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This is a sequal to the series: Wolf's Rain. So this picks up after the end of that one. In a nutshell, usually people would refer to Wolf's Rain OVA with an "Eww, that totally killed the series." If that's all you've been hearing, then you should perhaps give it a chance. It isn't totally evil and bad.

The story itself was a little dull, and the ending... That was a bit obvious after a little bit. The Entire story isn't very sound, or very continuous.

The Art, it was decent. With a bunch of blood splattering everywhere... It was decent. The colors were well done, and ... the landscape was nice too. It doesn't get a nine because, the battle scenes were a bit more head one warrior type instead of Ninja back stab and jump away. There wasn't too much action, expecially when it wanted to get things done. I felt they kind of rushed things.

The sound. It was good. Not perfect. I didn't get a rush because of the sound. But the music did give to the entire storyline and add effect to it.

Characters. Perhaps one of the better qualities of this anime, and this ending OVA of the series. Character begins to show, and each one takes a different spin on life. There was much character building, and character creation, without all the flashbacks.

I did enjoy it. Perhaps more than the series. It did touch my heart and I was tearing at the end of it.

Overall an 8. It had characteristics of a good OVA section. It showed some of them, but the ending was the worst bit.

Triangle Heart -Sweet Songs Forever, could have been made into a much longer series, but for the 4 episodes it was packed into, it was done very well.

-Story
The story, or plotline, was quite slow for such a short anime. But unlike other < 6 episode animes that I have seen, this one did not throw all of the plot into the last two Episodes. It slowly leaks out the plot. From the beginning to the end, you learn much more about the Characters. However, the story, being such slowly done in such short time, has a downfall; it was very simple. Good guy versus Bad ... Guy. Bad Guy is a Bad Guy. Good Guy is a Good Guy. Simple stuff like that.

-Art
I noticed something very noticible, it is very similar to Nanoha (Magical Girl Nanoha), since this was an offspin of it. Even so, the art wasn't completely horrible, nor was it amazingly great. But the slicing of people was drawn quite well. The main characters were drawn nicely, with the big affro-like hairstyle. There is a tint of randomness in the minor characters though. If this was meant to be, even the art conveyed dual messages.

-Sound
The music wasn't spectacular with drums and rock, but it was very nicely done. Also because that this anime is music based (note the title, Sweet Songs Forever) it would have to have at least half-way decent music, no? The music was horrible. The Background music where there was, blended in with the anime very well. Sometimes silence is also a great tool of sound.
Sound also includes the different dialects used in the anime. This anime used Chinese, more specifically both Cantonese and if I can hear correctly Mandarin. Although I might not be like superior in these languages, I know Cantonese when I hear it, and they've got pretty nice Cantonese. Also the English is quite correctly pronounced, although with a slight accent (more or less depending on who is speaking), it was bearable. It wasn't like you couldn't tell what they were saying.

-Characters
The characters like nearly all other good vs evil animes, good has the upper hand in skill, and evil has the upperhand in numbers or weoponry. Like the normal power ranger thing... However, this anime displayed that to its max. That wasn't too good. Even so, there was, even with minute numbers of episodes, character development. You understand the main characters' actions and their reason for doing so. The Characters are all very tangible and had great cohesion with the story, even if some of the characters seemed to have supernatural powers.

-Enjoyment
For some reason, it captivated my short attention, span of 3 ooohh shiny. I guess since I didn't read anything about it, I didn't know what it would be like, which might actually be much better than reading everything you can then watching it. So if you are going to watch it, might as well just stop reading this right?
The reason why it scored so highly was that it took choir, something that is not very unisex, and gave it introduction to everyone. Even so, as you understand every inference they make, you understand more and more of the characters, to the point where you can relate to their unnatural experience.

-Overall
Although this could have had an extended plot, like I said above, for its miniscule length, it was very well done.
It also like most of the stories of the olden days, had a moral, and a theme. It stuck with that theme throughout the 4 episodes. Also each tone that was given to the circumstances were all very distinct yet also very subtle.
All in all, it was a Great, if not excellent. I loved it, but that's might just be me.

-Casper