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LISTEN TO EVERYONE ELSE AND DO NOT WATCH THIS.

This is one of those times where I saw a bunch of 1 star reviews for something and thought "well it can't possibly be that bad-"

It is.

It's actually even worse than people are saying.

Somehow this OVA took the concept of a beach episode (which is already pretty cliché) and made it worse. Despite being 26 minutes long, only the first 5 minutes of this OVA could be considered an actual story. The Hestia Familia goes to a beach and shows off their swimsuits in a bid for Bell's attention (despite Hestia having said she has changed her ... tune at the end of season 2), and that's pretty much where this OVA should've ended. But instead, it goes on a nonsensical, overly repetitive, logic destroying series of unrelated events that simply waste your time.

My theory is that this episode is made up of all of the unused backdrops and animation cycles that were left out of season 2. It honestly feels like a beach episode was cut from the original series itself and then the studio scrounged up 20 more minutes of repetitive stock footage and tried their best attempt to create a story out of it. There is no regard for plot, continuity, character accuracy, or even a fitting conclusion. It just gets weirder and weirder until it writes itself into a corner that resolves with the "it was all a dream" ending. OR WAS IT? (No I'm not kidding, they actually hit you with the "was the dream REAL??" cliché too)

If you have any fondness for Danmachi at all, do yourself a favor and remove this OVA from your memory right now. Despite being non-canonical, it somehow manages to completely destroy the original story in such a way that it will haunt you. Don't even watch this for some kind of ironic enjoyment, because it's not there. Unless you think watching the same beach tide footage, flying crane footage, and poking sea cucumber footage 18 times each is funny, you will only come out of this OVA feeling like you are now dumber for having seen it.

1/10 all across the board