Starship Troopers (OVA)

Starship Troopers
230px Cover of official handbook on the series showing Johnny Rico inside the power armor design from the OVA.
宇宙の戦士 (Uchū no Senshi)
Genre	Mecha anime, Real Robot, Space opera, Military science fiction
Original video animation
Directed by	Tetsurō Amino
Studio	Sunrise
Released	October 25, 1988 – December 17, 1988
Runtime	25 minutes
Episodes	6

Starship Troopers (宇宙の戦士, Uchū no Senshi, lit. "Universal Warriors", "Universal Soldiers" or "Soldier of Space") is a six-part anime OVA produced by Sunrise/Bandai Visual and released in 1988. It is based on the book Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein that was published in 1959.

Mecha design

Kazutaka Miyatake of Studio Nue originally designed the mobile infantry powered armors in the OVA for a Japanese edition of the novel in the early eighties. A mecha based on this design also appears on the DAICON III and IV Opening Animations from 1981 and 1983, a few years before the OVA was released.

Episode list

1. "Johnny"
2. "Hendrick"
3. "Maria"
4. "Greg"
5. "Cherenkov"
6. "Carmencita"

External links

• Starship Troopers (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Starship Troopers at Gears Online
• Uchu No Senshi (1988) at IMDb
• Armored Fighting Suit (Archived)]
• Armored Fighting Suit Cont.. (Archived)