
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.
