Kussetsu

First off, from a hentai perspective the sex scenes in Kussetsu are conceptually arousing however the art is dated. However this brief ova is satisfying on another level.

The mc is the antagonist and an egomaniac, he plots to take everything away from his only friend, because secretly he despises him.

We're given no reason as to why the mc is supposedly unpopular, but it's clear he is a dark character, however i couldn't help but root for him. Two by two he manipulates the women surrounding his friend and proceeds to fuck them.

What i like most about Kussetsu is a romance that develops steadily ... throughout, one of the girls he seduces is like himself, a daughter of a politician, they share a wicked scheming mind. They deserve each other, and they're bound for a future in politics. Also the punchline is quite well delivered.

Pretty good but also pretty bad adaptation.

The story is essentially original as it's not part of the original VN. The story being changed or converted when adapting a VN is not weird, like in Kanojo x Kanojo x Kanojo, Aneimo2 or Resort Boin, to say some of my all time favorites that changed the story to make it more cinematic. In this case, the situation we see in the OVA is not impossible though, it's more like it didn't had the chance to happen.

The characters are pretty much the same and don't feel any incongruences between the original VN and the original story for the ... OVA, only the main heroine had her villainism buffed and the protagonist may or may not have different motivations (it depends on perspective).

The animation is soft and fluid, it's comfortable to look at and aged pretty well... Except for the scenes when they shadowed the characters in an already dark location to add more "mystery/drama" to the scene, that looks awful.

A problem in specific I have (more like a thorn than anything else) is the mix of flashback/flashforward story telling they use, I FREAKING HATE THAT. Showing the end and then saying "And this is how it happened" is something I hate and always will.

The story, animation and scene direction are pretty good, only the the jumping between before and after is bad.