Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the "Video Game Movie Marathon" here on Reaction & Review. Tonight, guys, I'm gonna be checking out an OVA from 2010. That OVA is "The Girl In The Shell".
Now, when I first read that title back when I bought this thing at a convention, I thought it was gonna be some kind of parody of the anime/manga series known as "Ghost in the Shell". And I was totally wrong on that. This thing has no connection to that series, other than the name sounding very familiar. And I should also mention right now that this is gonna be another first for this series, in which I'm gonna be covering a hentai for Reaction & Review. Yeah...for real. And there is kind of a reason for it, which I'll get into in a second. Now I know someone might mention that, since I covered the "Captain Marvel" porno a little while ago, I can't technically count this as me covering porn for the first time for this series. And to an extent, you do have a point. However, one of the differences between this and the Captain Marvel porno is that this one is animated, while the Captain Marvel porno was done entirely in live action. Granted, I know that's not much of a difference, but it's still at least something. So yeah, I'm still gonna be counting this as a first for this series in the form of an animated hentai.
Now I suppose the other thing you might be wondering is how is this OVA suppose to be in relation to video game movies? Well, truth be told, I honestly had no idea this thing was based on a video game until I decided to read the back of the DVD case for all of the movies I had bought one day out of boredom and found out about it that way. Not the most interesting answer, I know, but still. Anyway, this OVA is based on a visual novel game known as Kara No Shoujo. And from what I could find out about the game itself, it's only available online through Steam. Though when I tried to find the link to the game for their site, it was not available to me. So, I have no idea if it's still on Steam or not. I did attempt to watch a playthrough of it on YouTube, however, the one I decided to watch involved a couple of V-Tubers, and I did not want to suffer through anymore of their commentary because it started to become painfully annoying. So I'm kinda going into this OVA pretty much blind here.
I have no idea if this thing is going to be good or not, just based on the fact that it's a hentai, and I've never sat through one of those before. However, if there is one positive I can give this thing already before I even push play is the fact that it's short. It's only 54 minutes long, when compared to the "Captain Marvel" porno I reviewed, in which that thing lasted almost two hours. So that, by itself, makes this thing already more watchable. However, I still have no idea if that means it'll actually be any good or not. The only way I am gonna find out if this thing is watchable at all, is if I shut up, and I push play, and I'm gonna do that right now. So, without further ado, it's time to kick back, relax, and check out "The Girl In The Shell".
7 minutes later
OK, guys, two things are bothering me already. First of all, the dub here, at least so far anyway, is kinda shit. And that probably wouldn't bother me so much if the dialogue were actually matching the mouth flaps of the characters mouth movements. I swear to you, guys, there is, like, 3 or 4 instances where this kind of shit is happening! And if this is how the rest of the OVA is gonna turn out, then it's probably gonna be end up being a rather painful viewing experience. I'm certainly hoping that's not the case, however, I already have a strong hunch that it's gonna stay like this for the entirety of it's run.
8 minutes later
So, guys, we have two of our characters, well...making out, to put it lightly. And I could describe it for you guys, however, considering these two characters have almost no personality or depth to them, I'm finding no reason to care about anything regarding their passion for each other. All it is, is just boring bullshit that is slowing the pacing of this OVA down to a screeching halt.
11 minutes later
All right, guys, the first episode of this OVA has just ended. And dear lord, was that terrible! I can tell you the dub has gotten worse, both on a voice acting level and on a technical level as well. And the story really hasn't gone anywhere yet, along with the pacing being fucking atrocious as well. I'm *really* hoping the second episode will actually be better in quality, however, considering what I just watched from it's first episode, my hopes of it getting better are drastically slim at this point.
2 minutes later
OK, why are they showing a recap of the exact same scene that was shown at the beginning of the first episode? I'm serious, guys, this is *exactly* the same scene beat-for-beat where some girl is telling another girl about a man who carries a big black egg with a doll that has no limbs inside of it. I think anyone that doesn't have the memory of a goldfish would've already known about this shit beforehand. Christ almighty...guys, we're already off to a *bad* start with this thing. And considering how bad the pacing was in the first episode, this is not exactly helping things.
