We begin with an OVA based on a manga that, in some way, reminds me of Samurai Gold, which I had covered in 2025 for a "samurai"-themed installment of OM, OM, OVA! & also featured a story based around a judicially-themed character. Debuting back in late 1987, Judge by Fujihiko Hosono (Bio Hunter, Dokkiri Doctor, Gallery Fake) ran in Futabasha's Action Brother & (later) Comic Action Character magazines until early 1991, totaling 21 chapters (plus a bonus parody) across two volumes. The manga focused on Hoichiro Ohma, who by day is nothing more than a simple salaryman but in reality is a descendant of the Ohma Clan of spirit mediums, & by night he acts as a "Magistrate of Darkness" (more literally "Officer of the Dark Court", but that doesn't sound as cool) who takes on cases brought to him by the dead against those who they feel wronged them. Hoichiro determines guilt or innocence, as well as punishment, via the "Six Codes of Darkness", a book bound in human skin. Hosono originally had the manga focus on stories where good directly triumphed over evil, but over time focused more on the flow of cause & effect via supernatural means. On August 1, 1991 a 48-minute OVA based on the manga, titled Yami no Shihokan/Magistrate of Darkness: Judge, came out in Japan & was one of a large variety of OVAs co-produced by Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) & Movic/Animate-Film, i.e. it's with Aniplex now, with Hiroshi Negishi (Tekkaman Blade, Bounty Dog) heading things up as director; like some other OVAs, it also got a short theatrical run later that same year. Central Park Media would license & release the Judge OVA in English via both dubbed & subbed VHS in 1996, & even got the subbed version to air on IFC once in 1997(!), before re-releasing it on dual-audio DVD in 1999; that DVD would then later get bundled with Cybernetics Guardian in 2002 as the "Judgment Day Pack". Man, I was able to connect this to three prior OM, OM, OVA! entries (Samurai Gold, Bio Hunter, & even Bounty Dog) so I guess the Judge OVA is a perfect way to begin this installment. Therefore, let's see if it fits the Halloween mood appropriately.
Hoichiro Ohma is a simple & well meaning salaryman, one who's in a good relationship with his co-worker, Nanase. However, when he sees people get away with law breaking injustices that should be punished, Ohma takes on his "other" personality. When they least expect it, the guilty are judged by Ohma & his pet parrot familiar based on the crimes they have committed and are punished according to the "Laws of Darkness", which have been collected in a book bound in human skin over the centuries by Ohma's ancestors. First up is Ryuichi Murakami, a co-worker of Ohma's who has been embezzling money in secret from their workplace, all to help pay off a group of guerilla insurgents in South America, & manages to get his "girlfriend" & fellow co-worker Yamamoto blamed for the embezzlement. After that comes Director Koji Kawamata, the man Murakami was helping with the embezzlement who becomes Ohma's next target to judge after Kawamata's friend/co-worker Yamanobe was found dead in South America via the insurgents... but a "Metaphysical Defense Attorney" named Hiromi Shimon (not named in the OVA, but is named in the manga) comes to Kawamata's aid. After Ohma & Shimon come to an impasse on their own it's decided that they'll go in front of the Court of the Ten Kings to determine Kawamata's judgment.
Looking it up, the Judge manga overall told 16 stories across its 21 chapters, and the OVA adapted only two of them. The story with Murakami looks to be based on the very first chapter, which makes perfect sense due to its relatively simple & straightforward story, while the stuff with Kawamata & Shimon (I don't get why his name is never stated in the OVA) was Shimon's introduction in the manga, as he'd become a recurring counterpart for Ohma, apparently even working with him at least once. The OVA does tie the two stories together in a way that I'm sure wasn't in the manga by having Murakami be a part of Kawamata's money scheme with the South American guerillas, but otherwise this feels more like a two-part OVA that was simply combined into one, though they definitely aren't evenly spaced, as Murakami's story only takes up the first third of the 48-minute runtime. Anyway, one can definitely read that general synopsis above & think that Judge is maybe a bit too silly of a concept to take seriously, since it's literally about a magistrate/judge of the dead who gives judgment towards the living, only to then have to play prosecutor against a "Defense Attorney of the Dark" in front of the literal Ten Kings of Hell, including Enma himself. However, Judge works really well because it plays it all rather straight, and while Ohma & Shimon are essentially playing spiritual medium versions of Phoenix Wright & Miles Edgeworth, though Ohma is nowhere near as playfully incompetent as Phoenix can be, the stories told here are very much more about the people whose sins led to the deaths of others being given their just desserts, not unlike how a series like Pet Shop of Horrors works.
