Kimagure Orange☆Road OVA

Shiroi Koibito-tachi
Kyousuke Kasuga and his friends are staying at his grandparent's house over winter break on a skiing trip. Everyone is excited until they hear about a curse that spells doom for couples who go down the mountain together. With a net of relationships and crushes on the line, the group's plans are suddenly upended.

Hawaiian Suspense
Kyousuke and Madoka Ayukawa's trip to Hawaii takes an abrupt turn for the worse when Hikaru Hiyama gets kidnapped! Kyousuke has to find a way to rescue her without revealing his paranormal powers to Madoka.

Wagahai wa Neko de Attari Osakana de Attari
While studying for exams, Kyousuke wishes that he could switch places with his pet cat or fish so he could have an easier life. But when his grandfather arrives with a magic rope that can be used to swap bodies, Kyousuke finds out he might have gotten himself in too deep.

Hurricane! Henshin Shoujo Akane
When Kyousuke's cousin, Akane, comes to visit, she stirs up antics with her ability to cast illusions. Things get even crazier when Akane falls for Madoka and becomes Kyousuke's rival in love.

Koi no Stage=Heart on Fire!
As Kyousuke helps to prepare for a local music festival, a popular idol crashes into him and they switch bodies! Now, Kyousuke must get his body back and prevent his secret from getting out before the show begins.

Omoi Gakenai Situation
Kyousuke has a foreboding dream where Akane attempts to seduce him. Disgusted after having inappropriate thoughts about his cousin, Kyousuke is shocked when she actually asks him to pose as her boyfriend in front of her friends.

Rouge no Dengon
Madoka's father is in Japan for a performance, and she is excited for the rare opportunity to see him. When she sees her father with a strange woman, however, her emotions are thrown into disarray.

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Ayukawa, Madoka Main

Tsuru, Hiromi Japanese

Kasuga, Kyousuke Main

Furuya, Toru Japanese

Hiyama, Hikaru Main

Hara, Eriko Japanese

Jingoro Supporting

Ogata, Kenichi Japanese

Kasuga, Manami Supporting

Tomizawa, Michie Japanese

Kasuga, Kurumi Supporting

Honda, Chieko Japanese

Ushiko Supporting

Nakajima, Chisato Japanese

Umao Supporting

Suzuki, Katsumi Japanese

Hatta, Kazuya Supporting

Tatsuta, Naoki Japanese

Kasuga, Akane Supporting

Matsui, Naoko Japanese

Mori, Takeshi Director, Episode Director

Yoshinaga, Naoyuki Director

Matsuura, Noriyoshi Sound Director

Mochizuki, Tomomi Episode Director

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Sep 18, 2018

xcomprr

Recommended

Thanks to the success of the TV series, Izumi Matsumoto had decided to continue the Manga which might be why this OVA series was released afterwards. Unfortunately, it's not a direct continuation of the TV series. Well... it kind of is and isn't because it rewinds back two episodes before the end of the TV series and does a bit of re-shuffling with chapters of the Manga that never made it in. Characters are now in senior high school instead of junior. The first half of the series are mostly filler episodes and characters such as Kyousuke's cousin Akane makes her first appearance. For the ... most part, it's fan service with the girls. Then the second half gets a bit more serious and is mainly based on chapters after the TV series.

If you want a prelude before watching the spin-off movies or just miss the trio after finishing the TV series, you'll probably like this.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Apr 21, 2024

patkarunungan

Recommended

Spoiler

If you like the anime TV series "Kimagure Orange Road" and would like some more, look no further than the OVA.

The OVA episodes come from content in the manga that was not animated in the main TV series. It feels like the typical anime episodes, except that some episodes have a more serious theme, one of them involving violence and abduction. The animation quality is superior to the main series.

Regarding watch order, some watch the entire OVA after the main TV series. But some watch orders estimate where exactly in the TV series you should watch a particular episode, but watch out for OVA episode ... 8.

I watched it after movie 2. Its story is after episode 48 but before the first movie. So it's a bit jarring because I was watching an earlier point of the series, whereas the two movies have moved way past the TV series in terms of maturity.

There must be two reasons why some watch orders place this last. 1) Just in case you're disappointed with the second movie. I enjoyed movie 2, but not everyone does. It's a way of leaving one good episode as your last exposure to the Kimagure Orange Road anime. 2) minor spoiler: It's only in this episode that Ayukawa counted the steps on that fateful stairway where Kyouseke met her first. It's only here does she realise that Kyousuke's count of 100 is correct.

That said, there's nothing in this episode that negates your enjoyment of the movies if you watch this first.

Anyway, treat these OVA episodes as additional episodes to the main TV series. You can't go wrong watching them.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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