15 minutes later
OK, I have a *really* stupid question that I know I'm not gonna get an answer to, but it's just something that came to my mind. Is Tokisaka just a man-whore who will screw any woman simply because fuck you, that is why? I'm only asking this, because this is the third person now who he's banging with. The first was that bartender girl who really had the hots for him. Then there was Natsume, the woman with the southern accent. And now he's banging Touko in a bathtub. I should mention that Touko is suppose to be the person who he's investigating to find out who she really is. So...why the hell is he banging her all of sudden, despite the fact they they have no chemistry with each other? Was he actually like that in the fucking visual novel game as well? I'm really curious, guys, and I have a strong suspicion that this OVA is not going to answer *any* of that whatsoever.
The Review
Oh...thank you, God, it's over. Well, guys, that was "The Girl In The Shell". Let me shut this garbage off...OK. Holy shit, was that ever fucking painful. Um...god, I'm trying to find a way on how to even talk about this OVA.
You know what? I'm gonna break my usual protocol here, because this is an issue I can't ignore unless I get it out of the way first. Let's start with the biggest problem with this OVA as a whole, which would be it's English dub. And to do this, I want to teach you guys about dubbing. At least, from what little experience I have with it. Now despite what some people may think, dubbing an anime into English is *not* an easy process. It really takes a lot of time to not only translate what was written from Japanese into English, but to also record those lines in a way where the dialogue matches with a character's mouth flaps. Basically, you have to translate it in a way to where it sounds natural, but also sticks as close to whatever you're suppose to be dubbing. And this kind of thing is not really limited to anime, it applies to almost everything else when it comes to dubbing a foreign movie or TV series from outside the U.S. I could easily reference stuff like Spaghetti Westerns from the 60's and 70's, since most of those were made in Europe and lot of the actors during that time didn't really speak proper English. So you would naturally get actors who spoke proper English and try to loop in their dialogue as closely as they could. And whether or not they sounded like the characters they're dubbing over is, of course, left up to interpretation. But going back to my point in regards to dubbing anime, it's important to try and match up the dialogue of what was written in it's original version. And if you have to take some liberties with what you're dubbing, then that's fine as well, as long as you know what you're doing.
Now why am I bringing this all up to you guys? Well, to put it simply, guys, this OVA's dub is a textbook example of what *not* to do when dubbing an anime into English. Now I could easily talk about how this dub acting sucks, however, I'm gonna get into all that later. The biggest problem with this dub as a whole is the fact that it feels really rushed and unfinished. How do I mean by this? Well basically, for over half of this English dub, the dialogue doesn't match with the mouth flaps of the characters mouth movements. And it is so damn noticeable that it's gonna pull you out of this OVA really quickly. The worst offender of this goes to whoever they got to voice our main character, Reiji Tokisaka, for it's English dub. I have a strong feeling that this actor does not know the first thing about dubbing. Which is why you will see a lot of his dialogue not syncing properly with the character's mouth movements. Sometimes, when he's finishing his lines, the character's mouth will still move for about half a second or so. It will also sometimes happen when he's about start up his dialogue, where his character will start to move his mouth, but the dialogue doesn't kick in until about a second later, which makes it look even *more* awkward. There are even some moments where, and I'm *not* even joking about this, as he's talking, he will actually *stop* mid-sentence for about a second before continuing his lines. Now that wouldn't be an issue if the character's mouth also stopped moving the moment the actor stopped his dialogue...but no. Tokisaka's mouth is still moving, and for *whatever* reasoning, the actor actually stopped talking *mid-sentence* as if he actually forgot his lines before quickly speaking again! Yeah, it's *that* fucking terrible. Which makes this English dub look completely amateurish and shit by default.