The Judge OVA was released in the year-long interim between the second & third Fuma no Kojirou OVA productions, and there is a decent amount of carry over between Judge & FnK, mostly when it comes to a number of animators, some producers, three voice actors, & (most notably) the music & audio. In particular, Judge is the only other anime to have music composed by the late Toshiro Imaizumi, and like FnK's score the music here is pretty dang good & manages to maintain a good sense of spiritual mystery & awe, with a nice use of synth; I would have loved to have seen Imaizumi compose more often for anime than just Fuma no Kojirou & Judge. Another fun part of the OVA was Kaneto Shiozawa as Ohma, as while his iconic cadence can be heard whenever Ohma's in full magistrate mode it was neat to hear him voice a much more meek & "normal" character whenever Ohma was his usual self at work or with Nanase. I also honestly liked how Ohma & Nanase were already in a healthy & loving relationship, though Nanase didn't know about Ohma's "other" life, as it helped make Ohma feel more like a regular guy than some "occultic weirdo" from the very beginning. Overall, Judge is a very solid & fun little one-off OVA that tells a couple of neat stories, with the second one involving Kawamata & Shimon definitely being the highlight. Watching this really made me wish that I could read the entire manga & see what other stories Fujihiko Hosono told with Ohma, Nanase, & even Shimon; at only two volumes I'm sure it ends before it manages to wear out its welcome.
For our next entry we actually go all the way back to 2011 for the subject of my very first Halloween piece here! Yeah, way back when I covered the Manga DVD adaptation of Kyoufu Shinbun/Horror News, which was originally a manga by Jiro Tsunoda that ran from 1973 to 1976 in Weekly Shonen Champion & totaled nine volumes that told 30 tales. The manga is generally cited as helping create the occult boom that Japan had in the 70s & is seen as one of Tsunoda's most iconic manga, alongside the first half of Karate Baka Ichidai/Karate Master, which he made with Ikki Kajiwara over in Weekly Shonen Magazine; Joya Kagemaru would do the art for the second half. Kyoufu Shinbun's notoriety & popularity has resulted in numerous adaptations, including a radio drama in 1980, three live-action movies (in 1996, 2004, & 2011), three different video games (one of which was actually a typing game!), the aforementioned Manga DVD, a J-Drama series in 2020, as well as two manga sequels by Tsunoda himself in the early 90s & 2002, plus a soft reboot manga in the early 2010s done by Iron Wok Jan!'s Shinji Saijyo. Finally, there's the two-episode OVA adaptation of Kyoufu Shibun from 1991, the sole anime adaptation, that was done by Studio Pierrot & directed by Takashi Anno (Magical Star Magical Emi, The Dark Myth); each episode is just shy of 30 minutes long. This was one of the anime produced by the now defunct Nextart (Project A-Ko the VS, Luna Varga, Abashiri Family, Akai Hayate, etc.), though here the licensing limbo brought about by Nextart's closure has long been dealt with, as CoMixWave last re-released it on DVD in 2004, where the OVA was bundled with the live-action miniseries Jiro Tsunoda's Terrifying Paranormal Report. I remember really enjoying the Manga DVD back in 2011, so time to see how Kyoufu Shinbun works in anime form.
Rei Kigata is an absolute skeptic when it comes to things like ghosts & the supernatural; after all, science has shown humanity all there is in the world, & even beyond. However, one night Rei is awakened from his sleep by what sound like footsteps outside, and when he opens his window a newspaper flies into his bedroom. Calling itself the "Horror News", the paper proclaims that it will send Rei a new issue every night, with the intention of showing Rei true fear of what he believes doesn't exist, and it reports that the very next day one of Rei's teachers will die in a car accident right in front of his middle school, and Rei will bear witness to it himself. The next morning Rei tries to tell that very teacher about the Horror News' prediction by showing it to her, only for it look like any normal newspaper... and then Rei's teacher is killed by a speeding car right in front of him. At his wits end Rei finds out that those who read the Horror News lose 100 days from their lifespan for every issue that's read. However, despite any & all attempts, Rei can neither prevent the Horror News from being delivered at midnight, nor can he physically keep himself from reading the newest headline. Rei is being haunted by the Horror News' poltergeist, but maybe he can use this Horror News to his advantage, like helping classmate Midoriko Nakagami & her big brother Yohsuke deal with a vengeful spirit that's been haunting their family for the past seven generations.
