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The anime version of Yuzo Takada’s 3×3 Eyes was released as two OVA series: four animated episodes in 1991 skip a few years of plot to a final three episodes in 1995.  DVD editions here in the states are now out of print, and the translated manga stopped after nine volumes of the original forty.

Story Intro

Late for work one day, Yakumo speeds on his scooter and knocks over a pretty girl, Pai.  Turns out this girl was looking for him, as she’s carrying a letter from his late father asking him to help her become human.  She’s the last of an ancient race of immortal demons, though he doesn’t believe this until she saves him from death by absorbing his soul. Yakumo has become her immortal servant warrior, so long as she lives.  Trouble is, he’s not much of a fighter, and the cute naive Pai has a deadly alternate personality that doesn’t approve of him as her servant unless he proves himself.

Various lesser-demons are out to stop her in her search for a magical statue, leading to many bloody fights, mostly Yakumo’s blood.  With the help of a few others (in the first series), they learn of another survivor of the race, locked away millennia ago for his crimes against their race.  In a battle against another servant warrior, Pai and Yakumo lose contact with each other until a few years of Yakumo searcing for her and Pai losing her memory (second series).

Other Notes

The anime version only covers the story from about five of the manga’s forty volumes, published from the late 1980s through early 2000s.  Since they were produced at about the same time early on, the first episode’s “trailer” of the next segment used manga scenes.  The rest used story-arc cliffhangers.  The manga 3×3 Eyes won a 1999 Kodansha Manga Award.

Takada also created other favorites Blue Seed and All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku.