After coming to appreciate Silent Mobius, I rummaged through AIC's other OVA and movie credits, and this short, action-packed OVA is one that I've had my eye on for a while, though the art is much more muddy and dated but not without a degree of charm. Your average wimpy main turns out to be the "chosen one." He has sad sack syndrome and survivor's guilt from being a rejected siscon whom everyone hates due to a melodramatic string of deaths that he's loosely associated with and for being an adopted bastard. Everyone, that is, except his little cutie moeblob who is trying to pullup his big boy pants for him, of course.

A bunch of elemental clans—the individual members being called ELEMENTALORS! SUPER COOOOOOOOL!!!—crossover into the boring human world to wreck the place and engage in stylish and creative fight sequences because... that's just what they do. Gotta keep the balance or some other vague fantasy cliche something something or other, you know?

Speaking of balance: there isn't time for any natural development of anything, at only 48 minutes, so it remains a sketch of a formulaic shonen, complete with abysmal storytelling and shallow characters. At least it's not too much of a slog and thankfully has a few sequences of enjoyable animation and fight scenes. There are directorial touches that make it watchable enough, but one would probably be better off viewing the best scenes on Sakugabooru. The pacing is too fast, but if you were to expand this series, the aesthetic would suffer, and it would probably be too slow and boring. The eternal catch-22 of shonen and vintage OVAs.

Finally, the ending is garbage. MC just has the most absurd amount of power without even trying and corrects everything in what amounts to the blandest kind of I BELIEVE IN MYSELF ending, which comes right after the cucked line to his moeblob about how he can endure as long as she's alive. If you weren't the chosen one, she'd dump you in less than a week.