Been watching some horrible 90s OAVs

So for whatever reason it seemed like the 90s had a lot more direct to video releases than this current generation or maybe I just don’t notice. I don’t know, but whatever the case there were a ton of quirky releases back in the day.

So I booted up my collection of Animerica issues which go back as far as August 1998 and l searched for some stuff to watch that looked moderatly okay or the characters looked moe enough.

Elf Princess Rane 1995-1996

I don’t know why they translated the title as such when 妖精 means fairy and her name is Ren and not Rane. This was a pretty weird watch, and to be honest I have no idea what was going on in the background. It appeared to me the fire department was at war with a company that makes resorts and amusement park rides?

Anyway, you have this weird guy named Go who is a ruins explorer otaku who meets a fairy. Go thinks this fairy will lead him to treasure and that’s basically it. Quirky antics ensue for 2 episodes. There were these two characters that were speaking gibberish all the time. I don’t know if it was supposed to be funny. Also there was this guy that has some wicked hair that could only rival Cloud’s.

I wonder how much hair gel this guy uses?

There was also a glasses girl. I so miss glasses girls in anime. They’re so rare nowadays. She’s voiced by Satomi Koorogi. It was pretty interesting to hear her voice outside from her Asahi Sakurai role from Comic Party.

The 2 episodes are mostly just comedy and I guess they had a third episode planned seeing from the previews. I suppose sales were so shitty they couldn’t make the third.

Galaxy Fraulein Yuna 1995

Hm. This was a kinda cute to watch although not what I had in mind. I was expecting girls in skimpy leotard like gundam gear kicking ass, but that really wasn’t the case. This was a comedy as well with like a second of fighting in both episodes. Not much in terms of character development but I’ve heard these are based on a video game series so it’s forgivable.

Chisa Yokoyama does an excellent job as the main character, Yuna. Yuna is kinda perverted too it appears. Perverted like Konata, I guess. Yuna fantasizes that this new girl likes her, and then there is this other time where she mentions bondage. Kinda interesting lol. There is also a girl (robot?) who eats a lot and says ~desu at the end of mostly everything she says. So, that ~desu thing has been around a lot longer than I thought. Satomi Koorogi also plays a lead role in this as well as the character, Saline.

This was a better watch but still nothing great. I kinda wanna watch the sequel but I can’t seem to find it anywhere…

Hyper Doll 1995

Another show with female characters in skimpy outfits kicking alien ass. This was actually better out of the three I’m talking about. Although, I was pretty drunk when I watched it so it might have appeared better than it was. Hm. Anyway, it was kinda neat that this show had that two high school girl superheros but could care less about saving shit thing going on. Pretty typical fair but no real conclusive ending since it’s based on a manga. This also has a glasses girl as well who is a friend to the heroines and I think likes the loser male character that knows the heroines real identities.

A drunken glasses girl? Raep tiem.

Just a few general comments to wrap this up. Although, all three of these weren’t anything fantastic it’s like the creators knew as well. Especially with Hyper Doll and Elf Princess Rane which occasionally poked fun at themselves. Also, I’m not gonna lie. I love the 90s animation and nude breasts with nipples which you never see anymore either.