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Winter 1988/1989 4t4r49

?? December
Music Video, 1 ep
Rating: 4.26 (35)
Average: 4.91 (37)
A Minna no Uta song from 1988. Animation by Shigeru Tamura.
?? December
Music Video, 1 ep
Rating: 2.63 (32)
Average: 4.41 (34)
Animated music video of a single released by Noriko Sakai in 1988.
21st December
OVA, 110 eps
Rating: 9.73 (3692)
Average: 8.77 (3826)
* Based on Tanaka Yoshiki's series of science fiction novels by the same name.

It is late into the 36th century in the ancient Christian calendar; mankind, having developed the technology to travel faster than light speed and colonize many planets, has taken a hold of space, to the point of abandoning Earth almost entirely. Two superpowers comprising almost all the human population have now for one and a half centuries waged to a long stalemate a war for interstellar supremacy: the Free Planets Alliance.

When he was young and poor, Yang Wenli, an Alliance commander of similar calibre who really wanted to be a historian and not a soldier, wishes only for some peace and quiet; yet, as he unwillingly grows in relevance, he'll see himself duty-bound to protect the Alliance's democracy from the threat of the autocratic Empire. The collision of those two masters of tactics and strategy may bring the war to a close, provided, of course, that they aren't first backstabbed by their respective countries' rotten internal politics...

— written by Hinoe

Note: The original OVA release of mail-order VHS tapes were grouped into seasons as follows:
Season 1: 01-26 (21.12.1988 to 20.06.1989)
Season 2: 27-54 (21.06.1991 to 20.02.1992)
Season 3: 55-86 (20.07.1994 to 16.01.1995)
Season 4: 87-110 (??.09.1996 to 14.03.1997)
21st December
OVA, 1 ep
Rating: 5.97 (220)
Average: 6.23 (220)
When a motley band of travelling performers have a deep-space collision with another spacecraft, they find that the sole survivor of the other craft is a humanoid infant. They decide to raise the child as their own on the nearest planet as they wait for other of the girl's race to come and find her.

Note: The title is a pun on both the Japanese name of the American TV series Lost in Space (Uchuu Kaizoku Robinson), and on American politician Carl Vinson, known as the "Father of the Two-Ocean Navy".
21st December
OVA, 1 ep
Rating: 4.19 (97)
Average: 5.07 (97)
* Based on a manga from 1978 by Yamagishi Ryouko.

Sickly high-school student Taka journeys to Hokkaido in search of a magical cure and falls in with Khoo Fu-Ling, the king of the fairies. Ninfidia, the land of the fairies is under attack from the evil Queen Mab, and Taka must save it.
24th December
Movie, 4 eps
Rating: 3.99 (21)
Average: 4.88 (21)
10th January
OVA, 6 eps
Rating: 4.83 (70)
Average: 5.58 (70)
The ninja did not die out during the early modern period but were burrowed under Japan, where they fight a new war against the alien occupants of a crashed spaceship.

Source: The Anime Encyclopedia
14th January
TV Series, 164 eps
Rating: 2.85 (16)
Average: 3.62 (16)
15th January
TV Series, 41 eps
Rating: 4.77 (239)
Average: 6.39 (244)
Peter Pan, a boy who will never grow up. In Neverland, they encounter exciting events and meet with little fairies, mermaids, Indians, and pirates. Required to act as a mother, Wendy never has a moment of peace with all that is happening around her, including breath-taking fights with pirates. Later in the series, they set off to find buried treasure with a map they obtain from the pirates.

Source: AnimeNfo
27th January
OVA, 1 ep
Rating: 5.38 (485)
Average: 6.19 (490)
Tokyo, 2014: a city balancing on the razor's edge between financial prosperity and seismic destruction. It is a place where the lights are bright, the stakes are high, and where the threat of imminent destruction breeds crime like a disease. But for Gokuu Furinji, ex-cop and super-powered private detective, crime is money...
4th February
TV Series, 110 eps
5th February
OVA, 2 eps
Rating: 6.38 (260)
Average: 6.63 (262)
The galaxy is a strange and dangerous place, and there are times when even the United Space Force can't help. That's where the Crushers come in - skilled troubleshooters who will deal with any problem, large or small, for a fee (large only!) And there is no better Crusher than Crusher Joe!
8th February
OVA, 1 ep
Rating: 4.93 (29)
Average: 5.15 (29)
A music clip OVA using full versions of songs that were from the anime. While most of the OVA is re-purposed footage from the original show, this release does contain footage that never aired previously showing some events that occurred after the final episode.

