Twilight Q

[DB]

An OVA that was intended to showcase various directors (al la Memories). Only 2 ended up being made, and perhaps this was a good thing.

The first one is called Reflection, and starts off pretty good. A girl is swimming on vacation and stubled across a camera that's been underwater for at least a year. When she develops the film, there is a picture of her with a guy she doesn't recognize. Moreover, when she takes the camera to the company that made it, they inform her it's a design they only completed a month ago, and they haven't marketed it. Yet there's no question from the state of the camera, it had been made at least two years earlier.

However, that's where the interest ends, and we're treated to the girl inexplicably jumping to a few largely pointless times that make little sense, even if they are pictures of her future life. It needed more than a half hour, and better plot, to be good.

The second part File 358 is worse in every aspect. It's a story about planes turning into fish and a detective watching a young girl (who never wears pants) and her imposter father being tailed by a detective.

What's really wrong with this? Well, it's all a verbalized soliliquy with virtually no animation. You just hear the detective's voice reading to you what happened: literally. There's a little twist at the end, but it's more a punchline than anything else.

in summation: What a waste of time. No redeeming  qualities to this at all. Avoid at all costs. 2 out of 10, and only because the animation didn't suck even if there was little of it in the second part.

[Dracos]

Thanks for the warning.

Dracos

[Edward]

Agreed, thanks for the warning.  Considering most of the stuff on Memories wasn't that good, either, I think I'll avoid short subjects that showcase directors.