Anime Sightings Old and New: Sanctuary

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This is a unique sighting in that I'm passing along a scene I learned about only second-hand. In the "Answerman" column at the Anime News Network, Justin Sevakis was answering a question about the lack of politically-themed anime. He stated,

"But a full on political anime? I can only think of one: Sanctuary, a one-shot OVA from 1996 . . . I remember one scene in which a middle aged politician has one of the lead characters over for a friendly chat, whereupon he pulls a tied-up, unconscious woman out of the closet and says, 'here, share this woman with me.'"

He went on to say,

"Anyway, Viz actually released that show back in the VHS era, and it went over like a lead balloon. So few copies were sold that this is actually one of the rarer releases from the era."

I did in fact see Sanctuary, but the VHS era was so long ago that I remember next to nothing about it. One might have thought that a scene like this would be hard to forget!