This one hands you forty minutes and expects you to keep up. Ling Fei-long, son of the White Dragon clan chief, gets shipped off to a Japanese high school as punishment for killing an ordinary human, and the OVA spends most of its runtime explaining the four beast-descended clans in the Chinese mountains rather than showing you them. The synopsis promises a war story. What you actually get is a quiet, talky exile drama with a soundtrack better than the animation it's carrying, plus a couple of twists in the back half that land harder than they have any right to. Pacing is a mess because there is simply too much lore for the minutes available. Watch it anyway if your list is the kind nobody else has finished, and clock exactly where the budget ran out.

Ling Fei-long is the son of the White Dragon clan's leader. His clan is one of four in the mountains of China that trace their lineage to mythical beasts. Long treated as an outcast by his own people, he kills an ordinary human and is sent away to Japan as a transfer student. There he is meant to finish school, learn about humanity and keep his powers in check around people, while preparing for his future role as chief. Life in Japan turns out to be less simple than it seems. This single-episode fantasy drama OVA came out in 1991.