Quote:This is a thing I see tossed 'round the of OMG! group/discusion of I visit, it's quite posible to splice some of those ideas in to a OVA continuity if you take the Movie as being a part of the OVA line. There's arguments that it's either another seperate continuity based off the manga or a OVA continuation.
Of course the main disadvantage of strictly using a modified OVA continuity would be that none of the newer charters and ideas from A!MG would appear. No Hild or Velsper, no Banpei-kun or Sigel, no Peorth or Rind, no Doublet system, no Angels, no parents and no Chihiro and jobs at Whirlpool motors
I'm of the view that as the OVA and Movie seem to have a set date zoneage, the Movie March/April 2001, three years or so after the arrival of Belldandy, the OVA gives us a Christmas/New Years 199x, so they're related. Any dates in the manga I've seen tend to drift to the 1992, 1994 end of the decade.
Another thing the OP to the OVAs implies that certain manga charcters exist in the OVA world, we're just yet to see 'em in action.
--Rod.H