#gits ova

[morganhopesmith1996]

Major Motoko Kusanagi 😎

[nando161mando]

Must be time for another Hellsing Ultimate rewatch and Ghost in the Shell.

[chevy-gold]

Bcumin Twinbruhz

It wuz in da meetn rum wen itz pupbruh, Max, came up 2 c it.

"Sup bruh!" It said 2 him.

He hi-5d it n told it, "Hey pupbro, wanna kiss these golden lips?"

Huhu, u kno it had 2 say yea! "Yea bruh, it'd luv 2!" We started kissn gud, rubn our paws all ova each otha. He wuz so golden, so hawt, it cudnt stay off him! He started feeln itz cage below, n it did da same 2 his cok. It wuz rubn mor n mor, den he wuz pushn it down, n it went 2 itz kneez.

Hiz flexn arms, hiz bulg n hiz shortz. He wuz so golden, itz eyez cudnt luk away! It wuz drooln az it tuk down hiz shortz. He had a golden jockstrap, it wuz clos 2 da goal now, n it duznt tak itz eyez off da goal! It pulled em down 2, n saw hiz big long cok. It moand at da site n began lickn it. He lifted itz chin 2 luk up.

"Careful bruh, mah golden cum wil mak u dumdum, huhu, n mak u az golden az meh!" He rubd hiz paw on itz cheek nice n slo.

"Huhu, bruh, it duznt care if it gitz dumdum bruh! It wud luv 2 b jus lik u pupbruh! N it wud b gr8ful 2 tayst ur golden cok!" It lukd up at him, lukn at those golden eyez. He smirkd n slipd hiz big cok in2 itz mouf. It cud alredy tayst hiz golden cum, n it cudnt think much mor. In n out, he thrust mor n mor, makn it moan n drool az it sukd. It felt hiz cok git bigr n den it wuz shootn hawt gold in2 itz mouf! No mor brain left, it swalowd agin n agin, nuthin left wen it came off him.

"Huhu, it don't...uh, brain, bruh," It said. "Dayum...u so hawt tho bruh!"

"Huhu, yea bruh, now ur golden on da inside 2 bruh! Now u luk jus lik meh!" He said.

"Woah, bruh, it luks az hawt az u?" It asked.

He nodded, "Yea bruh, u mah twin bruh now!"

It carried a ball wit it, it felt rite. He led it 2 a mirer, n it cud c...we were da same! Itz bod, mor golden, betr formd...mor lik him. He put hiz arm round it, n it did da same, feeln rite n comfy wit itz bruh.

"Dayum...u rite bruh! It iz ur twinbruh now! We luk da same! Huhu," It laffd, feeln closr den eva wit itz bruh.

"Yea bruh, we twin pupbruhz 4 da team! We r dumdums n we flex n werk out 4 da team 2 win! Giv meh a kiss, twinbruh!" It smild, n put itz lips 2 hiz, redy 2 mak out sum mor. It luvd supportn n servn itz twinbruh!

[doedipus]

we finished patlabor on tv recently and honestly like 30+ years later it still feels pretty unique in the niche that it fills

like there's obviously a ton of real robot series, but I don't think there's too many other shows in that style that are *as* devoted to like, near future speculative sci-fi in the same way. like there's a lot of shows filling the role of a star trek or alien, but it feels like there's not as many mecha anime doing stuff along the lines of contact or district nine or whatever, where they're using a setting grounded in relatively realistic contemporary political and cultural contexts, and machines that are meant to feel plausible. I feel like the closest thing I can think of that I've seen is gundam 08th ms team.

but at the same time, it's regularly pretty goofy. in the tv show and ova, the oshii type proto-gits plotlines are often spaced out between lots of episodic plots about kaiju, incompetent minor criminals, or light cop show incidents reminiscent of you're under arrest, that are sort of at odds with the dead serious tone I tend to expect from a real robot series.

