| I am starting this thread to discuss the silly OVA episode. Can any of you Hidan fans make sense of that episode? What happened at the haunted inn? I was actually enjoying the show all the way till the OVA because it deviated too far from the genre. Hidan no Aria has supernatural elements, yes. BUT because it is mainly action, it isn't supposed to use the plot device common in Japanese horror. That is to say, they are not supposed to create an atmosphere of fear and uncertainty via the supernatural (i.e. ghosts). Things are usually left unresolved in Japanese horror drama. Unresolved and unexplained, like the shorts in the Kaidan (or whatever the spelling is) series. Ghosts appear to haunt the living, who are too weak to put up a fight, and thus the unknown triumph from beginning to end. In an action/supernatural drama however, like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the playing field is leveled. The living can actually fight back against the unknown and there are no supernatural problems that can't be resolved through good old-fashioned righteous violence. The OVA episode, however, was just weird. They went into a mist and experienced the inn's haunting only to end up at the entrance to the village again. They went full circle much like the helpless characters in a horror film would. Nothing was resolved in the end. Thus, this episode is totally out of context in my opinion. Is this plot arc even included in the light novels? |
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