Armor Hunter Mellowlink

キコウリョウヘイメロウリンク

Aired: 1988

A spin-off OVA from Sunrise's Armored Trooper Votoms franchise. Sharing the parent series' worldview but recasting its protagonist as the former infantryman Mellowlink, who confronts giant Armored Troopers with rifles and traps, it follows a man waging a tenacious revenge journey to clear the false charges laid against his fellow soldiers and to track down a corrupt general staff. The dense structure that begins as standalone road episodes before shifting into a continuous action drama, together with the franchise's rough-edged realism, has earned the work an enduring core fanbase.