in this sense it really does feel like a star trek series- the characters and setting are plastic enough to easily switch back and forth between self serious metal gear in the shell plots and the lighter you're under arrest style cop show sitcom plots at will, without breaking immersion all that much... although I think the ova and TV series might push the envelope more often with wildly silly episodes and directly referential gags than something like ds9 does.

my introduction to the series was the first movie and I still think that's kind of the quintessential patlabor thing in a lot of ways. the overarching cyber-noir plotline features interesting and prescient critiques of the late 80s economic bubble, there's lots of fun with various mecha concepts and designs, and it also spends a decent amount of time fleshing out the routines and personalities of the main cast. part of me is kind of annoyed that most of the rest of the series doesn't balance things out as well as that.

but I think a close second was the episode of the tv anime where they keep trying to get lunch delivered to the sv2 outpost but it never shows up, so they get increasingly desperate until the entire crew drives out and immediately gets food poisoning, and probably a full third of the episode is noa running around trying to keep everyone's orders straight. it hits a really good sweet spot of developing the day to day stuff while also being really fucking funny

[ask-ghazghkull-da-waagh-prophet]

IZ BIN READIN BOUT DIS AGE OF SQUIGMAR GUFF AN I HAZ AN IDEA.

DEY SEZ DAT DA ARCHAON GIT KRUMPED EM GUD AN TOOK OVA A SPOT CALLED DA ATEPOINTS OR SUMPIN LIKE DAT. GOTS A BUNCHA FANSEE TELLYPORTAS TA UVVA REALMS.

BUT DA TELLYPORTA TO DA BEST PLACE, GHUR, IZ IN DA GOB OF A GIANT TING DEY CALLZ A GOD BEEST AN DEY ARENT HARD ENUFF TA KILL IT.

SO I'Z WERKIN ON DIS ERE BIG PIG, AND I FIGGER WOT WOULD 'APPEN IF DA IRONJAWZ FOUND DA OVVA SIDE AN' DECIDED TA GO FER IT.

CAN YA IMAGIN' BEIN A KAOS GIT AN' ALL OF A SUDDEN DA BIG MONSTA JUS' VOMITS UP A WAAGH?

ABSERLUTELY ZOGGIN HILARIOUS

[meltran]

"how do you get into oshii" its really fr*cking simple. the red spectacles, stray dog, and jin roh are a sort of trilogy, but he only wrote jin roh, and talking head is the secret actual third part of the trilogy and also red spectacles 2. avalon is red spectacles 3, but also gits 1.5. avalon, assault girls and garm wars are a trilogy. gits is angel's egg 2. patlabor is three movies but only the first two are oshii. there is however a live action patlabor the next generation. the super secret not-sequel to kerberos/red spectacles is tachiguishi which spawned two more movies, onna tachiguishi and shin onna tachiguishi, neither of which have english subs. oshii organized multiple anthology movies (including shin onna) that feature "assault girl" and "assault girl 2" shorts as precursors to assault girls, and later "sand whale and me" is the officially completely unaffiliated joke assault girls OVA that reuses every asset from it. the sky crawlers is a thematic avalon spinoff. garm wars is also a remake of his unfinished manga seraphim 266613336 wings. he wrote a patlabor novel where the characters all talk about soccer the whole book and patlabor is not on the cover of the novel. he had a major role on gits sac 2nd gig (but only that one) that he never ever talks about. he wrote a manga called "in the end" about autistic girls being hunted down by the evil organization TRUMP. there was a gits3 that was pitched but cancelled. blood the last vampire. i have to watch 106 urusei yatsura episodes

[beauregard-sinclair-ask]

<3

*Yells over his shoulder* Vincent! Git’ yer ass ova’ here! ‘Nother add on to the wax museum!

[post-shooter]

*respawning sounds

EY GIT OVA HERE I'M AT MID

[grapejuiceproductions]

I realized the other day that if I would give a public speaking coach or someone of similar vocation either an aneurysm or a heart malfunction of some sort if they heard me speaking in my natural state. It's an unholy mixture of rural Midwest, Appalachian, British words, and some Scottish accent just for S&G. In a given conversation my accent goes through all four of those and I throw in words and phrases from all of them.