Source: MAL
15th February
OVA, 1 ep
Rating: 6.74 (688)
Average: 7.34 (694)
* Based on Shounen Jump.

The gang is at the grandparents' house. Grandpa warns them that lovers cannot ski together, because of a curse. A long time ago, two lovers came to the mountain to hide from their parents, the girl fell into a lava pit and the boy left to get help but she thought he left her to save himself. As such lovers who go to the mountain together will be struck by her curse. The next day Kyousuke and Madoka are skiing together, when an avalanche seals the two in a cave and weird things start to happen. Is this really a ghost's doing!?

Note: The story takes place somewhere between the episodes 35 and 45 of the television series.

Note: Although the video went on sale on 01.03.1989, it was already available for rental starting February 15.
22nd February
OVA, 1 ep
AIC
Rating: 2.70 (251)
Average: 4.92 (255)
Akihiko. Akihiko is more violent then sweet toward Kazuya, but protective of him over any arguments they may get into. Akihiko later on confesses his love to Kazuya.

Source: ANN
22nd February
OVA, 1 ep
Rating: 6.31 (1247)
Average: 6.92 (1254)
In Chicago, ace courier Bean Bandit rules the road, and operates on both sides of the law. If a cargo absolutely positively has to be there now, Bean's your man — for a price. Want to ensure that the getaway from your latest heist goes smoothly? No problem — but it will cost you.

Bean's latest cargo is a 10-year-old girl worth 50 grand when delivered home. What he does not know is that she has already been kidnapped and that he is about to be framed for the snatch. Meanwhile, the real kidnappers are making off with the $2,000,000 in ransom money!

Will Bean discover the ruse in time and get the money himself? Will he evade Inspector Percy's relentless pursuit? No matter what, the Chicago Police Department is going to have a huge auto repair bill!
2nd March
Music Video, 1 ep
Rating: 2.29 (15)
Average: 3.20 (15)
Stop motion animation about a day in the forest with its cute inhabitants.

Source: MAL
3rd March
OVA, 1 ep
Rating: 2.48 (475)
Average: 4.30 (478)
* Based on a shoujo manga by Narita Minako.

Annis Marfie is a boyish-looking girl, who is studying art in New York. One day, she discovers that her schoolmate, an extraordinarily beautiful semi-pro model, Shiver is actually impersonated by two people. They are twins, Shiver and Cipher, but for the world, they act like they were just Shiver. Annis gets interested in the intention of these two, who fool the world this way, so she approaches them.

Note: the dialogue is fully in English, so it matches the set.
9th March
Music Video, 1 ep
Rating: 3.98 (42)
Average: 4.72 (42)
The official music video for Hikaru Genji's single "Paradise Ginga."
11th March
Movie, 1 ep
Rating: 5.90 (81)
Average: 6.39 (82)
Aramis fell off her horse and received the aid of a man named Francois. They fell in love with each other at first sight and spent their time happily for a while. Francois was killed by Manson and the Ironmask's people, so Aramis swore revenge. Then she went to Paris to be a musketeer.

1 year after the end of TV series, D'Artagnan had a drink with 3 musketeers and found that Jussac and the Cardinal's Guards harrassed a woman in a tavern in Paris. Of couse, they fought Jussac and the Cardinal's guards and won. On his way to home, D'Artagnan witnessed the woman whom he rescued from Jussac about to jump into the river, and rescued her again. D'Artagnan brought her to home but she disappeared soon. After a day, D'Artagnan heard that the woman was killed last night and Rochefort and Cardinal's guards arrested him for murder because his hat was found by the woman's body. Aramis discovers that the story has a link with Catherine de Médicis, and launches out an investigation. This one will bring back her to the castle of her beloved where she will have to face Pizzaro to protect a dangerous document.
11th March
Movie, 1 ep
Rating: 5.07 (77)
Average: 5.94 (77)
Nobita wants to run away from home, again. He finds out that there is nowhere for him to go. All the land is owned by someone. His friends end up wanting to run away also, even Doraemon. They figure out that the only way to find land that isn't owned by anyone is to go back in time to when no humans existed. They end up helping a prehistoric boy rescue his tribe from Gigazombie.
11th March
Movie, 1 ep
Rating: 5.45 (33)
Average: 5.78 (33)
This episode is set in the future where the main characters from Doraemon are all grown up and have kids. Minidora (mini doraemon) accidently gets delivered to the Nobita's future house. The sons of Jyaiyan, Suneo and Nobita plays with Minidora with the special goods he brings out of his pocket. But trouble happens when they ran away from Dorami, who came to retrieve Minidora.

