the journal Sexuality & Culture, classified it as "situated somewhere between porn, sci-fi horror and the slasher film" with a darker tone than regular hentai. Helen McCarthy in 500 Essential Anime Movies called it "an insane mixture of pornography and sitcom," while Sequential Tart's Sheena McNeil affirmed it is "erotic fantasy with a good dose of humor." Jonathan Clements and McCarthy also remarked in The Anime Encyclopedia its horror content, while it was deemed "erotic grotesque" and "erotic violence" by McNeil and Oricon respectively. Chris Beveridge of Mania.com compared the Hiroshima scene to the style of the film Dr. Strangelove and said there was an "almost outright theft" of Terminator 2: Judgment Days main theme by Brad Fiedel. Clements and McCarthy wrote that it adds a sexual content on the "alien girlfriend-squatter set-up of Urusei Yatsura" and found humorous references condemning the excesses of the author's previous work, Urotsukidōji. Manga Written and illustrated by Toshio Maeda, the manga was published by Wanimagazine in four tankōbon volumes between November 1988 and November 1989. Central Park Media translated it into English and published the four volumes through its Manga 18 label from January to November 2003. Anime A three-episode original video animation (OVA) titled Yōjū Sensen Adventure Kid was directed by Hideki Takayama. Originally the production staff wanted to have live-action erotic actresses dubbing some characters to create a public appeal but with no background on it the hired cast was not able to act. Published through VHS format, the three volumes were released each in a year from 1992 to 1994 by MW Films and Jupiter Films. Tokuma Japan Communications rereleased the entire series into three volumes in February 2002. Its North American publication rights were acquired by Central Park Media in the 1990s that kept it until its bankruptcy in 2009. Central Park Media through its Anime 18 division first released the subtitled episodes into two volumes—both in VHS and CD-ROM format—and later into a single VHS containing the dubbed episodes. A DVD release of the whole series by Central Park Media occurred in 2001. For the British release, it was renamed Adventure Duo because the word "kid" could mask its sexual content. Also, all episodes had to be edited in order to pass certification of the British Board of Film Classification; a minute of video was cut from the first while the last had over nine minutes cut. Paradox