Mirai Nikki

So after having watched 12 episodes of Mirai Nikki (TV) and being thoroughly impressed by it, I decided it would be worth spending the 8 minutes it takes to watch the Mirai Nikki OVA.

In my honest opinion this is more of a preview or a commercial than anything else. Scenes switch so fast without any explanation that it is next to impossible to tell what is happening unless you have watched the show like I have. In fact, it appears they squeezed the first 2 episodes into this 8 minute long ova. So if you think about it this is just pretty much an 8 ... minute long trailer.

So overall I rate this trailer a 3, simply because I feel this wasn't meant to be watched as anything other than a preview; if it was the actual anime adaptation I would have given it a 1. It does serve its purpose as a preview though and I'm sure if you were a Mirai Nikki fan before October 9, 2011 this might have been cool to see, but today it serves no real purpose.

The first OVA for Mirai Nikki, with a paltry runtime of just over eight minutes, is utterly pointless. There is no reason to watch this OVA as it serves little more than promotional material for the series. The scenes are mostly shot-for-shot identical to the anime, and there is no extra material included. It does move rather quickly and encapsulates the first several episodes, so it is a good refresher, but it leaves out too much detail to be heavily relied on. There is just no reason to watch this. Unless you are a die-hard Mirai Nikki completionist, it is best to skip this entry ... in the series.