Darkroom Streams Angel Densetsu Anime – News

Streaming platform Darkroom began streaming the OAV (original anime video) based on Norihiro Yagi‘s Angel Densetsu manga on Friday.

The two-part OAV originally debuted in September 1996.

Darkroom describes the OAV:

Upon transferring to Hekikuu High School, Kitano soon discovers that his pale skin, sharp features, and awkward social skills make everyone assume he is a vicious delinquent or drug addict. This is compounded by his horrible luck and awkward social skills, which only cause more hijinks. Polite attempts to be friendly or helpful are constantly misinterpreted as threats or brutal acts of violence by students and local thugs.

Through pure coincidence, Kitano accidentally knocks out the school’s top fighters and is crowned the supreme head thug and “School Guardian,” despite remaining completely oblivious to his terrifying reputation. The comedic situations intensify as he tries to reconcile his fierce erroneous reputation with his true self.

Yukio Kaizawa (Digimon Frontier, Maple Town Monogatari) directed the anime at Toei Video Co., Ltd. Naoyuki Sakai (Musashi) wrote the scripts. Ryūichi Katsumata (Initial D, The Wonderful Galaxy of Oz) and Tsuyoshi Itō (Master of Torque) composed the music.

Yagi launched the manga in Shueisha‘s Monthly Shonen Jump in February 1993. The company shipped the 15th and final volume of the manga in April 2000.

Darkroom is a subsidiary of distribution company Synergetic Films, which describes the service as “a portal for treasures of world cinema, perhaps not easily found on other platforms. Something like Criterion, but with more recent discoveries.”

Source: Press release