This review is written having seen the first installment, the two-OVA 1990 release. There will be no spoilers for either, but comparisons will be drawn. This was packaged as a prequel to the 1990 Sol Bianca OVAs, which I enjoyed greatly. Sadly, this show did not live up to the bar set by its predecessor, and generally left me with a sour taste in my mouth. The storyline was almost entirely a result of the poor character choices. Unlike the first installment where everyone seems to have solid reasons for doing what they do, this series features a crew of women entirely under thespell of their own emotional instability. The entire series is just one long Men Writing Women trope, and the plotline is just a reflection of that.

The characters were just horrible interpretations of the strong crew which I'd grown attached to through the first series. Each character was boiled down to cliches and dehumanized. Most of the character interactions of the crew can be boiled down to "be a horrible human because that's just how women are", "be wallpaper", or "me chunk not understand human emotion".

The art and sound were pretty bad. The show didn't have the juicy 90's hand-drawn artwork carrying it anymore and their character models only got worse. There were some decently executed concepts and moments which is why it gets the rating it does from me, but overall it just falls flat by not capitalizing on the ground it has, and instead spending time making our beloved crew into capricious drunks and ridiculous brats.

I would recommend anyone skip this unless they know something I don't, or maybe just want a tutorial in how not to revive your old franchise.