Wash = Warsh

Crayon= Crown

Mauve = Mav

Chest of drawers = Chester Drawers

You want = Yuunt

You want I should?

Go on = Gonn

Tired = Tarred

Get on over here = Git on ova heah

I was = Eyes

Trousers = pants

Pants = Underwear

Trainers = sneakers

Soda = Sodee pop

Uncle = unca

Aunt = Ain't

And of course the staple...Y'all

[letters-to-tension]

Dier Tenshun

we spnt sum tiem on th ship. Nowuns really talkn to itch ofer, bud thas becuz we dunno itch ofer yit.

Pieright kens sum fings abot Grifounya.

Th overs r helpin th croo, but th croo won lemme hlp, becuz m smol. Dinnae mattr tha I culd lift on of em ova me head, thy say m two smol.

We saled pasd Elenya, witch is wer dier r frum. Captn doesnae trusd dier becuz thy plundr ships.

I almust wun aginst on of th crew n hufwresslin, bu he wis jus a bit strongr thn me. Et nite, Torn saw a ship on th cost. Torn n Sharite hd a hart-ta-hart abt there paw porp rezon fer bein hier.

Sum dier borded our ship n capshurd us

Dey brot us ashor to there vllage.

Culdnae unnerstand a word, thy tlk wird.

I tryd t git us out th kaj thy pud us n bud thy kot me.

Wir jus waitin t c wha happns nex.

Yur frend,

Wie Mat Winterbries

[a-dream-seeking-light]

Ghost in the Shell Art Book Scans

[ce7hun]

Adı

Faydası yok kışa;yazın geç kalmışlığı. Tesellisi yoktur sonbaharın; ilkbahara çiçek açmasında. Boşunadır sisli havalarda kurulduğun hayaller. Dümdüz ovayken sana, şimdilerde puslu bir vadi. Sen adi. Sen adi..

[thedemonconstantine]

“Eh, sistahs, amirite?” John tried to lighten the mood as he admired how pretty her lipstick looked on his skin.

“Means she cares innit? A nice fing if I dun say so meself. Aye, luv. Yer ‘ubby wubby ‘n all tha’,” He agreed heartily and gave her a sloppy kiss on the cheek, parted his arms to draw her in, to breathe in her jasmine hair and have a go at it too, all the affection he could muster for her just to tease a smile on her face again.

“We’re gittin’ married, me luv. Is us now, always.”

So what if it was demons and primordials looming over Talia’s decision? He would deal with them as they come.

“Let ‘em come.”

“Raccoons, th’ lot o’ em,” So fucking what.

“Dun fink she’ll snitch on yer, Tal. Fink she prolly’s got ova plans…eh?”

Too late, Talia was dialing somebody.

“Ello?” Chas picked up in three rings. Chas always picked up in three rings.

“Is a mite late I admit but always a pleasure, Talia. Woh kin I do fer yer?” This time though, Chas was doing the night shift proper, in his cab waiting along a sidewalk in Camden. It was bound to have a straggler or two after dark.

“Name it, I’ll git it done afore yer knows it,” He squinted at his worn-out watch and swallowed a sigh. In about four hours it was his turn to fetch Geraldine to school.

“Nah, nah, not a problem at all, Talia. Ping again if yer be changin’ yer mind-“

Click.

“Whassat, I’ve gots ‘ta share me best bruv too now does I?” John teased as he bounced onto the bed and shimmied his way up to her hand, to kiss her again and nuzzle that frown from her beautiful face.

“Ignorin’ it makes it worse. Believe you me, I’ve tried it tons,” He chortled into her neck and fumbled for the night light. Pesky thing.

