OVA/1989/Mecha Titles

OVA: (Type) OVA = Original Video Animation. These are the direct-to-video anime titles done in Japan. Often, OVAs can start a franchise (Tenchi Muyou! Ryououki), start a TV series (Mahou Tsukai Tai!), be a sequel to a TV series (Love Hina Again), or be a stand-alone title (Aa! Megami-sama! OVA). Sometimes, the OAVs are named the same as the TV series and thus will sometimes have the term OVA listed after the title's name to separate it.

Mecha: (Story/Location) This is a genre of anime which features mechanical fighting machines. Often these take the form of giant robots but this isn't the only form mecha can take. There are tons of examples of mecha titles considering the popularity of the series.

Title	Rating	Synopsis
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Assemble Insert	Rent	The police are powerless against "Demon Seed", a criminal gang which employs hi-tech armored battle suits. What's more, the collateral damage that results from the futile attempts to stop the bandits has made the police increasingly unpopular. Chief Hattori of the "Counter Demon Seed Special Agent Headquarters" comes up with a bizarre solution: hold special "Hero Auditions" in hope of finding someone who is both capable of stopping Demon Seed and popular enough that the public will forgive whatever damage occurs in the process! The adorably cute and incredibly strong Maron Namikaze seems to be just the girl Hattori has been looking for. "A super idol who can sing, dance, and fight crime will soon be born!"
G
Gunbuster	Buy	See Top wo Nerae!
Gunbuster: Aim For The Top!	Buy	See Top wo Nerae!
K
Kido Keisatsu Patoreba	Buy	In the future, (I guess now the past because it is set in 1998) great advancements are made with the creation of Labors, giant robots designed for construction. With the increased use of Labors, Labors crimes also skyrocketed. To combate this threat, Tokyo formed the Special Vehicals Section 2 and gave them Patrol Labors or Patlabors.
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Megazone 23	Rent	(1ST AND 2ND MOVIE)In the distant future mankind has totally worn out the earth. In a desperate attempt to save the earth, all of mankind is sent into space on pod spaceships known as Megazones. Each megazone carries a billion people, and they are to remain in space till the earth has reclaimed the whole planet. But space is a dangerous place, and the last two remaining megazones, one of them named "Megazone 23", are finally coming back to earth.
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Patlabor OAV	Buy	See Kido Keisatsu Patoreba
Patlabor: The Original Series	Buy	See Kido Keisatsu Patoreba
Project A-Ko 4	Rent	See Project A-Ko: Kanketsuron
Project A-Ko: Final	Rent	See Project A-Ko: Kanketsuron
Project A-Ko: Kanketsuron	Rent	A-Ko's teacher, Ayumi-sensei, is getting married thanks to an arranged marriage. But to who? One of the cast is revealed to be an alien princess and it isn't who was expected (despite the hints dropped thru out the first 3)
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Top wo Nerae!	Buy	Enthusiastic but inept, Noriko is chosen to join the crew of the starship Exelion to fight the aliens who killed her father. Friendship and love clash with the realities of war and lightspeed travel.

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