There's not much of a story here, the Principal and Saito find a chest full of beachwear, bikini's and swimsuits. After Saito explained what these were for, the Principal dismissed the original summerschool trip and made a new one, to the ocean. Then, fooling all the students and the princess and her bodyguard, letting them believe, that clothing is for rituals (like volleyball, and watermelon bashing >_> ) to please the God of Water (or something like that). Of course, it's starts with beachwear and swimsuits, it goes to bikini's and last but not least, swimsuits excisting out only three seashells (which is worn byboth male and femal characters).
The art is good, perhaps a bit better then most in the series, which is good of course, the animation is still no the same level, while they did a better job on the sound, the voice-actors .. acted better in my opinion, while the background music and sounds are in better quality too and since it happens between two original episodes, the OVA has the same opening and ending as the series, which are in the same quality and contain the same clips.
The characters are still the same, though we get more intimate with the female one's, and see the Order of Perverts in their natural habitat (So they wish). I'm not one to get enjoyed by ecchi anime easily, but this OVA got me. I enjoyed the first "contact" with the Giant Octopuss, and I enjoyed some several close-ups too, which I normally don't.
Some jokes, scene's and sounds made by the voice-actors are just hilarious and really make you laugh, I even laughed out loud .. twice! Which I normally don't, not by any (or at least most) comedy anime's. For people who like Zero no Tsukaima it's a fun OVA, and for the people who watched the show (and enjoyed it) for the wrong reasons, it's HIGHLY enjoyable.
Even though the story's nothing special, everything makes up for that.
Recommended
I mean, there's not much to say about it.. and I don't even know why I'm writing a review. It's a single special episode of 20 mins, so during the time you read reviews about it you might as well just watch it. What's it about? Take Zero no Tsukaima, and move it to the beach. Girls in bikinis, boys who want to peak, a bit of Louise x Saito. That's it. And since I have to write a longer review.. the story is absolutely amazing! I would've never thought to see such a complex, flawless story being put in a mere 20 minutes. I was completelyblown away!
MaMaiGalaxy
December 25, 2020
Not Recommended
The Familiar of Zero: Rondo of the Princesses OVA aka episode 6.5 or aka the infamous beach episode that so many anime love to do... if you've seen a few from ecchi anime specifically then you've seen this episode already. There is no real story here, worse is all the boys are scummy pervs, even Saito whom I'd still had respect for in S2, lost my respect in S3 and certainly here. Anything they get in this episode they more than deserve far as am concerned. This episode unless you're into fan service and pervy scenes is a waste of time unless you like thecast of characters in the series, even then you may not like this episode.
Rating is a 4.0, mainly due to the fact no actual story and just boys being pervs. Anything else I have to say about this OVA episode isn't good, I don't hate it but I've certainly had more praise for beach episodes than i have this one. Anything I did like in this episode is, merely because I like the cast of characters in the series, looking at this however from what it does, is bad, hence my harsh words and harsh rating.