Now, I could've possibly overlooked the mis-timed mouth flaps if the dub itself was actually good. I mean, after all, the "Berserk" anime series from the 90's didn't necessarily have the best-syncing of mouth flaps when it came to it's English dub. However, I give that series a pass because the dub was actually really good. And the moments that you've might've seen where a character's mouth movement isn't necessarily matched up properly isn't really that noticeable in the long run. Which is why I can't say anything good about this OVA's dub, because it sucks royal balls. Just about every actor's dialogue here sounds really unnatural and it could easily just be because they were working with a god-awful script. However, given what I just said about Tokisaka's English voice actor earlier, it's also possible that most of these actors for this dub have never acted a day in their lives and know almost nothing about dubbing. It almost feels like whatever production company they got to dub this thing basically told it's actors that "You get one take. And if it sucks or if it even doesn't match the mouth flaps, then screw it, we're just gonna go with it and put it out on DVD when it's finished". That's basically how I believe it all went down. And the company that distributed it, which is called Kitty Media, should be fucking ashamed of themselves for releasing a rushed out, piece of shit English dub on DVD in it's current state. Now before anyone may ask, yes, there is an option on the DVD where you can watch it in it's original Japanese version, and you probably wouldn't notice any of the problems there in terms of it's mis-timed mouth flaps. And if that's the case, then this English dub is unwatchable, and should never have been fucking made in the first place.
So anyway...setting aside all of the problems that this dub already faces, what about the actual writing itself? Is it any good? Well, no, it isn't. Now admittedly, I have no idea how much of the dialogue, if at all, was lifted from the visual novel game. But I'm going to take a wild guess here and say that it was probably better written than this. It really feels like, similar to what I mentioned earlier about the dub feeling rushed and unfinished, I also feel that this story's writing is similarly rushed and unfinished, too. In fact, spoiler alert, in case you actually cared about watching this OVA, the killer is never caught. And I have no idea if that was the same conclusion or not from the game. If it was, then I'm hoping there's a better explanation for it there than here. However, I should probably try and review this thing by it's own standards. And on it's own standards, it fails miserably in trying to tell a decent story. The pacing is awful, some of which could be attributed to the sex scenes themselves slowing down the OVA quite a bit. But it also just feels like there isn't really much of a story here. I feel like whatever dialogue they might've taken from the game was crammed into this OVA while leaving out a lot of the details that may have been important to the plot. So you have scenes and dialogue that feels like it's missing something and you have no idea as to what it is.
One example I can think of is when Touko first asks Tokisaka to investigate her 'real self'. While at the same time, he's trying to investigate the murders that have been going on where the arms and legs of young women are being cut off, but their actual bodies are never present at the crime scene. But getting back to Touko, it's explained in the second episode that apparently Tokisaka had discovered that she was adopted and found out more stuff about her. Except, he never did *anything* like that in either episode! So I'm wondering when the hell he actually had the time to do any of that stuff? I thought maybe he might've went to look for information about her from Natsume, before she asked him to bang her before giving out any autopsy reports to him. I don't remember if it was in regards to Touko or any of the victims, but either way, it was never brought up as to when he found out about this information. I remember one other line where he said that he had some contacts help him out. But I honestly don't remember anything like that happening. Hell, he barely doesn't do any investigative work about the killer until someone brings him a book about something that could be related to the case, where the killer lost his mother as a young boy, and he's trying to recreate his mother by chopping off the victims of the women he has killed in regards to their arms and legs. Why does the killer want to possibly do this? I honestly don't know. And it's never really answered either, since Tokisaka says that this is nothing more than circumstantial evidence. So in regards to the killer, his motivations are totally ambiguous and never explained.
And since I just finished talking about the killer, our characters here are all shallow and lifeless. There is no reason for you to care about any of these characters, since none of them have any real depth or personality. The only one who even comes close to it is our main character, Tokisaka. And the only reason why I'm mentioning him is because he's basically just a man-whore who will screw almost any woman that wants him. I don't know what makes him so special, since he looks about as a bland and generic as any other character in this OVA. He has a sister who he fosters as his guardian, which is a little bit creepy when I think about it, though thankfully, there is no sexual interaction between the two. Touko is basically about as vague as they possibly come. Our killer has no personality other than he cuts women's body parts for the sake of his own questionable ambitions. And...that's basically it. Nobody in this OVA has any shred of personality or depth to them and they could all just be written off as unimportant to the plot. Now yes, it is possible that they may have had actual character depth in the game, and if I were motivated enough, I would probably find a tolerable playthrough of it somewhere on YouTube. But as is, I just don't care enough to look any of it up. And even then, an adaptation of something should be able to stand or fall on it's own. And this thing falls flat on it's face hard because of it's rushed storytelling.
