stop using OAV fucking amerikans

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OVA
Original Video Animation (オリジナル・ビデオ・アニメーション, Orijinaru Bideo Animēshon?), abbreviated OVA (オーブイエー, Ōbuiē?), is a term used in Japan for anime titles that are released directly to retail sale, without prior showings on TV or in theaters. OVA titles were originally available on VHS, though they later became available on other media such as Laserdisc and DVD. OVA is sometimes used, perhaps inappropriately, to refer to any extremely short anime series or special regardless of its release format.


OAV to be misinterpretated as Original Adult Video, resulting in a shift towards the OVA abbreviation.

http://www.cjas.org/~leng/oav.htm
OVA is the correct term for anime because OAV refers to "original adult video".

anime companies adopted OVA as the industry standard acronym

OVA sounds more natural to say than OAV

I thought OVA referred to stuff with characters based on a manga but a story only available in the anime. LOL.

>>5
Man you were retarded.

this is proberbly the most confusing topic on 4chan and wtf

"OAV to be misinterpretated as Original Adult Video, resulting in a shift towards the OVA abbreviation."

i'm pretty sure they just thought it was Original Animated Video, hence the OAV.

>>6
Seconded

It's Original Video Animation, direct to video and wtf?

>>8
JAPAN AV= ADULT VIDEO