The leader of the creative team was director Shinichiro Watanabe, most notable at the time for directing the futuristic adventure anime OVA series Macross Plus and Mobile Suit Gundam.

A three-volume OVA series, Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz, was produced in 1997 as a sequel to the TV series ; plot-wise, it brought the After-Colony timeline to a close.

and aired on Animax from 2002 to 2005 ; there were also several OVA produced based on the anime series.

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.

Following the tentacle scene in Guyver: Out of Control in December 1986, the Urotsukidoji anime series by Toshio Maeda was released on OVA beginning in 1987 and released in America in 1992 by Anime 18.

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The second OVA series.

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.

An OVA series can run anywhere from an episode ( essentially a direct-to-video movie ) to dozens in length.

Probably the longest OVA series ever made was Legend of the Galactic Heroes, which spanned 110 main episodes and 52 gaiden episodes.

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

Tenchi Muyo !, for example, began as an OVA but went on to spawn several TV series, three movies, and numerous other spin-offs.

Producers make other OVA releases as sequels, side stories, music-video collections, or bonus episodes that continue existing television series or films, such as Love Hina Again and Wolf's Rain.

OVA titles generally have a much higher budget per episode than in a television series ; therefore the technical quality of animation can generally surpass that in television series ; occasionally it even equals that of animated movies.

Since OVA episodes and series have no fixed conventional length, OVA directors can use however much time they like to tell the story.

The producers of OVA titles generally target a specific audience, rather than the more mass-market audience of films and television series, or may feel less constrained by content-restrictions and censorship ( such as for violence, nudity, or language ) often placed on television series.

Typically, such an OVA provides a side-story to a popular TV series ( Detective Conan OVAs ).

Hundreds of manga that were popular but not enough to gain TV series were granted one-shot ( or otherwise extremely short ) OVA episodes.

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.

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.

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.

It first aired in Japan on the WOWOW satellite television network on July 15, 2003 and finished with a total of 12 episodes plus a later OVA episode released on DVD.

It was aired on TV Tokyo from April 4, 2004 to June 27, 2004, A 7 episode OVA, Sensei no Ojikan Gold ( せんせいのお時間 ご ～ るど ), was also produced by J. C. Staff.

The 3 episode OVA which aired in the midst of the second series, takes place mainly inside of the apartment as Kurumi comes home to the apartment from school to notify her house mates that she has met a boy at school whom she has fallen in love with.

The first OVA was released in October 2004 before the TV series aired ( and was made solely by Madhouse ).

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.

The anime aired ten episodes on WOWOW between July 6 and September 22, 2000, and an OVA was bundled with a DVD box set released on February 21, 2001.

is a Japanese series produced by the AIC studio and released as an original video animation ( OVA ), and later aired as an anime television series on TV Tokyo in 1997.

It was later released on a DVD that contains both the OVA and movie versions.

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However, three years previously an OVA based on the eroge Enzai was created, featuring explicit sexual acts involving young boys.

OVA titles were originally made available on VHS, later becoming more popular on LaserDisc and eventually DVD.

As the manga's popularity increased, a five-episode original video animation ( OVA ) was made based on it.

Released in concert with the OVA series in 1994, Smith has since stated that he saw the title as a play on " Oh my god!

In 1993, Anime International Company, KSS, Tokyo Broadcasting System and Kodansha teamed up to produce a five-episode original video animation ( OVA ) series based on the manga series.

The OVA was licensed for release in North America by AnimEigo, who released all five episodes in individual VHS volumes in both English-language and subtitled Japanese-language editions beginning on April 16, 1995.

From 2003 to 2005, Super Techno Arts released an English dub of both OVA series as one on DVD in North America.

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.

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

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.

TV: Time and Space Adventures Part 2 ) in a costume that more resembles Sailor Moon's than her original outfit, the magical girl would go on to star in OVA specials and television series of her own.

The single disc OVA was released on 2 February 2002.