OVA
Description
Rem Ayanokouji presents as a junior high school girl, her true age and origins undisclosed as she avoids such topics. She hails from a lineage of "Dream Guardians," psychics who enter human dreams to battle life-draining nightmare demons. Operating from Tokyo's Aoyama district, she runs the Ayanokouji Detective Agency as a private investigator specializing exclusively in supernatural and occult cases, gaining clients through word-of-mouth.
Her primary ability navigates and manipulates the dream realm, where she combats nightmare entities with a laser sword and a revolver firing depleted phlebotinum shells effective against supernatural foes. She survives dream deaths by psychologically rejecting them as unreal. Her combat tactics involve unconventional maneuvers, including allowing dream monsters to swallow her to attack internally. In the physical world, she uses conventional firearms. She is aided by transforming pets: Alpha, a kitten becoming a large wild cat in battle, and Beta, a puppy transforming into a giant dog with spirit-tracking abilities.
Her associates include Enkō, an ascetic monk who aids her against physical world demons using martial arts and spiritual powers derived from his faith; and Umimaru Kidō, a psychology professor and computer expert. Both Enkō and Umimaru harbor romantic feelings for her, creating a recurring rivalry. Detective Junichirou Sakaki of the Metropolitan Police collaborates with her after she resolves a nightmare incident involving his daughter Yukari. The antagonist Dr. Shinigami (real name Shimura), another Dream Guardian descendant, uses his dream powers for murder. Elizabeth is a significant ally with romantic implications. Her pets Alpha and Beta provide consistent support.
She appears in multiple OVAs: the original 1985 pilot, "Special Version: Sanmu! Yomigaeru Shinigami Hakase" (1985), "Seibishinjo Gakuen no Yōmu" (1986), "Yumegakushi, Kubinashi Musha Densetsu" (1987), and the "New Dream Hunter Rem" sequels "Yume no Kishi-tachi" (1990) and "Massacre in the Phantasmic Labyrinth" (1992). Her story extends into novels like "Yume Circus Bishōjo Jigokuhen" (1989) and "Floyd-jō Genmutan" (1992), and manga series "Dream Hunter Rem XX" (2009) and "Dream Hunter Rem Alternative" (2011). In "Alternative," she collaborates with fellow Dream Guardian Kanon Takatori to solve nightmare-linked disappearances. The "XX" storyline involves her investigating tentacle-related abductions across dream and real worlds. She also features as a playable character in the simulation RPG "Super Heroine Chronicle."
Her primary ability navigates and manipulates the dream realm, where she combats nightmare entities with a laser sword and a revolver firing depleted phlebotinum shells effective against supernatural foes. She survives dream deaths by psychologically rejecting them as unreal. Her combat tactics involve unconventional maneuvers, including allowing dream monsters to swallow her to attack internally. In the physical world, she uses conventional firearms. She is aided by transforming pets: Alpha, a kitten becoming a large wild cat in battle, and Beta, a puppy transforming into a giant dog with spirit-tracking abilities.
Her associates include Enkō, an ascetic monk who aids her against physical world demons using martial arts and spiritual powers derived from his faith; and Umimaru Kidō, a psychology professor and computer expert. Both Enkō and Umimaru harbor romantic feelings for her, creating a recurring rivalry. Detective Junichirou Sakaki of the Metropolitan Police collaborates with her after she resolves a nightmare incident involving his daughter Yukari. The antagonist Dr. Shinigami (real name Shimura), another Dream Guardian descendant, uses his dream powers for murder. Elizabeth is a significant ally with romantic implications. Her pets Alpha and Beta provide consistent support.
She appears in multiple OVAs: the original 1985 pilot, "Special Version: Sanmu! Yomigaeru Shinigami Hakase" (1985), "Seibishinjo Gakuen no Yōmu" (1986), "Yumegakushi, Kubinashi Musha Densetsu" (1987), and the "New Dream Hunter Rem" sequels "Yume no Kishi-tachi" (1990) and "Massacre in the Phantasmic Labyrinth" (1992). Her story extends into novels like "Yume Circus Bishōjo Jigokuhen" (1989) and "Floyd-jō Genmutan" (1992), and manga series "Dream Hunter Rem XX" (2009) and "Dream Hunter Rem Alternative" (2011). In "Alternative," she collaborates with fellow Dream Guardian Kanon Takatori to solve nightmare-linked disappearances. The "XX" storyline involves her investigating tentacle-related abductions across dream and real worlds. She also features as a playable character in the simulation RPG "Super Heroine Chronicle."