In the OVA, she cuts his face in her dying breath after apologising to him for her betrayal.

He comes back in the OVA, and although he says he wouldn't participate with Seigaku, vice captain Shuichiro Oishi goads him into a match to take over his spot as a regular, which Ryoma does ( Oishi did this because his arm was still injured and felt it would be a burden to still be on the team ).

In the OVA Kenshin brought Tomoe's body back to the house they had shared near Ōtsu, where he remained for a brief period of mourning before razing it as her funeral pyre.

The first OVA looks at a new production in the works that follows the Kaleido Stage's success with Swan Lake, about a female princess that is unable to smile and a jester of hers that is hoping to bring her smile back.

This trend is becoming quite common, and furthermore, many recent OVA series pre-broadcast the episodes and release the DVD with unedited and better quality, revised animations – thus further blurring the boundary between TV, and video anime.

For this reason the love square between Shinobu, Lum, Ataru and Mendou never came to an end, while in the manga Shinobu has a storyline devoted to her moving on from her crush, Mendou, in favor of Inaba, a trans-dimensional man dressed as a bunny, that in the anime appeared only in the first OVA and in the fifth movie.

In the case of anime, this is called Original Video Animation ( OVA or OAV ), and their production values usually fall between those of TV shows and movies.

After the split between Artmic and Youmex, Artmic proceeded to make a sequel on their own, Bubblegum Crash, which ran three OVA episodes and is conjectured that it was a shortened version of how Crisis was to end.

Some differences between the OVA and Movie Editions include:

A four-episode OVA series called Kimi ga Nozomu Eien: Next Season was released between December 2007 and December 2008.

A four-episode original video animation ( OVA ) series, animated by Brain's Base and distributed by Bandai Visual, was released between December 21, 2007 and December 19, 2008 on DVD in regular and limited editions.

: Also referred to as OVA 2 and The New Files, the series contains episodes that took place at several points between certain episodes in the TV series and after the latter's final episode.

Geneon collected the series and the OVA in a total of eight DVD volumes released between September 24, 2002 and November 25, 2003.

The animation series was followed soon after into a second sequel, entitled Captain Tsubasa J, produced by Studio Comet, which aired between October 21, 1994 and December 22, 1995 in Japan on the Fuji Television network and spanned 47 episodes, as well an OVA series, Captain Tsubasa: Holland Youth, which was published in 1994.

anime series premiered in Japan on the WOWOW satellite television network between January 10 and March 28, 2002, spanning a total of 13 episodes, including twelve originally premiering on television plus an OVA episode released on DVD on October 25, 2002.

anime series, authored and scripted by Yousuke Kuroda, directed by Yasunori Ide, and produced by Bandai Visual, Studio Orphee and Daume, originally premiered in Japan on the satellite television network WOWOW, between January 10 and March 28, 2002, spanning a total of thirteen episodes, including twelve originally premiering on television plus an OVA episode concluding the series, released on DVD on October 25, 2002.

This 1996 OVA was a reimagining of the series, which replaced the amorphous Paranoids with a seemingly endless Civil war between the " Western " and " Eastern " Solnoid armies.

Hiroya Oku did not approve of this OVA, because in the anime there is not a lesbian love relationship between Azumi and Chizuru just a friendship.

The second half of Kenshin's cross-shaped scar was cut by Tomoe's dagger, although the exact circumstances differ between the OVA and the manga.

The epilogue of the OVA shows a lonely Kenshin, resting between battles, being comforted by Tomoe's spirit as he sleeps.

An original video animation ( OVA ), Blue Seed Beyond ( or Blue Seed 2 in Japan ), was released in three episode between 1996 and 1998.

They follow in the same vein as the episode previews of the TV series in that it's usually a conversation between Basara and Mylene, only in this case the conversation is over a voice communication link like a telephone call, remembering of course that through the entire OVA, both the characters are separated.

This was followed by a sequel OVA series of three episodes released between 6 December 1995 and 6 March 1996.

More realistically, though, it may be due to the change in animation teams between series ; in the Tekkaman Blade OVA specials ( which are set in the same time as the original Tekkaman Blade series but done by the same animation team as for Tekkaman Blade II ), she has the same green hair and eyes.

Buaku's true origins are unclear between the OVA and the Manga itself.

The first OVA series, containing three episodes, were released by Imagica as three DVD volumes between February 28 and September 28, 2007.

