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Armor Hunter Merowlink (1988-1989)

Premiere:
November 21, 1988

# of Seasons: 1

# of Episodes: 12

Finale:
April 21, 1989

Creators:
Ryosuke Takahashi
Fumiyuki Eda

Original Title:
機甲猟兵メロウリンク

Alternate Titles:
Armor Hunter Mellowlink
Kikou Ryohei Merowlink
Kikou Ryouhei Merowlink
Kikō Ryōhei Merowlink
Kikō Ryōhei Merōrinku
Kikô ryôhei Merôrinku
Leechers Army Merowlink
机甲猎兵迈罗林克

Genres:
Action & Adventure | Animation | Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Production Companies:
SUNRISE
VAP

Countries:
JP

Overview from TheMovieDB

Armor Hunter Merowlink was a twelve episode anime OVA spinoff of Armored Trooper VOTOMS. It takes place in the same universe as VOTOMS, but the two stories are entirely independent of each other. Merowlink is the story of a soldier whose unit is sacrificed on the battlefield for reasons unknown. Although he was not meant to survive, the main character, Merowlink Ality, manages to survive only to be framed for a crime he did not commit. Merowlink escapes his captors and begins hunting down his former commanding officers, both to get revenge for his dead platoon members and to find out the nature of the conspiracy that led to their death. The series is available for download on Bandai Visual's official website and the Japanese DVD boxset was released on December 6, 2006. The series was previously issued twice on laserdisc, once as six individual volumes, and once as a three disc box set along with the two soundtracks. A blu-ray boxset was also recently released.

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Production

Art Direction:
Eiji Hirakawa

Character Designer:
Moriyasu Taniguchi

Director:
Takeyuki Kanda

Mechanical Designer:
Kunio Okawara

Music:
Hiroki Inui

Original Story:
Ryosuke Takahashi

Producer:
Eiji Sashida
Hiroshi Hirayama

Script Consultant:
Ryosuke Takahashi

Series Director:
Takeyuki Kanda

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