Another day, another terrible Idea Factory OVA.
Well, since I reviewed Mars of Destruction and Skelter + Heaven, I might as well get this one out of the way.
Story - 1/10
The plot to Generation of Chaos, as far as I can tell is basically what would happen if you took the main mechanic of Pokemon, had it be used for creatures more akin to Digimon, and put it in a universe of a generic version of The Slayers. However, this feels less like an OVA meant to accompany a game and more like the prologue to an actual anime. That never got made.
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Alternative Titles
Synonyms: The Generation of Chaos: Prologue OVA, Generation of Chaos Prologue
Japanese: ジェネレーション オブ カオス
Information
Type:
OVA
Episodes:
1
Status:
Finished Airing
Aired:
Sep 5, 2001
Producers:
Idea Factory
Licensors:
None found, add some
Studios:
None found, add some
Source:
Game
Theme:
Mythology
Duration:
30 min.
Rating:
PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
Statistics
Ranked:
#132012
2
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Members:
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Your Feelings Categories Jan 5, 2012
“Humans cannot change as rapidly as a caterpillar goes into its cocoon, and then comes out as a butterfly. You don’t notice snow melting into water; you don’t know it until it has already happened. Humans are like that; you won’t notice your growth until you are already grown.”
These poetic sentences come from Generation of Chaos: Prologue, a show brought to us by the great Idea Factory which created Mars of Destruction and Tenkuu Danzato Skelter Heaven. Like other Idea Factory works, it is supposedly based on a strategy role-playing game the studio made. This anime is created before Mars of Destruction and it is ... Oct 31, 2015
Story 4/10, Character 3/10
A large world story seems abridged into this montage OVA. 1st half is blue hair boy & a Pokemon, cringe comedy, flashback, & random timeskip. Lots of dragged on pacing. Euphemistically, it's a about coming of age, retirement, & farewell. 2nd half follows Roze oneesan, a typical tragic betrayal backstory, causing a change from salarywoman to knight. A loom working sequence seems accurate, but super long. In both weird side characters tell mc a random aphorism. Art 4/10 Ok for 2001, some wonky/lazy animation. Roze has some better drawn designs. Sound 5/10 Some corny bad ost/effects. It's saved by a very soothing ED (Let's Look to the Sky ... Jan 6, 2019
Generation of Chaos is something I expected to be bad, but was somehow much worse than I thought it would be.
Story: 2 There being two stories in it that are completely unrelated makes so little sense to me with the runtime. This means that the plot of the second half is so badly executed and confusing yet so cliched at the same time it is hard to get through - even though it's less than 10 minutes long. The first half is the reason this isn't a one: although a Pokemon rip-off in a lot of ways, it does give a unique spin on the formula. ... Jul 29, 2022
This OVA is not as bad as I expected it to be. I mean, it's still trash-tier, with cheap and constantly recycled animations, mediocre designs and incredibly rushed storytelling, but I don't think those are the notable parts.
For me the absolute baffling fact is that this was meant to be above all an advertisement for one of the Idea Factory's JRPG, and manages to be perfectly devoid of any points of interest that would make me want to play it. We have one character that once was a pokemon trainer (designs of which are either direct ripoffs or terrible)... But became an adult and lost ... |