Feb 22, 2012
Everyone who enjoys reading manga in one point of his life has stumbled with GYO, a work of Ito Junji, aka the same guy who did Uzumaki, so I'll write this review with the assumption that you already have read the manga.
This adaptation by Ufotable is a bag of mixed beans, for one it actually follows the events of the source material, they even added new scenes, which sadly felt so out of place, take for example the airplane scene that you see in every preview of the OVA, the MC almost dies on that plane crash, only to be like "lol nothing happened"
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minutes later and to add salt to the injury they proceed to take the subway, which gets derailed almost killing her again and leaving tons of bodies torn to pieces, and guess what? Yep that girl has balls of steel, she wakes up on a pile of bodies, she is like "oh my" and then proceeds to not give a fuck through all the walk home.
Another big change was that Kaori and Tadashi, had their roles reversed, Tadashi which was the MC in the mango became the damsel in distress, and to be honest Iit didn't bother me, the story kinda flowed the same, it was a very weird decision, but not really a bad one.
But when it comes to bad choices we have the new Kaori slutty friends, whch like I just said are complete bitches and whores, they are just there to fill the gap of some scenes.
The art was iffy, it really looked great at times, and very bad at others, the walking monsters, sometimes were in CGI and others on 2D, making a really weird contrast.
The sound was average, nothing of other world, but still I'm giving it the lowest score I can, because I didn't heard a single "GASHUNK" through all the OVA.
Anyways, at the end it was an enjoyable ride, if you liked the original, I'm sure you'll enjoy this adaptation, mainly because they kinda nailed that unintentional humor that GYO has.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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