A girl wakes up wrong, and the show doesn't flinch from what that means. The budget is nonexistent, the animation sparse, but the 80s synth score wraps around everything like something alive, and you realize you're not watching a story unfold so much as listening to one. By the end you understand: this thing was never trying to move, only to haunt.
A teenage girl's life is upended when she finds herself turning into a leopard creature. Her body becomes a battleground between her human mind and the predatory instincts that come with the change, and she has to fight those urges to keep hold of who she is. Adapted from Chie Shinohara's award-winning shoujo manga, first serialized in Shoujo Comic, this single 1987 OVA runs about 30 minutes and is described as an animated music video. It pairs supernatural horror with a psychological struggle against the animal within.
