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Originally Posted by Azure-Priest
There actually is a significant difference. The first is "Original Video Animation," the other is "Original Animated Video."
I'm not 100% certain on which term applies to which, but one is something that is broadcast completely outside the story line in the source material. It's original material that exists purely in the animated version.
The other is stuff taken from the source material and spliced together in different ways. It could be previous episodes spliced together as a "highlight" reel. It could be the characters talking about, and reading the manga, or the source material and commenting on it. It could be other characters that don't normally get much screen time telling the audience what they think about events from episodes where another character was the focus, and so on. It's "original" but the content doesn't purely exist in the animated version.
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Not sure where you got that but thats not correct. OVA and OAV are the same thing. OVA is the term that was used in japan for a direct to video anime (there may have been some hesataion to use OAV in Japan as AV is the term used for Adult Videos). The term OAV was made by english speakers to match OVA to english grammer. But these days OVA's are a thing of the past now its OAD (original animation DVD)
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