Nobody talks about this one. A mecha OVA from 1994 that got strangled mid-story by market forces, leaving only two episodes of a four-episode vision floating in the void. You watch it knowing the ending was never meant to come this fast, knowing there's a whole other half-life in a novelization somewhere, and that incompleteness becomes the point, this is what happens when the industry doesn't believe in you, when your story gets cut off mid-breath and left to die in the late-night anime catalog where nobody finds it. The mecha design is angular and cold. The sci-fi premise has teeth. But what hits is the feeling of watching something reach for something bigger and get yanked back before it could fly. For people who collect unfinished things, who love finding the bones of what could have been.

A young boy lies in suspended animation inside a volcano in the South Seas. His alien masters intended to wake him and use his powers to drive human civilization back to a primitive, controllable level of technology, but he wakes a hundred years ahead of their plan. This two-episode science fiction mecha OVA is the franchise's first remake and returns to the storyline of the original manga. It was meant to run four episodes, but poor sales ended it early, and the story stops without resolution. A two-volume novelization later told the complete tale.