Darkroom Streams Angel Densetsu OVA
Darkroom began streaming the two-part original anime video adaptation of Norihiro Yagi's Angel Densetsu manga on Friday. The OVA originally debuted in September 1996. It follows Seiichiro Kitano, a gentle transfer student at Hekikuu High School whose pale skin, sharp features, and awkward mannerisms lead classmates and local thugs to mistake him for a violent delinquent. Polite attempts to be friendly are repeatedly misread as threats, and through coincidence he accidentally knocks out the school's top fighters, earning the title of supreme delinquent and "School Guardian." The comedy comes from the gap between Kitano's reputation and his actual personality. Yukio Kaizawa directed the anime at Toei Video Co., Ltd., with scripts by Naoyuki Sakai and music by Ryuichi Katsumata and Tsuyoshi Ito. Yagi launched the manga in Shueisha's Monthly Shonen Jump in February 1993, and the 15th and final volume shipped in April 2000. Darkroom is a subsidiary of distributor Synergetic Films.