#Shinmai mou no testament ova series

To cross that thin line between super ecchi and hentai that Shinmai had tiptoed for so long. This OVA was supposed to introduce something new to the animated franchise and increase the lewdness to a level not seen in the BD and past specials. haven't seen before dozens of times already. There's a scene where Basara and Mio are making out in a cave under a waterfall which is.cool? It's nothing we Instead we got a lukewarm, rushed onsen scene that had zero build up and failed to capture any the raw sexual emotion of the light novel. I was so looking forward to Chisato/Basara having an intimacy scene that would top the raw passion of the bath scene in the first OVA.

This did not live up to the hype that was built through months of promotional material promising an animation so lewd that genital organs would spontaneously explode out of sheer excitement and joy. I recommend picking up the novels though if you want the most authentic version of the story. Overall Departures is a decent watch that sets the stage for the best arc in the series. As an LN reader, I got to see a character animated that I never thought would have ever been animated. My favorite part of the OVA came during the credits.

#Shinmai mou no testament ova series

This was probably the best animated fight of the series and it gives me hope that they'll be able to do justice to the fights from volume 9 onward if a S3 is green lighted. The onsen trip with Chisato was adapted badly and they were real ambiguous about an important event that happens during that trip which has lasting consequences on the rest of the novels.īasara's anime original fight against Lars was well done. There's some really good world building that happens in chapter 3 of volume 8 that makes most of the events in the series make much more sense, and it's a shame they didn't adapt those scenes. They would have been better off just doing a straight adaptation of chapters 2 and 3 from volume 8.

to the Village, but the rest of the anime original content was kinda filler nonsense. I think Departures did a better job of setting up the Nonaka's getting summoned back The service scenes were never going to be on the same level as the novel, because that would have certainly pushed it into R18 territory, but the anime original scenes were a let down, because they lacked the variety and intensity of the novels. There were some cool nods to LN fans with some of the characters casual clothes from SWEET! getting animated. Visually Departures is the best the series has ever looked.

I'm writing this as somebody who has read the novels and understands the entirety of the series plot.