Bleach: The Sealed Sword Frenzy

This short OVA could've been better developed in a movie format, extending the 33 minutes to an hour, maybe; it might've been funner. The story is interesting, although it is poorly explained, and too rushed. The newly introduced character, Baishin, is kinda interesting although it's not too original. It reminded me multiple times of Zaraki, since he can barely feel the slashes other people do to him. He has some interesting, unexplained techniques, but his story remains somewhat in the shadows (the basics are explained but with very little details). The rest of the characters are developed just as they are in the series, except maybein the comical scenes, where Renji is dressed up as a "cop", shooting bullets carelessly. Art is just as good as the series, with very nice fight scenes and detailed characters and surroundings. Most of the sounds and songs, as well, are taken directly from the series; they're fine. I must say that this short OVA made me laugh a couple of times (Zaraki's train-chasing was pretty funny), and entertained me overall. If you're already into Bleach, I'd say you should watch this OVA, specially if you're just now finishing the Soul Society arch in the series.

For more than half an hour of time at it's disposal, it proved pretty interesting and compact. That feeling was however a little disrupted by the exces Shinigami fit into this time-line, some of them not having any reason to be there in the first place (a good example being Zaraki who chases wild gooses from time to time in the anime). The "antagonist" is portraid rather good, but in practice he lacks most his qualities, "gains" out of nowhere new ones and proves too useless in the end. The atmosphere was however agreable and rather open, and the graphic very good. All in all,it deserves watching, even if just for the rather well made humouros scenes throught this "short movie".

Bleach is a weird series, it has so many fans and way too little content, especially compared to the rest of the big three. Out of the only three OVA episodes, this one had it the most with the most boring and convoluted villain of the week that gets both introduced and nerfed in the same episode, somewhat, an analogy of what every unnecessarily long filler arc in the series should have been. Looking at you “The New Captain Amagai” arc. The animation was inconsistent with what the quality of the art offered, the music is good but utilized badly, sometimes not matching the tone ofthe scenes they were layered on top of. However the comedy was nailed, Renji handling a shotgun at the beginning is now one of the comedic highlights of the entire series.

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