Dragon Half

Dragon Half

ドラゴンハーフ
1993 Production I.G OVA 2 episodes Completed
Comedy Fantasy Parody Adventure
Details & Synopsis
Mink is half human, half dragon, ridiculously strong, equipped with horns, a tail and wings, and desperately in love with the famous dragon-slaying singer Dick Saucer. This is inconvenient for several reasons, beginning with the fact that Dick makes a living killing the half of Mink's family tree she inherited most visibly.

Dragon Half takes the usual fantasy-adventure ingredients and immediately throws dignity out the window. Mink wants a magical potion that could make her completely human and, hopefully, worthy of Dick. Instead she gets dragged through monsters, rival princesses, incompetent villains, absurd tournaments and escalating slapstick where being the heroine mostly means surviving everybody else's terrible decisions.

Released as two OVA episodes in 1993, Dragon Half is one of those compact early-90s anime objects that feels almost engineered for tape trading and convention-room recommendations. The animation snaps between ordinary fantasy designs and deliberately deformed comedy at a moment's notice, while Kotono Mitsuishi plays Mink with exactly the amount of energy the material requires: too much.

It is short. It is loud. It never became the four-episode adaptation originally envisioned, so the story simply stops while the manga keeps going. Somehow that makes the anime feel even more like an artifact of the OVA era.

And yes, the ending theme is called "My Omelette" and is sung over Beethoven. Some things belong in an archive because history would sound made up without the evidence.
Alt Title ドラゴンハーフ
Studio Production I.G
Network OVA
Aired 1993
Episodes 2
Genre Comedy, Fantasy, Parody, Adventure
Status Completed
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Brutal Killer Martial Arts Tournament Guide

Why Mink Enters

Mink Enters the Tournament to Fund the People Potion Quest

Episode two gives Mink a brutally practical obstacle: adventures cost money. The Brutal Killer Martial Arts Tournament offers a 50,000-gamble prize large enough to keep the People Potion search moving, so Mink enters.

Naturally, the tournament also gathers almost everyone who has a reason to make her life worse. Dick Saucer is there. Princess Vina is there. Damaramu returns rebuilt as a cyborg. Dug Fin enters as an actually dangerous demon warrior. Rosario and King Siva are still trying to turn the event against her.
Why it matters
The tournament is not a detour from the quest. It is Dragon Half's version of travel expenses.
Mink Dick Saucer Princess Vina Damaramu Dug Fin Rosario King Siva

Debut: Ep 002 - The Brutal Killer Martial Arts Tournament

A Bracket Built to Go Wrong

Mink vs. Mecha-Damaramu

SPOILER!
Damaramu returns to the tournament with a cybernetic body and a long list of improvements he is desperate to demonstrate. The upgrades are real. The problem is that Damaramu is still the person controlling them.
The Breakdown
Instead of conserving his new power for the match, Damaramu burns through energy showing off what his rebuilt body can do. Mink is then able to knock him out of the fight with much less trouble than the machinery suggests she should have.
Why it matters
Dragon Half understands a basic comedy rule perfectly: making Damaramu stronger only creates a more expensive way for Damaramu to lose.
Damaramu Mink

Debut: Ep 002 - The Brutal Killer Martial Arts Tournament

Princess Vina vs. Dug Fin

SPOILER!
Vina's half-slime body makes her much harder to hurt than her princess image suggests, but Dug Fin is one of the few tournament fighters played as a genuine physical threat instead of a walking punch line.
The Breakdown
Dug Fin's speed and fire-based attacks overwhelm Vina and establish him as the finalist Mink will actually have to fight. The match is useful because the OVA briefly stops using Vina only as a romantic rival and demonstrates that her strange body has real combat advantages, just not enough against Dug Fin.
What changed
For the first time in the tournament, Mink gets an opponent who looks dangerous because he is competent rather than because the setup is ridiculous.
Dug Fin Princess Vina Mink

Debut: Ep 002 - The Brutal Killer Martial Arts Tournament

The Final

Mink vs. Dug Fin

SPOILER!
Dug Fin reaches the final as the tournament's most credible fighter. He has enough speed, firepower and control that Mink cannot simply stumble through the match while everyone else defeats themselves.
The Breakdown
The fight finally lets Mink's half-dragon strength operate as an advantage instead of the embarrassing feature she wants the People Potion to erase. She survives Dug Fin's attacks, answers with the power she normally wishes she did not have and wins the tournament.
Why it matters
The OVA never gives Mink enough time to rethink her entire quest, but its last major fight quietly makes the contradiction obvious. The dragon half she wants to remove is the reason she can keep moving forward.
Mink Dug Fin Dick Saucer Princess Vina

Debut: Ep 002 - The Brutal Killer Martial Arts Tournament