Since it dates back to the 70s, Kyoufu Shinbun follows more of an "old school" ethos when it comes to horror, namely in that there really isn't anything like gore & monstrous visuals, though there is some blood at points. Instead, the two stories told here are old fashioned ghost stories that involve things like ancient grudges, poltergeists, & even two attempts of exorcism by spirit mediums that go about as well as you'd think in stories like these. Episode 1, which adapts the first tale, "A Strange Newspaper Came in the Middle of the Night", introduces the concept of the Horror News, before moving over to Rei & Yohsuke trying to figure out if it's possible to exorcise the poltergeist from Rei... by relying on an excellent medium that the poltergeist itself recommended via the Horror News, in the ultimate "I DARE you!" move. Episode 2, then, looks to be based on "The Return of Takenoichi" from Volume 8 tells the story of Midoriko being haunted by a vengeful spirit after Yohsuke redid their family grave (&, in turn, re-aggravating the spirit), with the trio of Rei, Midoriko, & Yohsuke trying to both figure out why this spirit is so obsessed with killing Midoriko & if they can fight back against it. Part of the appeal of the Kyoufu Shinbun OVA is that it always maintains a sense of dread to it, as the stories told here aren't ones where the protagonists succeed in every way & put the spirits to rest. No, these are stories about regular ol' people dealing with things beyond their abilities, and instead of "defeating" these ghosts they instead simply have to either survive their grudges in some way or (in Rei's case) have to accept the circumstances they find themselves in. Episode 2 even ends with a fun moment where Rei literally looks at the camera & tells the viewer that they could possibly be a seventh generation descendant of the Nakagami Clan & be haunted by the same ghost, like it's the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers ("YOU'RE NEXT!").
Now is the Kyoufu Shinbun OVA "scary"? From a 2026 perspective the answer would have to be "No, not at all", but it is a fun time to be had for those who enjoy ghost stories. Episode 1 tells a good introduction for Rei's conundrum, while also showing just how incapable he is when it comes to trying to deal with the poltergeist of the Horror News (not to mention gullible, since he literally relied on the poltergeist's choice of medium to try to exorcise it). Meanwhile, Episode 2 is a really neat story about how good intentions can sometimes result in more trouble than before, as Yohsuke was simply trying to give his family grave a refurnishing by having a new (giant) headstone installed, only for him to use a purified stone that only angered the vengeful spirit. Rei's involvement here is really more as an observer than as someone who can directly help out, and in fact he even physically suffers from his involvement, though from what I can tell the OVA does actually change the ending of the story so that it can be a happier one... though really only a tad happier, since Kyoufu Shinbun is very much a series where there can never be a truly "happy" ending to any of these tales. It was also smart to adapt a story for Episode 2 that focused on the Nakagami Family, since that allows for a more direct connection to Episode 1 & let Midoriko & Yohsuke remain important throughout both episodes. I also want to make quick note of the music by Takashi Tsunoda, a professional flutist who's also the literal younger brother of Jiro Tsunoda; Takashi even worked shortly as an animator at Studio Zero, which Jiro had co-founded. Anyway, Takashi's score here is fittingly eerie, utilizing the flute perfectly to establish an uncomfortable mood throughout, & while Tohru Furuya's reputation has been forever diminished after his four-year affair with a fan was revealed back in 2024 there's no doubt that his voice was a perfect fit for Rei Kigata here.
Honestly, I'm rather surprised that the Kyoufu Shinbun OVA never saw an English release back in the 90s, as plenty of Nextart's other OVA productions saw English release & I think this would have fit in perfectly with a company like ADV Films. Luckily, it does now have a fan translation (while the manga effectively has none) so if you're in the mood for some good anime ghost stories then the Kyoufu Shinbun OVA is a really fun one to check out.
