Since the summer of 2010, I’ve had a different method of reviewing OVAs. I found that simply reviewing them did not fit together with Movies and TV-series, and the standards were just too different, especially with those OVAs that just released one incomplete episode of which it wasn’t even certain whether or not it would get any more episodes. That’s why I decided to simply review every OVA episode individually with a different rating system than what I usually use.

Alphabetical
.Hack//Quantum - 01 - 8,25/10
.Hack//Quantum - 02 - 8,25/10
Angel Densetsu - 7,25/10
Armored Trooper Votoms - Phantom Arc - 03 - 8,75/10
Armored Trooper Votoms - Phantom Arc - 04 - 8,5/10
Armored Trooper Votoms - Phantom Arc - 05 - 8,75/10
Armored Trooper Votoms - Phantom Arc - 06 - 8,5/10
Bannou Yasai Ninninman - 7,5/10
Black Lagoon - Roberta’s Blood Trail - 02 - 8,25/10
Black Lagoon - Roberta’s Blood Trail - 03 - 8,5/10
Black Lagoon - Roberta’s Blood Trail - 04 - 8,5/10
Black Lagoon - Roberta’s Blood Trail - 05 - 8.5/10
Black Rock Shooter - 7,5/10
Goulart Knights - 3,5/10
Hen Zemi - 01 - 8/10
Hen Zemi - 02 - 8/10
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kira - 01 - 5/10
Hiyokoi - 01 - 6,5/10
Houkago no Pleiades - 7,25/10
Kara no Kyoukai Epilogue - 8,5/10
Kizuna Ichigeki - 7,5/10
Kyou, Koi wo Hajimemasu - 02 - 7,75/10
Licca-chan - Fushigi na Fushigi na Yunia Monogatari - 8/10
Mars of Destruction - 4/10
Mazinkaiser SKL - 02 - 6/10
Megane na Kanojo - 6,5/10
Mirai Nikki - 7,75/10
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn - 02 - 7,75/10
Nichijou - 7,5/10
Norageki - 8,25/10
Ojii-San no Lamp - 8/10
Roujin Z - 8,25/10
Seikai no Danshou - 8,25
Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi - 7,5/10
Tales of Symphonia - 07 - 8,75/10
Tales of Symphonia - 08 - 8,5/10
Tamayura - 01 - 6,75/10
Tamayura - 02 - 8/10
Tamayura - 03 - 7,75/10
Tamayura - 04 - 8/10
Tansuwarashi - 8/10
Toriko - 6/10
Trava - Fist Planet - 7,75/10
Votoms Finder - 7,25/10
xxxHolic Rou - Adayume - 8,75/10
Yondemasuyo! Azazel-san - 8,25/10
Yozakura Quartet - Hoshi no Umi - 01 - 8,75/10
Yozakura Quartet - Hoshi no Umi - 02 - 8,75/10
Yozakura Quartet - Hoshi no Umi - 03 - 9/10

Rating
Yozakura Quartet - Hoshi no Umi - 03 - 9/10
Armored Trooper Votoms - Phantom Arc - 03 - 8,75/10
Armored Trooper Votoms - Phantom Arc - 05 - 8,75/10
Tales of Symphonia - 07 - 8,75/10
xxxHolic Rou - Adayume - 8,75/10
Yozakura Quartet - Hoshi no Umi - 01 - 8,75/10
Yozakura Quartet - Hoshi no Umi - 8,75/10
Armored Trooper Votoms - Phantom Arc - 04 - 8,5/10
Armored Trooper Votoms - Phantom Arc - 06 - 8,5/10
Black Lagoon - Roberta’s Blood Trail - 03 - 8,5/10
Black Lagoon - Roberta’s Blood Trail - 04 - 8,5/10
Black Lagoon - Roberta’s Blood Trail - 05 - 8.5/10
Kara no Kyoukai Epilogue - 8,5/10
Tales of Symphonia - 08 - 8,5/10
.Hack//Quantum - 01 - 8,25/10
.Hack//Quantum - 02 - 8,25/10
Black Lagoon - Roberta’s Blood Trail - 02 - 8,25/10
Norageki - 8,25/10
Roujin Z - 8,25/10
Seikai no Danshou - 8,25
Yondemasuyo! Azazel-san - 8,25/10
Hen Zemi - 01 - 8/10
Hen Zemi - 02 - 8/10
Licca-chan - Fushigi na Fushigi na Yunia Monogatari - 8/10
Ojii-San no Lamp - 8/10
Tamayura - 02 - 8/10
Tamayura - 04 - 8/10
Tansuwarashi - 8/10
Kyou, Koi wo Hajimemasu - 02 - 7,75/10
Mirai Nikki - 7,75/10
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn - 02 - 7,75/10
Tamayura - 03 - 7,75/10
Trava - Fist Planet - 7,75/10
Bannou Yasai Ninninman - 7,5/10
Black Rock Shooter - 7,5/10
Kizuna Ichigeki - 7,5/10
Nichijou - 7,5/10
Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi - 7,5/10
Angel Densetsu - 7,25/10
Houkago no Pleiades - 7,25/10
Votoms Finder - 7,25/10
Tamayura - 01 - 6,75/10
Hiyokoi - 01 - 6,5/10
Megane na Kanojo - 6,5/10
Mazinkaiser SKL - 02 - 6/10
Toriko - 6/10
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kira - 01 - 5/10
Mars of Destruction - 4/10
Goulart Knights - 3,5/10

