Generation of Chaos III: Toki no Fuuin

(Kane, essa é culpa tua)

I watched this crap with my friends in an event we have called "Chernocall", and this anime, along with some others, shows why the name of our calls references the Chernobyl incident. It's so terribly bad that can be radioactive. I'm not joking!

The mess starts with it's story, which should be, in my conception, the core of someone's enjoyment in a narrative work. If you don't have a at least decent story, you don't have a good product, not mattering if the animation or sound design are stuning. And this story is completely poor. The events doesn't seems to have ... any good justification to happen, the characters are shallow and their motivations are boring...

I remember staring at the screen waiting for something interesting to happen. Well, the only interesting things that did happen were the spectacular animation errors. Weird facial expressions and BIZARRE perspectives appear all the time sometimes taking all the almost null emotional depth of some scenes, but at least creating good laughs. Sadly, a lot of these errors weren't funny at all, like the static scenes, for example.

Also, not only the animation is bad, but all of it's art direction. The scenarios look like something from a bad and cheap Nintendo 64 game, although being made in 2003. I guess even in that time this kind of visuals would be considered weird and ugly.

The sound design is the best part of the anime, being almost decent with mediocre voice actors and a easy forgettable soundtrack. That part isn't exactlu bad, but isn't good either. It's just meh.

Finally,the enjoyment of the anime can't be more far from the lowest level of what can be considered "ok". Please, just avoid this shit unless you want to troll you friends in a call or something. Hope I helped someone.

So i don't know why but when i heard about Satou Joshiteru it gave me goosegumps. I decided to make marathon of his master pieces cause its always 20 mins long ,, animes '' and i didn't regreted it. You know when they say its good cause its stupid? This is exactly what describes his works like Tenkuu Danzai Skelter+Heaven,Hametsu no Mars ( Mars of Destruction )
Story: what can i say about story? it lefted me totaly spechless cause its bad, and what can be worse than bad story? bad story with cliffhanger.
Art: its like someone maded characters in photoshop and put them there and ... move their mouth while they are standing and watching in floor.
Sound: this is only thing i kinda liked
Character: this gave me cancer, no face expressions, nothing just talking ( it was torture ). Also voice acting was pretty god.
Enjoyment: well what can i say.
Overall: I give this thing 3 only cause of few things in anime like sound,voice acting and other things

Honestly, from of the horrible trainwrecks of Idea Factory's early output this one is the most serviceable. It's still quite ugly and cheaply put together, wasting time with pointless stills and recaps, but at the very least, it's a decent prologue story for the game it's meant to promote.

It's quite true that the longer I watch these OVAs, the less I feel like checking out Idea Factory's games from this era is a good idea. The Neverland setting, shared between Spectral Force and Generation of Chaos games, seems bland and populated by mostly kitsch and unappealing characters. Stories are extremely important for my enjoyment of ... RPGs, and if there's one thing I took from these anime tie-ins is that they must be crap. This OVA though, even if by a small margin, is an exception. It's focused on setting up a high stakes conflict, a few lead characters I don't hate and a goal they'll be clearly pursuing in the game. It's not a great experience, but a solid piece of advertisement – kudos for Satou Yoshiteru for not f**** up that part for once. As for watching it... Well, if you're morbidly curious?