Introduction
Tetsuya Wakatsuki, a young photographer, documents an alien invasion that brutally annihilates the human population.
When a few mishaps lead to him being pushed up against the enemy commander, Tetsuya is knocked unconscious. Much to his surprise, he wakes up on a spaceship where the alien commander, Princess Kahm of Saint Evascuraze, reveals that she has taken a liking to him. Now she wants him to become her husband! Though hesitant to accept the proposal at first, Tetsuya soon realizes that a marriage to Kahm could potentially save the rest of humanity from certain doom. For the sake of stopping the invasion, he decides to marry the alien princess—even if doing so goes against the wishes of her father, the emperor.
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Audience reviews
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CunningDingus
Highly recommend getting the "Central Park Media" dub because Sean Schemmel aka Son Goku plays multiple main characters. I love this dudes career and the passion for getting anime and even kinda shit OVAs to English speaking audiences. I would recommend looking into him and his really long career.
51 minutes of something I would have killed for back in the day and would have called peak but it's very mid in reality. The intro was badass and is clearly there to hook you but nothing matches that the whole time.
Apparently this isnt even a full adaptation of the 8 volume manga but instead closer to 6 volumes crammed into the runtime. Sad to see something so rushed to be "consumable" that it concentrated the story beyond enjoyable and into just meh content.
Read at the sourceDogeGoWoof
I'll start off by saying that I LOVE the way the characters are made in this movie, I don't know if it's really apparent in the cover image, but the female main's anatomy is very well done and is pretty refreshing to see when you get used to pretty exaggerated characters. It starts off as an alien warzone type thing but quickly kind of spirals into a sci fi action esque plot, with the mc (Tetsuya) having to marry the main girl (Kahm), who is an alien princess who initially seeked to absolutely destroy humanity, but had a change of heart after taking in Tetsuya.
Kahm's father disapproves of the marriage seeing how he really REALLY doesn't like humans, and sends out his warships to go and seize the human, although at that point Tetsuya already made some allies with an army commander and his…
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Outlanders is a 1986 OVA adapted from Johji Manabe’s manga, blending comedy, science fiction, and fan service in a way clearly aimed at viewers who have a fondness for this particular era of animation. That said, it is far from the ideal entry point for those looking to explore late Shōwa–era productions, though it is a title you will inevitably want to experience sooner or later.
Directed by Sukehiro Tomita, the OVA feels like an experiment that may have cost him his momentum as a director, as he would later return primarily to scriptwriting. The overall tone is aggressively comedic and chaotic, openly attempting to emulate the Urusei Yatsura formula, though without fully capturing its timing or charm. Some scenes land effectively, while many others miss the mark, resulting in an uneven…
Read at the sourceGsarthotegga
This is an old OVA that follows the short promote-the-manga format, so it depicts only a glimmer of the source material and clocks in under an hour. It functions as a pilot, doesn't end altogether unsatisfactorily, and they at least finish what appears to be a whole arc, though character development and backstory were most likely heavily excised.
Outlanders is a gorier and raunchier b-movie version of Urusei Yatsura, more or less. Yasuomi Umetsu brings the ketchup in the earlier scenes, and there are plenty of lewd jokes and botched sex scenes, as this is an ecchi rather than a hentai. It's one of those stories where two different alien races intend to marry each other so as to usher in peace rather than war and genocide. It's actually kind of gross considering how many of their own peop…
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I was curious about this OVA seeing that it has Fumi Hirano the voice actress of Lum from Urusei Yatsura. I was wondering if she does her Lum voice or another voice She does her Lum voice. Hahaha. I haven't read the Manga so I can't compare the two.
From the cover with the anime girl it looks like a Urusei Yatsura Knock off.
And it kinda is just with some graphic violence. Which I was Pleasantly surprised by. which I really enjoyed. It features few traits from Urusei Yatsura. A horny male Protagonist, An alien girl in a Metal Bikini. Who has powers of Fire instead of Electricity like Lum, who's also a princess, Fan Service, and so much more. The characters are likeable. But the story does feel incomplete tho
I found the OVA amusing as Urusei Yatsura Knock off it just make me wanna watc…
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The Outlanders manga by Johji Manabe spanned almost three dozen comic book issues in America, and was one of those series that any manga reader of the time collected. And, for most people my age, that was their first exposure to Outlanders and Manabe.
This OVA, by comparison, is just a 45-minute one-shot that sort of came and went without a splash; noteworthy only for the hilarously bad vanity-dub by Trish LeDoux.
Is it really fair to compare the two versions? I mean, the manga contains hundreds of pages of artwork and a broad, expansive story that took a few years to develop. But you can't cover all of that in a short animated bit like this. The OVA has several characters stripped out and all of the intermingled sub-plots removed, leaving a bare-bones version of the main plot in its s…
Read at the sourcePockeyramune919
For someone who’s read the source material, it’s hard to look at an adaptation objectively — even if you’re not trying to, you’ll always think about how it differs and measures up the source material.
And let me tell you, this ain’t it chief.
I’ll only compare the OVA to the manga briefly, because as futile as it is, I don’t like reviewing works themselves, without considering their relation to other creations. For one, it doesn’t really capture the tone of the manga. The comedy that was sparse in the manga is cranked up to eleven. It’s funny, yes, but not very accurate. Compressing a 33-chapter manga into a ~50 minute OVA means that many characters are cut out and only a portion of the story is shown — a revised beginning and a slightly altered section from roughly the middle of the sto…
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Though the manga was very well written and illustrated, this adaptation was very insulting to it. The story was rushed and contained very few connections to the manga. Many of the important characters did not even appear in the anime. Many of the important story points were also absent. Earth barely had a cameo even though it was where half of the story took place. The ending, though less sad, is still far from the manga. Overall, if you have read the manga and loved it, stay away from this OVA.
Read at the sourceRobdeFR
The OVA has some very obviously similarities with Urusei Yatsura, and you can easily guess that it was influenced by UY in the first place. An extraterrestrial girl comes to earth and takes a useless boy as her groom, against her people wishes, she uses a flames like power on one of the scenes agains the boyfriend and she even has a girl-friend that looks/behaves like Benten. For the anime version they even coloured her hair in green, that looking by the cover of the manga was yellow, and used the same Seyuu of Lum, Fumi Hirano, to do the voice work. Coincidence? I don't think so.
The character designs are very similar to those of Takahashi anime versions at the time, but that character design was in vogue at the time, so let's leave that detail.
There are obviously some differences; there…
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This was my first anime ever when i was a child and i really have grown fond of it. It's very sci fi and yet theres comedy and romance if you love old animes for sure you'll like this one.There's some delightful characters in this anime. It also is a very good manga .
The music in the anime is pretty good to.
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