Introduction
Yuna Kagurazaka, a clumsy and sweet 16-year-old girl, had her life drastically changed when she won an intergalactic contest for the person with the purest heart. Now, she is an intergalactic superhero and magical girl known as the Savior of Light. She pilots the mecha El Line to maintain the peace of the universe. But Yuna's entire world is shaken when she is wrongfully accused of destroying a city with El Line. She is captured and taken prisoner by Misaki Ichijouin, a special agent from the Galaxy Alliance. However, Misaki soon realizes that she has been deceived and teams up with the rest of Yuna's friends to free the Savior and save the galaxy before an evil force is restored to power.
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Audience reviews
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Unemployed-Sama
I'm not familiar with the video games or other media this OVA is based on, but even so I found it really enjoyable and easy to follow! Definitely moves at a break-neck pace, and it can feel like only a glimpse of the broader franchise, but because the plot is simple it never becomes confusing or obnoxious, just fun. That's the key word for this OVA, just pure mech 90s cute girl anime fun!
Because it's an OVA, the animation was very solid and all the character designs were especially beautiful. Soundtrack is fun, again very 90s. The OP is great, really dorky and catchy, the ED is cute but just fine. My only complaint would be that there isn't a ton of action which is kind of disappointing with how great the suit and robot designs are, but again because so much is going on every moment and…
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"Context" is a key word.
Galaxy Fraulein Yuna was made in the context of promoting it's two Adventure Games for the PC-Engine (And later it's third one). A lot of it is fanservice to such games.
If you're on MAL, however, chances are that you actually watched it because of one of two different contexts:
1: The fact that it came to the west on DVD and was even dubbed, meaning you learned from it wither first-hand or via someone which did (e.g. an anime blog)
2: The fact that it had the name "Shinbou Akiyuki" in it (He only made the storyboards for episode one here, though he did direct the sequel)
Me? Oh, I'm neither, I'm here because I like mecha-musume.
That being the case, a large part of this OVA, due to being unintelligible due to referencing characters and events we never saw, ends u…
Read at the sourceSufferingMeguca
Absolutely delightful faff, an analog OVA oasis of cheerful 90s character designs, sci fi mecha parody light yuri goodness.
Features giant sweat drops, frequent SD moments, grating high pitched voices, comic exaggeration turned up to ju-ichi.
I'm unfamiliar with the PC engine games so the plot was totally nonsensical, fortunately at two episodes the way the OVA just blows through all these characters and backstory results in a kind of delighted bewilderment. It's so unserious I can't imagine that knowing the deep GFY lore would really have enhanced my experience.
For fans of stuff like Galaxy Angel this is a dai-recommendation desu
Fiending for more MS girl adjacent media.
Read at the sourcesketchesofpayne
If I had only 60 minutes to show someone what your basic anime from the early to mid nineties was like I think this two episode OVA would work. The silly character tropes, the cool mechanical designs, jazzy and pop soundtrack, sweet battle animations, it's all there in some form or another.
If seeing a white ADV films VHS tape doesn't fill you with nostalgia you might not get much out of this. I've been going back and tracking down all those old series I saw previews for way back when. At the time I either didn't have the money or just couldn't find them. (I mean, this was before Amazon or eBay!) This show is a paramount example of the stuff you would find in that era.
The story is ultra basic, but that's what you get for such a short run time. There were a few bits of comedy that got a…
Read at the sourcevoltwaffle
I just want to point out that this show is a continuation of a video game series which was never released outside of Japan, so there's a good chance you'll have no idea what is going on when you first watch it.
There's honestly not a lot to say about this series since it's only two episodes and doesn't have any strong character or story development. If you love the early 90's aesthetic, then you'll enjoy it purely for that reason.
The series is similar to other early 90's magical girl series like Magic Knight Rayearth and Metal Fighter Miku.
Read at the sourcektulu007
Ginga Ojou-sama Densetsu Yuna was created in 1992 as a video game created and written by Mika Akitata and released by Hudson. The first titles were released for the PC Engine, known in America as the TurboGrafx. The game franchise also saw installments on the Sega Saturn, Playstation and, mos recently, PSP. So, it was a moderately successful series even if it never got released outside of Japan, which it didn't as far as I can tell. The series got two OVAs based on it from Movic, J.C. Staff, King Records & Toho. The first was released in '95 and it's the one we're going to be looking at. Oddly enough, these did get released outside of Japan in spite of the games themselves being unavailable. So, let's take a peek and see if we can figure out the reason for that.
Story:
Our tale opens wit…
Read at the sourceWizardJo
Galaxy Frauline Yuna is an adaption of a video game, I believe of the same name. It's strictly for people who like 90's anime, because it is very much a product of the period in which it was produced- if that makes sense. It's an overly sweet story about a remarkably sweet girl and her very sweet friends who save the universe a number of times with their mechanical armour, giant robots, and space ships. Theres also karaoke, a lesson in how to make the perfect fried egg, and teen idols. But despite appearances, there is a little bit of shojo ai so it's not for kids (even though I wore out the tape as a child ^^). It's a very random, funny anime and if you like tons and tons of girls rallying around one pure savior of justice to save the universe, give this a whirl. The art is what you'd exp…
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