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This review applies to the frst episodes of this series of OVA'S

Story 5/10:
The ambientation of the OVA is excellentely achieved, centering in the little details in the background, but unfortunately, this feels more like if it was there for making the OVA last longer and honestly it was boring. The conflict is preety simple and it was solved very fast. The exposition sometimes is ok, but other times it fails. For example, the explanation of the paranormal town is ok and involves Izumi deducing it, to be after revealed, but the scene were someone tells Izumi that her boyfriend and her mother died was based ... only in telling the viewer that that happened, instead of showing it. If all this wasn't enough to make this OVA boring, there isn't any of the comedy that characterizes Jojo as a whole.

Art: 8/10
The redesings of the older characters look strange, but in movement they look fine. The animation is preety static because of how the OVA is more centred in the dialogue than in the fights, but where it needs movement it makes it really good. The coloring iss as good as it was in the DIU anime.

Sound: 8/10
The music helps to the already good ambientation, by adding to the tension scenes (even if they're absurd situations). But it isn't that important.

Characters: 6/10
Rohan is most of the time only watching what happens instead of being n active protagonist, Izumi doesn't get enough characterization and she isn't even important in solving the conflict, Ikkyuu fails as an antagonist by not having motivations and, again, not having enogh characterization. The older characters like Koichi and Okuyasu have barely any dialogue and didn't ddo anything for the plot, ad others like Josuke and Akira Otoishi only appeared as background characters.

Enjoyment: 5/10
If you like to see excellently made backgrounds and a good direction this can be entertaining, if not, then you'll probably find it boring.

Overall: 5/10
The new characters fail by not having interesting personalities or motivation, the older ones do almost nothiing, the exposition fails sometimes and the conflict isn't interesting. It may have good visuals and good music, but overall it's worse than most DIU fights.

THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS

One punch man is considered one of the best anime, not only from its year (2015) but from the whole history, but... Does it really deserve it?

Story: 4/10
Starting with the story, the show has almost no plot and is really repetitive with its "monster of the week" formula. It has no objective, besides of Saitama trying to be famous that is an extremely boring objective, and the other objective that is "Saitama trying to find someone who is as powerful as him" will have a bad ending from both sides. If Saitama kills that person then it would have no point and ... the show will feel like if it is just returning to the status quo, and if the enemy kills Saitama then it would contradic totally the comedic atmosphere of the show. The show also tries to have dramatic moments that have noimpact because of the characters being boring.

Art: 10/10
After the plot, we've got the best aspect of the whole show. The art. It's simply outstanding, looks extremely fluid, the coloring i great, the desings look good and the fights are extremely bombastic. The only problem i could say here is that the battles have a very simple structure that makes them less enjoyble and more "randm effects festival" sometimes.

Sound: 8/10
The soundtrack of the show is very good, it fits perfectly in the action and comedic moments when it's necesary, the opening also fits perfectly with the show. The onl prblem here is the ending, that feels like a attempt to be like to origina dragon ball first ending, which doesn't fit at all with what the show is about.

Characters: 3/10
And here we return to the bad things of the show. Our protagonist Saitama is just super overpowered and he doesn't care about the problems, so he can work as a joke, but after a while the joke stops being funny.
Most of the characters have no relevance and only defeat minor enemies. they're just parodies of cliches or direct cliches like Silver Fang being the old and smart mentor, Genos being a parody to the edgy characters with a tragic past (and a personal punchbag for the villains) and Tatasumaki being the annoying loli, other characters are taken more seriously, like the License-less Rider, but the show fails in taking them seriously because we don't know almost anything about him and he doesn't do anything relevant. If the show trie to make him more like a kind of Batman it would make him a better character, because that would show how he's using his intelligence instead of just strenght to fight, but he ends up as a one-dimensonal and boring character. The villains aren't good either, they're mostly generic monsters that want to kill people for no reason and are defeated extremely fast because of Saitama being so powerful. The most powerful villain in the show, Boros was a little better than the others because they tried to give him a motivation, but it feels extremely cliche and not as a parody, the show simply taked him too seriously instead of trying to give him a well constructed personality.

Enjoyment: 6/10
The good prodution values can disguse the show of being better than how it is actually, the humour is a hit or miss, the 2 main jokes (Saitama killing his enemy in one punch and Saitama being annoyed more because of mundane things that because of the villains) stop being funny after a while, the references work when they're not jokes and things like "an alien that looks like Piccolo from Dragon Ball Z" don't affect the show.

Overall: 5/10
The show's humour is too basic, the drama doesn't work, the characters are extremely simple, the vllains are one-dimensional and have no motivation, the show can't have a satisfactory ending. But the good technical values in both animation and music saves it from becoming worse, an overall meh show that everybody seems too have forgotten nowadays.