Director: Rintaro
Screenplay: Etsuko Ikeda
Based on the manga by Etsuko
Ikeda and Yuuho Ashibe
(Voice) Cast: Mayumi Shō as
Minako Ifu; Nachi Nozawa as Deimos; Kaneto Shiozawa as Kaname Ōba; Reiko Mutoh
as Ohniwa Tōko / Tōko Ōba; Bin Shimada as Masao; Hiroshi Masuoka as Detective
Imamura; Takeshi Aono as Mr. Ōba; Takeshi Kusao as Hisamatsu; Toshiko Fujita as
Venus
A Night of a Thousand Horror (Movies) #247 / A 1000 Anime Crossover
In anime there were, in the older era, a lot of one-offs, effectively fragments directly connected to their original manga source materials, barely existing baring even just thirty minutes long on a video tape, in danger now of being lost to time. Bride of Deimos is a great example of this, made more enticing as it is by the director of the acclaimed anime feature film Metropolis (2001), with an insanely enticing premise adapted into what could have been a pilot for a longer work. An aesthetically idiosyncratic work, beautiful even in VHS fuzz, it is based on a horror manga for a young female audience which has no qualms with being gristly, which in its source had a central narrative, the titular Deimos trying to get a mortal girl named Mayumi to be his bride, but had miniature narratives involving one-off characters.
Sadly, this never led to more than this thirty minute anime, but follow the review link HERE, you can at least learn about what did finally come to exist.
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