Ginga Ojousama Densetsu Yuna: Shinen no Fairy

Synopsis:

Episodes:

• Episode 1: Fairy of the Deep Darkness Vol.1 (Aired: 12/21/1996)
• Episode 2: Fairy of the Deep Darkness Vol.2 (Aired: 01/22/1997)
• Episode 3: Fairy of the Deep Darkness Vol.3 (Aired: 05/21/1997)

Characters:

• Ayako (Main) - Voice Actors: Vincent-Davis, Kira, Hikami, Kyouko
• Cube, Yuri (Main) - Voice Actors: Takahashi, Miki, Lo, Tamara
• Kagurazaka, Yuna (Main) - Voice Actors: Martinez, Cynthia, Yokoyama, Chisa
• Genmu (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Inoue, Kikuko, Bryson, Heather
• Hoshiyama, Mami (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Fujino, Kaoru, Earhart, Jennifer K.
• Ichijouin, Misaki (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Chapman, Laura, Koorogi, Satomi
• Jinguuji, Shiori (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Kouda, Mariko, Dahl, Meredith
• Kousaka, Erika (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Yajima, Akiko
• Kyoka (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Matsui, Naoko, Manison, Kelly
• Princess Mirage (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Mizutani, Yuuko, Auten, Christine
• Ryudia (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Nanba, Chieko
• Shiratori, Miki (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Nishimura, Chinami
• Tokudaiji, Mai (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Grant, Tiffany, Ichiryusai, Teiya
• von Neuestein, Liavelt (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Touma, Yumi

Staff:

• Kawasaki, Tomoko (Producer)
• Shinbou, Akiyuki (Director)
• Watanabe, Jun (Sound Director)
• Uetake, Sumio (Script)
• Arisawa, Takanori (Theme Song Composition, Music)
• Takahashi, Miki (Theme Song Performance)
• Touma, Yumi (Theme Song Performance)
• Yokoyama, Chisa (Theme Song Performance)
• Akitaka, Mika (Key Animation, Character Design, Original Creator, Original Character Design)
• Andou, Masahiro (Key Animation, Animation Director)
• Arai, Ken (Background Art)
• Baba, Ryuuichi (In-Between Animation)
• Fukuda, Noriyuki (Key Animation)
• Fukuda, Michio (Key Animation)
• Higashihara, Mari (Color Setting)
• Hirasawa, Akihiro (Background Art)
• Hosoyama, Masaki (Key Animation)
• Jung, Young-hee (In-Between Animation)
• Kamei, Kanta (Key Animation)
• Katsuki, Kunio (Key Animation)
• Kawada, Tsuyoshi (Key Animation)
• Kim, Yun-jeong (In-Between Animation)
• Koizumi, Souhei (Background Art)
• Koyama, Kenji (Sound Effects)
• Kuroyanagi, Kenji (Key Animation)
• Matsutake, Tokuyuki (Key Animation)
• Nakajou, Toyomitsu (Director of Photography)
• Okabe, Jun (Background Art)
• Ono, Manabu (Key Animation)
• Ooki, Ryouichi (Chief Animation Director)
• Ookubo, Hiroshi (Key Animation)
• Oota, Masaru (Background Art)
• Park, Soo-bok (In-Between Animation)
• Satou, Masaru (Background Art)
• Takagi, Jun (Key Animation)
• Takegami, Takao (Key Animation)
• Uchihara, Shigeru (Key Animation)
• Yamakawa, Yoshiki (Animation Director)
• Yamamoto, Sawako (Key Animation)
• Yamamoto, Hironori (Key Animation)

Reviews:

• User ktulu007 (Score: 5/10):
  Last July, I looked at Ginga Ojou-sama Densetsu Yuna, a decent quirky comedy with a lot of les-yay. Well, there's a sequel OVA. It's by the same people as the first, but was released a year later. The first one was released in late '95. This one released its first episode at the tail end of '96 and the last in May '97. It's three episodes. Did it really need that much time for release? What, did they release each episode as they finished it and then need time to start and finish working on the next? Hopefully, that extra time means that we're goingto see a massive improvement with great production values. Let's look at Ginga Ojou-sama Densetsu Yuna: Shin'en no Fairy and see if releasing three episodes over the course of half a year was worth it.nnStory:nnWe open with a spaceship where pictures of Yuna and her friends flash across a computer screen. It ends ominously with a picture of Yuna and the word “Eliminate” running across her picture. We cut to Yuna having a Christmas concert. She sings with Polylina, whom she still very much has an obvious crush on. At the end of the concert, Yuna starts to give a speech about hope and making the universe a better place. Things get sketchy when something strikes the giant hologram she's using to communicate with everyone. Simultaneously, her friends are being attacked by a strange girl, Ayako, who seems to be gunning for Yuna at the behest of her two elder sisters.nnThe biggest issue with the series is that it's tonally awkward. It still has the over the top goofy moments that characterised the first series and it also tries to have more serious emotional and dramatic moments. Consequently, there's some clash betwixt the two. Particularly when the OVA abruptly shifts from one to the other. And there are some scenes, both comedic and dramatic, that end up falling short because of the tonal inconsistency. There's also the fact that the main story is pretty cliché and without the tongue in cheek aspect.nnThat being said, the OVA does have quite a few funny moments and there are some serious scenes that actually do work. The ending is actually quite good. These scenes would have undoubtedly been stronger in something that was tonally consistent but they work well enough here.nnCharacters:nnIn the first OVA, most of the main cast was passable due to it being a comedic series. You could almost say the same here, with them having interactions that work well and playing off of one another pretty strongly. There is, however, one slight problem. This series is going for a more serious tone half the time and when you apply these characters to a serious narrative they're pretty under-developed and throwing in all of those game characters who do bugger all is really distracting. You see Yuna's friends get attacked and put in hospital and it's played as serious but you don't know who any of these…

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• Ginga Ojousama Densetsu Yuna: Kanashimi no Siren (anime - Prequel)