YMMV / Garzey's Wing

• Accidental Innuendo:
  • A particularly astonishing example is Chris' proposed "group circular movement" and the exchange that follows.
    Chris: "We have to circle quickly. We need a stirrup to do this. But don't be unduly concerned. We can use our spears to stand our ground firmly."
  • "Holy warrior! Vanquish the enemy by plunging your sword!"
• Adaptation Displacement: Did you know that this OVA is actually based on a 5-volume novel series that's apparently a pretty decent read? Now you do.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Within the first couple of minutes a giant glowing rainbow goose comes out of nowhere to transport Chris to Byston Well, and it never shows up again. It's just one of many.
• Cult Classic: Was largely unknown until it was covered in a 2007 Anime News Network column on "Buried Garbage", and has since been shown at conventions and accumulated a cult fandom not entirely dissimilar to anime's equivalent of The Room (2003).
• Narm: Plentiful in the dub.
  • The mercenary with the voice of Kermit the Frog and the discussion about "putting a Duragaroll at Gabajuju" are perhaps the standouts.
  • "I must somehow make sense of our convoluted situations."
  • The argument between the two versions of Chris relating to the above line is just filled with dialogue no one would say, bordering on a Non Sequitur for almost every other sentence.
  • Early on, Rumiko admonishes Chris for being too "easygoing", and she sounds so angry about it that it's a little funny.
  • Somehow the localized script calls for Chris to say Yamato Takeru no Mikoto in full every single time they're to be mentioned. The result is already hilarious in casual conversations, but a dramatic fight scene is utterly destroyed when he shouts in a single breath, "DAMN YOU YAMATO TAKERU NO MIKOTOAUUUUUGGGHHHHHH!!"
• So Bad, It's Good: The dub is a source of constant hilarity spawning from both the stilted lines and ridiculous delivery.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Arguably the whole thing, if not parts. If they were to space it out, remove some of the more ridiculous elements, and actually give it a sense of coherence, the plot of a guy getting trapped in another world, given a new power, and having to help an enslaved people escape their captors could actually be pretty good. Especially when you consider that this is a prequel to Aura Battler Dunbine...and yet not a single mecha shows up.

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