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I have been summoned here by my very own rage. Sheer amount of anger at this single series has led me to write a review.
I chose to watch this show randomly as it started getting released at the winter 2013/2014 anime season and, God my witness, I chose wrong. I really did chose wrong.


The story revokes around random looking and acting characters in a somehow magical world. Nothing is really explained properly, nothing really adds up. No sense AT ALL. The story is not the slightest enjoyable for the viewer to see, it's full of random time skips, lack of explanations and a plethora of ... boring characters. And it gets worse episode by episode.
The MC, TakeshiT, is a generic black-hair main hero guy who has a talent in magic (giving him random power ups for no reason at all. Honestly, there is not a single reason for him to live apart from being the main guy).
As for side characters: most of them are useless. They either appear scarcely in the whole anime, their appearance could have been totally cut off without any harm for the "story" or despite their powers they never did anything significant. For example, Kurumi is as useless as Sakura in Naruto first was (and most people remember it as a legendary feat). Despite her powers, she does NOTHING. nothing at all. she''s just "there". she exists to cry over Takeshi, when he's hurt. Mui looked promising at first but basically she's powerless, she can be beaten by any random enemy there is. Nothing good can be said about any other characters as well.
The only fine one is Gekkou. Why, him, of all people, you might ask? because he's, well, nuts. He's just insane and that's all there is to him. Paradoxically, he makes the most sense in the series. and STILL he's a character that has little sense as well.

There is NOTHING told about the magical world itself, NO ONE ever asks nor questions such issues like brainwashing of other mages or gives a sensible flshback to light a character background up. Events are sudden and out of place, everything seems forced and rushed.
This is Mars of Destruction tier almost.

Mahou Sensou's randomness and really bad plot development make this series practically unwatchable. it's as if someone is TRYING to make it suck. And he's doing a really good job at it.

Every single episode just goes worse and worse and WORSE. It's both boring and stupid. If you looked for one of the shittiest anime in world history, this is one definitely made it to the top 100 in my personal rank.

The only good thing is the ED. I like the music and the animation going with it. and that is all good to be said about Mahou Sensou. Don't watch. Just don't. You won't enjoy it.

I watched this Ova after i watched two of the later seasons of Strike Witches. And I was pleasently surprised.

Story 7/10
Although the story is rather short, there are many things explained in details, which I didn't see in the longer anime show. Finally a load of new things actually started to make sense to me. The weapons, the places. Finally something more then just ridiculous amounts of shear fanserwis and nothing else. It was actually a good introduction to the universe and my view about Strike Witches has changed. I am willing to check out the manga and novels now.

Art 6/10
The art is worse then ... the anime series, but it doesn't mean it's bad. It's pretty, gives a wibe of WWII at times and there are featured many interesting images.

Sound 7/10
The sound was good, it fit well with the theme. Nothing epic to go crazy and start getting mp3's of this, yet still quite satisfying.

Characters 8/10
The characters were shown fine for such a short amount of time. I was pleasently surprised about Major Sakamoto especially.

Enjoyment 7/10
This was actually pretty enjoying even compared to the longer anime series, the fun is balanced with the interesting facts well, but at the end a few parts just get slightly annoying.

Overall 7/10
This wasn't as bad as I expected this to be. This OVA might be my first step to stop my Strike Witches hate and a step that just invited me to an exploration of a whole new experience as I have higher hopes for other works now.

The first thing that catches the eye is the animation. Compared to the series it sucks. There plainly isn't other word to describe it then „sucks”. It's horrible. The more horrible when compared to the Green-Green series, as I really liked everything that was before this OVA.
It's visible that the artist either just tried copying the previous artist forcing himself to draw or just someone very incompetent was hired to do this job. Obviously not enough effort has been used for making of this episode.

The Plot:
The idea of the story itself in the anime is actually pretty good. The fact that it's an alternate reality ... and the characters don't know each other, isn't. God knows what gave the directors such an awful idea. The plot seems forced, especially the parts involving love. Midori doesn't know Yuusuke here, so her falling in love with him in a matter of a week barely talking without the element present in the series (the love transcending death itself) is out of the question. Then how did that happen? And it's just one among many failures in this single OVA.

Characters:
Most of the characters are nearly totally opposite of the real characters from the series. Where's Tenjin's pervertedness? Since when are the girls impressed by Socho, not scared? Haruno is all moral all of a sudden. And there's much more! Just these I mentioned are seen straight from the very first minutes of the OVA. Near all wrong. A big failure, because it's the characters and their personalities that were the best part in the show.
They all seem plain and emotionless as if the script writer had to hurry and make something just to milk more money out of the series.

Sound:
This is the best part of the OVA. I had nothing against the music. The intro and outro sound pretty good, the music in the show doesn't annoy the watcher nor doesn't it fit, which is quite good. It's not even slightly close to a masterpiece though.

I didn't enjoy this OVA in any way. It's a big disappointment to anyone who watched Green-green series before and it's impossible to recommend this to anyone, either fans or people who have no idea about Green-green.
I marked this on 3/10 just because of the music and the plain fact that it's green-green – a series I liked and enjoyed watching. And I still believe that this OVA doesn't deserve such a high mark. Shame on the creators.