AICN Anime-Super Robot Wars OG OVA Give-Away

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Bandai Visual has provided Ain't It Cool News with three copies of the Super Robot Wars: Original Generation - The Animation DVD to give away to readers. If you'd like to win a copy, send an e-mail with your mailing address and the subject line "Super Robot Wars" to animecontest@gmail.com. Entries will be accepted until 12:00am Eastern 11/5/07. The two disc set features:

the complete, three episode OVA (released as Original Video Animation in Japan)
a bonus disc with cast interviews, music clips and series information
a 24 page book with design illustrations and more Super Robot Wars info.
Bandail Visual will release the title on October 23, 2007, priced at $49.99 The release of follow-up TV series Super Robot Wars: Original Generation - Divine Wars is scheduled to start December 11th. For more on Super Robot Wars: Original Generation - The Animation, see here A preview can be seen here Super Robot Wars or Super Robot Taisen is a franchise of strategy role-playing video games that dates back to the original Super Robot Wars, released for the Gameboy in April 1991. That game featured pilots and mecha from classic anime, including Getter Robo, Getter Robo G (Starvengers in North America, also incorporated into Shogun Warriors), Mobile Suit Gundam, Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack, Mobile Suit Gundam F91, Mazinger Z (Tranzor Z in North America), and Great Mazinger. That brand of meeting of the great robots from a host of different creators and producers became the hallmark of the Super Robot Wars franchise, which went on to include everything from Neon Genesis Evangelion, RahXephon, Big O and Escaflowne to Gunbuster, Giant Robot, Macross (Robotech) and recently GoLion (Voltron). Despite its name, Super Robot Wars pulled from both the "Super Robot" subgenre (robots that are not bound by the laws of physics, for example, a machine given strength by the protagonist's heroism) and the "Real Robot" subgenre (robots created with some sense of speculative realism, including elements like limited ammunition or power supply.) Starting with 2nd Super Robot Wars for the Nintendo Famicon (NES) in December 1991, developer/publisher Banpresto began incorporating their own characters and robots into Super Robot Wars. These "Banpresto Originals" became the focus of several games, including Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation and Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation 2, the only entries in the franchise to be released in North America. After drawing from anime as inspiration, the Banpresto Original characters began appearing in their own anime. The first of these anime series was Cybuster, which featured characters and mecha connected to ones that premiered in 2nd Super Robot Wars. In 2005, Super Robot Wars Original Generation - The Animation initiated the release of anime under the "Super Robot Wars" banner. Set several years after the events of Original Generation 2, The Animation features game protagonists from the ATX Team, who, having previously protected Earth from alien invasion, must contend with a robot army that was to have protected Earth, but instead, began rampaging with its own sinister MO. Jun Kawagoe (Getter Robo: Armageddon eps 4 and 5, New Getter Robo, Shin Getter Robo vs. Neo Getter Robo, the 2007 Kotetsushin Jeeg) directs a work with a large host of mecha inspired by various popular giant robots traditions, and produces a work with the amount of mech-on-mech action you'd expect from something called "Super Robot Wars."