Ten years after the first AIKa title was released in Japan, Aika Sumeragi has returned with a new mission chronicling her first mission when she was a teenager in AIKa R-16. Having just earned her C-class salvager license, Aika is ready for her first job underwater and has posted advertisements up around the school. However, Eri Shingai, the class 1A rep and Aika’s usual antagonizer in class, is not going to let Aika ruin the school’s rep with silly stunts like this. Yet, Eri does have a need for Aika’s newly-found license. Animated by Studio Fantasia and published by Bandai Visual, AIKa R-16: Virgin Mission 1 is the first of a three-volume OVA series on Region 2 Japan DVD. (more…)