“Dun fret, me luv. Yer sistah’s nah runnin’ ‘ta yer Da anytime soon. I fink she’s gunna find ‘erself ‘er very own pet adept ‘ta work a fing or two out. Possibly pick at ancient texts or go excavatin’ fer ova answers.

Betcha two quid she’s gunna go fer tha’ instead.”

"You may enter"

Not that he needed an invitation to enter his own bedroom but she knew John took her privacy very seriously and would not want to intrude if she wanted to be left alone.

"I am not unsettled because of her soothsaying, I am unsettled because I can not even have my sister visit me without it being about him and humiliating me" she answered and leaned forward to kiss the hand that reached for hers. A nice red lipstick mark right on his knuckles.

"No matter I did not need her. Would have made it easier but I do not require her aid. I shall do it alone as always. Can only rely upon myself when matters get frightful." She then looked at him and felt a twang of guilt.

"Myself and my husband now." she corrected. "Her trifled words fall upon deaf ears beloved. I am neither a fool nor am I delusional, I spent my whole life in service of the League I know of it's ancient rites. " she put an end to all doubt that she didn't know.

Of course she knew.

"The threat of condemnation does not deter me nor does the lie. It is a lie John, a lie Ra's crafted to make lesser minds believe him near to godly. He is a man, a very powerful man but a man of flesh never the less and not some primordial entity puppeteering him" Little did she know that the truth was worse.

"I can not let her leave London and warning my father." Talia grabbed her phone and hesitated dialing anyone except...

Chas.

Someone she knew one thousand per cent was not in the League as well as someone that would get his hands dirty.

"Francis, apologies for the ungodly hour. I have a predicament that requires..." A sniper riffle.

"Never mind I.." she rubbed the bridge of her nose. Even if he was successful Nyssa would enact revenge somehow, there was no plank nor beam Talia's loyals would leave unturned to enact revenge for her death,Nyssa evaded the League for so long she must have a network too.

"Apologies, I know not why I called you and not a out of hours mechanic, I fret I've grown too used to relying on you. Have a good night" she apologized again and looked at John and he'd know why she didn't involve him.

"We ought to stop her just in case she does.." Talia was trying so hard to try and guess her next move.

"She can not go to Ra's. Not directly. I must find a way to compromise her." She fell back onto the bed and groaned in a pillow. Why could she not just have not answered the door, just gone to bed and cuddled John.

Why.

"John?" Talia extended her hand searching for him. "We ought to learn to ignore visitors after a certain time, they never bring good news"

[smokeybrandreviews]

An Ode to Third Impact

I got into anime early in life. When i was young, it was Voltron and Robotech. When i got a little older, it was Akira and Wicked City. Yes, i saw Wicked City when i was still in grade school. To be honest, i was raised up on the ultra-violence and hyper-sexuality of those old Eighties OVAs. Way back when, we didn’t have the child-friendly likes of Dragon Ball Z or Inuyasha. Hell, i didn’t see Sailor Moon for the first time until i was in the fourth grade, and that sh*t came on at five in the goddamn morning! My ten year old ass got up, every morning, at five in the goddamn morning, to watch the Dic dub of Sailor f*cking Moon! That’s how committed i was o what we called “Japanimation”. Life was different back then. Being into anime, comics, games, and tokusatsu, made you weird. None of that sh*t was as socially accepted as it is now, which meant just So much of it was inaccessible but, i eventually, i realized my local video store had a plethora of “adult animation” on hand and it opened the flood gates.

