Pelleas.net | Masami Hata Filmography

Apart from the short Sanrio "character anime" OVAs which Hata was involved in several years later, this was Hata's only OVA. Nayuta, a young high school student, rescues an ESPer mother and child and becomes involved in a struggle against aliens who hide a mysterious secret about the universe from humanity -- but for its own good, or to destroy it!? With Sugino Akio as the animation director, this shôjo anime could easily have become an interesting film, but the final product is difficult to follow and overall dissatisfying, with cheap-looking animation, an even cheaper synthesizer soundtrack, paper-thin characterization, etc. In close-ups, the character drawings suddenly become distinctly more detailed and unmistakably Sugino in style, but at other times the characters seem almost badly drawn. In short, a problematic late Hata film hampered by production quality... and story... and...