Outlanders

This was my first anime ever when i was a child and i really have grown fond of it. It's very sci fi and yet theres comedy and romance if you love old animes for sure you'll like this one.There's some delightful characters in this anime. It also is a very good manga .
The music in the anime is pretty good to.

Though the manga was very well written and illustrated, this adaptation was very insulting to it. The story was rushed and contained very few connections to the manga. Many of the important characters did not even appear in the anime. Many of the important story points were also absent. Earth barely had a cameo even though it was where half of the story took place. The ending, though less sad, is still far from the manga. Overall, if you have read the manga and loved it, stay away from this OVA.

The OVA has some very obviously similarities with Urusei Yatsura, and you can easily guess that it was influenced by UY in the first place. An extraterrestrial girl comes to earth and takes a useless boy as her groom, against her people wishes, she uses a flames like power on one of the scenes agains the boyfriend and she even has a girl-friend that looks/behaves like Benten. For the anime version they even coloured her hair in green, that looking by the cover of the manga was yellow, and used the same Seyuu of Lum, Fumi Hirano, to do the voice work. Coincidence? I don't ... think so.
The character designs are very similar to those of Takahashi anime versions at the time, but that character design was in vogue at the time, so let's leave that detail.
There are obviously some differences; there is more blood, even gore at the beginning, and more echii stuff that UY would even dare to use.
The story is nothing sort of memorable. But in the end it was an entertaining OVA, even if it was to spot the UY similarities.

Rate: 6.4/10

This is an old OVA that follows the short promote-the-manga format, so it depicts only a glimmer of the source material and clocks in under an hour. It functions as a pilot, doesn't end altogether unsatisfactorily, and they at least finish what appears to be a whole arc, though character development and backstory were most likely heavily excised.

Outlanders is a gorier and raunchier b-movie version of Urusei Yatsura, more or less. Yasuomi Umetsu brings the ketchup in the earlier scenes, and there are plenty of lewd jokes and botched sex scenes, as this is an ecchi rather than a hentai. It's one of those ... stories where two different alien races intend to marry each other so as to usher in peace rather than war and genocide. It's actually kind of gross considering how many of their own people they kill willy-nilly, often for laughs (this is what really tends to be very off-putting about these John Lennon COME TOGETHER-esque scripts).

Kahm looks like Lum from UY, only I'd describe her hair as gator-colored here, she has more obtrusive demon girl horns, and her face has this squashed look that's kind of an ugly hallmark of the character designer. The main character is generic enough that it would be impossible to spot him in a lineup if you watched this thing 100 times. We're graced with a cat girl as well, who has third degree bestiality with a burly cat man. I don't know the proper degree, but I imagine it's not as egregious if you're a cat girl... the little hobbit lizards are kind of amusing as gag characters, but their writing is just the same old sex joke over and over.

The opening sequence is pretty entertaining, as is the sword fight between Kahm and cat-ears. Good-enough storyboarding and directing and sometimes pretty decent animation, but the quality is inconsistent and spotty, and i wouldn't say there are too many highlights beyond what I've outlined, and there's certainly better elsewhere for all of the animators that I'm familiar with who worked on this production.

There's really nothing too terribly noteworthy to point out, other than the goofy fight scene between catboi and the main: the outcome was obvious, and the main was just doing the Ivanhoe-styled chivalry of "I will simp for thee to the death to protect thy honor, fair maiden" thing for a girl he's known for about an hour (who tried to kill him once during that hour). It's a totally pointless scene, and they were already fugitives INSIDE the fortress they needed to escape from. Talk about priorities. Everything else just screams of rush-job or cliche, and you can expect the writing to be unmemorable in all respects.

The Outlanders manga by Johji Manabe spanned almost three dozen comic book issues in America, and was one of those series that any manga reader of the time collected. And, for most people my age, that was their first exposure to Outlanders and Manabe.

This OVA, by comparison, is just a 45-minute one-shot that sort of came and went without a splash; noteworthy only for the hilarously bad vanity-dub by Trish LeDoux.

