Seitokai Yakuindomo OVA

A nice addition into the Seitokai Yakuindomo series, overall.

Seitokai Yakuindomo OVA presents ourselves with a direct continuation to the first chapter of the aforementioned anime. Saying this might seem more than obvious to someone looking from the outside. But seriously, if feels as if the series hadn't ended at all to begin with. They didn't even feel the need to change the intro and outro of the show at all. The feeling of continuity with this OVA is very much present compared to what the anime tried to pull off later in the second season.

All of that said, and having established already that Seitokai Yakuindomo ... OVA is little more than a direct appendix to the first season of the show, there's little else I can say about this piece of media that I hadn't previously said in my last review of this intellectual property. It's a nice slice of life show about some girls and boy in high school with some dirty jokes thrown here and there. The jokes are acceptable and the situations can get a bit random at times. It is nothing mind blowing per se, but certainly not bad also. You will have a good time watching this OVA if you enjoy watching these kind of shows.

I have seen some people claiming the overall quality of the show dropping in the last two episodes. I, personally, didn't notice such changes and perceived the quality of the jokes, plot and animation to stay on-par through the duration of the show. Which also contributes to my positive rating.

If you enjoyed Seitokai Yakuindomo season 1 then you no doubt will enjoy these OVAs also, since its basically the same thing but under a different series, lol.

I love Seitokai Yakuindomo, it is one of my favourite animes ever, however there is something about this anime that makes me sad for not understanding Japanese, the innuendos. There are several puns in this show that if you don't know Japanese they will go by unnoticed, sometimes translator will spend sometime explaining what the joke was about (but doesn't explaining the joke make it less funny? Well, if you don't even know the language, how would you understand the pun in the first place?), but there are other times those jokes aren't explained, which is a shame. Nevertheless, this is a very funny anime, ... but I must say it is a niche Comedy, the blue humour doesn't appeal to everyone, however if you enjoy those things, you will love this anime, I will definitely read the manga afterwards because I am sure there the translator will explain those jokes the anime translator missed.

I might as well review the succeeding installments if I'm hoping for improvement. Sure enough, Seitokai Yakuindomo's OVA continues the double entendre-filled days of the Ousai Student Council.

The OVA directly adapts several chapters in the 4-koma, and possibly could have added some anime-original scenes I couldn't point out anymore because in contrast to last time, the segments are more focused on the gags of the Student Council themselves and not some random unimportant illusionary characters. In a surprising turn of events however, I think that the quality of the jokes' executions were a big leap compared to the first season. Everything was delivered at a ... faster pace and gives enough leeway to set up for the next punchline.

Since this OVA also covers the times the manga's episodic nature becomes more lengthy in duration, everything was better because it does not become confusing as much as the first series. Story arcs were also introduced and provided much of the character relationship development I felt was lacking in SYD. Not to say that it is significant whatsoever, as this is still a comedy, but the Tsuda-Shino moments seem to have increased, making everything have much more motive in plot progression. The sex jokes may be smart, but their effect won't last for long.

One of the reasons why everything felt more funny was the voice actors, who seem to have handled their characters with more conviction than the original. Particular praise for Satomi Arai for her improved iteration of Hata, who was already a funny character but her effort in making the resident paparazzi more expressive than her 4-koma counterpart made it better. The music was more or less the same, but it was never that important to begin with.

The inclusion of a new character, Uomi (who, later on gets a much more significant role so keep an eye out for her) was very welcome to the cast. Not that I'm being biased because she's voiced by Chiwa Saito or anything, but her appearance adds some new chemistry (and friction! Finally!) to the mostly-lewd characters.

SYD's first OVA spans eight episodes, so it might as well be a new season. It obviously learned well from its previous mistakes, and did a better job of adapting the manga while being a solid comedy show all in all, making me even more stoked to continue with the show's second season.