Christine wrote:
< I was never quite sure what OAV's in general were to tell the truth. I am 
looking to purchase the beginning episodes after reading the manga, and saw 
on a site selling it that said it was the orginal episodes...but also called 
Digital Dojo that.>
 

     Well, what the site said is true, in essence.  The OAVs are "original" 
episodes, but probably not in the context that you'd initially thought.  The 
episodes in the Digital Dojo are inaugural episodes for the series, and that 
makes them original.  But the episodes in the OAVs are original in that they 
were not included in the series, and were included as 'original animation'.
 

     Most of the time, an OAV shows the viewer an alternate timeline or 
dimension to the original plot or storyline of the series...  but in some 
cases (like most of the episodes in the Ranma 1/2 OAV) they are just other  
'episodes' in the manga that did not get animated.
 

     Like Joshua commented, a couple of them are _totally_ original, not even 
being in the manga.
 

<Thanks to all who answered my questions:-)> 

     I'm always happy to lend an ear or to answer some questions.  It's a 
large part of what makes this ML run.
 

     Of course, I may not always be right (i'm pretty sure my track record on 
this ML is not too great), but there's always someone out there that _will_ 
correct me if I'm wrong, and give people the right answers!  That's what's so 
great about this ML! ^_^
 

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