Holy Knight

The story is fairly short, only OVA of 2 episodes so it won't be a long review. I prefer writing shorter reviews anyway, since I hate reading 13 pages long essays of some conceited person hairsplitting every single unimportant point.

I came across the anime like any other person does, that is, on teh inturwebs.
I was disappointed it was only an OVA of 2 episodes, not a real deal.

A good intro setting the mood and catching attention of viewer and what I always like seeing, a hint of forbidden romance, which especially makes it intriguing. The story doesn't end but the makers haven't produced more episodes.

Unfortunately, ... that's about it (without spoilers). If you like romance, definitely recommended. It has some ecchi, but nothing preposterous. They really ought to make a 12 episode long anime.
It has good potential in my opinion.

SPOILERLESS REVIEW

This show is short, very short, so my review won't be too long.

Holy Knight in one sentence: Rushed and wasted potential.

STORY: 4/10

As for story - It is nothing amazing, its bad and rushed, but hey !, there is no way to properly cover a lot of story in 2 episodes 26 minutes each long. It is all about semi-vampire girl - Kishimoto that want to fuck young "handsome" student - Shinta because that was her "fate". Apparently this boy have some powers too. Shockingly, after I watched 2 episodes I was kinda sad, because I really think that the story could go in great ... way and deliver amazing experience for the viewer, sadly it just ended after 2 eps with the "MEH????" ending.

ART: 7/10

Art is the strongest part of the show (exposed boobies huhuhu), but nothing special, the lines were pleasing to the eye despite some visible shortcomings. It was just good.

SOUND: 6/10

Sound, despite my expectations was good and by sound I mean OP, some little OST and ED, but oh my... the sound effects... they were bad, very bad, for example, character's footsteps were too loud and felt unnatural, + we got a bunch of repetitive "stock" low quality overused sound effects. Opening is the best part of the musical aspect of this anime (it had nice lyrics too!)

CHARACTERS: 6/10

Characters were just meh, not memorable and really simple. I would rate characters 4/5 If not those 2 guards - 1 guarding Shinta and one guarding Lilith. Especially that cat with heterochromia was quiet interesting character, and I perhaps liked her the most from entire cast of characters despite the fact that she had nearly to 0 character development. Design of characters are simple but fitting to the atmosphere. What really bothered me too was the fact that some characters appeared twice or few more times and they were just there, LITERALLY nothing about them had been said, they were just shown to the viewer. Two main characters were meh - uninteresting at all Lilith that actually got some backstory and "your-usual-harem-boy" Shinta that was ok-ish but nothing outstanding was told about him. At the end of the end he just got a little bit more interesting, and then this anime just ended (lul).

ENJOYMENT: 7/10

Nonetheless, I was enjoying this show, I just wanted it to develop more interesting story and especially characters. There was scene with exposed boobs, so + as well (am I really ok to say this :I ? it was quiet disturbing scene tho)

OVERALL: 6/10

Despite all the flaws and omnipresent mediocrity I think it is worth a try, it is barely 60 minutes of show so you won't lose too much if you happen not liking it at all. Story, characters and art make this show at least merely enjoyable. You won't like it if you are too fussy tho. If you are fan of vampire-powers genre you should think about watching it and then reading the manga because I heard that there is not that bad continuation, but if you have other, better things to do you shouldn't focus on this too much. there are surely a lot more well-written and/or animated shows about vampires out there.

Holy Knight is a very underwhelming OVA with some distant glimmers of interest that it doesn't capitalize on. It's weird, because while it is your bog-standard ecchi OVA, it still feels like it at least wanted to be different in some way. Beginning with the story, we're presented with this thin excuse of a backstory, complete with a vampire clan and a chosen one prophecy, which conveniently involves sleeping with the protagonist. It's all very sloppy and generic and isn't what anybody's watching Holy Knight for in the first place anyway. I did find the random overuse of acronyms by ... one of the vampire hunter guys kind of funny in an absurdist way, and Cammot was also a humorous addition in a similar fashion, but all in all it's still just uninspired slop. It exists to bring the vampire girl Lilith into ecchi distance with Shinta, and that's it.

Moving on to the art, it is the strongest part of the anime by far. Despite the show as a whole feeling cheap and rushed, like a kind of cash grab, the art is actually pretty good, with a good command of color, character design, and animation principles. It does look kind of generic in terms of its art direction, but nothing too bad can be said of its technical quality.

The sound is fine, meeting all the basic standards of quality, even if the voice work, especially for Shinta, can get pretty cringe-inducing at times, in a sense being too over-the-top and stereotypical to the genre.

The characters are barely characters, and exist only as an excuse to deliver ecchi content. Overall, this is your bog-standard ecchi fare, without anything of substance or interest beyond its main gimmick. In short, it's just a waste of time- there are much better ways to spend roughly 56 minutes.