The second set of two OVA episodes, titled To Heart 2 AD, was released by Frontier Works as two DVD volumes between March 26 and August 8, 2008.

The anime first aired between April 9, 2004 and March 4, 2005 in all, 40 episodes were made plus an OVA that contains 12 episodes which was aired in 2007.

When these one-shot OVAs prove popular enough, a network can use the OVA as a pilot to an anime series, such as with Bleach.

In these cases the series as a whole cannot be called an OVA, though certain episodes are.

In both of these polls, Athrun Zala, Kira Yamato and Lacus Clyne have also topped the most popular characters categories, with the last episode and the OVA also occupying their own category.

However, the OVA was noted to downplay these scenes, with some of them being hard to fully understand.

Of these, the two most significant contributions to the plot that was left out of the OVA are from Mikadzuki no Shindai and Ring.

Many of these traits don't come into play much ( or at all ) in the OVA, but are all present in the manga.

In some cases, the length of episodes in a specific OVA may vary greatly, for example in GaoGaiGar FINAL, the first 7 episodes last around 30 minutes, while the last episode lasted 50 minutes ; the OVA Key the Metal Idol consists of 15 separate episodes, ranging in length from 20 minutes to nearly two hours each ; the OVA Hellsing had released 9 episodes, ranging from 42 minutes to 56 minutes ( it has yet to finish releasing the remaining episodes ).

The manga was adapted into two anime series in 1994 and an original video animation ( OVA ) in 1997.

The initial novel was followed by a second, ongoing novels series, Banner of the Stars ( currently 4 volumes, aka Seikai no Senki ), which was adapted into three sequel series to the anime — Banner of the Stars ( 13 episodes, aka Seikai no Senki ), Banner of the Stars II ( 10 episodes, aka Seikai no Senki II ) and both adapting the second novel, two recap movies — Crest of the Stars Special Edition and Banner of the Stars Special Edition, and an OVA Crest of the Stars Lost Chapter ( aka Seikai no Danshō ).

It was adapted into a two episode anime OVA series in 1993.

The OVA series is based on sections of the first two volumes.

There were originally going to be 4 OVA episodes but there was not enough interest so only two episodes were produced.

Cloud is also one of the main characters in the OVA Last Order: Final Fantasy VII, which depicts him in two events that were shown in flashbacks in Final Fantasy VII ; one at Nibelheim when he fights Sephiroth, and the other while escaping from Shinra with Zack.

A two episode OVA series was released in 1999.

Cat Girl Nuku Nuku has been adapted into two OVA series and one anime television series.

Cat Girl Nuku Nuku has been adapted into two OVA series and one anime television series.

Yume de Aetara was made into two anime shows: a TV series and a direct-to-video or OVA series, both of them produced by TBS.

A fourth OVA titled " Another Story " was released on May 26, 2009, which included two episodes: " Fū ' un Shōnen Atobe " which showed Hyotei's current team's freshman years, and " Naniwa no Ōjisama ", where Seigaku goes to Osaka for a practice match with Shitenhoji.

is a Japanese anime, based on an original manga which ran in Monthly Shōnen Gangan Twenty-six TV episodes were made, followed by two OVA sequels: Haré + Guu DELUXE and Haré + Guu FINAL.

The popular franchise included a manga, a TV series, two OVA series, three feature length movies, and a short film compilation, named because of its super deformed drawing style.

Together they worked on the anime series Patlabor and the two episode OVA Twilight Q.

The film Zeiram was followed by a live-action sequel, Zeiram 2, as well as an OVA prequel miniseries called Iria: Zeiram the Animation and two videogames, Hyper Iria and Zeiram Zone.

The two become inseparable and are seen together throughout the series, to the point of being seen exiting a love hotel together in the OVA.

There was an OVA series made from Dōkyūsei, which was originally a 45-minute one-shot, but the original release was expanded into two half-hour episodes, with two more episodes added, for a total four.

It was made into a manga ( which went ahead and came up with an ending on its own ), two anime films, and a four-part, unfinished anime OVA.

The first two, Harlock Saga: The Rheingold, were the basis for the Harlock Saga anime OVA.

A number of radio drama episodes and a two episode OVA ( the latter roughly based on a volume 3 storyline ) have been produced.

He composed the music for two anime series ; Romeo x Juliet ( 2007 ) and The Tower of Druaga: The Aegis of Uruk ( 2008 ); as well as the original video animation ( OVA ) Legend of Phoenix ~ Layla Hamilton Monogatari ~ in 2005.