Starship Troopers(宇宙の戦士Uchū no Senshi, lit. Soldiers of Space) is a six part anime OVA produced by Sunrise/Bandai Visual and released in 1988. It is based on the book Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein that was published in 1959. This production is considered the "most faithful" to the original novel's plot, despite the fact that many liberties were taken with the characters and the original book's themes. For instance, Rico, an Asian Filipino in the novel, is a blonde White Argentine in the OVA. Interestingly, the main character's ethnicity in the OVA series has more in common with the Paul Verhoeven's 1997 film Starship Troopers than the source material—this despite their productions being wholly unrelated and having nearly a decade of difference.