squawkencluck #female chicken #male mole #mewtwo #amber 2 #amber #Professor Fuji #cloning #pokemon #uncut story of mewtwo’s origin #classic #drama cd #mew & mewtwo #tc 96 #OVAs #youtube #stay weird #nezu chan #mew #japanese kanji #container fluid #growth tubes #laboratory #labratory

[omercifulheaves]

Armor Hunter Mellowlink (1988)

#anime #armor hunter mellowlink #armored trooper votoms #ovas #mecha

[scapegoat-fanverse]

Some good news!

(Announcement at 2:10:15)

OVAS is going to dub Cain and Mabel and we at Scapegoat Comics are very excited by that (Mabel especially)

Thanks Ana for the great art and thank you @omnivastudios !

#pokemon #cain and mabel #scapegoat fanverse #fennekin #zorua #pokemon comic #ovas

[g0thangelsinner]

Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer /// 1996

#anime #ova #ovas #japan #aesthetic #webcore #otaku #Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer

[makrostil]

ovas 2019

#ovas #2019 #ubahn #u8 #graffiti #berlin #zugzeit