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Apr 27, 2011 5:53 PM

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i love the fact that they were able to make this into a 25min OVA just wish it was longer!,and i took about half way through it for me get used to the shellshading artstyle it was just werid when Toto was the only 3d person when she was in the crowd of people.
Apr 28, 2011 1:23 AM
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I didn't like the CGI animation but the romance factor was cute. 6/10
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Apr 28, 2011 4:15 AM

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.....very Good OVA I give it 8\10
Apr 28, 2011 11:02 AM

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Uggghhh, that was awful. I didn't expect to watch something worse than the HotD OVA today, but boy was I wrong.
Apr 28, 2011 5:28 PM
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That didn't make any sense at all... it definitely should have been longer, if only to explain things a little better.
Apr 28, 2011 9:19 PM
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fiucking amazing, really, AMAZING, why can't this be a movie?
great feeling, ambient, pacing, charas, love it all, the animation even for CGI was vert good.
8/10
Apr 30, 2011 2:23 AM

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Ah, some good ol' toaster sex anime (I kid, I kid).

The style of animation was pretty unique and it took me a bit of time to get used to it. Loved all the random lolwut deer scenes though.

I would have liked at least a tiny bit of explanation of what the old woman was doing and why she staked her entire life on HRF-12.

Cute and short. 7/10
Apr 30, 2011 5:25 AM

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I would have liked at least a tiny bit of explanation of what the old woman was doing and why she staked her entire life on HRF-12.

It's not specifically explained, but my assumption is that the old lady wanted to use Toto's body as he own once they were able to complete her. However, since Toto has a mind of it's own, she fled.
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May 4, 2011 12:40 PM

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I could've gone for a feature length film on this! The white deer stole the show!
May 6, 2011 1:14 PM

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best part, i lold hard :D
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May 9, 2011 5:09 PM

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YES. The white laughing deer ftw!!

A beautiful, although short, love story. Definitely worth the watch!
Jun 16, 2011 4:30 AM

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If only it was a series or movie or something..

It just disappointed me with the length like BRS.

But I like everything else about it especially Minako's voice on OP and ED as well as her dubbing on Toto. (well, the art was a bit...)
Aug 20, 2011 10:01 AM

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The 3D didn't bother me as much as it did in Norageki .
To short , not much going fot it, just the romance. And also deers.


I don't know if it was intentional or not but was that a The 5th Element reference, when she escapes?


Nov 17, 2011 11:25 AM

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The English Dub version is awesome as all get out. Currently watching it on ATT UVerse... Its really cute and Sentai Filmworks gets some credit for putting in some really good voice actors. --- Randy
Mar 8, 2012 7:08 AM
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Very nice short and extremely good direction from Shuhei Morita. He already proved with Kakurenbo and FREEDOM that he was one of the best new directors of Japanese animation and he delivered once again a fantastic and almost complete work in such a difficult format as the 25-minutes OVA. Great pace and characters too.

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Apr 18, 2012 11:50 PM

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I understand the stiffness of movement when it comes to giant statues and robots but it's annoying when human characters in CGI animation doesn't do that fluid movement you expect them to have. Ah well, ┐( ̄ー ̄)┌

Looks like the people who've seen Gantz can help but have this different gut reaction seeing those moving giant statutes. LOL At least the freaking statues here were not aliens.
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Dec 23, 2012 4:22 PM

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10/10 wish it wasnt an OVA


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Apr 9, 2013 12:15 PM

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6.67 is way too low for this anime.
It was really good, but I guess only the most active anime fans would ever go out of their way to find and watch this. They tend to be the harshest critics.

I give this an 8/10
Apr 9, 2013 1:08 PM

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Not bad a compact story and pretty sweet ending, I did loved the short song and the concept of the end! The dears were a strange symbole to the show but well it gives the show something unique!

What did bother me was the use of CG, for a reason it was to obvious although it was well done it felt wrong...
May 2, 2014 10:45 AM

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I really liked the animation and art in this.
It also had good pacing and surprisingly very likable characters. And it was overall cute and pretty good.
I just didn't understand how she was able to comeback? the old woman said she will turn to junk in an hour, and there was something wrong with her hand and leg (she had trouble moving them), but then they never address that again. Those people who made her couldn't have fixed her either since it seems they were arrested. I would have given it higher than 7/10 if not for this.
Feb 15, 2016 4:13 AM
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★★★☆☆
Could've been better without the CGI. Not that good to me.
Aug 27, 2016 4:01 PM

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This was actually a pretty feel-good story. ♥(ˆ⌣ˆԅ)
Jul 14, 2019 8:08 AM

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the old lady reminds me of mama and her children in futurama, with a little evil lady from emperors new grove, so they actually werent too unbearable for me
Oct 20, 2021 7:40 AM

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I just watched this for fun without expecting anything and I didn't think I would really enjoy it.. I wish it was longer.. It would be great to make it into a movie or series.

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