For an indication of what the ratings mean:
9+: Fantastic, really well executed, and a roller coaster ride to watch.
8-9: Not good enough to really be a masterpiece, but still really enjoayble and wholeheartedly recommended.
7-8: A p retty decent way to spend a bit of time. Nothing special and often quite flawed (especially the lower score ones), but still quite enjoyable, and it kept me busy.
6-7: Usual some gimmicky OVAs that simply fail to tell a good story, though do one or two things right.
5-6: Poorly executed and a chore to watch.
5-: this is the point where the creators just didn’t care.

An intermezzo. Wellber no Monogatari spends this one with the much-needed background story of Voljurac. It’s probably the least interesting episode of the second season so far, but then again, the second season was just that good, and a bit of background for a side-character can only work in the series’ advantage for the final episodes. He now feels more than just a random tank.

Basically, Voljurac breaks down, and he needs to be fixed. The only person that Voljurac knows who can do this thing is the guy who created him, or to be exact: the daughter of the guy who created him. Renaldo Vinci, thirty years ago, met with Voljurac when he was still a human. It indeed seems that in the end, he transferred Voljurac’s spirit into a tank he made, after the guy had been shot lethally. Basically, Renaldo once worked for the Kingdom of Wellber, but once his health deteriorated, he quit, though his superiors didn’t like this. Voljurac was sent to kill him, but the two of them became friendly too much, and Voljurac betrayed his superiors. As a thanks, he got shot to death.

This episode also answers a question that I’ve been having ever since Rita went undercover: are there more machines like him? In short: yes. Renaldo may be dead now, but his daughter hasn’t been standing still, and she’s created quite a company, producing all sorts of interesting machines. It would have been more interesting to see some of these machines actually on the street, but this is just a minor detail.

This makes me wonder… there’s one important character left who still misses background, apart from the obvious Rita’s brother, of course. Will Sherry also get an episode for herself? It would be quite interesting, but on the other hand, there are only five episodes left, and I don’t think that the creators can just waste another episode. Or will we perhaps get a third season? That would be quite interesting…

This episode featured one of the best fights of this series yet. I mean, what’s not to like about Seiran, driving his van off a cliff, jumping out of it just to get to Mayuki faster. Talk about an entrance. Also Byakko’s new weapons were quite creative. I’ve seen these claws before, but never were they attached to the feet of the wielder. You can say a lot about the director, but he does know how to create a good fight if he wants to. :P

About the rest of the episode, there was a lot of talking much more than usual, which means that I’ve had more trouble than usual trying to understand it. Apparently, Sanae’s mother plays a quite a big role in this as some kind of neutral party, when both Seiju, Chien and Seiran visit her. Seiju apparently wanted something from her, in her memory. According to Byakko, this is supposed to be the “path that leads to god”. In a flashback, we see how Byakko thinks that Seiran has it.

This episode also continued to develop Byakko and Seiran, probably the ones who suffer the most from the conflict between the three brothers. We see Chien feel pity for what happened to Byakko, though we don’t see the reasons for this yet. Later this episode, she yet again tries to go after Mayuki, though as she’s about to kill Seiren (who randomly appeared with that entrance described above), Seiju yet again stops her from doing so. Seiran in the meantime is getting more and more desperate to get rid of Seiyu, especially now that he knows