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I’d never heard of this eight 12-minute-episode OVA series (originally named Dai Mahou Touge) prior seeing it on October’s release schedule from Media Blasters so I lacked any assumptions going into it. I put it in my rental queue and it came a few months later.
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Clockwise from top left: Ami, Junta, Tomoko, Karin.

How It Got There:
I acquired the 1994 anime series DNA^2 (pronounced “DNA two” in Japanese dub, “DNA Squared” in English dub) during TRSI’s 2007 holiday clearance sale because 15 episodes for 20 bucks was apparently too good to pass up at the time. The main review I read before purchase said it was a pretty good shonen comedy so I bit on the deal and didn’t begin watching until last month.
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I mentioned in one of my AX posts that I bought Rescue Me Mave-chan from Bandai’s booth for $8 (MSRP $10), a cheap price compared to the full pricing of another OVA from a different publisher, Voices of a Distant Star. It’s a spinoff from the Yukikaze series of OVAs. Does it entertain within its 25 minute runtime, especially to someone who hasn’t seen the originating work?
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It seems that Victor, the same company that produced Haruhi CDs, is also putting out the NHK ni Youkoso music and this time, there is an official soundtrack. The band Pearl Kyoudai (Pearl Brothers) composed the music for the series and it was interesting to hear the BGM with lyrics. I think what the band did was record the songs normally and then created off vocal versions for use in the show. There were also some nice original songs on the album including “Dark Side ni Tsuitekite”, a song which could have made a better ending song than “Akachan Ningen” IMO. Numbers after the jump.
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