Aoi Sekai no Chuushin de

STORY: The plot containing the battle between two kingdoms is very interesting. I really enjoy watching through the Segua Army's perspective on winning the war. There are a lot of gaming references that are hilarious and at times mind blowing! Note: This anime ONLY has 3 episodes.

CHARACTERS: Since there are a lot of gaming references in the anime, the anime is mainly focused on one character!
SEGUA ARMY = Sega
NINTELDO KINGDOM = Nintendo

Gear = (Sonic). He is passionate, strong, powerful and has super speed.

OVERALL: Not bad, but needs A LOT OF WORK! 3 episodes did not do it justice. Since the anime did not use ... ALL of the characters from both kingdoms... I feel that it is waste! I recommend this anime to everyone who loves to see their favourite gaming characters from their respective franchises in an anime. ♥

It's dumb fun. A 3 for quality brought up to a 6 for being a silly, good time.
If you're wondering if this is some sort of hidden gem? Not really. But it's cheesy and kinda bad but in a fun way. I wouldn't say it's "so bad it's good," but if you're a Sega fan and like pointing at the random little references (at least 1/3 of the MC's lines are just SA1 quotes in the dub), it's worth a shot, especially if you can get friends along for the ride to riff on it a bit. Just keep in mind there's there's some of ... that classic "2000s anime pervertry," even if it finished airing the same year as "Attack on Titan" started.
Otherwise this is a safe skip.

I can sum this anime up with the 8 deadly words: I don't care what happens to these people.

Oh boy, this OVA. Let me tell you, I am not going to be pleasant towards it. I'm honestly glad this only had 3 episodes. Have you ever wanted to see an anime about the 90s console war between Nintendo and Sega, even though we should be way past that now? I kinda hope you aren't, because this will be just a waste of your time.

Story: I'll admit, despite it being ahead of its time, I was a bit intrigued by the premise, especially since I love ... video games and I have fondness towards Nintendo and Sega, especially Nintendo. However, that intrigue was lost when it became obvious what it really was. This anime, for some reason, chooses to be really biased towards Sega while painting Nintendo as the villains. We get most of the screen time with Segua characters, while there isn't nearly enough screen time with Ninteldo characters. I think this would've been a bit more interesting if it ended up focusing on both sides, like there being good and bad apples on both sides and their motivations. But nope, you're not gonna get ANY of that.

Another problem is that there actually isn't that much plot, or at least not one I found interesting. The only plot I can get out of this is our main protagonist joining and winning this war against an empire. NEVER HEARD OF THAT BEFORE. Now, this wouldn't be so bad, except it's not done well at all. Any plot that's there is cliche and predictable. to the point the show ends up becoming more of a chore to watch than it should be. If you don't know what I mean, look at any fantasy story ever and that's pretty what you'll get out of this.
RATING: 2

Art and Sound: I'm grouping up these two because I can say the same thing about both of them. The art and music aren't bad, per say, but nothing stands out at all about them. The characters just look like your typical anime characters, the environments and backgrounds are really basic fantasy, and the music is not necessarily something I want to listen to again and again.
RATING: 5

Characters: I'm sorry, was there character development in this anime? I think I forgot. These characters are about as bland as you can get. Their ONLY intrigue you'll get from them is that they're based on Nintendo and Sega characters, but even then, are you really gonna be intrigued by them in the end? This show doesn't really bother to build them up properly. Gear (Sonic), our main protagonist, is introduced as his best friend/sibling, who is a stand in for Tails, dies, is angered by this, and is driven to become stronger because of this. But since neither of them are really interesting, I just ended up not caring about them.

Opal is the "main heroine", but is really just there to be the fanservice character that most of the characters lust over and who fans can get their rocks off to and I guess she's Gear's love interest. She starts off as your typical man-hating tsundere who mellows down after Gear shows up in her life. Again, you're not given much screen time of their relationship, so why should you care? Also, gotta have her hardly wear anything and make her look like a walking sex object. Opal? MORE LIKE OPPAI AMIRITE? (Ok, that just sounded dumb...) But in all seriousness, I honestly wish anime would do this less and less, because that's something I was always annoyed by. Also, she's apparently a badass, but she mostly doesn't do anything that is badass worthy. She gets defeated by the main character in the first episode (Again, TOTALLY HAVE NOT SEEN THAT BEFORE). That's pretty much all you need to know.

There are other characters like Niel, Gear's sister who pretty much does nothing and is just there to be the cute sister character, and Teijlof, who is a....Tetris parody that's a pervert.....WHY??? Then you have Marcus (Mario), who's the tyrannic leader of Ninteldo, Zelig (Link), who is for lack of a better word, insane, and other characters who are just background characters, like...a Kirby parody who is a pink haired girl that has sizable breasts....okay, I'm done talking about the characters. Nice representation of Nintendo, anime (Not really. Then again, this kinda applies to Sega too).
RATING: 1

Enjoyment: At best, I was bored since there's mostly just talking, and at worst, I was annoyed and disgusted, especially with the fanservice and the obvious bias towards Sega. Any jokes there are, I mostly just react like "UGGHH, I get it, it's a sexual joke about Tetris." Surely, you won't get sick of that joke the 10th time we tell them. The action sucks too, especially since there's really hardly any of it. I was just waiting for it to end, and I'm really glad it did. There was hardly anything I enjoyed in this anime.
RATING: 1

Overall: This feels like a Sega fanbrat/Nintendo hater's wet dream come true. This is one of those anime that disappoints me on a personal level. It's an anime that sounds interesting, but it doesn't really seem like there was that much effort put into it. This OVA just ended up being worse than I thought it would be. You can read fanfiction of the Console War and enjoy them more than this anime. I don't recommend watching it at all.

RATING: 2/10