Dragon Half

When a dragon slayer was sent to kill a dragon, he married her instead — and that decision gave his daughter Mink horns, a tail, wings, and enough strength to level a building — which is great for survival, less great for impressing the boy she likes. That boy is Dick Saucer, a famous singer who also happens to be a professional dragon slayer, which makes Mink's situation particularly awkward. Her plan: find a potion that turns her fully human, win his heart, live happily ever after. Simple enough, except nothing goes that way. Joining her are Lufa, an elf with healing magic, and Pia, a dwarf with extremely overprotective parents. Together they stumble through a fantasy world that knows exactly how ridiculous it is and leans into that fully. Dragon Half is a two-episode OVA from 1993 that treats every fantasy convention as a setup for a joke — quests, monsters, royal villains, all of it gets the parody treatment. The art constantly shifts into chibi mode whenever something absurd happens, which is basically the whole time. The ending theme alone, a comedic reworking of Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, tells you everything about the show's energy. If you enjoyed the chaotic humor of Slayers or the self-aware absurdity of Excel Saga, this scratches a similar itch in a much shorter runtime. It's two episodes, it's weird, and it commits completely to the bit.