Originally Posted by boys from the dwarf
sounds cool but what does OVA stand for?
Original Video Animation. Basically, it's direct-to-video, the animation is of better quality than a television series but of less quality than a motion picture, and there's some freedom as to how long it is (usually thirty to forty-five minutes for one episode). They were produced constantly in the mid-eighties up through the late nineties, but not so much ever since Japan's economy got borked.