I have been waiting for this BL OVA for years, even through each delay that it had (there were 3 to my knowledge) I patiently waited, hoping that they would give us something decent because they had an extra 3-4 years to work on it. Buuuuuut no, my wishes were not met at all and I've been left utterly dissatisfied. It's the first ''big project'' BL in a while and I just feel like the community got cheated on.
The Story ( 3/10 ) was hard to follow for every single episode, they barely gave us anything to work on. Luckily I read the manga of every one of these series in this show, but without prior knowledge, any new watcher would be extremely confused and most likely pushed away from the manga that they present. It was so badly put together and it just made me annoyed that they couldn't add on a few more minutes to build the stories up a little more.
The Animation ( 5/10 ) oh my god, where do I start, Honestly I've never been more disappointed, the first episode featuring Ogeretsu Tanaka's work legitimately just let me down, one of my favourite manga's just got horribly animated, sure, there were... some okay panels, but most of them were awful. You would expect extra time to give you a better result but no it didn't. Not only was episode one terribly animated, but every, single, episode, was just so Mediocre with the art. There were some panels that were pretty, but most looked like someone spent 5 minutes on them.
The Sound ( 7/10 ) honestly the only enjoyable thing was recognising some voice actors and hearing them play some favourite characters. There were some sound effects that were eh but overall so much better when compared to, just everything. I enjoyed the voice actors and the music from time to time, and they're honestly why I gave this anime higher than a 2.
The Characters ( 5/10 ) honestly I love most of the characters in this OVA, simply because of the manga, so I have a little bias, but throwing that all out of the window, they were really not worked on in this OVA at all, they were missing so much character going into it, they were not built up and I was very dissatisfied. The reason why I give it a 5/10 is that in episode 1 and 4 it gives u some insight into the characters which was great, could have been better executed but better than nothing. and I liked the playfulness of the characters in episode 4, but, in the other episodes, that's where the score lacks, got barely any character development, most of them seemed like creeps which don't represent the manga's all the best and I just felt gross watching (especially episode 2).
My Enjoyment was ( 4/10 ) I couldn't watch and enjoy myself because I spent most of my time staring at the screen in disgust at the animation and the scenes they were showing, they could have shown us way better scenes but no they just go with the nipple kitty scene in episode 2 which honestly if that's in the manga I'm glad I forgot it but watching that my god I couldn't, it just made the whole experience so ugh I can't even express how uncomfortable I was.
Overall was barely ( 5/10 ) (only a 5 due to the VA's and my prior knowledge of all the mangas) I am glad I finally could watch this, but saddened by how it represents all the original mangaka's amazing works and making them into just a hot pile of mess. The only good thing was the VA's, nothing more nothing less, honestly, if you want to try and cleanse your eyes from the shit that you just watched, then just read the manga if you haven't already, and if you're thinking about watching, don't, it's not worth the little time you will spend on it, just read the manga and support the mangaka's that way instead because the original mangas are so much better than this garbage I just experienced.
