Forum - View topicGuyver
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Phoenix
Encyclopedia Editor
Posts: 84 Location: Montreal |
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Are 'Guyver: Bio-Booster Armor' and 'Guyver: Bio-Booster Armor 2' both under the title 'Guyver (OAV)'?
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areaseven
Encyclopedia Editor
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It seems that both OAVs are listed as one in the encyclopedia. At least that's how Manga Video's marketing them. |
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
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Sometimes it can be very difficult to catalogue OAVs. OAVs are released individually in Japan, and sometimes there is a strong link between episodes but sometimes there isn't. Should [anime x] be considered one series or separate OAVs? This is really a question that must be answered on a case-by-case level. In the case of Guyver, it seems to be marketed as one series, and animechecklist.net also lists it as one series, and so does animenfo.com. Beyond that I don't know anything about the series, which makes a judgement call rather difficult.
I recently ran into the same kind of trouble with Megazone 23. The first episode was released in 1985. The second episode (apparently a direct continuation of the first), titled "Part 2", was released one year later. But "Part 3" was composed of two episodes released separately in 1989, a story taking place centuries in the future with different characters. So in a sense eps 1 and 2 could be grouped under one title, but can episodes 3a and 3b be placed under that same title? And if "Part 3" is a different series, then it wouldn't make much sense to be missing "Part 2" as a separate title also, right? *sigh* The world of anime is full of weird release schemes. |
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