It is most famous for being viewed as the first in the tentacle rape genre, though only one scene in the first OVA actually contains any tentacle rape.

For example, a major character from the game is killed off in the first few moments of the film and it takes place in the 2070s, in stark contrast to the games, which take place in the late 2030s-early 2040s and it acts like a OVA.

Most producers of OVAs release them direct-to-video, without prior showings on television or in theatres ; however, there may be very rare occasions where, for example, the first part of an OVA series is broadcast for promotional purposes.

The earliest known attempt to release an OVA involved Osamu Tezuka's The Green Cat ( part of the Lion Books series ) in 1983, although it cannot count as the first OVA: there is no evidence that the VHS tape became available immediately, and the series remained incomplete.

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.

El-Hazard: The Alternative World, is a thirteen episode TV series with a follow-up special later released on laserdisc, are continuations of the original OVA ( El-Hazard: The Magnificent World ) time-line.

The Wanderers is a simplified version of the original OVA storyline, stretched to twenty-six episodes and eliminates or alters several of the OVA's major characters.

In the first OVA series, its use in ancient times is responsible for pulling the Phantom Tribe from their own world into El-Hazard.

The OVA is licensed in the U. S. by Manga Entertainment, who opted to use a different New York-based voice cast for its English release.

* OVA: " All You Need is Love " by Naomi Tamura

Other movies with key scenes in the Reading Room include Night of the Demon ( 1957 ) and in the 2001 Japanese anime OVA Read or Die, the Reading Room is used as the secret entrance to the British Library's fictional " Special Operations Division ".

* In computing, an OVA ( Open Virtualization Archive ) is the single-file version of an Open Virtualization Format ( OVF ) image.

Her biggest hit song was Ai no Makeikusa ( Losing the Fight of Love ; Your Hiroshi in the dubbed version ), which is featured in the beginning of the first episode, and as the ending theme for the second episode of the Pretty Sammy OVA.

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.

* In the Japanese Sonic OVA, the planet Freedom ( specifically the Land of Darkness ) is heavily implied to be a post-apocalyptic Earth.

is a Japanese anime OVA by Makoto Shinkai.

is a 13-episode anime OVA series set in the Gundam universe.

The first series is summarized in the Vandread Taidouhen OVA in 2001, and the second in the Vandread Gekitouhen (" Turbulence ") OVA, released in 2002.

Fancy Lala is a complete remake of an earlier Studio Pierrot OVA titled Harbor Light Monogatari Fashion Lala yori.

The fourth anime series, adapting the third novel, Banner of the Stars III ( aka Seikai no Senki III ) is an OVA released in Japan in 2005.

The Honō no Tenkōsei OVA parodies anime of the 1970s, particularly Tomorrow's Joe, and is complete with intentionally jerky animation, dirty-looking cels, thick black lines, and retro character designs, much like Shimamoto's drawing style.

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

The Lolita Anime series was the first hentai original video animation ( OVA ), released in 1984 by Wonder Kids, which mainly focused on underage sex, rape, and bondage.

In 2006, the seijin shotacon OVA anime, which the producer has described as the first shotacon anime, was released.

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 ).

Many popular series first appear animated as an OVA, and later grow to become television series or movies.

Therefore the first official OVA release to be billed as such was 1983's Dallos, directed by Mamoru Oshii and released by Bandai.

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.

The first OVA begins with Makoto meeting Ifurita for the first time on Earth.

In the OVA continuity, the Eye of God first needed to be unsealed by the Muldoon priestesses before it could be operated via the Stairway to the Sky, a tall metal tower that almost reaches the height of the Eye's orbit.

Guardians of Order released a role-playing game based on the first OVA series in 2001 and with rules based on the company's Tri-Stat system.

The Mihoshi Special OVA was the first time Sammy was ever featured as a full-fledged character in the animated medium, and after her appearance in Episode 12 of Tenchi Universe ( Tenchi Muyo!

Takizawa loses the fight in the first OVA to Ibuki's deadly deathblow punch, but in the second OVA Takizawa develops his own deathblow punch and eventually wins the day.

During this time, most OVA series were new, stand-alone titles.

As the Japanese economy worsened in the 1990s, the flood of new OVA titles diminished to a trickle.

However, in 2000 and later, a new OVA trend began.

TBS announced in March 2010 that it was producing a brand new 7-minute OVA for release only with a repackaged and redesigned boxed set for Season 1.

Endless Waltz was first produced as a three part OVA and later in 1998 a compilation movie was released which also contained new scenes.

* At the Sharon Apple concert at Macross City, a new scene and song is inserted to replace what was the ending of Episode 3 (" After In The Dark ," the ending theme for the first 3 episodes of the OVA ), and the opening song of Episode 4 titled " Pulse.

One example, included on the Video Girl Ai DVD, replays scenes from the OVA series with new voice-acting in a rural accent.

Due to the crossover appeal of the Cream Lemon videos and their unusually complex plots and popularity, Fairy Dust decided to release a new non pornographic OVA series called Cream Lemon New Generation.

A new OVA has been released by Studio Pierrot, which covers the " Burial " arc of the Saiyuki Reload manga ; it is called Saiyuki Reload: Burial.

However, he found the new OVA ( On the Way to a Smile-Episode: Denzel ) and the trailer of Final Fantasy XIII to be " welcome additions.

On the 2010 June issue of the magazine Hobby Japan, released on, a new OVA series was revealed.

There was also a two-episode OVA, From I " s ( most frequently referred to as just I " s OVA ), based on the manga released in 2002, and a new six-part OVA, called I " s Pure, was released in 2005 and 2006.

Nevertheless, the DVD releases of the new Kujibiki Unbalance series each included an OVA episode of Genshiken, for a total of three new episodes.

The TV series was called ' Papillon Rose New Season ' and was six episodes long, covering what happened to the girls a year after the ending of the OVA and introducing new characters.

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.

Near the end of the OVA, Tetsuya returns with a new, much more powerful Great, discovered in Doctor Juzo Kabuto's laboratory ; this is said to be the real Great Mazinger ( or " Shin Great Mazinger ").

The manga expands further on Mylene's story, introducing the producer that she eventually works for ( who is seen in Episode 2 of the OVA ), and also the beginning of her new singing career as the lead singer of the Jamming Angels, featuring the female members of the former Jammingbirds.

The OVA does not carry on from the books or manga and picks up with her still working loyally for the British Library, where she meets a new partner in espionage, Nancy Makuhari, aka " Miss Deep " ( introduced as a new character, although she existed previously in the novels ).

Genshiken Season 2 refers to, and features some scenes from, a new OVA continuation of the original series ; this OVA has yet to be announced for a real-world release, however.