At some point I do plan on doing an installment of OM, OM, OVA! focused solely on V-Anime, Toei Video's anime offshoot of its iconic direct-to-video V-Cinema line of productions, as there were quite a number of them (around 30 different entries, by series). In fact, I've already covered one in the past via Bio Hunter, which was a part of the Halloween 2021 installment, so let's whittle down another two with this Halloween installment. First up is Psycho Diver: Masho Bousatsu/The Devilish Bodhisattva, a 50-minute OVA originally released in Japan on May 21, 1997. This was based on the Psycho Diver Series, a.k.a. the Maju Kari/Beast Hunter Series, a collection of novels written by Baku Yumemakura (the pen name of Mineo Yoneyama), who's best known by anime/manga fans for titles like Garouden, Kurozuka, Amon Saga, & (most recently via an anime adaptation) Onmyoji. The Psycho Diver Series is made up of 25 novels released between 1984 & 2010, with this OVA looking to specifically adapt Books 5 & 6, which came out in August & September of 1986. Later in 1997 Urban Vision would license & release this OVA, now titled Psycho Diver: Soul Siren, via both dubbed & subbed VHS, though a DVD release outside of Japan would only happen in the UK in 2004 via MVM; UV also managed to get this OVA to air in English on the (Starz Encore) Action channel for a few years, at least up through 2001. In 2007 Justin Sevakis cited Psycho Diver's dub as having one of the all-time worst "Dubbed Songs FROM HELL!!!", but I'll be going off of the original Japanese version. In comparison to Judge & Kyoufu Shinbun this OVA seems like it'll be more focused on psychological horror than literal ghosts & the like, so time to see how Psycho Diver: Soul Siren fares for the spooky season.
Dr. Juhta Busujima is a "Psycho Diver", one who can use technology to dive into people's minds & help deal with all manner of psychotraumatic problems. Busujima's newest gig comes by way of Kyoko Ayuhara, the manager of pop star Yuki Kanou, as Yuki has somehow stopped being able to sing ever since she joined a religious sect calling themselves the Gordonians. Busujima is actually the second Psycho Diver to try to help Yuki, as the prior one (Busujima's cohort Lance) wound up having his head burst apart from whatever is going on inside Yuki's head. Busujima initially rejects the offer, since Lance was his best friend & he doesn't want to help the girl who killed him (even if it might have been unintentional), but after seeing his dog Lupin murdered & a message is left in blood on his wall at home, seemingly done by the Gordonians, Busujima is left no other choice; this job has become personal. However, there's more to Yuki than what's easily seen, as she claims to have had psychic powers unlocked by Angelica, the leader of the Gordonians, but head of the agency Kudoh has no problem with Yuki visiting the Gordonians whenever she feels like, even telling her bodyguard Kunimitsu to let her go on her own... despite the Gordonians clearly being the cause of all the problems Yuki is having.
As mentioned, the story told in Psycho Diver: Soul Siren was originally a two-novel story, and since this OVA is just shy of an hour long I would have to imagine that there was more than a fair share from the original story that got cut from this adaptation. However, my only guess is that a decent chunk of that content must have related to the larger Psycho Diver Series as a whole, because this OVA tells a perfectly followable & enjoyable enough story as it is. While the concept of this OVA makes it sound like the Jennifer Lopez-led movie The Cell, only coming out three years prior to that film, in reality the actual "diving" done in this OVA is pretty limited, as there are only two scenes where Busujima actually dives into Yuki's mind, one more jumbled & hard to parse while the other is the climax that allows Yuki to understand the truth behind her own past. Instead, the actual story of Soul Siren is focused more on the circumstances behind Yuki & her current situation, namely the underlying conflict between Kudoh & Angelica, as well as a general idea of who's really the bigger villain in all of this: Angelica & the Gordonians wanting to use Yuki's power for their mysterious purposes, or Kudoh wanting to control Yuki's power for his own greed? While there is some violent & appropriately bloody imagery to be seen, though nothing outright gruesome (even Lance's head exploding early on only shows the blood spraying, no gore), this is really more of a thriller than anything, & while I can see some feeling that maybe it's a bit slow I personally had a good time with this OVA.
Directed by Mamoru Kanbe (Elfen Lied, Sound of the Sky), Psycho Diver: Soul Siren was co-animated by Madhouse & Studio Junio, so it both looks rather good & animates well, while the usage of color at points can be rather striking. Meanwhile, the character designs by Makoto Koga (Aria, Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan), who was also the animation director, really solidify this as a product of the era, as the hard boiled & serious style seen throughout really does match how anime was generally seen by most people outside of Japan around that time (& even for a bit into the early 00s), and today that kind of makes Soul Siren feel quaint. In fact, the entire feel, mood, & style of this OVA really does evoke that of the V-Cinema line itself, and I'd even argue that this OVA feels like something you could have seen Hollywood produce in live-action around the same time, if not maybe earlier that same decade. This also applies to the two vocal songs heard in the OVA, "Warfare-Beware" & "THE END", which are performed by Yuki's actor Junko Iwao as actual songs sung by Yuki & just push the V-Cinema or Hollywood feel all the more. It's these songs that were deemed "Dubbed Songs FROM HELL!!!" by Sevakis, as Urban Vision decided to have Kate T. Vogt (Washu in Tenchi Muyo!) sing them in English for the dub, though Vogt didn't actually voice Yuki herself, with "Warfare-Beware" featuring actual rapping by both Iwao & Vogt.
