OBSCURE O.V.A.S, *Mighty Space Miners

What was supposed to be a 6-episode OVA series, only two of Mighty Space Miners were ever produced. These were released originally on dubbed and subtitled VHS by ADV Films, and then later on DVD by Discotek Media. It's a novice science-fiction plot which is about as engaging as a 1970's disaster film.

In the mid-21st Century, big business Planet Catcher Corporation set out to mine asteroids for precious alien metals. Tortatis is the first child to survive being born in space and now as a 12-year old hopes to earn his license as a pilot. His big test happens as an accident on the asteroid forces it into an impact with Earth causing everyone on the space base to make evacuation plans. This is even more complicated when Tortatis discovers a hidden nuclear bomb stored away inside the asteroid by the Japanese government if it needed to blow the rock in just such an emergency. The OVA ends on a cliffhanger with four further chapters left undone.

Mighty Space Miners is a fair space anime with sprinkles of fluid animated sequences of spacecrafts zipping back and forth. The main characters are largely forgettable as it is hard to distinct how one them is connected to the rest of the cast. If the entire story were allowed to unfold this possibly might have been a more memorable OVA, but the failure of its continuation mines a steep hole for itself.