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Saw the second El Hazard OVA
Mar. 24th, 2007 12:08 am( Minor ancient spoilers )
So on the whole still enough in the spirit of the first one to be enjoyable. However, if it was sold separately, I couldn't really see paying extra for it. Interestingly most everything I gripe about was a reversion to more generic anime. I suppose that isn't really surprising.
Also, this (from the wiki) just puzzles me: "The Wanderers is a simplified version of the original OVA storyline, stretched to twenty-six episodes and eliminates or alters several of the OVA's major characters."
Who simplifies a story when expanding it into a longer form? That's not a classical or clinched error. That's just nonsensical. Did they do a bunch of shows->OVAs or OVAs->movies first and forget that the reason you simplified was that you had less time? Weird.
Anyways, that's enough of it for me. I may well re-watch the first OVA at some point, but I feel no temptation to check out the other series.
So on the whole still enough in the spirit of the first one to be enjoyable. However, if it was sold separately, I couldn't really see paying extra for it. Interestingly most everything I gripe about was a reversion to more generic anime. I suppose that isn't really surprising.
Also, this (from the wiki) just puzzles me: "The Wanderers is a simplified version of the original OVA storyline, stretched to twenty-six episodes and eliminates or alters several of the OVA's major characters."
Who simplifies a story when expanding it into a longer form? That's not a classical or clinched error. That's just nonsensical. Did they do a bunch of shows->OVAs or OVAs->movies first and forget that the reason you simplified was that you had less time? Weird.
Anyways, that's enough of it for me. I may well re-watch the first OVA at some point, but I feel no temptation to check out the other series.
