Reviews

I'm going through all the Idea Factory OVAs (all more or less promotional pieces for their visual novels and RPGs) and trying to make sense of them, without much success. What doesn't help, is that while the stories are generally meh, they also sometimes fall straight into incomprehensible – the first episode of Spectral Force is a great example. We start by seeing an angel(demon?) lady being fuckin' crucified and bleeding a lot of vividly pink raspberry sauce. Wow, edgy! Early Idea Factory generally seemed pretty fond of inserting random christian symbolism and over-the-top violence to this "Neverland" setting. How it ties into the story proper? Weeeeell... It doesn't, really.

Then we are treated to absolute visual clusterf***, with awful CGI, incomprehensible cuts and the anime generally ignoring its tiny runtime and taking its sweet time before getting to the point. The second episode finally focuses properly on the demon princess and her quest to defend what's left of her domain, but I can't say it made me super-interested in how the story continues in the RPGs. It's just all bland, disjoined and generic, with whatever nice stylistic choices that could've been ruined by hideous CGI environments and incredibly cheap 2D animation.

The first episode is actually pretty funny with how poorly constructed and cheesy it is, although the second one is mostly just boring. It's a decent "so bad it's good" kind of watch, but nothing more than that – if you're sober and respect your time, you should probably avoid it.