Salamander

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Japanese: 沙羅曼蛇

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Type: OVA

Episodes: 3

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Feb 25, 1987 to Feb 25, 1989

Producers: Pony Canyon

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Pierrot

Source: Game

Genres: Adventure, Sci-Fi

Duration: 53 min. per ep.

Rating: R+ - Mild Nudity

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Score: 6.11¹ (scored by 596 users)

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Ranked: #9093²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #11486

Members: 1,836

Favorites: 1

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6.11

Ranked #9093Popularity #11486Members 1,836

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Episodes: /3

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Three tales based on the Gradius video game series by Konami. The planet Latis is under attack by the Space Dragon Salamander and it's war planet, the Bacterian horde destroying everything in sight, their defenses ineffective and losing all hope, three heroes from the planet Gradius join Lord British in defense of his beloved planet.

Then in a prequel, a girl from a distant planet brings an ominous warning to the planet Gradius, the Bacterians and how three people become heroes of the galaxy.

Then we jump to the future, after the signing of a peace treaty, one of our heroes gets captured by the Bacterians, can the military might of Gradius and our remaining heroes save the prisoner from a fate worse than death.

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Dan

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Tsujitani, Kouji
Japanese

Lord British

Main

Suzuoki, Hirotaka
Japanese

McBain, Stephanie

Supporting

Hidaka, Noriko
Japanese

Evan, Eddie

Supporting

Inoue, Kazuhiko
Japanese

Paula

Supporting

Shimamoto, Sumi
Japanese

Latis Pilot

Supporting

Ootsuka, Houchuu
Japanese

Doromo

Supporting

Katou, Seizou
Japanese

Latis Cabinet Minister

Supporting

Yanami, Jouji
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Nunokawa, Yuuji

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Toriumi, Hisayuki

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Tamano, Harumi

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Mikimoto, Haruhiko

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"I Remember You" by Yasuhiko Shigemura

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Sep 9, 2010

Maverynthia

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Salamander as most people probably don't know is a game series related to Gradius, a series people might know. The basic premise of this anime is lifted from the Salamander game. Basically you have four pilots unrelated to the game that have to save their world from the Bacterians that are going to turn it into yet another new home for them. The plot is pretty thin and most of the episodes are talking and flying around in the Vic Vipers to shoot stuff. Just like a game. However it does flesh out some of the questions people might have had about why they are ...

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Jan 17, 2013

Shura-shurato

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Not your everyday space opera anime to watch, and most ppl these days don´t even know this one for sure. I think there was an computergame years ago for this on a platform but ok, for a short 3/part ova this is quitr enjoyable but the animation is average, good colours though. The story in the biginning can be a bit predictable , but i does´nt turn out the way u expect the further it develops with a small suprise.Cheaper mecha-a-la-macross style wich was no problem for me , good spacefights and nice opera background music, no spoiled charachters here cus each has an interesting ...

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Dec 6, 2022

Mandalorian

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I genuinely don’t understand why does this anime have such a low score and such a small community (at the moment of writing this review, the score is 5,83 based on 465 votes only), and I think it deserves a little more than this. Let’s be clear, this is not an all-time classic nor an unforgettable mastepiece by any means, but it’s definitely not a bad one. It’s quite good actually and I’ve seen more obscure ones having a bigger community. Apparently this isn’t well known despite being related to a famous videogame franchise.

It is the adaptation of a 1986 Konami game by the ... same name which is related to the Gradius series. To be fair I admit I haven’t played any of them so I don’t know if the anime is loyal to the plot and to the setting of the story told in the game, but since both Gradius and Salamander are horizontal shooters set in space (and from the ‘80s...) I assume there isn’t much plot, and it would make sense if the writer took some liberties. Anyway, a previous knowledge of the game isn’t required to understand the plot so you can watch it even if you haven’t played the game.

The plot has already been summarized in the synopsis section of this page and there isn’t much to add, except the fact that it’s quite generic but not overly simple. It just works, it doesn’t have plot holes and the length of the episodes (50 minutes) gives enough time for development. Maybe it’s not much but there are tons of low quality obscure OVAs from the 80s and the 90s with plots so rushed they don’t even make sense, or barely do. There isn’t much room for character development but you can’t expect it given the limited duration. The quality of art and animation is what you would expect from an average oldschool OVA: it’s nothing special but still much better than many other anime out there. I personally don’t mind this style of aesthetics. A little sidenote: the character designer is Haruhiko Mikimoto, who worked at several Gundam and Macross anime (and other sci-fi anime as well).
The soundtrack is ok too, and the ending credits song is actually quite catchy.

In conclusion, Salamander is an overall enjoyable anime. You can certainly miss it, but watching it won’t be a total waste of time. I watched a lot of terrible, generic, poorly animated and designed, almost unknown OVAs from the ‘80s-’90s and maybe my standards have become too low, making me appreciate an average one as if it was good, but I think this is at least decent. I recommend watching it if you are a big fan of the game but you can give it a try if you love sci-fi anime in general, expecially those from that era.

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