Audience reviews
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LuxuriousHeart
The OVA was okay. It had a slow start and did start to pick up later on. The plot started rolling and we understood what was happening. A group of people and their king were killed. There's a few of them remaining, but they have to be in hiding because they're actively being hunted. The two main characters are members of such people. One of them has a power that is deadly, when they switch to their other self. Basically, the plot was easy to follow after a while.
The issue is, I'm not interested in finishing the story. It didn't really grab me. I don't know what it is, because it's not exactly bad. It just isn't for me. I'll rate it a 4.
Read at the sourceSgtSalamander
RG Veda is a convoluted, generic, boring OVA, with glimpses of what it could have been serving only to highlight its various flaws. Beginning with the story, this anime just sort of drops the viewer in the thick of it without much context, but once things get going it unfolds as a somewhat typical fantasy adventure tale. A quest to unseat an evil usurper, with side quests along the way. Nothing's wrong with this formula, but this anime gives you little reason to actually care about the events unfolding in the anime. The pacing is also all off, and switches from moments of action to drawn-out stretches of moral pontification and callbacks to things which the viewer had no opportunity to see in the first place, robbing the moments at hand of whatever emotional weight they could have theoreti…
Read at the sourceAnime-General
I can understand that this is an ova trying to tell a small part of a larger story from the source material. I understand that if you don't understand the original source material you be lost in understanding many things in the anime such as character development and motivation, world building and of course an actual story. That's what this anime does as it does a poor job giving exposition on the history of this land and story as it appears we're dropped right in the middle of an adventure.
Yeah I have barely anything good to say about this anime, apart from
its decent average animation, nothing was great from the bland or often ridiculous character design, boring fight scenes and boring sound design playing in the background. I actually thought I heard the THX sound effect playing in t…
Read at the sourceMorgantheFae
I was a bit hesitant going into this OVA, as i've been a fan of the RG Veda manga for a long time and i've heard the OVAs were terrible. Once i finally watched them, the first was a pleasant surprise. The second was a letdown. I was prepared for some changes, such as how the staff didn't want to be bothered with the whole "Ashura was born without a gender" thing, so they turned Ashura into a girl. It does simplify matters, and with so little time to work with, simplifying whatever you can can only help. On the other hand, some other changes didn't make much sense to me.
There's nothing especially wrong with the first OVA. It's a straightforward adaption of the "demon of the frozen castle" arc. There were some plot details i was disappointed were cut, but they weren't necessary to the stor…
Read at the sourcegknight
I actually found this OVA pretty decent considering the widespread hate it got. I'd say it delivers what it promises, and I'd really love to see more of this story animated.
The premise is about the journey of the young king Ashura, who fell from his throne, and his six guardians lead by warrior Yasha, who try to help him reclaim it. The OVA focuses the journey of the king and his guardians through deserts, castles and icy landscapes in search of the 6th and last guardian, while briefly encountering the main villain, Taishakuten.
Although having a pretty generic fantasy-adventure setting I found the cast to be what set it apart from other titles of the genre. Being from the shoujo genre, the guardians consist of beautiful and delicate yet kick-assing guys and three girls who aren't hyper…
Read at the sourcealchemistnarutoZ
There is not much to say about this awful OVA. The story is just confusing. I dont know about the manga, but in the animated version, they dont care if you was familiar with the original version. They give you ilogical sentences, and spect you to alredy know why that stuff was going on . I could understand nearly nothing. I was patient. I had to rewind several times, and i still dont get the story. I guess im stupid. I dont know, lets just skip this, like i did when i watched. "whatever, lets move on, maybe they wil explain it better later". Well, they didnt. I was lost from the first to the last minute.
The art on RG Veda wasant too bad, but also didnt was too good. I give 6/10.
The music was so bad! I know it was the style *cof* *cof* of the epoch, but its not good. Not good at all. Th…
Read at the sourceejala
Imagine if the Star Wars trilogy was redone as a single movie, and the only parts they included were the fight on Jabba's floating barge, and the conversation between Yoda and Obi-wan about the Skywalker family tree. Newcomers would have no idea what was going on, and those familiar with the story would be furious at how it was butchered. If you also randomly turn Luke into a girl, you would have the relationship between this OVA and the source manga.
Rg Veda is set in a complex, beautifully drawn, fascinating world. Some of that is translated to the screen. The main characters are strikingly done, and the main, if not only, enjoyment of watching is seeing them come to life in full color. The nameless soldiers and mooks? Seem to have been done on more of a budget, prompting flashbacks to…
Read at the sourceNanashiMoriko
Hmmmmm, this was not exactly what I was expecting from this anime, I'm not sure what I was expecting but this wasn't it.
Taking it with a view of the manga its.... odd. The main premise is the same but Ashura has changed sex and the God King was Lord Ashura. Slight differences which can be explained by less time to tell the story in the OAV's run. Except they don't tell the story, they don't tell any story, maybe a quarter of a story or half a story, but not a full one. It's left with no resolution.
Taking it without a view of the manga and ... well I can see why it didn't get picked up for a whole series. It's a middle section of a story with no start and no end, not even a semi resolution. In my opinion without the plot of the manga to lean upon this OAV flops, and I am so disappointed…
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