When i tell you i absolutely decimated the offerings at Hollywood Video (yes, i am THAT old), i would not be an exaggeration. It was there i first took in the likes of Vampire Hunter D, Ghost in he Shell, and Plastic Little. I had a Crisis of Bubblegum and enlisted into the Lodoss War. But, it would be Bio-Boosted Armor Guyver, which would leave the most profound impression on my life. Now, don’t misunderstand me, i love this show. It’s in my top ten all-time. I my get around to making that list (if i already haven’t) but, suffice it to say, Guyver reinforced a lot of what i loved about anime to that point. Violence. Blood. Gore. Fluid animation and a dope premise. I was all over this sh*t. Up to that point, that’s what anime was to me. I mean, i had seen Akira and GitS by then but they were “movies.” Of course they would be far more cinematic that a serialized anime airing on television. Of course they would tell a proper story that carried pathos and originality. There would be themes and subtext, but that was so goddamn rare in my Golden Age OVAs. So imagine my utter surprise when, on several of those Guyver tapes, there were trailers for Neon Genesis Evangelion.

What initially caught my eye was the promise of fan service. Every trailer hinted at fan service so, as a pre-teen just entering puberty and knowing anime was chock full of bouncing titties, i was all in. I got my mom to rent that first tape just to wet mys whistle a bit and, to my unmitigated shock, there were no titties and i didn’t care. That first episode of EVA changed my entire f*cking life. That sh*t started fast, hit hard, and ended on one of the best cliffhangers i had ever seen set to celluloid. All of it was so gorgeous, so well performed, so well executed. This sh*t was a show? This aired on television? Japan was getting top tier quality animation, brilliantly narrated, and devastatingly performed, anime like this. Neon Genesis Evangelion was a work of f*cking art and easily the most gorgeous thing I'd seen since Akira so long ago. And, i reiterate, this sh*t aired on television! By the end of that second episode, i was hooked. Watching Shinji, or rather, berserk Unit-01, absolutely decimate Sachiel, left me wanting so much more. There are time in our lives when something become a core memory. An unmovable int in our development which we call back to in order to judge or reconcile new stimulus. An Unfamiliar Ceiling/The Beast is one of those points for me. That episode altered the way i approach and process media to this day. I hold everything theatrical, everything cinematic, to that one episode of anime because, to me, it was that profound. The climax to Akira. Major’s closing words from GitS. That first beam clash between Goku and Vegeta in the Saiyan saga. These are moments that have ingrained themselves into my memory, never a full episode. An Unfamiliar Ceiling/The Beast, did. And it wouldn’t be the last.

A Human Work, Decisive Battle in Tokyo-3/Rei II, Moment and Heart Together/ Both of You, Dance Like You Want to Win!, The Choice of Life/ Ambivalence, A Man's Battle/ Introjection, The Final Messenger/ The Beginning and the End, or 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door, and The End of Evangelion: Air/My Purest Heart For You. That’s it. That’s the list. All of those episodes were carved into my heart. To this day, i can recall in vivid detail, the entirety of each and every one of those episodes. Them sh*ts have stayed with me, lived rent free in my head, for almost thirty years. That’s testament to m y love for EVA. But it doesn’t stop there. The Evangelion units, themselves, are my second favorite, all-time mecha design. I had never seen anything like that before and i was drawn to the intricate, well thought out, detail of the actual functionality each Eva had. For the record, Gundam Epyon is my favorite but that has nothing to do with this post. I just wanted to be transparent as to what was in that top spot but, of the EVA, themselves, Unit-01 is my GOAT. That big, purple and neon green, monster is design perfection. So is Rei. I mean, all of the character designs are as f*ck but, for me, it’s Rei Ayanami. She was my fist waifu and, decades later, is still held in the highest of esteem. Asuka is a better character overall but, i dunno, man, it’s Rei or nothing for me. Plus, and i don’t say this lightly considering BLEACH exists, EVA has THE greatest anime opening themes, in history. A Cruel Angel’s Thesis slaps harder than anything out there with the exception of, maybe, Darling in the Franxx opening, Kiss of Death. Maybe. And that one doesn’t even count because Franxx is, very obviously, an homage to EVA in it’s own right. Your sh*t had to slap if you’re gunning for the crown!

