From the vast land of Japanese Transformers G1 stories comes Transformers: Zone. Featuring brand new characters and anime-influenced robot designs and transformation and action sequences (something that would later be prevalent in the early-2000s Unicron Trilogy), this is a short Transformers story that attempts to tell the entire plot of a season-long cartoon in a single 20-minute episode. Due to decreasing interest in Transformers in Japan at the time, this OVA was the only animated material that promoted the concurrently-released Zone toyline, and it would be the final Japanese G1 cartoon released before the Beast Wars animes in the late 1990s. The animation isn't bad;it's interesting to see anime-style transformations and fight scenes in Transformers. There is little character development due to time constraints, and while the plot seems dire, it is difficult to get strongly invested in it again, due to time constraints. However, it does what it can in 20 minutes, and it is entertaining and interesting, so it's actually pretty good.