In the entire oeuvre of Urban Vision Psycho Diver: Soul Siren is definitely one of the lesser-known titles it released in English, especially when compared to some of its other VHS-only releases (like The Cockpit or Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals), but I think this OVA actually holds up rather well after all this time. It's definitely not one of the best titles UV put out, and you definitely have to accept a bit more of a slow burn in terms of its story, but this is a rather cool & enjoyable little thriller that has just enough twists & small set pieces that keep it engaging throughout. I imagine if it was feature length it'd probably be a stronger overall package, since it'd be able to include more from the original novels, but for an hour-long watch it might surprise you.
Finally, we end this installment of OM, OM, OVA! with the other Toei V-Anime I decided to pick for this Halloween-friendly quartet. In 1987 Saki Okuse made the manga Kaen Majin/The Fire Devil, & in 1991 Okuse followed it up with a sequel in Shinshokan's Wings magazine titled Shihaisha no Tasogare/Twilight of the Dark Master, which took place roughly 30 years after Kaen Majin but otherwise worked just fine as a standalone, single-volume story; the two would be collected together, with a bonus story, in 2008. In 2005 Digital Manga Publishing would license & release the manga in English, but almost a decade prior there was an 50-minute OVA adaptation of Twilight of the Dark Master directed by Akiyuki Simbo (Madoka Magica, Sayonara, Zetsubo-sensei)... and it actually came out in North America first. Yeah, due to it being co-produced by Filmlink International & Goodhill Vision, two Japanese companies headed up by Mataichiro Yamamoto (same as with Pyscho Diver just previously), the Twilight of the Dark Master OVA wound up seeing release first by Urban Vision, Yamamoto's American company, via both dubbed & subbed VHS on November 11, 1997. That was then followed by a release in Japan under the V-Anime label on January 21, 1998, a rare instance of an anime debuting in North America first. UV would then later re-release the OVA via dual-audio DVD in mid-2001, as well as also getting it broadcast on the Action channel before then, while over in the UK MVM would release it on DVD in 2004, followed by a re-release alongside Psycho Diver: Soul Siren & Bio Hunter in 2006 & 2008 as "The Ultimate Anime Horror Collection". Today the Filmlink/Goodhill anime catalog is (co-)owned by Tristone Entertainment, which is Mataichiro Yamamoto's current company that he runs alongside actor Shun Oguri, as of 2023. In terms of reception this OVA definitely has a bit of a mixed one, with Justin Sevakis writing about it as a Buried Treasure in 2008 (though admitting it was mostly for the atmospheric visuals than the actual story itself), while Mike Toole would call it "singularly impressive in its lackluster nature" in 2011 & deem it one of "The Least Essential Anime". Time to see how I feel about it, then, & in this case I actually decided to read DMP's release of the manga beforehand, so I can compare!
One night in Neo-Shinjuku a woman named Shizuka Tachibana is assaulted by her boyfriend, Eiji Kuraza, who has turned into an oni, mutilating her body in the process before escaping into the city. Wanting to "kill the demon" she winds up being saved from a crazed killer on the streets by a man named Tenku, who brings her to the office of his partner, Tsunami Shijo, who he says is an expert in killing demons. Turns out that Eiji has been captured by Kudo, the operator of the Crystal Box sex club in Neo-Kabukicho, under orders from Takamiya, the head of the Vurgen Pharmaceutical Company that may be involved in a mysterious drug that's been making the rounds... and has an ancient past with Shijo.
