Maze☆Bakunetsu Jikuu

This is more a warning than a review - this two-episode OVA is clearly meant for readers of the manga, as was very common with OVA manga adaptations when this came out. Manga readers knew all the backstory and wanted to see their favorite characters in anime form. As a result, this OVA just drops the viewer in media res - we're told a few sentences of backstory but there's no room to breathe or meet the characters before things start happening. Which is fine - that is not what this show was meant to do! But that makes it probably not worth watching in ... 2024 especially when a TV adaptation also exists. (We'll see when we get there, I suppose, but if it's anything like 99% of situations like this, that will actually build up the story.) It's difficult to review this as we're nowhere near the beginning of the story: we're told Maze turns into a boy at night and we see a few scenes of this. (Another warning worth mentioning here is the high level of ecchi here veering into sexual assault which may not be palatable these days.) We get a cursory introduction to their traveling companions but we barely get a hint of their personalities. I'm just going to write this one off and go to the series but I thought it prudent to make it clear to anyone stumbling across this that this is definitely more of a manga supplement OVA than a standalone.