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JCStaff has really got this time wasting thing down pat, haven’t they?

Impressions:

While the first special at least tried for some humor with its body shuffling antics, this just has… pretty much nothing. I’m not even really sure what they’re trying to do wih these OVAs… aside from keep the series on life support. The selling point of the Shanaverse is not that it is a touching slice of life about a girl and her insecure maid, so a four month gap just to see Wilhelmina hover anxiously around Shana for 30 minutes is tedious at best. Couldn’t they have thrown in some random training? Or had Yuuji or Margery actually try to physically distract Wilhelmina? That would have been nothing but an improvement. Hell, 30 minutes of watching Margery get progressively more drunk would have been more amusing.

At least the series still looks rather good, even if for some inexplicable reason, the only thing they decided to put any effort into animating was Tanaka’s literally time-filling rantings and ravings. How about some dynamic cooking instead of a montage? Or a spontaneous cat fight in the kitchen? I’m starting to think that JCStaff has eaten all its action staff after… um… Slayers? Was that really the last action show they did? Yeesh. Of course, given the way this series is going, that probably means that the next episode will have some kind of unrestricted spell that forces Yuuji to go on a picnic.