Now since I've covered the dub itself and all of the problems behind it, I can skip that here and go straight into the animation. And I can say that the animation here is fine. I mean, it's nothing spectacular, but at least most of it is animated well, along with the sex scenes. I can also say the art-style is really good, too. Most of the characters have a distinct style to them, for the most part. So I can't really say anything bad about that part. In fact, it's probably the only actual positive I can give this OVA. Which is kinda sad in hindsight, however, it's a positive I can at least give this OVA. The sound-mix is also mixed well. And the music is kinda just there, really. Nothing about that is memorable in any way, but at least it's serviceable for this OVA.
So yeah, guys, outside of those several aspects, this OVA is mostly just shit. So with that being said, am I able to recommend "The Girl In The Shell"? No. Fuck no. This OVA is fucking garbage. The story barely, if at all, makes any sense, and the dub is even worse, what with the acting being shit, and a bunch of mis-timed mouth flaps on the characters makes this OVA unwatchable. If you seriously have to watch this awful thing, then make sure you watch it with the Japanese audio with English subtitles. It could provide a somewhat better viewing experience for you. Of course, that's assuming that you even watch hentai to begin with. And if not, then there's no way in hell I could ever recommend this. This thing, like I just said, is awful. It is, by far, one of the *worst* OVA's I've ever seen. Possibly the worst, actually, now that I think about all of the other OVA's I've covered for this series. But either way, this OVA is ungodly bad. And after both this and the "Captain Marvel" porno, I need to give myself a break from covering anymore porno films for this series for a while. I know I have another one I bought at a convention, however, that's gonna be put on hold for a while until I'm the mood to cover another porno film for this series. For now, though...oh lord, I need to go and find something else better to watch. Well...I do have some volumes of the original "Yu-Gi-Oh!" on DVD. So I'm gonna marathon some episodes of that right now just so I can get the awful taste of what I just watched for almost an hour out of my mouth.
Holy shit, um...good lord, was that ever torturous to watch. Well, anyway, guys, with that, we come to the close of another Reaction & Review. Until next time, ladies and gentlemen, take care, and I will see you all later. Peace.
Now I suppose the other thing you might be wondering is how is this OVA suppose to be in relation to video game movies? Well, truth be told, I honestly had no idea this thing was based on a video game until I decided to read the back of the DVD case for all of the movies I had bought one day out of boredom and found out about it that way. Not the most interesting answer, I know, but still. Anyway, this OVA is based on a visual novel game known as Kara No Shoujo. And from what I could find out about the game itself, it's only available online through Steam. Though when I tried to find the link to the game for their site, it was not available to me. So, I have no idea if it's still on Steam or not. I did attempt to watch a playthrough of it on YouTube, however, the one I decided to watch involved a couple of V-Tubers, and I did not want to suffer through anymore of their commentary because it started to become painfully annoying. So I'm kinda going into this OVA pretty much blind here.
I have no idea if this thing is going to be good or not, just based on the fact that it's a hentai, and I've never sat through one of those before. However, if there is one positive I can give this thing already before I even push play is the fact that it's short. It's only 54 minutes long, when compared to the "Captain Marvel" porno I reviewed, in which that thing lasted almost two hours. So that, by itself, makes this thing already more watchable. However, I still have no idea if that means it'll actually be any good or not. The only way I am gonna find out if this thing is watchable at all, is if I shut up, and I push play, and I'm gonna do that right now. So, without further ado, it's time to kick back, relax, and check out "The Girl In The Shell".
