User blog:Miskos3/Fairy Tail OVA 9: Fairies' Christmas, Review

Yay, procrastination. I just realized we don't have a blog dedicated to this meme of an OVA, so I figured I'd interrupt my studies to write a paragraph or two about it.

''Classic... Breaking things as always''

I haven't been paying attention ever since I watched that terribad version on YouTube (lul), so I'm not even sure if the OVA has legit subs at this point, rip legit fansub groups. In any case, let me just mention this: all 3 OVAs were honestly very subpar in terms of art quality, in spite of very little action happening in all of them. The new anime team always excelled in story-driven episodes with not much action happening - 413 Days, anyone? - so this kind of questionable quality was rather disappointing to see, especially since with OVAs, you aren't pressed by deadlines as much as with weekly long running series, for instance. I can only hope they are pouring their resources into the move. But sure enough, even the Christmas OVA suffered from bad quality, especially in the first 'filler' half of the episode.

Lucy's room invaded for 464645664146th time

While this part was fun to watch, the terrible art in places pretty much disturbed the atmosphere, with characters looking off and alike. Not to mention that statue Elfman almost dropped... Now that scene looked bad.

''Best friends, truly... *looks at Alvarez arc*''

Not that 100% of the OVA was terribly drawn, even the first half had its moments, however, most of the budget clearly went to the second part of the OVA, the 'canon' one, adapting the side chapter. For most part, it looked good so yay. It also went pretty much the same way as the omake, with some little extensions from what I could tell (the Connels and Strauss filler), so it was pretty amusing to see it animated. The Jellal and Erza scene at the end was especially pretty. I don't know what it's with all those snowy backgrounds looking so nice in FT 2014... Kind of a bummer that the 4-pages-long epilogue to the omake wasn't also included in the OVA, but I guess Mashima drew it long time after the OVA's scripts were decided.

Totally not a rapist

And that finishes the batch of the OVAs that we were promised. All that's left (for now) is the upcoming movie that is set to be released in the upcoming Spring! What are your expectations? And what did you think about the Christmas OVA? Do share in the comments.

*expectations intensify*