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| 4. Tempy
Based on Kosuke Fujishima's (Oh My Goddess!,
eX-Driver) best-selling manga series about 2 women at the traffic police
department, the You're Under Arrest OVA series boasts good production values
- the art is very detailed, the non-CGI cars and bikes never looked this good
before, and the animation is very expressive. As
a prelude to the TV series, the OVA episodes are episodic but still very enjoyable.
The action scenes are good (immensely helped by the animation), the pacing keeps
things moving, and the character interaction is enjoyable. Besides the two main
leads - gutsy Natsumi and smart Miyuki, the show also sports good secondary characters
as well, especially perpetual sunglasses-wearing Ken Nakajima who looks though,
but is actually too shy to profess his feelings to Miyuki. |
| 3. Olmanek
I'm being a bit lenient with this series, this must have had
some ungodly budget because the animation is some of the best I've seen in any
OAV or movie, which always hurts to acknowledge when you think about the absolutely
desolate storyline, which manages to tell a tale not worth telling, an enthralling
storyline is not necessary for something to be good, so long as it had charm or
atmosphere, this had neither. Once again we have those bloody scary characters
who are a bit too picture perfect, as was shown in Oh My Goddess, you half
expect them to turn into evil hell beasts or at least admit that yes they are
being controlled by some nefarious puppet master, but it never seems to happen,
so you may spend much of the series waiting for the characters to show their evil
side in vain, but hey, at least that added some suspense, which this series severely
lacks. A series still worth watching if only to admire the production values,
and perhaps to hurt yourself as you think of all the good series you've seen over
the years which had tiny budgets and how much better they could have been had
they had a budget like this OAV did. |
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