John UM
Many anime fans who have entered the pit will notice that the cartoons they watched are divided into various categories such as “theatrical version”, “TV version” and “OVA version”. A few days ago, “Erogan A teacher” After OVA was released, some friends asked me what animation is OVA. What is the difference between OVA and general animation? Today, I will take this opportunity to briefly understand what is “OVA” animation
What is an OVA animation.
The so-called OVA animation refers to the original video animation, which is called “original video animation”. Now it is also called original visual animation, which is also the meaning of “original visual animation”. This “original” has a broad original meaning, not necessarily from the planning to the story are original, but must be discovered by independent channels, the general distribution method is the sale of DVD, Blu-ray disc
OVA Animation History.
In the early days of Japanese animation, the animation form was only a form of “moving theater”. After World War II, the animation form broadcast on TV was gradually born. After the popularity of commercial animation, OVA animation had its own gain a foothold. It is reported that the earliest Japanese OVA animation was “DALLOS” in 1983. The supervision was for Hai Yongxing and Oshii Shou. The first volume of this animation sold over 10,000 sales, which also became a hot start for OVA animation..
In the early days, OVA animation was once called OAV animation, which is original animation video, but the abbreviation of OAV is considered to be easy to be mistaken as original adult video in Japan, which is called AV, so it was changed to OVA in the later stage. This is also an interesting episode
After 2010, the distribution method of OVA animation was basically based on DVD and Blu-ray, and replaced the media form of the early video tape
TV animation and OVA animation relationship.
If you want to ask the difference between OVA animation and TV animation? The distribution method is the biggest difference. The TV animation is broadcasted on the TV station and then released and distributed in the form of a CD. The OVA animation is released in an independent form, for example, in the form of a CD-ROM. The distribution channel of the OVA animation is relatively independent
And the theatrical version of the animation refers to the works released in the cinema, the audit mechanism of the three is different in Japan. Therefore, there is a clear distinction between the content expressions of the works
TV animation adopts the self-review mechanism, which has certain scale restrictions. The TV animation with larger scale will be placed in the late night where children are more difficult to contact, and it is called “deep night animation”. It is subject to strict review, so it is limited in performance. You have not seen the scale of the theatrical version of the animation is bigger than the TV late night file. This is the reason. Because OVA is sold independently, it does not need to undergo self-review of TV animation, so the relative scale is larger. Therefore, many TV animation “correction” shots will be corrected without OVA. This is also an advantage of OVA animation
First TV animation or OVA animation first? This is not certain. Some works are OVA’s success in promoting small channels. Try to make TV animations to make the audience more. There are also TV animations to “reward” loyal fans in the form of OVA
OVA Animation stands for “High Quality”?
Due to the different release mechanism of OVA animation and TV animation, TV animation has been limited by the delivery time, and has to be completed in the cycle, which affects the quality of the animation, and is limited by the self-auditing mechanism of TV delivery. Content, so OVA not only can get more abundant production time, but also get more creative space, not only that, so in general, OVA animation generally achieves higher quality than TV animation. But in general, the production time of the theatrical version is not reached
“The kind of fan” was originally OVA?
A lot of friends care about the “family”, in fact, according to the distribution method, it should also be counted in the OVA animation. However, as with ordinary OVA animations, Gongkou is another classification. “ kindThe production of Fan” is generally not produced by the TV animation production company, but by a few special animations, but the general TV animation artists may participate in the production of these works, and even the famous Daxie participates in the character design. Before, there was “the kind of fan” set by TONY people. The style of painting was very obvious, and even the supervision of general TV animation was produced. That kind. 番”, for example, the new house Zhaozhi has used vests to make “. That kind. 番
There are some classic OVA animation works
Rishengshe often sells the story of “Mobile Suit Gundam” in the form of OVA, mostly for the story, but quite exquisite. 0083 “Mobile Suit Gundam 08MS Squad” “Mobile Suit Gundam Pocket War” is a very good OVA animation work, of course, “Mobile Suit Gundam UC”.
GAINAX released the “FLCL” series.
Tongshe’s “Flying Leap Peak” is also a classic masterpiece of OVA animation.
河森正治’s “The Macross ZERO”.
Most of them are sci-fi works with the style of that era