Some Really Quick OVA Impressions: Gunpla Builders, Ciel in Wonderland and Fortune Arterial OVA

I originally planned to use the shoutbox for this, but unfortunately it’s down right now. Basically I just tried to watch a bunch of OVAs and failed to get through all of them. This isn’t really meant to be a full review in any way, but more a list of short explanations of why I couldn’t bother to finish any of these three.

Gunpla Builders

I already was not very motivated to check the Gunpla Builders OVA out. I lasted only two minutes with this thing. The reason for that was that in only the first two minutes alone, the characters managed to mention the word “Gundam” a whopping twelve times already. I know I’m biased, and the animation was very good here, but I really don’t want to watch this kind of propaganda!

Kuroshitsuji II: Ciel in Wonderland

This is an OVA that consists out of two episodes, putting Ciel in the Alice in Wonderland story (the Disney version). Here, I lasted until ten minutes into the second OVA. In the end, it’s just fanservice: Ciel gets put in a dress and all of the side-characters make an appearance and act weird. It’s full of the kind of humour that’s just random for the sake of being random. That doesn’t remain fun for a full hour.

Fortune Arterial OVA

This one was just terrible. The TV-series was pretty good, but the OVA is just a random side-story in which nothing happens with a climax at an obligatory scene of the lead guy walking into all of the females bathing. YET AGAIN. Stay far away from this one.

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