Alternative Titles
Japanese: 聖獣機サイガード
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Type:
OVA
Episodes:
1
Status:
Finished Airing
Aired:
Nov 1, 1989
Producers:
None found, add some
Licensors:
Central Park Media
Studios:
AIC
Source:
Original
Theme:
Mecha
Duration:
42 min.
Rating:
R - 17+ (violence & profanity)
Statistics
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#127812
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Popularity:
#8530
Members:
5,621
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New Interest Stack
Interest StacksDecided to make a stack for the OVAs and movies you used to be able to find on Blockbuster shelves or on late-night TV anime blocks right before infomercials or softcore porn. Behold, hyper-violence, bad animation, paranoid politics, incomprehensible writing, awful dubs, gratuitous nudity, and that special something that makes bad things great sometimes. Some anime OVAs dating back to this time, with not many movies included. I remember going to the video store, browsing the shelves, and picking out a movie based on the box art alone. I'd look at the front, I'd look at the back, and more often than not I'd put it back on the shelf. Occasionally there'd be something like Ghost in the Shell or Ninja Scroll, and I knew I just had to rent it, or more accurately get my parents to rent it. Do you like watching trashy 80/90s OVAs and movies that are violent, stupid, and nonsensical? Well this list is for you. Some of these are pretty famous in the community like Violence Jack and M.D. Geist, but I made sure to really dumpster dive for some obscure trash for all of you garbage connoisseurs out there. Everyone who knows me well probably also knows that I'm kind of known as a "connoisseur of bad anime". And that would be right! I have a thing for indulging myself with trash and I can't really explain why. Before the likes of Saint Seiya, Dragon Ball Z and Pokemon conquering the kids in the west, it was actually Akira that opened the door and made people realize that the cartoons coming from Japan weren't what you would expect from Disney or your TV channels. Every cinema or direct to video anime film that came out in 1989. These are just some which I've seen and plan to watch. Includes movies and OVAs. Short form anime series on this site can often be underappreciated. In the same way poetry is radically different from fiction novels, which are radically different from screenplays and so forth, I view shorter series, typically OVAs, in the same way. Too frequently they're compared to TV series, and there will be many comparative allusions roughly paraphrasing, "You can't expect much from the story/characters because of how short it is", or other similar comments. The value of the efficacy of the presentation in both shorter and longer series are for the most part incomparable to each other. They both strive to do very different things through very different means despite the shared medium of "anime". Of course, what constitutes the differences or goals of a creator is quite vast, but the point is that from my personal view, because the context of the existence of shows that would either be shorter in length or longer are so different and require much different means for communicating the information that they present, I think they should be judged by different standards. How a person judges them is up to themselves, but I do believe short series are worthy of the praise that many would only attribute to more lengthy series. What I want to do is give reverence for the fun-sized length series I have come across and enjoyed to some degree. Tired of adaptions, reboots, and remakes in your sci-fi anime? Frustrated that MAL doesn't allow you to filter by source material? Well, this list has you covered. A series of stacks consisting of content creator BennettTheSage's anime review show under the same name as the stack. Goes chronologically by the first to the last. |