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Japanese: ノーラ

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Type: OVA

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jan 21, 1985

Producers: Filmlink International

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: None found, add some

Source: Manga

Genres: Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space

Duration: 56 min.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 4.76¹ (scored by 540 users)

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Ranked: #9951²

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Popularity: #8991

Members: 1,406

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Synopsis

Nora is on vacation in a "Holiday Inn" space station. When the artificial gravity fails, the whole space resort becomes chaotic but she helps solve the problem.

(Source: ANN)

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Related Anime

Adaptation:	Nora no Hakobune
Sequel:	Twinkle Nora Rock Me!

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Characters & Voice Actors

Scholar, Nora

Main

Yamamoto, Yuriko
Japanese

Dr. Zachariasen

Main

Utsumi, Kenji
Japanese

Stewardess

Supporting

Yamada, Eiko
Japanese

Newscaster

Supporting

Shioya, Kouzou
Japanese

Fat Lady

Supporting

Mukaidono, Asami
Japanese

Official

Supporting

Hirose, Masashi
Japanese

Chief

Supporting

Ginga, Banjou
Japanese

Pecanson, Edward

Supporting

Nojima, Akio
Japanese

Artifiend

Supporting

Nakamura, Shuusei
Japanese

Professor Doherty

Supporting

Nagai, Ichiro
Japanese

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Staff

Yamamoto, Mataichirou

Producer

Yamakawa, Norio

Producer, Planning

Mikuriya, Satomi

Director, Script, Storyboard, Original Creator, Setting, Character Design

Nakata, Reiko

Script

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"Yume Hikou (夢飛行)" by Yuriko Yamamoto

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Mar 19, 2019

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 1

HeadlessHorseman (All reviews)

9 people found this review helpful

***THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS***

Nora is a 1985 OVA that opens with a scene of colorfully flashing bright lights with the intent behind it being to damage your eyes. It then sets out to damage your brain as well with its ensuing story-line. Nora is a 56-minute journey of pure agony that will present the viewer with an incredibly simpleminded story and dim-witted characters.

A few days ago I made a review of Nora's sequel OVA, Twinkle Nora Rock Me! and while I stated that the sequel possesses little to no story to speak of, its prior installment, Nora, does make an attempt at one—a really bad attempt that will insult the viewer.

***SPOILERS***

Certain traits of the characters within this OVA are...questionable, if not outright unflattering. Unless the character's name is Nora chances are they didn't have much effort put into their design. Although, oddly enough, the background characters seem to have better designs than the ones with speaking roles in this OVA. I'd like to hope the reason these characters with speaking roles were so poorly designed is not because they wanted Nora to look better than everyone else... What, too much of a nitpick you say? Perhaps. Then let's move on to some more of those questionable traits I mentioned. A "super genius" by the name of Professor Dohati with an "IQ of 212" (I question this statement greatly) creates a supercomputer with artificial intelligence to unleash his fury on those who laughed at him. I'm not joking about this, although I wish I was. We are never made to care about this though, as what actually happened to make him do this is never shown or referenced again. Instead, he eventually ends up helping Nora and another character, Dr. Zachariasen, defeat the menace he released into the world. The only reason one would be led to believe that Professor Dohati actually possesses any intelligence at all is due to the fact that he did somehow manage to create a supercomputer with artificial intelligence. How he did it, I have no clue because everything else about his character makes me think that he is nothing but a complete pinhead. Dr. Zachariasen is a smart man, apparently... Anyway, he too, possesses certain unflattering traits. For example, he snores, loudly...I can only assume that the voice actor for him was told beforehand to snore in the most annoying manner he could possibly muster because my eardrums felt like they were being violently assaulted. It's not just one time that the snoring occurs either, it's multiple times. So, he is a guy whose intellect will prove to be "useful" during the show. We also have Artifiend, the form of artificial intelligence who goes rogue after he comes to the conclusion you'd expect him to: humans be bad, me destroy dem. And then we have our main character, Nora Scholar, a kind-hearted—albeit not too bright (indeed, the name choice is ironic)—girl who gets mixed up in the mess created by Professor Dohati and his supercomputer.

The story of this OVA is simple: "smart" man creates supercomputer that possesses artificial intelligence, supercomputer comes to the conclusion that humans must be destroyed, supercomputer goes rogue, stop the supercomputer. This is what I mean when I say that this Nora OVA attempts a story. It makes a poorly executed bid to actually have a message—a message of peace and love. Aw, how sweet. We have to stop being such vile fiends guys! It eventually falls to Nora and company to stop this supercomputer and stop him she shall. Thus, Nora talks to him, rambling on with what I can only refer to as verbal diarrhea to convince him that he too has a heart and that he should not annihilate all of humankind. He eventually acquiesces, stating that humans should abandon all war and if they do, he won't wipe them out, but if they don't listen to him, well then, he will. A perfectly hypocritical message achieved! What makes it worse is that this is treated as a joke. The OVA wants us to see this as a good thing and it does realize how bad it sounds, but it makes a very lazy attempt to make it seem like it's not quite that awful. Hey, I'm all for messages of love and peace, but the way it is implemented in this OVA is, quite honestly, insulting. But then again, everything about this OVA is insulting so at the very least it's being consistent.

***SPOILERS END***

The animation within this OVA is nowhere near the level of being as poor as its sequel OVA's animation, so at least it has that going for it. Additionally, the music is fantastic and features several really mellow and relaxing tracks. However, the voice acting did not stand out in any significant way, other than Nora's, "Yay!" Any level of enjoyment for me was nigh non-existent. (In other words, I only liked the music.) The message is poorly handled. The characters are one-dimensional and brainless. It's a complete waste of time. When I say don't bother watching it, I really mean it, DON'T WATCH IT. You'll likely get nothing from it, in fact, it's more than likely you'll lose something instead. That something being a significant amount of your brain cells. Its sequel Twinkle Nora Rock Me! is undoubtedly worse, but it is still more probable to be a bit more of an enjoyable experience as you watch its own mess unfold. Both watching and writing quick reviews about these Nora OVAs was a daunting tribulation for me considering how painful an experience it was, but people deserve to be told about them since these OVAs are two of the notable pieces of animation out there that have the distinct ability to disintegrate the brains of anyone who is brave enough to watch them to ash. If you still choose to watch them despite this, well, all I can offer you are my condolences.

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Mar 18, 2019

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 6

Tyumace (All reviews)

6 people found this review helpful

Nora is about a girl named Nora who meets a professor on a flight to a vacation resort in space. But as they start hanging out in (space)town they notice an inordinate amount of electrical appliances, machines, etc. malfunctioning. It turns out another professor has decided to do a sick prank on mankind using a supercomputer, but the supercomputer decides to take things too far and attempts to wipe out all mankind, including the bad professor. Not cool. So the the professor and Nora, who were already trying to find the cause of all the malfunctioning, decide to try and stop the supercomputer with the read more

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