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Well... What should I say

The anime itself was better than I expected it to be, the art was great and the ending was amazing.
The story was all over the place and didn’t really make a lot of sense, but it did what it was supposed to do:
Tell people about all the trash in the ocean

As this anime is probably aimed at kids aged 4-9 you can’t expect much story.

Characters were alright, I especially liked Thomas and Santa.

... For being free, this anime was really good.

The live chat made the anime pretty funny, shoutout to Google Mail and all the other amazing people!

Anyway, Im tired, bye

Rengoku Dead Role or Purgatory Survival is great.
Thats it.
I said it.
The story starts with a boy named Hiroaki Sakai dying while trying to prevent a girls from committing suicide after he fell of the roof himself while trying to pull her up. He blacks out and after he wakes up he finds himself in a room with a few strangers. He is being told that his punishments for killing himself is that he is forced to play terrible games with other people who killed themselves too and a mysterious entity only known as a „dealer“. They are forced to kill each other in a game ... the dealer chooses until somebody wins. After dying, they are reborn and have to do the same all over again. There are only two ways out of this circle: Everyone has to die in the game or you have to kill 666 other people to be granted any wish you have.
The number of people to go can be seen carved into the persons body.
As Sakai is a very ambitious person, he doesn’t want to lose the game against the god of the purgatory. And this is how it begins.
On the way to his goal, he meets a lot of interesting people and has to face a lot of hard challenges.

The story is very good and I wasn’t bored at any point while reading it. It creates a lot of suspense and has quite a few plot twists. I loved it! It can be a little bit gory at times and there is a lot of blood but if you are fine with that, this manga is something for you.

The characters in the story are all very original and very well implemented in the overall setting. It didn’t feel like they didn’t belong there at all. There is quite a lot of character development and there were no characters that I thought were annoying.

The art in this manga is very good! There is a lot of detail in the backgrounds and it didn’t feel bland or lifeless. You can see how much attention was put into the smallest and most unimportant things and I think that is great!

The manga was overall a really great experience and I really enjoyed it. If you like a bit of horror/gore and you like solving riddles, you’ll love this manga.

(As you probably have noticed, English isn’t my native language. If you see any mistakes or have any ideas to make this review better, feel free to contact me!)

A typical case of too much in one OVA.
Before I start, I don’t know anything about the background of this anime. Maybe I am wrong about something or I am supposed to watch something else before this OVA. If there is anything you want to tell me, message me and I will change my review.
Ok, let’s start:

I randomly discovered this anime while scrolling through the Top-Anime Leaderboard. I recently started watching bad anime just for the enjoyment of it.
This OVA instantly had my attention:
An OVA, only one Episode and the animation looked relatively good at the first glance.
This anime has to my knowledge no other ... episodes or anything else.
So it should tell the whole story, right?
WRONG
This anime starts off without introducing any of the characters, throwing you right into the action. I was really confused at the beginning of the OVA and was hoping it would get better. Well, I was wrong again. The anime talks about fairys and their powers all the time. What are these? Why do they exist? What do they do? Well, none of that stuff hets answered. Apparently some kind of evil corporation is trying to steal their powers... Why? What do they need them for? What are they? Well, none of that gets answered too.

[There may be some spoilers in the next part but since its only one episode, you shouldn’t care much anyway.]

Ok, to start off, why exactly do the main characters live in a human-like world?
Obviously we get no answer. There are a lot of plotholes and the studio doesn’t bother to fill them up. The anime starts, something „important“ happens, the next „important“ thing happens. It looks like somebody took an finished anime, cut out all of the important scenes and puts them in one OVA. There is no time to get attached to the characters, no explanation whatsoever and just one „dramatic“ scene after another. The anime expects that we k ow all of the characters, get what they are doing and wants to get is attached to them? Sorry, not in 24 minutes. Maybe take some more time TO EXPLAIN the next time.

The animations are, what should I say, average and do not look that bad, it looks like a öot of effort went i to the characters and the setting looks generally pretty interesting.

Its pretty sad that everything just got put into one small episode, with more time this could have easily been a solid 8. The effort that was put into the character design goes to waste and the story is too rushed to be even somewhat enjoyable.
If the anime would have had a bit more time to explain, it could have been really good. The choice to put it all into one episode ruined everything.
I can’t give it more than a 3/10, and rwo out of these points are just because it *could* have been good.

(Im pretty tired at the time of writing this, so please don’t hate on me for the trash I just wrote. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.)

I randomly found the YouTube video of this anime and decided to watch it.

It was so bad that it was funny to watch.

I’ve never seen worse CGI than in this OVA

The characters were not introduced and not interesting at all.

You don’t know whats going on because you know nothing about the world or what exactly is happening. There is no explanation at all and it’s confusing in general.

... It ends with to be continued but you don’t know what should continue since there is basically nothing to continue.

(Edit: Someone pointed out that this is based off a game. This may be an excuse for the lack of explanation but for normal viewers it’s confusing.
Even if this anime was intended to be watched after playing the game, there is basically no story at all. This is maybe one of the worst things I’ve ever seen.)

This is more a personal opinion than a review, but it’s currently 5AM and I really want to go to sleep. If you have anything to say about my review, feel free to contact me.