>>240Might as well bump again to discuss the OVA's. Finished them last week and I liked them although not as much as the main series. I did find it odd how they were ordered, two different OVA's that spread out the story over 6-7 years and each episode arc is ALSO spread out. How to rearrange them myself to be in order so it would naturally flow better.
A real shame how once again Yang (and the Alliance in general) was shafted for more Reinhard time. I guess it's nice to see more of Kircheis but after forcibly seeing how incredible Reinhard was for the entire series I'd rather spend some time with people like Yang, Dusty, Julian, Poplin, Kircheis, Mittermeyer and such. They all feel like they had less than half the screentime of Reinhard and it's odd to just give him episodes to show us that he is as incredible as we have been shown before.
I'd say my favourite part of the OVA was Yang's arc, the 14 episodes of growing up, saving El Facil, the history of the 730 Mafia, the prison and how it all ended was really interesting and exciting. It's a real shame his whole OVA couldn't have been Yang on this adventure and meeting up with more people but I still enjoyed it. I enjoyed a lot of Reinhard's arcs as well, such as when Reinhard mutinied on their sole ship to save them from an Alliance patrol, the Ice planet episode and the episode about the defecting noble's daughter. The Kirchies detective episode was surprisingly interesting to watch as well and was a breath of fresh air to see him by himself for such a long period of time.
I do wonder how it'd feel watching the OVA before the main series. It's a prequel so you wouldn't really get spoiled on much outside a few narrator spoilers, so a lot of the episodes would feel a lot more *tense* as you may not know who will die or not. I guess it'd be a lot more boring as you wouldn't be as invested in the characters but you could at least see how amazing Reinhard was for the first time, instead of the 50th.
I'm not sure what people think of the OVA's since I rarely see them discussed with the main series, so hopefully this bump might add *some* discussion to the board.