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>>8415071
>That's true for like every 90s OVA. Nowadays OVAs are all just direct to DVD bonus episodes of already established series, but back in the 90s most of them existed to gauge interest in a potential series, and a ton of them never were popular enough to be greenlit

Yeah OVA's are like pitch videos for potential TV series. The Sonic OVA was released as two parts in Japan in 1996. Even the pitch OVA's can still be different from the series that spin off of them. Sonic OVA's do grab from different sources, Sonic CD, Sonic 2, Sonic 3, the swat bots look like they came out of the Archie series. It was edited together and released in English as Sonic: The Movie" in 1999, right around the exact same time Sega launched the Dreamcast and Sonic Adventure. I remember seeing rows of VHS for this at a local department store chain in Canada.