So it's interesting that I read the Twilight of the Dark Master manga before watching the OVA because... this OVA isn't really an adaptation of the manga, at least not directly. Yes, the basic story of the manga is here, namely that of Shizuka hiring Shijo to find Eiji so that he can be put out of his misery, as well as the involvement of Kudo & a brother/sister duo who can wield wind in a way similar to how Shijo can wield fire, and there are some scenes that are adapted more or less just like the manga. However, that only accounts for maybe 10% of the OVA itself, because the rest of it is either highly altered from the original manga or 100% completely original, mostly (by my best estimation) to tie it in to lore established in Kaen Majin, which the manga only hints at, at best. And, to be clear, changing things up for an adaptation isn't a bad thing, in & of itself, as I absolutely love the first Eat-Man anime, which is almost nothing like the manga. However, the Twilight of the Dark Master OVA changes things around mostly for the worse, turning a story that admittedly could be pretty vague & non-descriptive at points in the manga into something that makes even LESS sense than before. The manga story has a lot of little elements that tie into a larger world, like the drug that turned Eiji into an oni being the cause of a killing spree via various people, who don't turn into oni themselves but kill & eat people. All of this ties into a yakuza organization, run by Kudo, who also operate a brothel that Shizuka just happens to work at, with her working there mainly as a way to listen out for any info regarding Eiji's location. Shijo, meanwhile, runs a literal detective agency, complete with a wild looking office, a secretary, & even a butler, while Tenku is his roaming informant that helps gather intel for him. Shijo also works closely with the Shinjuku police at points, which is included in the OVA but feels much more ancillary, while Kudo is reduced from an interesting character with some sense of dignity into nothing more than a lackey for the REAL villain in Takamiya... who's not even in the damn manga! I imagine Takamiya is another Kaen Majin carryover.
However, I will agree with Justin Sevakis in that this is a very cool looking OVA, from a visual perspective. This is Akiyuki Simbo in his early, prototypical era, before he truly started refining his unique visual style once he started directing TV anime, but you can still see elements of his style here, giving the OVA a very atmospheric & distinct visual style that makes great use of blacks & bathing certain shots mostly in a single color. The same is true of the character designs by animation director Hisashi Abe (Devil May Cry TV, Pet Shop of Horrors), which do a great job at taking Saki Okuse's designs & adapting them in a way that perfectly matches Simbo's visual style; even the music by Keishi Urata (Texhnolyze) is fittingly eerie & sometimes amelodic. However, it's really the story that's told here, co-written by Duane Dell'Amico (Sleep with Me, The Setting Sun) & Tatsuhiko Urahata (GATE, Hajime no Ippo TV) that brings the entire OVA down. Now don't get me wrong, because Saki Okuse's original manga isn't necessarily a strong storyteller, either; Okuse even jokes in the afterword that the very title of the manga makes no sense whatsoever. However, Okuse still manages to tell an interesting story with lots of little details that help establish an actual world within Shinjuku in the year 2019 (you know, the future), give logical reasons for certain events (like Shizuka eventually being put face-to-face with "Oni Eiji"), & even showcase Shijo fighting people a bit, even if he is pretty overpowered. None of that is in the OVA, as the world of Neo-Shinjuku is barely established, characters like Shizuka & Tenku are nowhere near as interesting as before (I mean, the OVA removed Tenku being a werewolf!), & any fights Shijo finds himself in here are resolved instantly without any sense of real conflict, even in the final fight with Takamiya.
Again, I wouldn't say that the Twilight of the Dark Master OVA is necessarily bad, and if you want something that's visually interesting & atmospheric then it's not a terrible way to spend an hour. However, there's no doubt that I will handily recommend just reading the original manga over watching the OVA, any day; as of this piece the manga is actually still readily available for cheap.
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And with that we come to an end to yet another Halloween installment of Oh Me, Oh My, OVA!. This time around I would recommend three of the titles I watched, which is still a pretty good turnaround. Judge has a concept that sounds a little silly, but in reality it's a good watch that takes took advantage of said concept, enough so that I'd love to read the manga one day. Kyoufu Shinbun is a legendary manga for good reason, and the two-episode OVA adaptation does a pretty damn good job of showing why by telling two very enjoyable ghost stories. Psycho Diver: Soul Siren might be a tad slow at points, & those who want more actual "psycho diving" might come away disappointed, but the actual story told in the OVA itself is still a solid one & worth watching. However, the Twilight of the Dark Master OVA, though very atmospheric & visually interesting, is just a fairly mediocre one-off production that doesn't really do justice to what's honestly a fun little one-&-done manga story.
Now hopefully it won't take me another literal year to get to the next installment of OM, OM, OVA!...
Judge © 1991 Fujihiko Hosono/Futabasha・Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) [now Aniplex]・Movic
Kyoufu Shinbun © Hata Kikaku/CoMix Wave・Pony Canyon
Psycho Diver: Soul Siren © 1997 Baku Yumemakura/Toei Video・Tristone Entertainment
Twilight of the Dark Master © 1997 Saki Okuse・Shinshokan/Toei Video・Tristone Entertainment
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