7 minutes later
OK, guys, two things are bothering me already. First of all, the dub here, at least so far anyway, is kinda shit. And that probably wouldn't bother me so much if the dialogue were actually matching the mouth flaps of the characters mouth movements. I swear to you, guys, there is, like, 3 or 4 instances where this kind of shit is happening! And if this is how the rest of the OVA is gonna turn out, then it's probably gonna be end up being a rather painful viewing experience. I'm certainly hoping that's not the case, however, I already have a strong hunch that it's gonna stay like this for the entirety of it's run.
8 minutes later
So, guys, we have two of our characters, well...making out, to put it lightly. And I could describe it for you guys, however, considering these two characters have almost no personality or depth to them, I'm finding no reason to care about anything regarding their passion for each other. All it is, is just boring bullshit that is slowing the pacing of this OVA down to a screeching halt.
11 minutes later
All right, guys, the first episode of this OVA has just ended. And dear lord, was that terrible! I can tell you the dub has gotten worse, both on a voice acting level and on a technical level as well. And the story really hasn't gone anywhere yet, along with the pacing being fucking atrocious as well. I'm *really* hoping the second episode will actually be better in quality, however, considering what I just watched from it's first episode, my hopes of it getting better are drastically slim at this point.
2 minutes later
OK, why are they showing a recap of the exact same scene that was shown at the beginning of the first episode? I'm serious, guys, this is *exactly* the same scene beat-for-beat where some girl is telling another girl about a man who carries a big black egg with a doll that has no limbs inside of it. I think anyone that doesn't have the memory of a goldfish would've already known about this shit beforehand. Christ almighty...guys, we're already off to a *bad* start with this thing. And considering how bad the pacing was in the first episode, this is not exactly helping things.
15 minutes later
OK, I have a *really* stupid question that I know I'm not gonna get an answer to, but it's just something that came to my mind. Is Tokisaka just a man-whore who will screw any woman simply because fuck you, that is why? I'm only asking this, because this is the third person now who he's banging with. The first was that bartender girl who really had the hots for him. Then there was Natsume, the woman with the southern accent. And now he's banging Touko in a bathtub. I should mention that Touko is suppose to be the person who he's investigating to find out who she really is. So...why the hell is he banging her all of sudden, despite the fact they they have no chemistry with each other? Was he actually like that in the fucking visual novel game as well? I'm really curious, guys, and I have a strong suspicion that this OVA is not going to answer *any* of that whatsoever.
The Review
Oh...thank you, God, it's over. Well, guys, that was "The Girl In The Shell". Let me shut this garbage off...OK. Holy shit, was that ever fucking painful. Um...god, I'm trying to find a way on how to even talk about this OVA.
You know what? I'm gonna break my usual protocol here, because this is an issue I can't ignore unless I get it out of the way first. Let's start with the biggest problem with this OVA as a whole, which would be it's English dub. And to do this, I want to teach you guys about dubbing. At least, from what little experience I have with it. Now despite what some people may think, dubbing an anime into English is *not* an easy process. It really takes a lot of time to not only translate what was written from Japanese into English, but to also record those lines in a way where the dialogue matches with a character's mouth flaps. Basically, you have to translate it in a way to where it sounds natural, but also sticks as close to whatever you're suppose to be dubbing. And this kind of thing is not really limited to anime, it applies to almost everything else when it comes to dubbing a foreign movie or TV series from outside the U.S. I could easily reference stuff like Spaghetti Westerns from the 60's and 70's, since most of those were made in Europe and lot of the actors during that time didn't really speak proper English. So you would naturally get actors who spoke proper English and try to loop in their dialogue as closely as they could. And whether or not they sounded like the characters they're dubbing over is, of course, left up to interpretation. But going back to my point in regards to dubbing anime, it's important to try and match up the dialogue of what was written in it's original version. And if you have to take some liberties with what you're dubbing, then that's fine as well, as long as you know what you're doing.
