Earlier today, AnimEigo published a new update for their Gunsmith Cats Kickstarter campaign. At the bottom of the update, the publisher announced that they acquired classic OVA series Megazone 23, which will be their next project.
Megazone 23 is a four-episode OVA series, which first hit Japanese retailers in March 1985. The title saw four directors across the project: Noboru Ishiguro (The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?, Space Battleship Yamato), Ichiro Itano (Gantz, Angel Cop), Kenichi Yatagai (Bubblegum Crisis, Tenchi Muyo! Ryo Ohki), and Shinji Aramaki (Appleseed, Madox-01).
Megazone 23 is the first financially successful OVA to be released in Japan (and the 13th overall).
ADV Films previously released the title in North America, which they described as:
Street racer Shogo Yahagi’s having a lousy week. The military’s after him, the government can’t help him and his new set of wheels is so hot that it may cost him his life! And that’s only the beginning of his problems; the world that Shogo and his friends have lived in for their entire lives isn’t even real, and now their only hope is an artificial intelligence that may or may not be telling them the truth about the fate of the human race!
Source: Kickstarter
