Fantasia

This was a fun one. It's about a girl named Malon who comes to Earth from a world called Phantasia. We don't really know what her original world is like, and we only get vague clues at the start of the OVA as to what her conflict is. She's arguing with some other girls about the moral compass of humans; Malon is arguing that humans are compassionate, whereas her friends disagree, and that's when Malon comes to the human world. He then randomly pops up in the room of the male MC, Akihiro. If you're a genre savy anime watcher ... like me, particular from pre millennium anime, there's going to be a lot here t hat you'll recognize. The cute girl randomly meeting the male MC and instantly becoming infatuated with him, Akihiro hating her and wanting her to go away even causing him to act harshly towards her, but later regretting his words, and the male MC being an over the top, unapologetic pervert. It has it all crushed down into a 25 minute OVA.

And yet, I somehow didn't hate it. It's not great, but it's not terrible either. Malon's interactions towards Akihiro aren't as overbearing and obnoxious as some other characters, especially the famous Lum from Urusei Yatsura, which the series was very obviously inspired by, but I still thought Akihiro's reaction to her was realistic and appropriate. Honestly, based on this OVA, I wouldn't have minded if it got a full series. As it stands it's painfully average, but not horrible. Either way it would have been considered a product of its time. It's not the best of the OVAs that I've been watching lately, but not the worst either.

I can't believe, that Production I.G, which animated such masterpieces, like Haikyuu!!, Kaze ga Tsuyoku Fuiteiru, created a totally mediorce anime in the ancient time with full of fan services.

Akihiro is a big otaku, who doesn't have much success with girls. They only live in his fantasy. One day he gets a magic carpet, where a beautiful girl comes out from. She has magic abilities, and uses it imprudently, and cause problems to Akihiro. So, the girl is pretty, but clumsy. The girl, Maron falls in love with Akihiro, and wants him to take to her world and live together with him. He goes, but ... Akihiro doesn't have time to admire Maron's world, because another girl, Roll appeared, who always wants to kill Maron. Who's this girl, and what she want from Maron?

Who knows. The complete OVA is about 30 mintues long, and as you can read, the story is really poor. But what really nice in this OVA, is the art and animation. It seems, the Production I.G always did the best in animation. It's very nice compared to other animes from the beginning of the 90s.

I would highlight Furumoto Shinnosuke, who was the seiyuu of Akihiro. I think, he's the most underrated seiyuu, I really like his voice. He has similar voice, like Yamaguchi Kappei, but unfortunately he was casted in very few animes. I think, he deserved much more.

The music is also quite good. The theme song is performed by Okui Masami, who's like muse for me in japanese music. This is her debut song, and I think, it's ideal as debut song, it forecasted a very good singing career, as Okui Masami had during the years. On the theme song single a radio dorama of the anime is also available.

Well, the anime is not like a miracle, but if you feel like, you want to watch an anime with fan services just for fun, then, it's ideal for it.

From the studio Production I.G. that have blessed us an one episode OVA from 1993 called Fantasia. I have no idea why they made this, but I'm sure they should have used the time investment in creating this in something better instead of making this one episode OVA.

Story: 2/10 (Horrible)
If you can expect a good story in one episode of 25 minutes long, you're wrong. The "story" pretty boils down to a dude that trips over a carpet and later stumbles down on a pink haired magical girl on the pretty much one of the most stereotypical way guys stuble upon anime girls because anime ... physics. The OVA tries to tell us a story with pretty much every anime trope you can think off that was popular in the '90 jammed into 25 minutes and fails. I've seen average hentai in the past that contains a better plot that did made more sense and I'm not even joking.

Art: 5/10 (Average)
As this OVA got released in 1993, you can expect the typical art-style from the '90's. For modern standards you can write it off as 'bad', but in 1993 I think the art-style would be decent for it's time. Some may like it, some don't.

Sound: 4/10 (Bad)
The audio, well, I don't think it's that good. It's just your typical sound effects from the 90's and quite bad voice acting combined together. I even can't recall anymore I've heard any music used aswell, but as you guess by now I was not very fond of the sound in general.

Charather: 3/10 (Very Bad)
The charathers are very bland in pretty much every way possible. I've seen much more interessing charathers in similair shows.

Enjoyment: 3/10 (Very Bad)
I'm going to be honest and I really didn't liked the time investment for the one episode OVA. It was quite boring to say the least and I could have done something more productive with that small half hour. Sure, it was only about a small half hour, but still...

Overall: 3/10 (Very Bad)
In overall, I don't really recommend this one episode OVA unless you really want to waste a small half hour watching popular anime tropes of the '90's and hearing comical sound effects jammed in together that tries to tell you a story.