Source: ANN
11th March
Movie, 1 ep
Rating: 5.15 (741)
Average: 6.36 (746)
Among the 5 star systems known as the Joker Systems, there are many kingdoms. There are knights within the kingdoms and these knights who control giant robots, Mortar Headds, are called Headdliners. Bound to the knights are fatimas. Human in appearance and mind, the fatimas (mostly female) possess expanded physical capabilities and make it possible for a Headdliner to control a Mortar Headd. Fatimas cannot reproduce. All this is overseen by Emperor Amaterasu and his Mirage Knights.
11th March
TV Series, 43 eps
Rating: 5.69 (42)
Average: 5.87 (42)
It is 199X A.D. In Kushiro, Hokkaido, the Dragon Empire unleashes their Drago Knights. With overwhelming destructive force, they attack the city. They attempt awaken their evil master, Jashin Drago, from the Rock of Sealing he was trapped in. 200 years ago, Drago was trapped in the seal by a holy warrior with the tattooed mark of the Liger. Assuming that the warrior is dead, Drago and Empress Zara are free to conquer the Earth using their army of giant biomechanical demons. Even the Japan Self-Defense Forces are no match for the Drago Knights' awesome power. One of the people fleeing is the protagonist, an energetic 11 year old boy named Ken Taiga. Unbeknownst to the Dragon Empire, Ken realizes that he is the descendant of the Lion Clan and in a burst of anger, Ken's Liger birthmark appears, and he rises his palm into the air, shouting the command, "LIGER!", which then covers him in demonic long-haired biomechancial armor. Ken transforms into Jushin Liger to fight the evil forces of the Dragon Empire!
11th March
Movie, 1 ep
11th March
Movie, 1 ep
Note: Screened as a triple feature with Onegai! Samia Don.
11th March
Movie, 1 ep
Rating: 3.86 (24)
Average: 4.75 (24)
In the chaos of the Jinshin-no-Ran civil war of 762, a child with a small horn in his forehead was born. The child's mother condemned him as an oni and cast him away. An elderly shuugenja woman claimed the child and named him Utsunomiko, or 'Divine Child of the Heavens', telling Miko that his horn smybolizes the union of heaven and earth. Miko matured in the wilderness learning the ways of Shugendou, and soon started venturing into villages out of curiosity. He found that the common people of the villages live in poverty and suffering, and began using his spiritual powers to help them. But his anger at the self-serving rulers and their petty power-struggles grew until he came into open conflict with the Imperial Court, setting Miko down a long path as a champion of the oppressed.

Source: Wikipedia
11th March
Movie, 1 ep
Rating: 5.69 (710)
Average: 6.65 (715)
In the 21st century, mankind lives on two worlds. Following the collision of an ice asteroid, massive terraforming has made Venus a planet now capable of ing life. Colonists from Earth tamed the hostile world and have thrived for four generations. But they also brought the darker side of humanity. Venus is about to become hostile again.

Hiro Seno, a hotshot motorcycle jockey, witnesses the first strike against his country Aphrodia, by the rival nation of Ishtar. Huge battle tanks and war planes quickly lay waste to the city. The Aphrodian army is quick to mobilize and retaliate... and despite his opposition to warfare, Hiro finds himself fighting for his life on the front lines.

Source: AnimeNfo
15th March
OVA, 1 ep
Rating: 6.62 (388)
Average: 6.94 (392)
* Based on Hikaru are on vacation in Hawaii, where Hikaru is mistaken for someone else and is kidnapped. Now it is up to Kyousuke and Madoka to rescue her.

Note: The story takes place somewhere between the episodes 15 and 25 of the television series.

Note: Although the video went on sale on 01.04.1989, it was already available for rental starting March 15.
17th March
OVA, 6 eps
Rating:
Average:
18th March
Movie, 1 ep
Rating: 5.22 (12)
Average: 5.08 (12)
18th March
Movie, 1 ep
Rating: 3.93 (480)
Average: 6.18 (487)
Earth is treatened by Lucifer and his fallen angels. Saori and her bronze saints races against time to stop Lucifer from destroying the world.
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