Gdleen

Well, this was kinda suprise for a job offer, being an representative to being send out to investigate habitable planets, and ordered not giving a crap about the inhabitants since well....... EVERYTHING TO SERVE THE COMPANY RIGHT?????????
No !!!!!! if u have little experience in dealing with stuff and the main charachter being a bit of an airhead, this ova is quite comical, with a dark twist in the end i never expected.
The art and animation is def. oldskool, gritty, taperecorded and everything, not too proffesional tey gave a little kiddo touch to it , except to the local people of the planet ( oh ideas ... man where have they went since 2003) and its something you maybe have to get used to.
For and short ova that mostly revolved around a young business-planet representitive and a young humanoid girl with the locals fighing it out its pretty funny and adventurous at the same time wich make more sense when more is clear about who lives on the planet, developing into something that could made a serie out of it i mean just the potential you bastards!!!!
The studio that made this took a bite out of the OVA cake since a lot of it was influenced by 1980's futuristic anime, you gotta love it, oh and Robot companions ( just 1 in this case) they always give a feeling of security even when the carachter is a bum but occasionaly for being an airhead can use its head!!only in heated moments.
This was more like a straight up anime that din't go into starmaps, spacebattles , alien invasions or anything that was time consuming ( yeah deadline alright) but i for the most part enjoyed it, even for the just 1 female charachter, i could go with it and the purpose of the locals well.... just watch it.
Overall i enjoyed it for what it was but more could be pulled out of it to be fair

“Gdleen” is a 1-episode OVA with fantasy, action and sci-fi elements that takes tropes from those genres and runs with them, but doesn’t really get anywhere.

The story begins with a Japanese company employee named Ryu who, along with his boss, the robot MOS, crash lands on a planet called Gdleen. Although this doesn’t seem to have been their initial destination, MOS is insistent that Ryu get out there and research the planet’s resources for their company, and even write a report about it, even though they’re stranded on an unknown planet with hostile inhabitants who are actively trying to kill them. After inexplicably escaping death ... multiple times, Ryu comes across Fana, a fairy who ran away from home (we never see any others of her kind, however), as she is bathing in a pond. They both get captured by the hostile race of beings on this planet, while MOS, who is receiving favorable treatment at another race’s settlement, couldn’t care less. Ryu and Fana are to be brought to the planet’s god, Governor, as sacrifices, but there’s something suspiciously wrong about the whole ordeal. Can Fana and her powerful magic save the day? Will Ryu and MOS ever get back home? And what bout Fana and Ryu’s budding romance?

The premise of this show is okay, but the execution is lacking. Cheap, nonsensical gimmicks are often used to drive the story forward. Also, all of the characters are tropes and/or stereotypes: Ryu is the typical self-insert salaryman, MOS is the typical smart-talking computer navigational system/robot, Fana is the typical absurdly naive love interest, the antagonist is cliched and predictable, and none of the other characters are memorable. Furthermore, the characters are largely unlikable, especially MOS, whose demands that Ryu work normally despite everything going on around them are incredibly annoying. Fana’s all-too-convenient naivety and nonchalance about being captured are also irritating.

The story has a conclusion that’s relatively serious, despite the overall comedic and lighthearted tone of the OVA, although it could be considered a happy ending. In the end credits, there’s a still image showing an “epilogue” of sorts, so we know how all the main characters end up, but it’s rather sudden and surprising.

The OVA’s technical aspects are generally average. The animation and character designs are okay, although backgrounds and other elements of the world aren’t that detailed. We’re given a look at the planet from space at the beginning and end, and it has a unique appearance, but due to how jumbled the direction is you might miss this. There are also a few scenes with nothing much happening in them that seem to go on for too long. The voice acting is acceptable, except I found Fana’s voice to be grating. Music is by and large forgettable — the folk rock-inspired ending theme is okay, but it doesn’t fit the tone of the series too well.

There is significant objectionable content in this OVA, including a number of scenes with nudity, characters getting killed/shown as already dead (this isn’t too graphic, though), some animals and a guy relieving themselves and some explicit dialogue. Please note that this OVA also has a lot of flashing effects, and there are two scenes where the flashing is particularly intense (close to the halfway mark and during the climax). If you are even the least bit photosensitive, I would recommend either not watching this at all, skipping those parts, or watching those parts at reduced speed.

Overall, “Gdleen” felt aimless to me. Was it trying to be a comedy? An adventure? A romance? A critique on society? It spread itself too thin and bundled itself with too many tropes to get anywhere, and the characters are difficult to sympathize with. This OVA was hard to watch, so I don’t recommend it.