Time of Eve

The year is 1985--at least, Shogo Yahagi thought it was. A few days ago, the young biker was out living it up on the streets of Tokyo--listening to the latest Eve tape, running around with his friends, and trying to flirt with the girl he almost ran over! But everything changed when a deadly encounter with a mysterious motorcycle sent him speeding into danger. With a shadowy cabal now hot on his heels, Shogo quickly realizes that he's stepped into the deep end of a conspiracy that's about to tear his reality asunder.

Making its debut in 1985, Megazone 23 ignited the Japanese Original Video Animation (OVA) boom. It proved there was a market for direct-to-video anime films, and paved the way for anime to become not just a niche genre, but a world-wide phenomenon. It was soon joined by a visually mind-blowing sequel, and a 2-part spinoff that takes place centuries later.

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The team that created Megazone 23 includes a Who's Who of anime legends, including (just to name a few) Noboru Ishiguro (Macross, Yamato), Ichiro Itano (creator of the “Macross Missile Massacre”), Miyao Gaku (Devil Hunter Yohko), Haruhiko Mikimoto (Macross, Gunbuster), Hideaki Anno (Evangelion), Kenichi Yatagai (Bubblegum Crisis), Shinji Aramaki (Appleseed), Hiroyuki Hoshiyama (Dirty Pair), Emu Arii (Bubblegum Crash), Shiro Sagisu (Evangelion), Koji Morimoto (The Animatrix), Nobuteru Yuki (Vision of Escaflowne), Narumi Kakinouchi and Toshihiro Hirano (Vampire Princess Miyu), Yasuomi Umetsu (Kite), and Hiroyuki Kitazume (Gundam).

"An important and influential anime, responsible for starting the anime boom of the 80s."

- Ollie Barder, Forbes

"The level of detail is such that every distinctive trademark and label is not only reproduced, but fully animated as people pick them up and set them down."

- Anime News Network