![]() ![]() We have “ Scrooge” ( Sakurai Takahiro), the predecessor to Shou and Gai in possessing the Hand of the King. And viewed through that lens, the Lost Christmas OVA is perfectly fine. ![]() Given the circumstances though, expectations should be different – with only Segai (and briefly Da’ath) carried over from the TV series, I don’t hold a half-length prequel up to the same standards I did a 22-episode series. ![]() It’s only 11 minutes long, and doesn’t manage to do in half the time what the series rarely did in 22 minutes – which is tell a compelling story about compelling characters. To be blunt, while this can truthfully be called an OVA, in effect what it really amounts to is a commercial for the Guilty Crown VN of the same name. But given that I blogged the series start to finish – and didn’t dislike it nearly as much as some folks did – it only feels right that I should blog the OVA, too. It seems like you’d be hard-pressed to think of a series that garnered more volume of commentary with less affection than GC, so I’m happy to leave that in the past. I won’t rehash all the old discussions about where Guilty Crown came up short as a series. ![]()
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