Now why am I bringing this all up to you guys? Well, to put it simply, guys, this OVA's dub is a textbook example of what *not* to do when dubbing an anime into English. Now I could easily talk about how this dub acting sucks, however, I'm gonna get into all that later. The biggest problem with this dub as a whole is the fact that it feels really rushed and unfinished. How do I mean by this? Well basically, for over half of this English dub, the dialogue doesn't match with the mouth flaps of the characters mouth movements. And it is so damn noticeable that it's gonna pull you out of this OVA really quickly. The worst offender of this goes to whoever they got to voice our main character, Reiji Tokisaka, for it's English dub. I have a strong feeling that this actor does not know the first thing about dubbing. Which is why you will see a lot of his dialogue not syncing properly with the character's mouth movements. Sometimes, when he's finishing his lines, the character's mouth will still move for about half a second or so. It will also sometimes happen when he's about start up his dialogue, where his character will start to move his mouth, but the dialogue doesn't kick in until about a second later, which makes it look even *more* awkward. There are even some moments where, and I'm *not* even joking about this, as he's talking, he will actually *stop* mid-sentence for about a second before continuing his lines. Now that wouldn't be an issue if the character's mouth also stopped moving the moment the actor stopped his dialogue...but no. Tokisaka's mouth is still moving, and for *whatever* reasoning, the actor actually stopped talking *mid-sentence* as if he actually forgot his lines before quickly speaking again! Yeah, it's *that* fucking terrible. Which makes this English dub look completely amateurish and shit by default.
Now, I could've possibly overlooked the mis-timed mouth flaps if the dub itself was actually good. I mean, after all, the "Berserk" anime series from the 90's didn't necessarily have the best-syncing of mouth flaps when it came to it's English dub. However, I give that series a pass because the dub was actually really good. And the moments that you've might've seen where a character's mouth movement isn't necessarily matched up properly isn't really that noticeable in the long run. Which is why I can't say anything good about this OVA's dub, because it sucks royal balls. Just about every actor's dialogue here sounds really unnatural and it could easily just be because they were working with a god-awful script. However, given what I just said about Tokisaka's English voice actor earlier, it's also possible that most of these actors for this dub have never acted a day in their lives and know almost nothing about dubbing. It almost feels like whatever production company they got to dub this thing basically told it's actors that "You get one take. And if it sucks or if it even doesn't match the mouth flaps, then screw it, we're just gonna go with it and put it out on DVD when it's finished". That's basically how I believe it all went down. And the company that distributed it, which is called Kitty Media, should be fucking ashamed of themselves for releasing a rushed out, piece of shit English dub on DVD in it's current state. Now before anyone may ask, yes, there is an option on the DVD where you can watch it in it's original Japanese version, and you probably wouldn't notice any of the problems there in terms of it's mis-timed mouth flaps. And if that's the case, then this English dub is unwatchable, and should never have been fucking made in the first place.
So anyway...setting aside all of the problems that this dub already faces, what about the actual writing itself? Is it any good? Well, no, it isn't. Now admittedly, I have no idea how much of the dialogue, if at all, was lifted from the visual novel game. But I'm going to take a wild guess here and say that it was probably better written than this. It really feels like, similar to what I mentioned earlier about the dub feeling rushed and unfinished, I also feel that this story's writing is similarly rushed and unfinished, too. In fact, spoiler alert, in case you actually cared about watching this OVA, the killer is never caught. And I have no idea if that was the same conclusion or not from the game. If it was, then I'm hoping there's a better explanation for it there than here. However, I should probably try and review this thing by it's own standards. And on it's own standards, it fails miserably in trying to tell a decent story. The pacing is awful, some of which could be attributed to the sex scenes themselves slowing down the OVA quite a bit. But it also just feels like there isn't really much of a story here. I feel like whatever dialogue they might've taken from the game was crammed into this OVA while leaving out a lot of the details that may have been important to the plot. So you have scenes and dialogue that feels like it's missing something and you have no idea as to what it is.
