OBSCURE O.V.A.S, *Grey: Digital Target

Frontier Line creator, Yoshihisa Tagami, specialized in military manga with a science fiction spin to it. One of his earliest works, Grey: Digital Target, was a post-apocalyptic saga that got turned into a mid-80s feature-length OVA one-shot by Ashi Productions, which would later go on to do Blue Seed. They Were Eleven's Satoshi Dezaki directed and co-wrote this anime take on Mad Max.

In a war torn Earth that had been through more than one armageddon, the world is divided into various segments called "towns". The citizens can work their way up to joining the A-Class by taking on military operations against other towns. Commando specialist Grey(better known as "Grey Death")takes the most dangerous assignments he can to move up the social ladder as fast as possible, partially to honor the memory of his ex-lover Lips, who he honorably wears her monogrammed battle helmet. After a suicide mission where only he and sexy blue-haired Nova, and the two survivors become questionable of the system they work for. Grey's mentor Red is reportedly captured by an enemy town, so Grey and Nova break protocol and try to rescue him. Travelling to Africa, the renegade soldiers uncover a plot involving a super computer named Big Mama that has been manipulating humanity into perpetually fighting each other, using each town feuding with their nearest counterpart. So, like a more under-the-table version of Skynet that used androids and cyborgs to act as dummy soldiers fighting the human armies into a never-ending war. Grey is recruited into one of Big Mama's militia after loosing his arm and having it replaced with a huge laser cannon, but breaks free after Nova rescues him. The two head for a final battle against the remaining Big Mama computer tower, which by the way they give a last detail after the closing credits.

The manga only lasted for two volumes, which were released in English through Viz, who also did the anime on VHS that was given a dubbed and subtitled release. The OVA is broken up into various segments labeled as numbered "Approach"es, this is mainly used to separate the time skips from one scene to the other. The actual animation is fairly relevant for the time, but up for most motion picture anime quality. There is some mature themes like nudity, sex, and people getting strait up shot in the face, so really not for kids.