Usually
if an OVA comes out, I wait until a new season airs before writing anything
about it. But this looks like it might actually be the last time we see the
loveable cast of Minami-Ke in
animated form. And sadly, it’s just a typical piece of fluff with the usual
beach episode clichés. A group of the girls go to the beach and splash water at
each other, except the quirky ones who give us some light character-based
comedy. A couple of the girls have collected beetles, still an enduringly
popular activity for kids in Japan, and of course they manage to get loose,
causing not mayhem but some light tension between siblings. Over the short
run-time of the episode, just about the whole cast is visited briefly, allowing
for some nice pleasant scenes reminding us of their personalities before we
finish on possibly the most perfect, ridiculous character to conclude an entire
series with.
Chiaki
gets the most screen time, struggling to complete an athletic task set as part
of her summer homework. It’s a light, fun, cute thing to watch, her doing her
best and failing a lot, but not exactly thrilling.
My
favourite characters get very little to do. Touma gets to be girly for a change
with the others at the beach, and has a funny little bit where she gives her
beetle the same name as her brother, but there’s little more to it than that.
Poor Mako-chan shows up to play and quickly gets turned away. The comedy based
around these two characters defying gender norms was the reason I really
enjoyed the show, but we didn’t get any of that.
Still,
nice to check in with these characters again, and a little sad to think it
might be the last time.
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