I unapologetically love Neon Genesis Evangelion. It is, for me, the greatest anime ever produced. This sh*t is perfect in almost every way. I hold it in the same esteem as the original Alien film and The Killer’s first album, Hot Fuss. If you know me, then you know how i feel about those two pieces of media but just to be clear, Hot Fuss is the only album where i never skip a song and Alien is one of, if not the most complete film, i have ever seen. EVA means as much to me as much as Transformer, as much as Spider-Man, as much as Godzilla. It single-handedly, forced my perspective of what anime could be, to expand. If not for EVA, i wouldn’t have bothered with the likes of Ergo Proxy, Serial Experiments Lain, Gilgamesh, or Paranoia Agent. The heady weight of those Evangelion themes prepped my expectation for much more to come. I would have slept on more artistic and surreal fare like Mononoke and The Count of Monte Cristo. I wouldn’t put the effort into deciphering more existentially thematic titles like Technolyze, Madoka, Mnemosyne, and This Ugly yet Beautiful World. If not for EVA, i wouldn’t expect so much more from my anime. I wouldn’t understand that there is a range of where anime can live because Evangelion touched all across that spectrum. I am okay putting the likes of Dragon Ball Z on the same pedestal as, say, FLCL or Monster because EVA cross-pollinated in those genres and themes. Evangelion showed me that anime was so much more than just ultra-violence and hyper-sexualization. EVA sowed me that a profound story with rich characters and strong themes can be, at times, lighthearted, earnest, and full of heart. Anime didn’t have to be just robots, titties and gore. It could be cinema and i will forever be grateful to Hideaki Anno, and Gainax, for giving me that gift.

[canmom]

good breakdown. it's funny that you say it's seen as a gorefest because yeah, it's pretty light in general.

re: why there wasn't more adaptation - I think you're right that Gunnm wasn't exceptionally successful. I don't think a two-episode OVA is that unusual? sure, GitS got loads of adaptations, but that's a really exceptional case (very few anime films are as successful as Oshii's GitS), and it became fairly open-ended franchise which is flexible enough to take many different approaches, whereas Gunnm is pretty specifically tied to one specific set of character arcs.

I also think a lot of other cyberpunk/scifi works from that era remained fairly niche, on the 2-4 episode OVA sort of scale. we might compare something like Armitage III, which got four episodes all in 1995, or Megazone 23, which managed to rotate out its entire production crew with each of three instalments over the length of the 80s. besides GitS, the other longer-running cyberpunk franchise I can think of is Bubblegum Crisis, which got a handful of sequels and followups. also I suppose Akira is going to get a new TV adaptation at some point, since Otomo wasn't satisfied with just making one of the most iconic anime films ever, so I guess that counts!

we could compare Gunnm with other Madhouse films and OVAs from the mid 90s... most of them did not get any followup. the exceptions I've spotted are Birdy the Mighty (1996-7), which got revisited with a celebrated two-cour TV series in 2008-9, and Ninja Scroll (1993), which got a one-cour sequel in 2003 which nobody seems to care about. otherwise, it seems like Madhouse preferred to adapt new things, and while nothing would stop a production committee from hiring some other studio for a sequel, I can't see any instances where they did.

as iconic as anime cyberpunk has become as an aesthetic internationally, it never really seems to have been as popular in Japan as, say, robot anime (though there's definite overlap between those vague categories). the list of touchstones is not that long at all...

Watched a bunch of stuff last night, including the Alita OVA from 1993! I thought it was a lot of fun, the thoughts:

--- It did the "obvious" thing of adapting the romance arc with Yugo of Volume 2 as the core, while blending in the events of Volume 1 as sort of backstory and setup as opposed to their own story. This arc is Alita at her most humanized in the early parts of the manga, and its the plot that centers Zalem as the untouchable overlord city most effectively. Any short adaptation is gonna choose this - part of why James Cameron (lol) did the same thing!

--- Speaking of, the manga does not actually have any particular focus on Alita's eyes, but the anime definitely has more than one shot where it establishes them as thematically special. Given that the James Cameron film is famous for going full CGI on Alita's eyes, and he knows about the property from Guillermo del Toro passing him the OVA as opposed to the manga, I think I can see the chain of events that lead to that (ill-fated?) decision.

