If the anime was sold as DVDs, and never aired on TV.Specifically, it refers to anime that was first sold as DVDs or Blu-rays. The term OVA is used to distinguish anime that originally didn't air on the TV from those that did. In Japanese, this would instead be called "web anime," webu-anime ウェブアニメ. In English, ONA, Original Net Animation, is a term for an anime that was originally released on the internet. Despite the apparently synonymous meaning, the term OAD is used to refer to a specific type of OVA: the sort that is released as a bonus bundled with a limited edition manga volume.
OVA stands for Orijinaru Bideo Animeeshon オリジナル ビデオ アニメーション, a katakanization of "Original Video Animation" in English.Ī less used synonym is OAV: Original Animation Video.Īnother term is OAD: Original Animation Disc. It's a Japanese term made out of English-this is called wasei-eigo 和製英語-that was later loaned back into English. It's not an English term that was loaned into Japanese. OVA, pronounced oobuiee オーブイエー, is a Japanese term.
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