The Big Battle OVA is enjoyable from start to finish. I'm surprised it doesn't even reach a 7 when it comes to average ratings, but good taste doesn't grow on trees.
Unlike Red Shoulder Document / Roots of Ambition, Big Battle is a self-contained 'side-story,' an adventure that has little to do with the main series. It doesn't tell us anything new about Chirico, Fyana, or Ypsilon.
That's great.
Niva is the star of the show here, being introduced and having his whole story finished within one sitting. He's a straight forward antagonist.
With Fyana being present, those who have finished AT VOTOMS know that there is still something
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Mar 29, 2020
Pailsen Files is only worth watching if you've seen the original AT VOTOMS, alongside the Roots of Ambition / Treachery / Red Shoulder Document OVA. If you haven't seen those, don't bother...
The story is mediocre at best. It does have some decent twists, but it gets predictable and formulaic after a while. Plus, there's not much fear that anyone is going to bite it; until the very end! I won't spoil anything, but the concept Pailsen Files runs with -- the same concept Roots of Ambition runs with -- can easily remove tension. Despite having 12 episodes (plenty for an OVA) the writers missed opportunities ... 
Mar 5, 2020
The worldbuilding in regards to the Church of Martial isn't as bad as some other reviewers here seem to think. Besides how cartoonishly old the space Pope is and how, well, absurd the elders act, the main reason why this expansion of Votoms' in-universe religion comes off as bad is because it doesn't click in with the original series. The Secret Society were a break-off group of this Church? I don't know, it's all very obviously written in after the fact. Not that the writers for Shining Heresy had that much to work with, but it seems like overkill.
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