Then Alita gets her sight back and everyone lives happily ever after. Then the spirit of the dragon speaks to Kyle and convinces him to “combine forces”, which allows him to throw a super hadoken or something and save the day. After this needless interlude, Kyle and his dragon fly through a couple segments lifted practically straight from the game (from stages one and four – one of the shots is a pretty clear homage) before getting to the Tower. Kyle tries to comfort the Empire soldier, who then ends up turning on them. They land on the ground and set up camp, finding a sole survivor amongst the wreckage. On the journey, they run into some Empire ships, which the dragon destroys despite Kyle’s general anti-violence stance. Another dragon, whose rider has been killed, takes up Kyle and chases the black dragon, to not only stop it from reaching the tower, but to save Alita. Anyway, an evil black dragon flies by, kills Kyle’s friend, kidnaps Alita by absorbing her into its body, and takes off. Except our hero Kyle (mistranslated from “Keil”) has a blind girlfriend named Alita, who is apparently “in tune” with the monsters or something. The opening sequence is pretty much like the intro to the video game, with two friends hunting for scorpions in the desert. So even if you paid $3 to rent it back in the day before Cartoon Network showed anime non-stop, then you’d probably feel ripped off. It’s only a single episode OVA that clocks in at about twenty five minutes.
Panzer Dragoon got its own anime in 1996, which was translated and brought to the States by ADV.
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