Twinkle Heart: Gingakei made Todokanai

I won't even begin to attempt to explain what happened in this one, because you wouldn't believe me if I did. In fact, please don't ask me to explain, because I will refuse to even if you beg.

All I'll say is this: Anime OVAs are the best gift we have ever been given as a society, and we need to make better use of them in our daily lives. They are not often made anymore, but there is something truly magical about an entire feature-length film released direct-to-video by some random animation studio looking to animate whatever they feel like that particular year. Sometimes you get classics like 2001 Nights, sometimes you get weird junk like Villgust. Sometimes you get "Twinkle Heart: Let's NOT Reach the Galaxy."

If you wish to watch a 45-minute movie about space adventurers fighting stuffed animals, let Twinkle Heart grace your life.

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This anime is basically 10 minutes worth of story stretched out to 45. And given how little you could with "some generic girls try to save sentient stuffed animals" in even that time, you can imagine how difficult this is to sit through. They pad out the run time with their attempt at humor (which is made up entirely of the same old cliches you've seen a million times before) and the girls acting cutesy. These girls are just differentiated from each other enough to fall into different basic, tired architypes, but that's it. The directing is competent but uninspired, and the one real fight scene at the end was OK until it pulls a big deus ex machina. The art and music are both sub par (seriously, why is the youngest girl's head a perfect sphere?), but not bad in any noteworthy way.

In short, this is more boring than anything, and it's one of the hardest OAVs I've ever tried to sit through. Avoid.

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