Orihara Kouhei returns to his town after a long disappearance to fullfil the promises he made to several girls in his childhood. He suffered from memory loss, and carries a tragic past. An strange ambience surrounds the OVA...It's almost like a dream, like memories from the past trying to come together in one piece but without being able to...
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Shinmaru
When Winston Smith was brought into Room 101 in 1984, he was forced to face his greatest fear, rats, and in doing so, he betrayed his love and solidified Big Brother's grip on him. He loved Big Brother because that was all his crushed spirit could possibly see. One is my Room 101 anime. O'Brien would strap me into that chair, fit the wire cage on my head and I'd have blind girls, pretentious ghosts and a fountain of tears struggling to form. But unlike Winston, I would not give in. My spirit would not be crushed. Onii-sama would not have me in his mad clutches.One would teach me that I could still feel pain and that it is good to feel and to stay alive.
If I could emerge from One still wanting to draw breath into my lungs, it would mean that, yes, life still means enough to me to go on living. If I can escape from the fresh hells One introduces with each episode -- if I can crawl out from under the misery heaped upon the poor viewer who surely does not deserve such a cruel fate as watching One, unless he, of course, broke a promise to a childhood friend -- then I can survive anything life throws at me. One gives me the courage to face my job, face my love and face society itself by virtue of being so soul-crushingly boring and mind-destroying.
Five Frames of Animation is Peace
Lack of Tears is Slavery
Ghost Sex is Strength
These are the virtues set forth by Onii-sama. He destroys the eyes with stunningly awful visuals, turns the brain into mush with hackneyed, incomprehensible drama and suffuses into the spirit with vague promises of seduction. His words whisper insidiously into the viewer's ear: cry. Cry. Cry. It is sad because we say so. Please cry, won't you?
But no. It is not sad. Only the effort inspires pity. So desperate is Onii-sama to grab the hearts of the common man that he sets forth tired tropes and vague character types in the hopes that the viewer will fill in the rest with their youthful spirit. We supply the toys; now, you play dolls and cry.
No, Onii-sama. We will not give in. We will not stand for this. We demand better! We demand to know what is happening! We demand to know why it is so sad! We demand to know why parts of this anime take place in hell and why the city turns into Atlantis at the end!
We demand life. One offers ghosts. Onii-sama has nothing.
zwd22
I will put this plain and simple. This is an OVA intended for those who have played the game(One Kagayagku Kisetsu e). For those who don't know the game was a pivitol piece which started the whole so-called Nakige genre and lead to the creation of Key. Putting aside introduction, overall the OVA is average, nothing stands out about it, but it does what an OVA is suppose to do, animate a bits of the game for the fans of the game. In this case, the OVA covers essentially the ends of the different scenarios, which is probably why everyone findsit soooo confusing.
Overall, if you played the game, it's not a bad way to kill 90 or so minutes, it is kinda nice to see the game you've played come to life with an upgrade in art(the game came out in 1998. Otherwise, I highly doubt that you'll find it all that enjoyable unless you wanna experience a small part of the piece that made Key Key without going through the hassle of playing the game.
phantomic109
One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e is probably the most baffling anime I have ever seen. It's a total waste of time, regardless of whether you have read the visual novel or not. The central problem of this OVA is that it doesn't know who it wants to appeal to. If you watch a lot of OVAs, you might be aware that there are a lot of older ones out there (and the occasional newer one too) that do not attempt to properly tell the story; rather, their intent is to be sold to fans of the source material as a way to see their favorite scenes andcharacters in animated form. Because of that, their storytelling and pacing are usually pretty bad, but that's okay, because they're not intended as standalones to begin with; and as far as I can tell, that was supposed to be the case with this OVA too. The story is left almost entirely unexplained, the characters aren't really given proper introductions, etc. But that's all more or less to be expected when watching an OVA of this kind. As much as it's not necessarily a GOOD thing, I can't really fault it for this, because it has a different purpose. And that's where the real trouble presents itself.
When you're trying to make something to sell to existing fans of a visual novel, normally you would want to condense the story very thoroughly, making sure to show the most iconic scenes in more detail, and keeping it very true to the source material. Unfortunately, One doesn't do that. Not only do we get to see almost none of the iconic scenes of any of the character routes--not the ice cream scene with Misaki, or the stage scene with Mio, or even the controversial Mizuka scene--we get a completely different story than the original plot that only keeps the general lore the same, but alters all the events in between. To make matters worse, some of the events that happen across these 4 episodes even directly contradict the canon of the visual novel! The issues don't end there, either; the characters are different too. Luckily, the differences with the characters aren't quite as drastic, but they're still noticeably changed.
So then that begs the question: what was this OVA trying to accomplish? If they were hoping to target new viewers and boost the popularity of the source material, they failed at that by not explaining the plot whatsoever and making it completely confusing to anyone who isn't in the know. If they were hoping to gain the appreciation of existing fans, then they ruined any chance of that by changing the story and characters until they felt completely different. If there's anything good to say about this sad attempt, it's that the music and the backgrounds were actually really nice, but that's just a cherry on top of a steaming heap of cow dung.
So to conclude, I can't recommend this to anyone at all, unless you really want to watch all Key-related anime, or just have a morbid curiosity and want to see how bad it is.
