Dragon Half

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Japanese: ドラゴンハーフ

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Type: OVA

Episodes: 2

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Mar 26, 1993 to May 28, 1993

Producers: Kadokawa Shoten, Victor Entertainment

Licensors: ADV Films, Discotek Media

Studios: Production I.G

Source: Manga

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy

Theme: Parody

Duration: 27 min. per ep.

Rating: R+ - Mild Nudity

Statistics

Score: 6.89¹ (scored by 11,881 users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #4893²

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Popularity: #4670

Members: 21,964

Favorites: 95

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Synopsis

Mink is no ordinary teenage girl, being half-human and half-dragon. Her father had fallen in love with a red dragon he intended to kill, and instead of slaying the dragon, he married her. Their union gave birth to Mink, who inherited horns, a tail, retractable wings, and incredible strength—characteristics which signify her dragon half nature.

Mink spends her days accompanied by her friend Pia, a dwarf girl with overprotective parents, and her best friend Lufa, an elf with great healing powers but impressively bad magic. The three find themselves mooning over the dreamy and charming dragonslayer, Dick Saucer. But in a sudden, absurd turn of events, Mink gets closer than ever to the object of her fantasies, only to realize that her love may never be reciprocated because of her dragon heritage.

Thus, the trio sets out on a quest to find a potion that will make Mink fully human. They may unwittingly make enemies, but they are sure to have one heck of a good time.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

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Background

Dragon Half is a two-episode original video animation consisting of Dragon Half: Mink's Journey and Dragon Half (Final): The Brutal Killer Martial Arts Tournament, adapting the first two volumes of the manga and released two months apart. Four episodes were planned, but the anime did not garner enough interest to justify a continued production.

Dragon Half spawned a videogame of the same name for the TurboGraphx-16 console, or the PC Engine. The game utilizes the storyline of the anime. The voice actors from the anime reprise their roles in the game.

The show received an English dubbing, of which ADV Films released on VHS in 2000, and then on DVD that same year. As of March 2014, Discotek Media licensed the franchise.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Mink

Main

Mitsuishi, Kotono
Japanese

Lufa

Main

Kouda, Mariko
Japanese

Pia

Main

Kawata, Taeko
Japanese

Saucer, Dick

Supporting

Matsumoto, Yasunori
Japanese

Damaramu

Supporting

Ootsuka, Akio
Japanese

Rouce the Red Lightning

Supporting

Aono, Takeshi
Japanese

Vena

Supporting

Sakuma, Rei
Japanese

Rosario

Supporting

Shiozawa, Kaneto
Japanese

King Siva

Supporting

Ogata, Kenichi
Japanese

Narrator

Supporting

Tomita, Kousuke
Japanese

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Ishikawa, Mitsuhisa

Producer

Sasaki, Shirou

Producer

Sadamitsu, Shinya

Director, Episode Director, Script, Storyboard

Mitsuishi, Kotono

Theme Song Performance

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Opening Theme

"Taosu zo! Red Dragon" by Yasunori Matsumoto

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Ending Theme

"Watashi no Tamagoyaki (私のたまごやき)" by Kotono Mitsuishi

Reviews

Apr 10, 2024

Longnines

Recommended

A young girl born to a dragon mother and a former dragon-slaying father becomes infatuated with pop-singing dragon-slayer Dick Saucer. Unplanned interventions occur when the dragon-half girl and her friends set out to attend his concert.

Dragon Half is a short 2-part dumb-fun comedy with lascivious undertones. The humor is mostly slapstick, the circumstances in which the characters find themselves are often absurd, and the story is ridiculous. The animation fluctuates by the scene, caricaturizing its own characters and oversimplifying their designs, and then shifting back to fully illustrated; the animation itself is good. The writing is parodical of the fantasy/adventure genre, picking on classic tropes ...

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Jul 18, 2017

Tyrannicswine117

Mixed Feelings

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You know you've found a gem when you see a character called Dick Saucer and that the show gives off a strangely nostalgic feeling of old cartoons from the 90's and early 2000's.

The story is about Mink a half human, half dragon that is a big fan of the dragon hunter Dick Saucer and wants to get concert tickets to see him, however King Siva has a plan to stop Mink from gaining her goal so he can make Mink's mother his wife.
Looking at the description I wasn't really putting a lot of faith into enjoying this yet in some ways I did, ... despite being only 2 episodes this show gave off a vibe that I hadn't felt for a long time and that feeling is the funny randomness that you get from old cartoons where you see the main character outdoing the main villain in ridiculous ways and that is what I got from this since the way Mink always win's is by sheer dumb luck which surprised me and made me think this kind of show could've lasted a long time, but it didn't.

Considering this is only 2 episodes it's quite difficult to describe the characters other than their there for comedy.
Mink is the female MC and despite being half human, half dragon she can fly, breath fire and has incredible strength though these aren't really what she uses to win her battles, her personality is very much like a school girl is has a huge crush on a popular idol hence Dick saucer and she can be a bit clueless, but whenever she gets stopped in her tracks towards her goal she does manage to clear the rubble in front of her.
Mink also has her companions to help her who are Lufa and Pia though they don't really do much other than getting in Minks way when it comes to the battles.
Mink also has a rival called Vena who is actually a half human, half slime and she also has a fangirl crush on Dick Saucer so their pretty much in the same predicament making it look like a childish fight over their high school crush.
King Siva who is also Vena's father is stupid and mainly relies on others to do his bidding's though despite being stupid he doesn't seem entirely like a cruel king.
Dick Saucer is the crush of pretty much all of the female characters and has to put up with their attics that usually impact quite a bit like Mink accidentally giving him a laxative or accidentally becoming his enemy after he was told that Mink was an evil Red dragon, however despite being a popular guy he does seem like a nice person who put's the people above fame.

The artstyle looked really weird and the same can be said for the characters too since they have extremely tiny faces and the way their heads are shaped doesn't look right too, but what also seems weird is how the female characters have surprisingly large thighs and legs making the rest of their body small in comparison and the show does mix it up with them being in Chibi form when the scenes turn into comedy.

The comedy was a little funny and nostalgic as it reminded me of the old cartoons that relied on the main hero or heroine in this case going on random adventures and beating the bad guy in some ridiculous way and this is no exception as one way they defeated a villain was by him accidentally throwing his sword and somehow hitting him right through his head so yeah pretty ridiculous then again it has the parody tag so it makes sense having that.

Overall this is something that you watch in an hour that will give a decent laugh, it certainly isn't memorable, but at least it wasn't completely stupid and ridiculous where it isn't funny.

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Sep 12, 2018

ktulu007

Not Recommended

Dragon Half was a two episode OVA based on a seven volume manga by Mita Ryuusuke. It was handled by Production IG. That's right, the studio behind Chocolate Underground, Usagi Drop & Stand Alone Complex, to name just a few. So, how does this one hold up?

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We open with our heroine, Mink, trying to watch a pretty boy idol on the television while her parents fight. She leaves the chaos to converse with her friends about Dick Saucer & his upcoming concert. Unbeknownst to her, the king, Siva, has the hots for her dragon mother and plans to kill her father for his crime of... not ...

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