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TW: S*xual assault.

I have other issues with these OVAs but my main one is that everyone talks about this anime, and no one ever mentions that in Kako-hen they make the romantic interest an abuser???? He literally 100% was going to r*pe the protagonist and that is never acknowledged by the characters afterwards????????

Only writing this because I wish I had been told before I decided to watch it.

I am just so tired and done with content, specifically content whose main audience is young girls, making light of -and even romanticizing- s*xual abuse.

Gross and unnecessary.

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Below is the rest of my review because they won’t let me post it if it has less than 500 characters. Awesome.

The rest of the series (what came before) is very enjoyable and fun, the premise of the OVAs was interesting too, and the beginning of it was promising. I find, however, that as this story unravels there is quite a lot of back and forth; that things that didn’t need to be carried out got too long, and other things that could be explained further, never were. Hopefully, the manga handles this better.

There are some other points which made the series not as good as the previous seasons, in my opinion, such as how they handled the protagonists’ relationship. So far in the series, Nanami had made it a goal of hers to make Tomoe trust humans again and fall in love with her for who she is, and the story choices made in these OVAs feel at odds with that. Also, the characters we’ve known and love so far are left behind in order to introduce new ones that are never fully developed or given proper closure. Kamisama Hajimemashita had side characters that had such a good dynamic and were very likeable, so it is kind of sad leaving that aside this season.

The time traveling is well handled at least, there are no inconsistencies as far as I can remember, I can give it that. I also appreciate how the new female character was nice and badass and not vilified, the way shoujo sometimes does. Also, the animation is consistent with older seasons, so there are no complaints from me there, however, other than that, I honestly don’t think Kako-hen has a lot more going on for itself.

All in all, this instalment of the series, while managing to tie some loose ends, doesn’t fully deliver. It changes the tone and underdelivers in the comedy aspect, which was one of its strongest suits before. The pace and character development are… a little all over the place. Most importantly, in my opinion, they ruined the love interest by making him assault the protagonist and never apologize or have them talk about it. Unfortunately, this whole arc is a step-down for what Kamisama Hajimemashita was so far in almost every aspect, which is only made worse by the fact that this is the climax of the story and the beginning of the end.