Two episodes of pure setup with no payoff, but the setup is so efficiently brutal that you forgive it immediately. A ghost ship arrives after fifteen years silent, and everything that follows is the sound of that arrival breaking open. The OVA burns through a decade's worth of worldbuilding in minutes, trusting you to keep pace, then walks away before it can explain itself. It's frustrating by design. It's also exactly what a real sci-fi OVA should be: confident enough to leave you wanting more instead of spelling everything out. Watch it for the world that almost survives.

A space freighter known as the Flying Dutchman returns fifteen years after its last contact with Earth, carrying liquid protons, an energy source vital to humanity's survival. Before the cargo can be delivered to a remote lunar base, terrorists attack, set on destroying the new power source and dooming Earth's population along with it. About a hundred years later, humanity is colonizing other solar systems. Aon and Elena come from rival nations competing for valuable resources, yet they try to build a life together even though their superiors object. An outbreak of alien fungus and a ruthless militaristic madman threaten what they have, and to survive they must keep faith in each other and learn to trust the unusual creatures native to their new planet. The two episodes adapt separate stories from Yukinobu Hoshino's 2001 Nights manga, pairing sci-fi action on the Moon with a colonial tale set about a century later.