Audience reviews
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ZanderH
To start off, I haven't read the manga – and as such this anime is extremely confusing for me.
I wish they made a series as well, as I feel like they had to cut down everything, given that it is originally from a manga. I assume the manga had clearer story arcs, but in this ova I barely got time to get to know the characters.
I assume this is more as an ode to the manga readers, so I'll read the manga and come back to the ova. But if you're like me, it is definitely worth a view, given that it is only 30mins long. I enjoyed it but was left with a million questions, which I hope the manga explains.
Read at the sourcemvryn
I'm sure if I had read the manga the story would've been a little more fleshed out but without more context, it's kind of like a little one-shot. I definitely think it woudl've been better as a series but seeing as there are more volumes in the manga there actually is more story. The art was good for it being an older anime. The characters seemed fairly interesting with the interaction and the little bit of backstory provided. It's just an episode so not like a huge deal but it was still a fun little watch. thank you lots for reading I'm just trying to meet word count lmao
Read at the sourceWdaCdaShdaDid
It's a really bad sort of trailer for the manga, from the voice acting to fighting, to plot, to characterization.
Perhaps its worst crime is that they decided to make this the only anime adaptation of the manga, when it's a relatively faithful adaptation of the manga's beginning, but the beginning is probably the weakest part of the series. The reason I'm unsure if its worst crime is what the crew chose to adapt (so you can't really blame them for how bad it is) is because the 'episode' opens with a really, really terrible broken English conversation. While watching this I thought I'd mistakenly found an English dub of the video. I'm not sure if it's better that this ISN'T the English dub; it's just THAT bad. I'm also not sure why it was necessary? It adds nothing to the story. In the man…
Read at the sourceThebiggestweeb
I am in utter fucking disbelief that this anime has better fight scenes than most shounen. The art was good. The characters were pathetically shallow and cookie cutter. The story was a couple of nuggets of misdirected angst. But the fight scenes... why are the fight scenes so damn good. That's all I have to say.
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Read at the sourceSidewinder51
Rate of 5
english subbed
Pro(s)
-art is beautifully done
-art matches the plot
-plot is original
-conclusion was a very helpful segment that answered the main questions regarding the plot.
Con(s) -plot/characters is borderline on making sense. Yes, the general aspects of the questions are answered but the more definitive parts like individual characters appeared to be brushed off. For example the sidekick if you will job is counter-intuitive. He acts but how can he give who he is? Also, his make up seems off putting. Like blending a tomato with a pineapple.
-introduction painted a confusing standpoint for what is supposed to be.
-art was not done well enough to convey a horror portrayal.
sound: did not convey proper suspense.
p.s. commercial/horror is interesting but is pretty hard…
Read at the source170life
This is my first ever review so bear with me. :)
Firstly, i really enjoyed this OVA. When i first watched it, i had absolutely no idea what it was about and only went in due to the shounen ai/yaoi factor. However, once i got the gist of what the story is about i found that i loved it. It has a pretty good plot going on. Though if like me you went in without any idea of the actual story you will find yourself completely confuse. Being confuse isnt such a bad thing to me tbh, because most of the time whenever i watch/read something new i would be unclear of what the main story is about.
The characters to me are pretty interesting. I feel that the two main characters have a good chemistry going on. haha. After completing the manga, i feel that they did a decent job of developing the charact…
Read at the sourceKumihiko
Well that was ~25 minutes of pure confusion. I felt no emotion attachment, the story was rushed, the characters weak, and the plot devices were interesting but underdeveloped.
I'm a person who has never seen the manga, so I can only review from the anime alone, and it doesn't carry itself well at all. I found myself thinking that it would be interesting in a short anime series where more character development and exposition can take place.
That being said, the art and music is interesting and the characters had an intriguing enough premise that I was annoyed when the plot didn't deliver. It's promising, and perhaps better addressed in the manga version.
Tl;dr If you're looking for a quick hit of gory, vampyric, shounen-ai action then this is not it. If you're looking for a teaser or a…
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There's only so much you can do with 1 OVA episode. It is impossible to capture the full complexity of the manga's plot and character development in just 20 minutes. Vassalord's OVA does not try to do that. Instead it focuses on simply capturing the mood and tension of emotions in the story, and that, it does extremely well. The opera-inspired music score is juxtaposed with a lot detailed, blood-stained scenes, to very memorable effect. Some might find the music somewhat melodramatic. But for me, it takes away the 'gore' effect of the blood, and transforms it into something beautiful, melancholic, full of lost and longing.
Having read the manga, I found this very enjoyable. But I think, even for someone who has not read the manga, this OVA is a good first taste of what the rest of the sto…
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I decided to review the Vassalord. OVA, which I watched one week ago on a whim, for my first ever review because it left me surprised and disappointed at the same time. I'm struggling to come up with a suitable word to describe what I was left feeling when the credits began so I hope I can figure it out through writing this spoiler free review.
- STORY/CHARACTERS -
The story obviously suffered because the OVA is only 27 minutes long. It would have benefited hugely from being much, much longer. I feel parts did not get enough time focused on them and the explanation of things was rushed. I really enjoyed the action, mystery and overall darkness of the story though. If you like that kind of thing then you'll probably enjoy this.
Character development could obviously not be done all that w…
Read at the sourcegknight
Watched it for the sake of the shounen ai but found there was almost nothing about it, on the other hand the art, visual language and animation of the episode were jaw dropping! This weird 30 minutes of an episode is a trippy action packed dramatic almost nonsensical hard to understand journey that does little in trying to explain itself. Sometimes it bores, other times it grips you hard to the screen. I'd recommend trying to watch the first scene and to chose from that if it interests you to complete the viewing, the fan-service driven promotional poster certainly doesn't do that piece of enigma justice.
Read at the sourceaumym
Well I have to say that I really wanted to watch this anime after reading the manga volumes over and over again... I love the story behind it and the ova was following volume 1 perfectly. But there is a but in all this.
For a reader like me who had already read all the chapters it's easy to know and understand EVERYTHING that happens, but I'm not sure if a person that haven't read anything would understand certain things here.
Therefore as a reader it's hard for me to know how a person without the background history would look at this great ova. I'd say it's a great one filled with what i expected.. though a little too much blood for my taste is all.
To tell the truth, ova 1 only contains chapter 1 from volume 1 from the Vassalord manga which contains many more chapters and more than…
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