OVAs

InSaNe KeYbLaDeR · Post by **InSaNe KeYbLaDeR** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 7:18 pm

What's the difference between an OVA, DVD, and a fansub. I know what a fansub and dvd is, but I don't know what an OVA is.

skanks · Post by **skanks** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 7:22 pm

OVA's are seperate movies or miniseries based on the anime.

Typically OVA's come first and try to go along the lines of the story to either give it a begining to an end.
Alot of the time the animation is a little better (higher budget).

Trident · Post by **Trident** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 7:22 pm

OVA is an Original Video Animation (or OAV--original animated video). It's a professionally done animation based off a series, but not necessarily part of the series. It's also usually not as long, and is sometimes done by a different company. Love Hina Again, for example, is an OAV for Love Hina.

Jim Hawkings21122 · Post by **Jim Hawkings21122** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 7:34 pm

A lot of the time they are also used as test runs for the anime to see if it would get good ratings, and if it does they turn it into a 25 or26 ep tv series......usually.

Ex. tenchi muyo!(OVA)= Tenchi Universe(tv)

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 7:47 pm

Jim Hawkings21122 wrote:A lot of the time they are also used as test runs for the anime to see if it would get good ratings, and if it does they turn it into a 25 or26 ep tv series......usually.

Ex. tenchi muyo!(OVA)= Tenchi Universe(tv)

The reverse is also true. For example Fushigi Yuugi had I believe two OVAs which talked about events after the 52 episode series. Also, OVAs sometimes tell the story of the same anime only with a different plot (or in the so-called alternate universe

). One example is Magic Knights Rayearth. The OVA version of it is called Rayearth, and it dealt with the same characters only with a completely different situation (and the animation was SOOOOO X-like without the decapitation of bodies

).

Propyro · Post by **Propyro** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 7:52 pm

or you can get something like FLCL, which is more or less a 3 hour movie divided into six half hour segments. FLCL had no series before it, and problaby won't have one after it, all it had as a precursor was the manga, which i really wan't to get my hands on.

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Jim Hawkings21122 · Post by **Jim Hawkings21122** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 7:58 pm

angelx03 wrote:
Jim Hawkings21122 wrote:A lot of the time they are also used as test runs for the anime to see if it would get good ratings, and if it does they turn it into a 25 or26 ep tv series......usually.

Ex. tenchi muyo!(OVA)= Tenchi Universe(tv)
The reverse is also true. For example Fushigi Yuugi had I believe two OVAs which talked about events after the 52 episode series. Also, OVAs sometimes tell the story of the same anime only with a different plot (or in the so-called alternate universe ). One example is Magic Knights Rayearth. The OVA version of it is called Rayearth, and it dealt with the same characters only with a completely different situation (and the animation was SOOOOO X-like without the decapitation of bodies ).

One of the most notable after end OVA being Samurai X- Reflections, which actually takes place at the very end of Kenshin ( or so i'm told)
I made the mistake of watching it before i found out that it was the end of the kenshin tv series, talk about spoilers XD , I've only seen to the end of the Shisshio Story arc.

Propyro · Post by **Propyro** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:52 pm

jim ... that sucks ... look at it this way ... at least it wasn't like what had happened to me.

When i had jsut started watching anime, i was downloading it on kazaa, and it was FLCL, i thought it looked cool becasue i saw a few MSI AMV's. So i decided to ge the series ... well ep 4 downloaded before the others ... so i watched it. I was still used to american cartoons and thought it would explain it's self and a bit of what had happened before ... yea right ... if you saw flcl then you;d know ep 4 was the most fucked up ep in the whole OVA ... and that was my ice breaker for anime ... nice eh?

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Jim Hawkings21122 · Post by **Jim Hawkings21122** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 9:02 pm

Propyro wrote:jim ... that sucks ... look at it this way ... at least it wasn't like what had happened to me.

When i had jsut started watching anime, i was downloading it on kazaa, and it was FLCL, i thought it looked cool becasue i saw a few MSI AMV's. So i decided to ge the series ... well ep 4 downloaded before the others ... so i watched it. I was still used to american cartoons and thought it would explain it's self and a bit of what had happened before ... yea right ... if you saw flcl then you;d know ep 4 was the most fucked up ep in the whole OVA ... and that was my ice breaker for anime ... nice eh?

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I thought i had it bad....^_^;

Nemoxs · Post by **Nemoxs** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 10:32 pm

It can also be used towards a video game like,

Hunt for the sword Samurai is actually an ova of a video game in japan