Comments on: Hitsuji no Uta: the OVA

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:48:51 +0000

I think the manga is excellent but it’s one of those stories that doesn’t really translate so well onto the screen. The OAV captures that gloomy atmospherics well enough but it’s too dialogue-driven to make for gripping teleision and ends up being a bit dull and cold. With that in mind it’s just as well that the roll-call of VAs is of a high standard and I agree that the end theme music is a nice touch. It’s not a bad adaptation – it’s not a really memorable one either unfortunately.

By: animemiz49

animemiz49 — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:04:07 +0000

I have to say that the ED song of the OVA is what is outstanding in this OVA. While I cried for a bit at the implication of the ending… same as with the manga.. Hitsuji no Uta is an okay anime. When I said that the ova was the manga, my friend didn’t believe me until he saw it after a while.

By: wontaek

wontaek — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:26:05 +0000

I felt that OVA was not good, thus giving the excellent manga a bad name. The only saving grace of the OVA is the ending song, which I praise as perhaps being more true to the manga than the OVA itself. As I have said elsewhere, the ED theme song uses many musical cliches, but it uses them in proper ways. In music, unlike films and stories, using lots of cliches can be a good thing, if it is used ‘correctly’, and this song did masterful job in incorporating various cliches.

By: Anga

Anga — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:41:19 +0000

I think Hitsuji no Uta is only anime where I simply had to stop watching. Not because it was boring, irritating or anything like that, but it felt too real. Almost like someone would have hurted me physically and that’s not really anything you can call entertainment so in the end I never finished it.