Area 88: OVA

**Zerohero** · 11 Sep 2005, 05:16 PM

I just finished watching the excellent OVA series Area 88. It’s one of the best OVA and might I add anime I have seen in a while. It surprises me the quality of it since it was made so long ago. I was wondering if there where more fans of the anime who want to discuss the ending. I won’t post it here but for those who have seen it know how tragic and sad it ends.
Anyway I would rank this a 9/10 as far as complete 3 disc OVA ranking. I have the new TV series as well but I’ll wait till next weekend before I get into that.

Area 88 review

**perkyskirt** · 11 Sep 2005, 05:43 PM

i've seen the first tape of this and it seemed a million times better than the new show. I'd like to pick the oav up on dvd one day.

**Zerohero** · 11 Sep 2005, 06:32 PM

Originally Posted by perkyskirt

i've seen the first tape of this and it seemed a million times better than the new show. I'd like to pick the oav up on dvd one day.

I watched one episode of the TV serires. It looks OK but the animation quality doesn't look all that great so far.

**Dyne** · 12 Sep 2005, 04:01 PM

is this somehow related to that old capcom shooter?

**Zerohero** · 12 Sep 2005, 08:55 PM

Originally Posted by Dragonmaster Dyne

is this somehow related to that old capcom shooter?

It's the anime/manga that it spawn from.

**kedawa** · 13 Sep 2005, 12:46 AM

I had no idea there even was an OVA, let alone a new show.
I had one of the B&W comics and thought it was okay, and I loved the game.
How old is the OVA?

**Zerohero** · 13 Sep 2005, 07:13 PM

Originally Posted by kedawa

I had no idea there even was an OVA, let alone a new show.
I had one of the B&W comics and thought it was okay, and I loved the game.
How old is the OVA?

This past year has seen a glossy, digitally animated TV remake of the popular 1980s manga Area 88 by Kaoru Shintani. I'm not too sure what to think of this-- recent remakes have yielded decidedly mixed results, from the spectacularly awful Babel II: Beyond Infinity to the just plain spectacular Tetsujin 28. The new Area 88 is just arriving on DVD in North America, and before I tackle it I thought I'd break out the original Area 88 animation, a 3-part OVA from 1985. I loved this thing to death (not to mention the comics, which were published for a short time by Viz) when it came out stateside in 1992, and wanted to see how it held up.