The Gakuen Choujo-tai

Welcome to the year 1991. The Chohjotai captures nicely all the things great of the era.

This is a one shot OVA based on a novel. I've never read the novel, but was pretty happy with the pacing of the story. I felt like no part was dragged out and we got a nice development the characters without a giant exposition.

The art felt fairly consistent (I'd hope so for a one shot). But I noticed that the background animation and action shots did NOT use a terrible lines-moving behind the characters. While there weren't a ton of details in the backgrounds, it never felt terrible. The ... action sequences and ESPER power usage was animated well. The art of the characters had nice soft lines and edges, but I suppose that could be a personal preference.

I'll admit that for the sound, I might have been generous. But the few sound effects for psychic screaming and "Spirit Gun" were good. Mostly I enjoyed the insert song at a cafe and the end credit song.

The 3 main characters were well written. This is impressive as writing for women characters was not always strong in 1991. But in 45 minutes, I had a nice understanding of the characters wants and personality without it being giants tropes.

I watched this with 2 friends and we all enjoyed it. We laughed at intended times, enjoyed guessing character motivations and where the story was going.

I think if you enjoyed the earlier spirit detective arc of Yu Yu Hakusho, you'll enjoy this. I felt my time was well spent and if you want a nice one shot to watch with friends, this is a great option.

Honestly, I had a lot of fun watching this movie. A standard shoujo, but all of the girls are believable and likable. I was actively rooting for them, which doesn't happen very often.

Some of the directions it went could be confusing, but overall I think you're able to keep up. My only real complaint is the trope "clothes disintegrate as soon as the characters get hit" was used extensively, but I thought it was pretty funny when it came up.

Anyway, I'd say this is a fun movie to watch with a couple people, and I really just appreciate how much I liked the main ... girls.

i'll start by saying that i watched this subbed

the copy i watched was a vhs rip and was not great video quality, the story was basically three girls with esp in a super team fighting a bunch of evil esps from there school who want to use the to take over the world.

The story plays out like anyone would expect from a early 90's ova. There are quite a few shots of the girls in there underwear and a bit of nudity but does not over shadow what is going on story wise.

Action wise there is quite a a bit showing of there ... different types of physic powers.

Demons not a lot to do with them first two or three minute only

Shoujo is typical nothing special

super power the girls have quite a few super powers going for them

lastly i have not read the book so i don't know how well it follows the book