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That’s… miserable.

I felt bad watching this OVA in 320×240 for about the first 20 minutes. Then I realized that it was going to be nothing but setup and my guilt drifted away. I don’t think a better raw would have improved my enjoyment of this one in the slightest.

Impressions:

10 months.

10 goddamned months for an episode with about 3 minutes of silly Alucardness at the start, no Seras at all, and about 5 minutes of Integra and Walter. Of the remaining 32 or so minutes, about 20 of them were spent giving speeches, leaving 10 minutes of Nazi vampires killing civilians and Iscariot forces killing nazi vampires. To give credit where credit is due, the helpless civilians put up a lot more of a fight than the Nazi vampires did. At least they ran around and shot back instead of standing there like morons while getting filled with knives. Really though, a full quarter of the episode went by just listening the Major rant and rave from his blimp.

In about the same span of time, UFOTable made three Rakkyo movies… and stayed on schedule the entire time. What the hell, Madhouse? People conceived children, carried them to full term, and conceived another child in the span of time it took you to produce this one episode…. where nothing really happened. Sure, some random guy died and London was invaded. That ranks about a 1/10 on the Interesting-o-meter^(tm). At least next episode we should get to see some actually fighting instead of a bunch of shots of bodies exploding in blood. It certainly can’t be any worse at any rate. We’ll find out after it airs… which’ll probably be in 2010 at the rate they’re falling behind on these damn things.