Heh, figures I’d break the streak in the first week. Ah well, that just gives me opportunity to tackle a 2-parter in one shot, so in goes Karas, a 40th anniversary OVA production by Tatsunoko that popped up a couple years ago whose box art looked somewhat interesting and was fairly cheap. That’s honestly about the extent of what I know going into the show. Popping it in… two alien-looking aircraft are duking it out in stormy skies above the city… wait… now its two armored people duking it out in stormy sk- wait… its the aircraft again…. whaaa?

Being a Tatsunoko title, it quickly becomes apparent that we’re dealing with some serious sentai business here (after all, they’ve given us such classics as Gatchaman and Casshern). Still, this isn’t your standard fare for the genre as bystanders are meeting a whole array of grisly fates. Honestly, I’m not really familiar with the genre, but I don’t know that such large such a large dose of the horror is the sort of thing that pops up in these shows (it certainly explains Manga picking it up though), but it seems novel to me, and thus somewhat more interesting.

Story’s a convoluted mess, characters are hit-or-miss, animation hit-or-miss, CG’s mostly miss, action’s a total hit, we’re running pretty middle of the road at the halfway point, time for part the second.