A baby left on a doorstep by an oni comes back as a teenager who has to fight his way through fifteen years of a debt he never agreed to pay. The OVA doesn't waste time explaining why demons want him or what he's supposed to become; it just throws him into combat across time and dimensions while his parents sit at home, completely helpless. By the end, Jiro stops running from his destiny and becomes the very thing he spent four episodes refusing to acknowledge, and the show treats that transformation like a betrayal of everything that made him worth saving in the first place.

Jiro Shutendo was handed to his foster parents as a baby by an enormous oni, which promised to come back for him in fifteen years. Now a schoolboy with a home and a girlfriend, Jiro has always felt set apart from those around him, and one day he finds small horns sprouting from his head. When strange creatures abduct his girlfriend Miyuki, his hidden nature and supernatural powers awaken. Jiro must face hostile oni, sinister cultists and their servants while shielding his parents and Miyuki from harm. His path leads him across the past, the future and other dimensions as he uncovers where he came from and accepts his fate as the reborn Shuten Doji. This four-episode 1989 OVA mixes action, horror, science fiction and the supernatural.