DRAMAtical Murder: Data_xx_Transitory

I haven't seen the anime this OVA is coming after, but if you have played the game and you want to see animations of the bad endings, this is the place to come to. If you like horror and yaoi mixed together, come here.

If you watched the anime hoping for it to be BL like the game, but you were sorely disappointed and wondering where all the L went, it's here, so come here.

If you like yaoi come here, unless you hate blood (then don't come).

If you want a riveting plot, no, leave, quickly.

If the full DMMD anime had just taken this route and just went 'screw the majority' and pandered to the original fans of DMMD instead of trying to market to a wider audience - it would have likely would not have garnered as much hate as it does.

However, that's not what happened and the majority will always rule, that's how demographics work. So to have this little OVA giving a short nod to each of the bad endings of the game is a nice attempt to gain a little favour from the fans of the game. Sure, it's not quite a violent, dark or explicit ... (because let's face it, they'd never get away with that). It's still an obvious attempt to try and fix what was broken. At least a little bit.

Is it any good: kind of.

It's better than the anime. Simply because it's closer to the original tone of the game. However, it's still not great since the anime it's coming from the back of, doesn't really tie into how each of the bad endings occur and pan out since it is a multi-route game and you cannot fit a multi-route game into a 12 episode anime. It just doesn't work like that.

It's not fair to hate this OVA simply because it's parent anime was bad. It tried - it really did. So take it for what it is, a small nod to some of the darkest aspect of DRAMAtical Murder which the anime would never touch in the watered down product that we got.

Overall: 6/10

I was very dissapointed with this, It wasn't too bad considering the game. However I was unpleased to find it was only the bad endings and that it did not include all of them. I feel as if instead of a short episode with ONLY the bad endings they should have animated a second season with both the good and the bad endings. Instead of this video. If you do want the full experience I would get the game or watch it on youtube. I would watch the full anime 1st season first however so you understand what is going on through most ... of the game. The game is much more in deapth and fun to play. A little warning though before you play; if you do not wish to see some content invoving sex, rape, blood, and people being very gay, do not play. I would Highly suggest the first season, because it does not involve any adult content for those who would not wish to see that.