Quote:If the Movie is supposed to be acontnuation of the OVA then things must have happened very parallel to the Manga in the time in between for Chihiro or Peorth to make an appearance.
I'm of the view that as the OVA and Movie seem to have a set date zoneage, the Movie March/April 2001, three years or so after the arrival of Belldandy, the OVA gives us a Christmas/New Years 199x, so they're related. Any dates in the manga I've seen tend to drift to the 1992, 1994 end of the decade.
It would be rather hard to put all this stuff into a future DW step that is supposed to be based on OMB. Chris Angel's work clearly diverges from the canon timeline after the OVA or early Manga, so that neither the events of the Movie or the later Manga could have happened. With all the Gods in OMB patterned so directly after myths, charcters like Celestine, Peorth, Hild and Vesper would not really fit in.
I don't recall any mentioning of dates offhand, but I think that the Manga is somehow always supposed to be set in the present. That means that Keichi's first meeting would have happened back in '89 and his current adventure is set in 2003. I guees time passes slower in the A!MG world. It does pass and characters do grow older in the Manga just not very fast.
The reason, you might feel that the manga is set in the nineties, could be that you mostly have seen some of the older Manga. The OVA and the Movie appear to be just taking their cue from the time period of the Manga-era they are based on.