All in One wrote:
There was some silly sci-fi OVA I watched recently called Nora from 1985. Not overtly bad but not good either. Kinda boring overall. I'd recommend it if it were shorter as Nora herself is quite cute and animated.
Thought I'd do a little follow up on this post as I recently watched Twinkle Nora Rock Me for the first time and rewatched the original Nora. I had more or less completely forgotten about these OVAs until a few months ago when the latter suddenly blew up in the anisphere due to its, er, interesting animation. I'd held off on watching Twinkle for another friend get together as I expected it'd be great riffing material. I ended up watching it with a friend at around 1 in the morning and it was an okay time. It's pretty bad, but not on par with Suburban Sasquatch or the works of Neil Breen. The opening sequence is really the highlight of the whole thing, outside of that it's just a run of the mill low budget animu. A fucking weird animu, though.
Since my friend had never seen the original before I put it on after watching Twinkle. Comparing the two is quite interesting as Nora is both twice as long and much better animated but is also quite grounded when compared to how off the walls bonkers Twinkle is. The experience renewed my interest in whatever the source material was. When you're given two wildly different adaptations you have to wonder what the hell the source was. At first I was worried the original manga was lost media as I could not find any trace of it besides a MAL page and the author's other works but it seems someone uploaded the raws a few weeks ago. I'm eager to give it a look.
