There are a few additional references to the games throughout the film – the main one being the Motorloader bike – but other than that there are surprisingly few clear touching points between the games and the anime. The video montage shown when the virus infects a hacker consists mainly of the Hitler themes from the second game, and at one point it even shows the spider-legged skull form of the final boss. The plot centers around a new computer virus called “Death Mail” that infects the minds of hackers and drives them insane. So why suddenly the Buddhist theme? Well, the main character this time is a monk named Shidou (a thinly veiled reference to the name of the main character of the video games, Syd), that seems to be much better at tinkering with computers and chasing after girls than he is at being a devoted believer. Pure Land Buddhism and Namu Amida Buddha is a phrase that is recited in his veneration. Clements & McCarthy, 2015), which seems very far from the cyberpunk setting established by the other entries in the series. The title has been translated as “Download: Song in Loving Homage to Amida Buddha” (see e.g. An English fansub was however released in 2016. It’s one of Studio Madhouse’s early works and a so called Original Video Animation (OVA) produced for direct release on VHS and Laserdisc and is considered an obscure film that has fallen out of memory. The last entry of the Download franchise is a single-episode anime that was released in December-January 1992-93.
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