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As someone who has read the manga one-shots by the author I wish I have never seen these OVAs, as they have ruined the whole franchise for me and I don't believe I'll ever be able to enjoy it again.
Premise: the story begins as a typical demi-hentai yuri OVA with lots of fluff 'n' stuff but by the end of the first episode quickly turns south towards an approaching iceberg via the means of one of our main heroines finding the other heroine shagging her own brother.
Problem 1: now this could be some real quality material for a dramatic plot twist but
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it's done in such an unrealistic way that I feel physically sick. First of all the main heroine has no compelling reason or motivation of her own to actually allow her brother to bang her (some may disagree and say that her brother dying and having his last wish be shagging his own sister is quite alright as a motivational thingie, but I digress.) Think about it:
a) it would be one thing to actually go along with it if she were single but she's genuinely cheating on her lover, knowing full well that either she will have to keep it a secret from her for the rest of time, and doing so deceiving her forever, or tell her and call the whole yuri thing quits. Neither happens, she just shaggs her brother and doesn't even chase her lover to explain things when she discovers them, like "what the heck can't be arsed to go after her right now, will deal with it later".
b) all we are shown of the "manipulation" by her brother towards doing it is ONE single scene of his brother stating his wish in a VERY difficult moment for him (with his death being imminent in the background pulling on his sanity strings), which he REVOKES immediately when he sees her adverse reaction to the proposal. NO OTHER material has been shown depicting any sort of manipulation of coersive action towards having sex with him. If asking once is all it takes to break her mental resistance towards intercourse with her own brother in spite of having an actual lover, I feel disgusted by the very notion of such a being, real or imaginary.
The disparity here is actually how little of a dilemma we see in regards to this event from the viewpoint of the brofo heroine with nigh no foreshadowing of the whole event in the first place.
Problem 2: the drama that ensues
Technically consists entirely of our "normal" heroine being raped by our brofo heroine. For no reason whatsoever, serving no real purpose other than satisfying the brofo heroine's lust. Being a human being myself, I'd guess the priority here should be resolution on an emotional level but I guess japanese schoolgirls must be hornier than I could ever imagine or something. The bottomline here is, that there is remarkably little emotional depth to the brofo heroine's behaviour in this whole story. She neither seems sad, nor conflilcted, disgusted, depressed or in any other way emotionally affected by the whole event. She just goes crazy and rapes the other girl. Makes sense, right? Well, no.
I dunno about everyone else, but I find it remarkably weird that she is completely unaffected by having had sex with her own brother in spite of claiming to hold no special romantic feelings towards him. Unless she does this regularly (i.e. prostitution) it doesn't add up on a psychological level. And don't tell me the rape thing is the rebound, it doesn't work like that. The "normal" reaction would be according to most psychological studies, very similar to that of being raped (sleeping with a stranger without actually feeling any inclination towards doing it).
Not only is there no resolution on the emotional level, she completely disregards the whole event as if it were nothing. This might actually be a form of mental defense towards the whole trauma thing, but once again this doesn't add up on a psychological level because of her kidnapping her former girlfriend and raping her. I'd say that'd be a clear indication of a beginning mental breakdown, but as we're shown later no such thing is happening. I can only attribute this to a very, VERY badly written character personality.
Problem 3: the interlude
After being cheated on, kidnapped, raped, denied explanation, which in turn caused her relationship with her parents to worsen and caused trouble at school because of her not finishing her summer homework at all, she somehow still agrees to have sex with the other party of her own volition. I do not believe there would realistically be a human being who would react in such a way so easily and seemingly without any internal turmoil. So far our main heroine has been the redeeming character of this whole nonsensical trainwreck of a plotline but at this point, all the characters can go to shit for all I care.
Problem 4: Finale
"SOMEHOW" our main heroine sees a scene in her dream of what led to her ex-lover sleeping with her own brother. And that's supposed to be the resolution? Let's recap:
- brofo heroine has still not explained anything to her ex-lover
- brofo heroine has not even apologized for anything to her ex-lover
- brofo heroine has left Japan for good without as much as saying proper farewell
- brofo heroine has offered our main heroine NO EMOTIONAL closure on the whole thing whatsoever, and that's AFTER turning her life and mind upside down
- in the dream, the brofo heroine has agreed to sleeping with her brother almost immediately upon being asked.
- ALL IT TOOK WAS ONE REQUEST
- her whole rejection consisted of going "no" and backing off once and then coming to conclusion on her own and offering herself in spite of her brother actually NOT forcing her to do it at all?
- there is no way to tell when this occured. It could have very well have happened while she was already together with our main heroine, which is actually the likely case considering the circumstances (they've been going out for a while at that point according to the story).
- that would indicate that the cheating was NOT an impulsive action but planned, seeing as it couldn't have been consummated right after the dream scene seeing as the room design in the memory does not correspond to their flat from what I could tell
This makes our brofo heroine a complete monster, seeing as I fail to see any sort of emotion, consideration or affection towards our main heroine, who is the one being faulted all along. And what does our main heroine do? She forgives all this just to have more sex with the other party. For no tangible reason other than the other girl's appearance/body? I fail to see any reason why.
Story 3/10 - the first 3/4 of the first episode were alright, nothing spectacular but acceptable. The rest was irrational, or even downright nonsensical at many levels, the events were unexpected and without any proper foreshadowing in the previous events and overall made no sense.
Characters 1/10 - the brofo heroine is a monster in my eyes and nobody can convince me otherwise. She does not behave the same way a human being with actual emotions should and it's downright creepy. The other heroine does reasonably well until the end where she acts as if everything was alright just because she understood the motivations for the other party's actions, as if that was enough. Don't forget that everyone always has some sort of motivation for their actions but that never, NEVER really changes anything in terms of what people actually feel when cheated on by the other party.
Animation - 7/10 - considering it was done by a single person
Sound - 5/10 alright
Overall - 1/10 as it ruined a franchise I liked before for me
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As someone who has read the manga one-shots by the author I wish I have never seen these OVAs, as they have ruined the whole franchise for me and I don't believe I'll ever be able to enjoy it again. Premise: the story begins as a typical demi-hentai yuri OVA with lots of fluff 'n' stuff but by the end of the first episode quickly turns south towards an approaching iceberg via the means of one of our main heroines finding the other heroine shagging her own brother. Problem 1: now this could be some real quality material for a dramatic plot twist but ... 
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