Yami no Purple Eye

If you can watch this with an open mind and appreciate it for it's artistic and experimental approach, you can enjoy this 30 minute OVA.

Not much of it is animated, but it does have some very beautiful drawings while sometimes using some effects on them. When it does animate it's very pretty, such as the ocean scene, hair blowing in the wind scene, and also where the woman turns into a panther.

The music was actually pretty good in this OVA. I think half the songs I really enjoyed. During the last 8 minutes it really picks up and shows a struggle between humans and the ... panther humans. There is gore at this point, and the song featured here has great bass playing.

It's pointless to rate this for story and character because there is almost no dialogue in this one or character development. You sort of have to follow along and the still shots and little animation, carried by the music.

I can appreciate the experimental and artistic approach of this OVA. I enjoyed it.

This is a promotional music video for a manga, and it's about a girl who turns into a leopard or something (if she dates anyone, is this bestiality?). Dunno anything about that, but we do see a few panels from the manga scattered throughout. I actually stumbled upon this because I enjoyed other efforts from the director Mizuho Nishikubo, who was a good choice for a music video, as he also worked on Radio City Fantasy, which had a lot of music videos sprinkled throughout the story. However, this is a cheap effort compared to most promotional OVAs, and there isn't much here to work ... with for nearly 30 minutes.

Often, this is just a slide show. Featuring many glossy images that look like concept art based on various chapters of the manga, sliding into place, shifting around the frame, sometimes zooming in or out, other times overlaid on some animated backdrops, or dissolving into the next frame. There's a little bit of visual experimentation with split screen and other techniques, but this honestly looks like a tacky, stitched together slideshow from a super-fan of the manga.

Whatever scenes are animated are generally pretty nice. The beach scenes look solid and have fairly fluid animation. There are plenty of scenes of water, as well as a few scenes with the leopard running and background animation. I want to say only like 5%-10% of this is animated, but even when it's animated, it's usually just loops of sparkly stuff or hair billowing or flowers adrift or sky backdrops.

There's no real narrative to the music video either. It all feels very randomly placed. I'm not sure the music fits that well or is very good, but it does the job. I'd be pretty sore if I shelled out cash for this back when it was released, even if I were a fan of the manga... now that it's widely available, it's worth a look if you're a fan, I guess, but this is something that probably deserves to be forgotten, relegated to the twilight hours on an old grainy TV set, droning away in the background while you're performing menial tasks. I try to be sparse with the 1/10s, but this is so boring and pointless and an absolute waste of time and bereft of any entertainment value or meaning, so it deserves it.

Well uh.. That is a thing. That was sold in stores. For real cash.

To clear a few things up, I actually found this MV (I guess) pretty relaxing and entertaining, so with that, why a 3? The biggest reason is because it was sold for real life money. You could purchase a 30 minute Manga Music Video in 1988 on VHS. At the time, sure It might have had some material value, but since free and common video sharing websites exist now (and since the Internet became a thing), it's value became basically zero for the normal consumer. Only collectors would find any value ... in the physical release.

With that said, it is pretty well made for 1988/87(sources differ) and for being a MMV but even so it feels cheap in the grand scheme. It has fluid animated parts as well, so I don't know why they wouldn't just animate one short chapter in 30 minutes. This feels more like a university club fan project or a modern day Niconico MMV than -you know- a retail release OVA meant to advertise and sell the manga itself. I would definitely feel cheated out of my money if I had bought this in the late 80s/early 90s with the 'Toei Animaton' logo on it, expecting a nice, actual OVA made by the company behind Dragon Ball and Sailor Moon.

So overall it definitely is nice to see/listen to if you're a fan of relaxing music, but don't actually buy it unless you're a crazy VHS collector or something like that.

One could argue that the 'Very Bad/Poor' in 3 references a 'Very Bad/Poor' business practice.
At least it got me mildly interested in the manga so that's good I guess?