‘Greed’ is an obscure OVA directed, storyboarded, created, and designed by the somewhat legendary animation director and designer Tomonori Kogawa, famous for his character designs and animation direction on the classic Yoshiyuki Tomino anime Densetsu Kyojin Ideon, Sentou Mecha Xabungle, and Seisenshi Dunbine. Kogawa has an impressively large catalog of work spanning decades but the 80’s were his era, and Greed, being released in January of 1985, is one of the very first products of the new OVA format. Greed is a fantasy adventure featuring a cast with Kogawa’s typical eccentric characters with odd hair styles and colors. The protagonist Kyle Lid has an adventurously voluminousand windswept greyish purple mass atop his head. Curiously, this anime takes after Tomino by using similar strange naming conventions, while it is in high fantasy tradition to create exotic and original names, ones that appear in Greed like Karlten Mimau and L'arp Lip would seem to have being deliberately silly near the heart of their intention.

Kyle’s possibly futuristic looking headband is an early tell that Greed is a fantasy-tech anime. In a later sequence, Kyle fights again some mechanical giant chicken shaped creature with thin legs and a blocky frame, head, and tail that make it look like it’s made of old Macintosh computers. This fight sequence and others are impressive such as the long chase from a massive pink orc man. Beautiful moments of animetic abstraction are used such as harsh white backlighting, sliding shoujo bubbles, and even sliding particle backgrounds over a characters unpainted face, a trademark of Tomino’s. The music also features classical dramatic anime ballads and epic mecha fight music, and the characters have personalities that are mostly serious with some atsui flare and occasional dopey moments of expression for comic relief.

Greed is a fine fantasy romp and most of its strength is on part of its unique character of animation and design. It can be found in lofi quality with fansubs.