AniWorthAriel Visual
Introduction
To save the Earth from alien invaders and their giant monsters, Dr. Kishida does what any other red-blooded mad scientist would do: he builds a giant robot—the ultimate feminine fighting robot!
Unfortunately, his grand-daughters refuse to pilot it! Apparently, they've got more important things to do than becoming teenage super-heroes. Besides, how are you supposed to study for your college entrance exams while getting beaten-up in battle?
Fortunately for Dr. Kishida, things aren't too well for the invaders, either. According to their reports, the Earth was the perfect target: lush, peaceful, and relatively defenseless. Theoretically, the planet should've surrendered long ago. Now, the war is at a standstill, the dreaded Accounting Department is warning about the serious cost overruns, and the head of the home office has arrived from Galactic Headquarters to personally oversee operations. Has Headquarters decided to unleash, The Audit—or do they have something even more evil in mind?
The fate of the world rests upon two people: Aya Kishida, one of the doctor's granddaughters, who may have to give up prep school to pilot the mighty (and lovely) ARIEL; and a mysterious alien named Saber Starblast, who may have the power to defeat the invaders once and for all...
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Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 5.75/10 · 1044
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Audience reviews
6 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Kamezuki
“Ariel Visual” is a lighthearted comedy mecha OVA with some parody elements. Being based off of a long-running series of light novels, this OVA has an interesting premise. However, the story is not executed well, and most of the technical aspects are substandard.
It seems that the makers of this OVA tried to cram as much information as possible into the two episodes, each of which is less than 30 minutes long. Both episodes start out with a long narration explaining who the characters are and what’s going on, with the narration in the second episode being set to a “Star Wars”-esque CGI text scroll in romanized Japanese.
The gist of the plot is that there are aliens that are trying to invade Earth, but it’s not going well, and they're pretty much just relegated to orbiting the Earth in th…
Read at the sourceFinalReality56
The 80s saw a large number of OVA releases, many of which fell into two general categories. Some were passion projects by directors and animators eager to create something, and others were made to serve more as promotional material for another product. Ariel is an OVA that falls into the latter category.
I'll be honest, the only reason I came across this OVA was because of the recently released Moderoid kit of the titular robot. It's also worth mentioning that this is based on a 20-volume long series of light novels, of which a grand total of 0 volumes have been translated to English. The OVA tosses you into a story that's already in progress with some narration to tell you what happened beforehand. The OVA is pretty much just flat out telling you "wanna actually get the full story of wh…
Read at the sourceglisteningsunset
If you're looking for anything fun or exciting, this isn't it. I could tell things were off to a rocky start when this anime began with a 3 minute long narration, explaining things to the viewer like they're three years old. The show just reduces its characters down to their extremely barebones tropes, while ignoring anything interesting it could expand on (though, granted, that might be caused by length). The first episode was pretty boring, but the second episode was slightly better. The creature designs were super cool and the lighting during the fight scene at the end was sexy as hell. The music during the fight scene was also great. The design for the robot though is super dumb. It's the most humanoid mech I've ever seen. It makes the mech from Darling in the Franxx look good.
Honest…
Read at the sourcematthigh
There were loads of OVAs that came out in the eighties that have largely been forgotten; relegated to the dustbin of history. This is one of those. And, to be fair, it should stay there.
Starting watching this cold, and it started out with two solid minutes of dense exposition, explaining the whole plot and a brief history of about ten characters each. It reached a point where I put it on pause, backed out to check online to see if I was missing some prequel or earlier season I should be watching first. Nope! This was the starting point!
And, then I found out this 2-part OVA was billed as "Episode IV", sort of a throwback to Star Wars, as a way to jump into the middle of the story, I guess.
Unfortunately, that little trick didn't work out too well. You're left dropped in the middle o…
Read at the sourcedodongos_dango
My biggest issue with Ariel Visual is that there’s no reason to care about the plot and most of the characters. The OVA starts out with an opening narration that summarizes that sets up the bare bones of the plot and character relations, but it never develops them beyond what’s presented in this narration. It never really goes into why the aliens even want to take over the Earth and by the end of the second episode all of the characters can still be summed up with the same two sentences that they were summed up with in the opening narration.
My other big issue is with Dr. Kishida, the grandfather of the three girls who pilot the titular giant robot, Ariel. It’s pretty clear that we are supposed to find his goofy mad scientist antics amusing, but I actually found them to be rather frustrat…
Read at the sourcektulu007
The story arc is pretty simple. Aliens have invaded for the sake of claiming Earth for the corporation they work for. Their efforts are being thwarted by a large mecha shaped like a woman, ARIEL, so an old friend of the invasion force's leader shows up to provide assistance. Things aren't going smoothly on Earth, however. ARIEL's pilots decided that they don't want the job and it's up to their Grandfather/Uncle, two of the girls are his granddaughters the other is his niece, to persuade them otherwise. The story itself is pretty standard and kind of weak, but the execution is great. It's very light-hearted and it's clear that the story is more of a subtle parody of these types of stories than a serious attempt at writing one. The biggest problem is that it suffers from massive exposition d…
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