Jun 21, 2015
Reaches a high point when it analogizes adolescent sexual attraction and subsequent assault, but then proceeds to come off the rails when trying to deal with themes of loneliness and the inherent value of sentient life. The same can be said to occur as a result of expanding focus on Kumi and Kasumi, relative to Yuri. That being said, there are a number of tools and concepts that can make for fascinating fiction in series given proper time. This OVA just happens to feel like a bright spark of potential that never really becomes the fire it probably deserved to be.
Jun 20, 2015
Dropped after one episode. This OVA basically seems like an exercise in Mamoru Oshii atonally spitting Existentialist ideas at you. And because existentialism tends to be about chance and external meaninglessness, this show structurally holds together like plumbing held together with gum and tape. Why bring the protagonist home when that's the first place the police will look? Why break him out if it's only going to make more trouble for him later on? Don't ask me.
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