User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Fairy Tail x Rave, Review./@comment-3987368-20130826130838

I might write a review later, but I just wanna rant here cause I just finished downloading it and watching the thing. I enjoyed the OVA overall, but this was just eating at me.

Well in any case, I just wanna comment on the music. It's a really mixed bag in this OVA. The last two OVAs before this one have used the exact same opening (Blow Away) and ending (forgot its name) and now this one is reusing them. I'm not complaining about the music itself, but rather the lack of originality. The ending in this case is a more significant problem for me because it's specially tailored to the 4th OVA given the bikinis and the night gowns and general beach theme.

Of course, it's not specific to these three OVAs It's pretty much the same problem the first three OVAs had but at least those three had more general themes and visuals. The first opening was about what had happened in the anime up to those points with all their enemies they'd fought like Laxus, Oracion Seis, Jellal and a few others. The ending was the ending with Lucy and her Celestial Spirits? Generic, sure but it was still a better fit than what we were getting here since Lucy was significant in all three OVAs (arguably less so in the 3rd but still fairly important) whereas like I said before, the beach theme was significant only to the 4th OVA. Sure, OVA 5 was about swimwear but it was different swimwear than the 4th. Had they at least altered the visuals, I would have been alright but alas they didn't.

Then here. The beach and swimwear has nothing to do with the theme of this OVA. Heck, you could've made an awesome opening and ending theme out of the material present here since there's not only FT to work with, but also Rave. And yet they chose to just reuse what they had. If they already were willing to make like 20 minutes of animation, is it so had to make 3-4 minutes of new animation for the opening and ending so they're worth watching and not just listening to? I'd say it's not but apparently they disagree.

Of course, the insert music in the OVA itself has been heard before but I'm not gonna complain here. Hearing it with new visuals like all the fighting or the gang walking around and enjoying themselves was fun like always and makes Fairy Tail enjoyable for me. Just that opening and ending crap that annoys me since they were lazy >_>

But hey, like I said, the music is still nice to listen to, even if I'm not interested in looking at it cause I've seen it all before.