Is it really fair to compare the two versions? I mean, the manga contains hundreds of pages of artwork and a broad, expansive ... story that took a few years to develop. But you can't cover all of that in a short animated bit like this. The OVA has several characters stripped out and all of the intermingled sub-plots removed, leaving a bare-bones version of the main plot in its stead.

Even then, there's not time to develop that properly, as the main characters are reduced to little more than crass horndogs. (Not to say that wasn't in the manga as well; it's just that there were more dimensions to the characters than just that). And rushed right through, with a what-the-hell ending.

The artwork also suffers somewhat in comparison to the manga, which was crisp and clean black and white linework with very intricate designs at times, which does not translate well to a low-budget anime production. And the animation likewise suffers because of this.

Not to say this is the worst little story in the world, far from it. But if you come to this having read through the manga first, you are only going to be disappointed in comparison.

For someone who’s read the source material, it’s hard to look at an adaptation objectively — even if you’re not trying to, you’ll always think about how it differs and measures up the source material.

And let me tell you, this ain’t it chief.

I’ll only compare the OVA to the manga briefly, because as futile as it is, I don’t like reviewing works themselves, without considering their relation to other creations. For one, it doesn’t really capture the tone of the manga. The comedy that was sparse in the manga is cranked up to eleven. It’s funny, yes, but not very accurate. Compressing a 33-chapter manga ... into a ~50 minute OVA means that many characters are cut out and only a portion of the story is shown — a revised beginning and a slightly altered section from roughly the middle of the story. The stakes on paper are high, but in practice very low. If you wanted an alternate take on the story, then by all means watch, but it is in no way superior to the manga.

Outlanders is the story of Tetsuya, a newspaper photographer who runs into an alien named Kahm. After encountering him, Kahm decides she wants Tetsuya as a fiancee.

There’s not much to it, which is natural, given the short run-time. The romance (if you can even call it that) doesn’t have any time to develop and Kahm then Tetsuya is inexplicably enamored with the other member. The OVA exacerbates the biggest problem of the manga — the lackluster romance. In addition, it does away with its biggest strength: the drama. There’s talk of an alien invasion, but it effectively doesn’t exist. There’s no sense of adventure. The little action that remains is quite gory, with no payoff. The violent scenes are never mentioned again and achieve no purpose other than giving the anime a bit of an identity crisis.

The animation looks pretty enough.

The way I recommend you watch Outlanders is to stick your finger in your ear, find the switch inside your head, and turn your brain off. If Outlanders is good at one thing it’s comedy. There were times when I was legitimately laughing and the irreverent tone helps with this. It helps that in the English dub, Sean Schemmel of Dragon Ball fame plays Tetsuya and gives quite an animated performance. If you like a bit of crude humor, then Outlanders will be up your alley.

Still, as funny as it can be at times, the anime still isn’t that great. It’s less than an hour, so if you want a dumb comedy and don’t have a lot of time to invest, then you should check out Outlanders. Just don’t expect anything great out of it, though.

The insert song’s pretty cool, though.

6/10

I was curious about this OVA seeing that it has Fumi Hirano the voice actress of Lum from Urusei Yatsura. I was wondering if she does her Lum voice or another voice She does her Lum voice. Hahaha. I haven't read the Manga so I can't compare the two.

From the cover with the anime girl it looks like a Urusei Yatsura Knock off.
And it kinda is just with some graphic violence. Which I was Pleasantly surprised by. which I really enjoyed. It features few traits from Urusei Yatsura. A horny male Protagonist, An alien girl in a Metal Bikini. Who has powers of ... Fire instead of Electricity like Lum, who's also a princess, Fan Service, and so much more. The characters are likeable. But the story does feel incomplete tho

I found the OVA amusing as Urusei Yatsura Knock off it just make me wanna watch that Anime. It is nice hearing Fumi Hirano voicing another character. Her voice is always pleasant to hear. I think it's funny that She has voiced a Oni with Lum in Urusei Yatsura and here she voicing a Scucubus. It's just funny. Therefore If you are a fan of the voice actress of Lum definitely check this out.