Her eyes are pretty amazing in the OVA, so I get it! As my previous reblogs showed lol.

--- I think I can break apart the manga into three "concepts": the setting as cyberpunk dystopia, Alita as a character dealing with identity issues as an amnesiatic combat robot, and shounen fighting & levelling arcs. The OVA heavily focuses on the first part, ditching almost all the shounen stuff - its fight scenes are quick and focus on violence & bodily destruction over strength or "fighting techniques", etc. This is great for me, obviously! But it also, almost accidentally, ditches most of her identity issues? Because its less than an hour long, and needs to do a ton of worldbuilding - including even adding in a new character from Zalem to help with that - and is doing Yugo's entire arc, you really don't have time left for Alita's struggles. Yugo actually gets more "inner depth" than she does! She commits to being a bounty hunter, then after that she is pretty much just In Love while Yugo goes through his detailing of his past and collapse.

I'm not saying it doesn't work, it does as a story. Just interesting for something that is known as very "protagonist associated" to have an OVA where she is barely the protagonist.

--- While no Urotsukidoji or anything, this is another one of those OVAs where its reputation, particularly in the west, is as a hyper-violent, gory OVA? And like so many it really isn't. People get decapitated, don't get me wrong, buts its never lingers on those moments. Instead they serve as tone setters for the crapsack world or just are part of the action sequences.

I think in general the OVA era rarely made horror/gore films the way some other mediums/industries did? There are exceptions of course but in the end anime is trying to do too many other things; beautiful animation, focus on character designs, often being adaptations and so doing the plot of those more complex stories, erotic content for audiences that aren't *that* fetishistic on average, and more. All of these priorities compete for space in comparison to having endless jumpscares and blood splatters. So far my track record for watching the famous "gorefest" or "~crazy~" anime is that every one of them is tamer than the rep suggests, and I believe this medium/genre mismatch is why.

--- The biggest question I have around Alita in general is why there was never any more anime? Its weird, right? Its a famous property from a beloved genre, it had a hollywood film for some crazy reason, things like Ghost in the Shell got multi-season anime after all. Why no feature film remake in the 2000's? Why no 13-cour in the 2010's? I don't have an answer to that yet.

Why the initial OVA was so minimal is at least partly answered by Kishiro here:

MNS: Many fans have wondered, why were only 2 anime OAV episodes produced in 1993? YK: It was based on the plan proposed by the animation production company. It might have been better to turn down the plan and wait for a better adaptation proposal to come up, but back then, I couldn't afford to review the plan coolly. At that time, I was still serializing the work and was so busy that I wasn't ambitious to make it into animation.

Essentially he took the "deal on hand", not offering much, because he didn't have the time, money, or business savvy to work the industry for a better proposal. 100% understandable. I don't think the OVA did too well? I can't find a lot of sales figures, but the comments I see are in the "respectable" range, and it didn't get quick or expansive rereleases over time.

More broadly, and again speculative, I think maybe Alita overall isn't that successful? Like sure Kishiro is still out here releasing more sequel manga to this day somehow, but when I look at the "media mix" its just really sparse. No big video game adaptations - it has a PlayStation game in the 90's - it has like a drama CD and a novelization? No big merch waves or tie-ins. I am betting the big anime production committees just don't think its a hot enough property to sell that great. Wouldn't be a bad idea or anything, but not one you have to do like idk Chainsaw Man.

In the western fandom spaces its quite well known because of the idiosyncrasies of licensing history, the weird James Cameron factor, and I think a general fascination with anime cyberpunk; the west eats up any of the older cyberpunk properties for its aesthetic in a way that can blind people to the reality of that just being a subgenre in Japan at the time. Alita might just be niche enough that it not getting any wider anime adaptations is no grand mystery.

(But I hope to dig into this question more)