One example I can think of is when Touko first asks Tokisaka to investigate her 'real self'. While at the same time, he's trying to investigate the murders that have been going on where the arms and legs of young women are being cut off, but their actual bodies are never present at the crime scene. But getting back to Touko, it's explained in the second episode that apparently Tokisaka had discovered that she was adopted and found out more stuff about her. Except, he never did *anything* like that in either episode! So I'm wondering when the hell he actually had the time to do any of that stuff? I thought maybe he might've went to look for information about her from Natsume, before she asked him to bang her before giving out any autopsy reports to him. I don't remember if it was in regards to Touko or any of the victims, but either way, it was never brought up as to when he found out about this information. I remember one other line where he said that he had some contacts help him out. But I honestly don't remember anything like that happening. Hell, he barely doesn't do any investigative work about the killer until someone brings him a book about something that could be related to the case, where the killer lost his mother as a young boy, and he's trying to recreate his mother by chopping off the victims of the women he has killed in regards to their arms and legs. Why does the killer want to possibly do this? I honestly don't know. And it's never really answered either, since Tokisaka says that this is nothing more than circumstantial evidence. So in regards to the killer, his motivations are totally ambiguous and never explained.
And since I just finished talking about the killer, our characters here are all shallow and lifeless. There is no reason for you to care about any of these characters, since none of them have any real depth or personality. The only one who even comes close to it is our main character, Tokisaka. And the only reason why I'm mentioning him is because he's basically just a man-whore who will screw almost any woman that wants him. I don't know what makes him so special, since he looks about as a bland and generic as any other character in this OVA. He has a sister who he fosters as his guardian, which is a little bit creepy when I think about it, though thankfully, there is no sexual interaction between the two. Touko is basically about as vague as they possibly come. Our killer has no personality other than he cuts women's body parts for the sake of his own questionable ambitions. And...that's basically it. Nobody in this OVA has any shred of personality or depth to them and they could all just be written off as unimportant to the plot. Now yes, it is possible that they may have had actual character depth in the game, and if I were motivated enough, I would probably find a tolerable playthrough of it somewhere on YouTube. But as is, I just don't care enough to look any of it up. And even then, an adaptation of something should be able to stand or fall on it's own. And this thing falls flat on it's face hard because of it's rushed storytelling.
Now since I've covered the dub itself and all of the problems behind it, I can skip that here and go straight into the animation. And I can say that the animation here is fine. I mean, it's nothing spectacular, but at least most of it is animated well, along with the sex scenes. I can also say the art-style is really good, too. Most of the characters have a distinct style to them, for the most part. So I can't really say anything bad about that part. In fact, it's probably the only actual positive I can give this OVA. Which is kinda sad in hindsight, however, it's a positive I can at least give this OVA. The sound-mix is also mixed well. And the music is kinda just there, really. Nothing about that is memorable in any way, but at least it's serviceable for this OVA.
So yeah, guys, outside of those several aspects, this OVA is mostly just shit. So with that being said, am I able to recommend "The Girl In The Shell"? No. Fuck no. This OVA is fucking garbage. The story barely, if at all, makes any sense, and the dub is even worse, what with the acting being shit, and a bunch of mis-timed mouth flaps on the characters makes this OVA unwatchable. If you seriously have to watch this awful thing, then make sure you watch it with the Japanese audio with English subtitles. It could provide a somewhat better viewing experience for you. Of course, that's assuming that you even watch hentai to begin with. And if not, then there's no way in hell I could ever recommend this. This thing, like I just said, is awful. It is, by far, one of the *worst* OVA's I've ever seen. Possibly the worst, actually, now that I think about all of the other OVA's I've covered for this series. But either way, this OVA is ungodly bad. And after both this and the "Captain Marvel" porno, I need to give myself a break from covering anymore porno films for this series for a while. I know I have another one I bought at a convention, however, that's gonna be put on hold for a while until I'm the mood to cover another porno film for this series. For now, though...oh lord, I need to go and find something else better to watch. Well...I do have some volumes of the original "Yu-Gi-Oh!" on DVD. So I'm gonna marathon some episodes of that right now just so I can get the awful taste of what I just watched for almost an hour out of my mouth.
Holy shit, um...good lord, was that ever torturous to watch. Well, anyway, guys, with that, we come to the close of another Reaction & Review. Until next time, ladies and gentlemen, take care, and I will see you all later. Peace.
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