Yoshinori Kanada's animation doesn't support the story, it consumes it, warping every frame into controlled chaos that makes narrative coherence almost irrelevant. The sword, the apocalypse, the chase across Aqualoid, none of it matters the way the movement matters, the way a character's limb stretches and snaps back like rubber physics obeying some logic only Kanada understands. You watch this not because you care what happens next, but because you cannot look away from what happens now. Plot and character are skeleton; animation is the violent, thrashing flesh that makes it alive. This is a 1984 OVA that still teaches modern animators how to break the rules and make breaking them look inevitable.

Nam's world lies in ruins. The once prosperous planet Aqualoid was struck by a mysterious life force called the Inorganics, leaving it a post-apocalyptic husk of what it used to be. When Nam comes across a strange sword, he suddenly finds himself chased across the entire planet. With the Inorganics drawing near, Nam and his friends must uncover what the sword really is. Whether they will rescue Aqualoid, or destroy it to make way for a new Birth, remains an open question. A single-episode OVA from 1984, it mixes sci-fi adventure, mecha action, comedy and psychological elements.