Has FUNi announced any plans to officially release the OVA?

Taku128 · Post by **Taku128** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 2:57 am

Super Sonic wrote:With this I don't know why anyone would want to bring it over here. It's as if somebody put the FMV scenes from FFX together to make a story.

I'm sure nobody would ever do that.

MajinVejitaXV · Post by **MajinVejitaXV** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 11:22 am

Super Sonic wrote:With this I don't know why anyone would want to bring it over here. It's as if somebody put the FMV scenes from FFX together to make a story.

Except, you know, not.

-Corey

Folken-sama · Post by **Folken-sama** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 8:49 pm

The video isn't a movie. It's a walkthrough.

"Walkthrough" is one of the objectives of the animation. But it remains animation.

As Olivier said, an OVA is no more than "animation made originally for the video market", and what we have with "Plan" is no more than that. We have "full animation" with dialogues and all (more than 30 minutes I think ?), which was only released on VHS (that's for the video market).

So why are people still argueing ?

That the animation has a total of about 30 seconds of actual NES footage doesn't change anything to the animation itself. There are numerous anime series or movies which have used a few seconds of live footage (End of Evangelion, anyone ?). Yet, does anyone talks about these productions as "live movies" or "documentaries"? No, it remains animation, OVA or movie, or TV series...

There has been various anime adaptation of video games, for example Fatal Fury. Is this concidered as a "walkthrough saying in which order you'll fight your opponents and what are the techniques used to defeat them" and not an OVA ? No.

Walkthrough is one the aim of "Plan". But OVA is the type/format/whatever, and it is true. And Toei even says so.

Anonymous Friend · Post by **Anonymous Friend** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 10:50 pm

I think the part that catches everyone is the intent of the animation. But does the intent of something change what it is? Was it marketed as an OVA or as a walkthrough companion to the game? And does that really matter?

Folken-sama · Post by **Folken-sama** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:05 am

Anonymous Friend wrote:I think the part that catches everyone is the intent of the animation. But does the intent of something change what it is? Was it marketed as an OVA or as a walkthrough companion to the game? And does that really matter?

But you don't "market" something as an OVA. You produce, you make an OVA, or a movie, or a Tv Series. Whether is is entended to serve as a sort of walkthrough doesn't matter in the production process. OVA is a format associated to a certain budget, and a certain way to release it. That's all.

"Walkthrough" isn't a format for animation. It's an aim. A "revival" isn't either a type of animation, it's an aim. "Gaiden/side-story" isn't a type of animation, it's an aim, and so and so forth. All this doesn't impact on the way the animation is produced (which is really what defines OVA/Movie/TV series).

Anonymous Friend · Post by **Anonymous Friend** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:17 pm

Folken-sama wrote:
Anonymous Friend wrote:I think the part that catches everyone is the intent of the animation. But does the intent of something change what it is? Was it marketed as an OVA or as a walkthrough companion to the game? And does that really matter?
But you don't "market" something as an OVA. You produce, you make an OVA, or a movie, or a Tv Series. Whether is is entended to serve as a sort of walkthrough doesn't matter in the production process. OVA is a format associated to a certain budget, and a certain way to release it. That's all.

"Walkthrough" isn't a format for animation. It's an aim. A "revival" isn't either a type of animation, it's an aim. "Gaiden/side-story" isn't a type of animation, it's an aim, and so and so forth. All this doesn't impact on the way the animation is produced (which is really what defines OVA/Movie/TV series).

I think, or better yet hopes, that every knows that this is an original (or new) animation. And the definition of which would also include any commercials or any new animated sequences that features the characters and/or thier likenesses (this could potentially include CGI animated sequences in the video games). But it's the classification of these animations that need to be distingished. What would stop me from making my own new Dragonball animation and releasing it? Well, beside Mr. Toriyama and Toei's many lawyers.

Olivier Hague · Post by **Olivier Hague** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:28 pm

Anonymous Friend wrote:What would stop me from making my own new Dragonball animation and releasing it? Well, beside Mr. Toriyama and Toei's many lawyers.

Nothing. But it wouldn't be "official", obviously.
I'm not sure I follow you...

Anonymous Friend · Post by **Anonymous Friend** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:57 pm

Olivier Hague wrote:
Anonymous Friend wrote:What would stop me from making my own new Dragonball animation and releasing it? Well, beside Mr. Toriyama and Toei's many lawyers.
Nothing. But it wouldn't be "official", obviously.
I'm not sure I follow you...

Sorry bout that.

I meant to add "and calling it a OVA." Because it would still fall under the definition of the term. wouldn't it?

MajinVejitaXV · Post by **MajinVejitaXV** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:16 pm

Anonymous Friend wrote:Sorry bout that.

I meant to add "and calling it a OVA." Because it would still fall under the definition of the term. wouldn't it?

If it was being produced for a "direct-to-video" market, it would fit the definition of an OVA. Still, we have a topic for this so why are you posting here and not in that thread?

On topic, I doubt FUNimation will ever use the footage.

-Corey

Super Sonic · Post by **Super Sonic** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:11 pm

From what I know of that game, it's kind of like those old games, "Dragon's Lair" and "Space Ace". Since we haven't seen those put together like a video yet, I doubt we'll see the DBZ one sent here. Besides, I heard that game wasn't all that great.

Anonymous Friend · Post by **Anonymous Friend** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:19 pm

MajinVejitaXV wrote:
Anonymous Friend wrote:Sorry bout that.

I meant to add "and calling it a OVA." Because it would still fall under the definition of the term. wouldn't it?
If it was being produced for a "direct-to-video" market, it would fit the definition of an OVA. Still, we have a topic for this so why are you posting here and not in that thread?

On topic, I doubt FUNimation will ever use the footage.

-Corey

Again, I'm very sorry.

We do have both topic going and both have the question of if it can be classified as an OVA in them and it's kinda hard sometimes to keep that discussion to the other one.