Popful Mail

Introduction

Promotion music video created to pitch a full OVA, to no avail. Music sung by Megumi Hayashibara and based on the Nihon Falcom video game.

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Audience ratings

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Audience reviews

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SufferingMeguca

Popful Mail as a reverse isekai? Goddamn this is cute, love the song, love the lively 90s Doramaga fantasy pastiche designs. Could see this being spun into some Ozanari Dungeon style OVA jam. Ahh, but it was not to be. Of course this was a music video so there's no dialogue but you just know Popful called the evil wizard the r-slur before she iced him. Falcom should have made one of these for Brandish, fuuuuuuck that would rule. This review needs more information? It's a 5 minute promo video, just watch it and make up your own mind. The game is a fun relic from a bygone age, a hack and slash platformer with some light RPG elements.

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FAKEANIMEGIRL

(Check out my profile for a link to my site containing more up-to-date reviews and bonus media!) This five minute music video set to Megumi Hayashibara's "No No Pessimist" was meant to pitch a Popful Mail OVA to potential producers, but in the end nothing was made. Popful Mail itself was originally a Falcom video game, a role-playing and platforming genre hybrid released for multiple consoles in various versions with the most notable of those being the Sega CD. The game itself is quite fun and a fascinating piece of niche game design, though not without its faults (many exacerbated by Working Designs's localization and gameplay changes). This short anime which is literally all music and no other audio pumps the tiniest bit more life into Popful Mail which always seemed like something Falc…