Disaster Report: RECORD OF LODOSS WAR: CHRONICLES OF THE HEROIC KNIGHT
The 1980s are considered by many to be the glory days of the anime OVA, but the 1990s was no slouch for the format either. While the number of OVAs decreased due to Japan’s economic recession and changing trends in media, there were plenty of excellent, influential, and fondly remembered OVAs that came out during that decade. That being said, in the 1990s animation studios began to view OVAs less as a place to experiment and more like the seed of a potential new franchise, complete with a TV-length adaptation. Over the next few months, I’m going to be exploring how three very different OVAs got lost in translation in their transition to television in the late 1990s, all at the hands of the same animation studio. Let’s begin with the oldest of these OVAs: Record of Lodoss War .