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Eromanga-sensei is, simply put, the 8-inch ruler of animes. It's underwhelming in a lot of its aspects and you also start to question its reason for existence as soon as you see it lying around. Also the presentation of the ruler makes you really uncomfortable and you wonder why its lolimouto sister wants to seduce it. Anyways, that was the impression the main series had on me, the OVA, however, accomplished what the vast majority of OVA's fail to do: develop characters instead of just putting them in a cute and simple scenario. Even though it sounds crazy, this OVA has managed to pull off ... almost exactly what Mirai Nikki: Redial did, respectively: It took an ending from a main series that left you relatively speechless and then, in the OVA, gave you something to smile at.

Onto the next topic: The presentation of the work itself.

A-1 is probably one of, if not, THE most inconsistent studio of our time. Each of their releases is like the flip of coin, in the sense that either way you're going to watch it until the end of the event. They either let out a steaming pile of whale sperm or Your Lie in April. On the spectrum of the duality of A-1, for every Seven deadly sins, there is a SAO 2, for every SAO: Alicization, there is a Vivedred Operation, for every Shelter, there is a Darling in the Franxx. I could go on for years saying these but you understand the point. The only thing that is relatively consistent about A-1 is the fact that they actually manage to make amazing visuals (not that they compare to Kyoto Anim.). Eromanga-sensei OVA manages to keep that consistent, with some awesome lighting effects as well as very vibrant shading on almost every texture throughout the runtime, leaving me to actually just enjoy simply looking at the show.
Strangely enough, this OVA made me actually kind of care about some characters in ways that I hadn't before, or at least it would've if the stakes weren't so predictable. But still, I liked the fact that they at least actually explored Elf's character instead of just leaving her stagnant like the rest of the characters in the main series.

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The fact that we actually got a confession of love out of a character in this goes to show that there just might be something worth waiting for in Fushimi's works. It actually became sweet to watch the end of just the first episode and see that there is actually some sweetness behind the primary landfill that is the concept of this whole show.

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I know it sounds very self-contradicting, with me praising the show while shitting on it at the same time, but I can assure you, if you simply want something that's just kind of different at the same time, this just might be right for you. I'd give this a 7 so far, because, simply put, if Eromanga-sensei was a 12 week long Ebola-ridden landfill, this OVA just might be a dumpster fire filled with/fueled by awkward half-smiles.