Itsudatte My Santa!

This is by far the best CHRISTMAS SPECIAL in THE ENTIRE GOD DAMN WORLD!! Every year I make everyone I know watch this and every year everyone is filled with joy, happiness and the CHRISTMAS SPIRIT!!

The Art, stellar, the sound phenomenal, the music should hang in a museum, the characters have perfect designs and the voice acting well it's okay... Just kidding it ties it all together perfectly.

10/10 Watch this ever Christmas and you will have a CHRISTMAS TIME!

Also the beach episode is pretty nice to.

This show in the number one reason I stay on this world.

"Always My Santa!" is an odd duck of an Anime if there ever was one, thats for sure. Starting with the story then. In some respects, its a standard romance and is handled well by Akamatsu-sensei, as usual. There are some odd elements to the story as well though, the magic and Santa Claus and how that all works together. In that respect, it feels like the audience is only witnessing a small piece of a larger story. That being said, however, it doesn't complete mar the experience, one just feels as though these are just two episodes of a larger series - and they ... are not. Further enhancing this sensation is the shear speed at which the plot seems to move - seems like the whole mess is on fast-forward. Overall, it feels like these two OVA episodes are a condensation of a long manga or somesuch. There are some comedic touches at play here, typical for Akamatsu-sensei, and mostly the comedy works well, for what there is. However, the primary showcase here is the romance drama - and there is it. Because of the show's frantic pacing, or perhaps despite it, there is a great deal of monologue-ing going on. While this does heighten the tensity of the drama, I do feel that it detracts from the feature in way. That is, long sequences of a character chattering to herself are not exactly exciting. I can't help but think that if the OVA was a little longer, the characters could gab to themselves less and the feature whould be enlivened somehow. The magic and transformation sequences, while the source of comedy and nudity, seem a little out of place at times. In the large part, this OVA shades on the more dramatic and serious side so the magic and, especially, the transformation sequence seem to not really match the whole (admitted entertainment value notwithstanding). The art is standard Akamatsu fare here, and looks good for all that - clean and nice. The characters look good, if not familiar in some respects. I think the art style here is closer to Negima than Love Hina, if I may say so. The music is an interesting element in this OVA, as well. Nice, if slightly bland, pop tunes and light instrumental themes that work well but don't quite function in the OVA itself. One gets the impression that the soundtrack whould be nice to own and listen to in isolation from the OVA, but it doesn't quite work in the animation. It always seems like the music is being talked over or otherwise not meshing properly. So while the music itself is pretty good, putting it in the OVA how it was is a small misstep. The characters are very standard, in large part - nothing too unusual or unexpected, actually. This is both good and bad. As an admitted fan of Akamatsu-sensei, the character designs are enjoyable to me, others may find them to be a retread though (as they are to some extent). Thankfully, no characters stand out as particularly irritating. This is an enjoyable OVA in spite of its flaws. Its unfortunate that there isn't more of it.

Rate of 10 (wow!)
english dubbed

Warning:has a powerful deep message but ends on a high note. Also this review is different. In terms it is not a pro vs con approach but more of a story of impact the show had told through an alternate window with an added bonus of comical flare.

Another day another long 24 hours. Is how i used to feel. Maybe it was things not going my way, low self esteem or other factors. Whatever the case i was not happy. Until i saw this show.

Granted i originally chose this for it's ecchi tag and a last laugh at the joke of ... life before my life ended. Yes, i got that deep. Sad but true. Moving on this movie completely changed my life for the better. This movie is an odd duck of showings for it's bizarre nature of misfortunes but it is those same ones that are slowly shown as fortunes. Talk about a clench eyed gasp moment. So much powerful good in all the bad moments.

Were to start... from the begining it is. fear not i will be very vague with what actually happens by changing my review into an alternate reality of the original show in order not to reveal spoilers.

Say my name is Eg. Most of my life i remained as one. Never once felt the comfort of a basket because of that it egged on my hatred of the bunny. How dare he do this! what did i do wrong? Why could i not be egs? My view on life unbeknown to me wrapped me in an invisible shell. Thankfully some rabbit smelt my rotten stentch and became intrigued. Sure the rabbit had other jobs to do like the rest of the herd but my stench was too powerful to be ignored. The rabbit tried it's best to crack me up but failed. I could have helped but was to involed with my Egg-streme (Extreme) that i remained Egg-sactly (Exactly) how i was before i met this rabbit. Maybe even a little worse off.

My Egg-splosive (Explosive) attitude was slowing chipping at the Egg-static (Ecstatic) personality to the point of us breaking apart.

When the breakup happened rather than dismissing off everything the rabbit attempted as a yoke(joke) i felt the small cracks the rabbit cause expand and deepen until my shell broke. At that moment i became intrigued. this was different. was i looking at light wrong?

Sure enough after looking and looking what i thought to be closed books i found that there was more to the story like the rabbit said. Rather than boiling in my emotions i just need to refrigerate to see the truth. Since that clarity i gained hope and with it cause a deeper smile on life that i became the chick i meant to be not a forgotten buried egg.

Now, the show could have stopped there. The story was already had a conclusion for the main character. Peace was restored but what about the rabbit? The rabbit was suffering too. Like the main character the rabbit had to find its carrot in life.

just finished for the first time and first happy holidays of course


but anyways first episode was pretty solid tbh... it had a good pace going for itself and everything it was a solid 7


the second episode used some of the same animation , tropes but i just didnt pay mind to it , (was just trynna have some christmas vibes) very good christmas special , looks and sounds like a anime from early 2000s

i recommend this for offseason and onseason i cant wait to watch this again a year from now

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happy holidays - marcell 2020