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Hot springs! Girls! Nyaruko-san! Excitement! This is the Haiyore! Nyaruko-san W OVA review special! Story (6.45/10): For plot, the story of the OVA is really nothing special. More or less it's your average hot springs OVA where the characters go to a hot springs and the only thing that makes it different than other OVA of the same category is with the show's unique charm and comical gags. Safe to say, this OVA more or less fulfilled what it wanted to achieve. The OVA like its parent story do what it planned on doing from the get go,become a very entertaining time killer. Safe to say, the OVA fully completed said goal and overall became a nice recap of the style of the series by making everything (literally everything) as comical as it possibly can, which for this OVA, worked towards its benefit.
Overview:
+ Original flair to the show kept
- Rather bland base plot idea
Characters (7.01/10): If you've seen either one of this show's two seasons, than you should at least be somewhat familiar with its characters. (To some extent I hope.)
Practically everyone from the original series shows up again. Our main protagonist Mahiro, the show's mascot and my personal favorite of the show, Nyaruko, Kuko, Hastua, and a host of other side characters that more or less pop in and out of importance.
What I think the OVA did well was keeping the original personalities of these characters correct, thus making them as memorable as they were before, and therefore as enjoyable as they were before. Though, mind you, these characters have no deep drama or character development within them, so more or less they're one-sided people that just have outrageous and quite hilarious character to them.
Overview:
+ Original character personalities kept
+ Character gags persisted
+ Memorable people
- Rather one-sided overall
- Less than extraordinary supporting cast.
Art and Sound (7.57/10 and 6.46/10): For art the series has kept its original flair with its artstyle. All of the characters look just as good as they did when they were first introduced, and there was really no jarring animation at all to look at.
There was still the quite comical side to the show with overly exaggerated whatever and chibis, which was still quite well done I feel. Note though, there is fanservice in this OVA as it's a hot springs episode; but, if you've seen the series before, fanservice should not come as a surprise at all due to the fact that many times in the series, Nyaruko well, pulls things out of her lady parts because, reasons. (Plus she tries to seduce Mahiro, I don't know.)
In terms of music, the show retains its original tracks from the second season of the show. In my opnion, the music sounds rather cheerful and as pointless and exaggerated as the series it plays for, but it's not memorable. While the beginning part is actually scarringly catchy, everything else is sort of meh.
Overview:
+ Pretty well detailed art
- Somewhat forgettable music. (I can't get that beginning part out of my head!)
Personal Enjoyment (7.35/10): Haiyore! Nyaruko-san has always been a rather favorable series of mine. It has this wacky atmosphere that it doesn't even need to try in because everything about it feels so natural. Even in a generic feeling OVA, the absurdity of the series still came true and persisted throughout the 23 minutes I watched this.
The show's personal flair existed throughout the whole thing, and it was nice to get a good laugh out of a series that meant to be extremely pointless. All in all, this OVA managed to recapture the flair of the original series and was quite enjoyable to watch. The series is not a masterpiece mind you, but it's a good time killer if you really wish to watch one.
Overall Score: (6.98/10)
