Spectral Force

The anime is a 1/10, it makes me laugh that is literally the only reason. Honestly, I cannot vouch you will enjoy this OVA if you dont like to laugh at horrible animation and bad jokes + the insanly bad fighting scenes. All JOKES ASIDE (lol) The anime is the pure definition of laughable the end credits state how many people worked on this work of art.

However, it is so bad I was cracking up how all the diffrent departments yet no one said "wait, this OVA we are creating looking shit". Well oh well who care is what they probably thought. Overall, character ... development, the world is obviously short and appalling so just forget about that. I would compare this anime to the worst aniem to ever come out Skelter+Heaven. So if you have seen that Short OVA aswell, watch this.

Anyways, If you don't like shitty series dont watch this shit.

I'm going through all the Idea Factory OVAs (all more or less promotional pieces for their visual novels and RPGs) and trying to make sense of them, without much success. What doesn't help, is that while the stories are generally meh, they also sometimes fall straight into incomprehensible – the first episode of Spectral Force is a great example. We start by seeing an angel(demon?) lady being fuckin' crucified and bleeding a lot of vividly pink raspberry sauce. Wow, edgy! Early Idea Factory generally seemed pretty fond of inserting random christian symbolism and over-the-top violence to this "Neverland" setting. How it ties into the story ... proper? Weeeeell... It doesn't, really.

Then we are treated to absolute visual clusterf***, with awful CGI, incomprehensible cuts and the anime generally ignoring its tiny runtime and taking its sweet time before getting to the point. The second episode finally focuses properly on the demon princess and her quest to defend what's left of her domain, but I can't say it made me super-interested in how the story continues in the RPGs. It's just all bland, disjoined and generic, with whatever nice stylistic choices that could've been ruined by hideous CGI environments and incredibly cheap 2D animation.

The first episode is actually pretty funny with how poorly constructed and cheesy it is, although the second one is mostly just boring. It's a decent "so bad it's good" kind of watch, but nothing more than that – if you're sober and respect your time, you should probably avoid it.

Story 3/10
So, from what I saw, the story seems to be that humans and demons are at war. It is now up to Hiro, a half-demon, half-human princess to put an end to the war.

Now, when you read the synopsis looks like a cool story right? Except that it is just poorly executed. I'm like ok so you got that story except that now you're confusing your audience 'cause you're putting these events that have close to nothing to do with the story.

Overall, it seemed like a great story and I was intrigued by it. I thought it was a cool concept, just really poorly ... executed.

Art 1/10
This has to be one of the worst animations I've ever seen, along with Superkids. In the second OVA, some scenes were improved, but it's still bad.

Character 3/10
There were some characters that seemed to be good, but like the story, I think the character development was poorly executed.

Enjoyment 2/10
It's just bad. I didn't enjoy the anime, but I was intrigued by the story that I kept going and it was not worth it.

Overall 2/10
Yeah, not worth your time. The animation is just awful. The story and characters were poorly executed. It's a shame 'cause the anime had potential, but everything is just really poorly executed. I would not recommend this.

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