Sword For Truth is a oh hell do I really have to do this? Sword For Truth is such a low effort OVA that was made in the early 90s that it barely deserves me giving an introduction. This review will be fairly short and low effort, as a dreadful piece of shit such as this doesn't deserve a high-effort review put into it. There may be some mild spoilers in this review, so read at your own risk (like it matters anyway).
Story:
The story of this poo poo revolves around our main man Sakaki who's a hired swordsman trying to rescue another clan's princess. That's literally it.
Seems like a simple story when I phrase it that way right? Well you'd be deadly mistaken. Sword For Truth is ridiculously hard to follow, mainly due to how poorly structured this OVA is. We start off at a dojo where people are fighting and some random cat monster comes out. Suddenly our "hero" makes his debut. Now we're at a supermarket. Now we're at god knows where listening to our hero and some other bloke spout off pointless exposition that hardly matters in the first place. How could somebody fuck up such a simple storyline?
Characters:
The characters of this OVA are so unbelievably bland that it's honestly hard for me to say anything about anyone. You might as well just replace all the characters in this doo doo with Plank from Ed Edd n Eddy, because a slab of wood with a poorly drawn face on it has more personality than the characters in this shitty OVA
Art:
The artwork is terrible, plain & simple. It's so unfathomably bad that it's actually hard to tell what things are supposed to be. The backgrounds are so cluttered & messy that I genuinely cannot tell what something is actually supposed to be half the time. To rub even further salt into the wound, this anime couldn't even get tits right. I want you to consider that for a second, the artists on this OVA were either so incompetent, or just flat out didn't care (for the love of god I hope it's the latter) enough to draw 2 circles correctly.
The animation (or lack there of) is just as bad as the artwork, if I could sum it up in 3 words "Lazy", "Stilted", & "Flat". That's all I need to say really. The absolutely horrendous sex scenes speak for themselves.
Sound:
The sound is probably the least offensive part of this OVA, but it's still bad. For the record, I watched the English Dub & it's pretty typical honestly. If you've seen any other bad OVA from this time period that had English Dubs attached to them, this one is equally as bad, if not worse. The voice actors just don't care about their roles, which is probably for the best honestly, as actually trying on a product this bad would only be wasted effort on their part.
Final Thoughts/Overall:
What the hell do I even say anymore? Sword For Truth is the definition of a bad 90s OVA, there's quite literally, nothing positive to be said about this anime. Everything fails here, it's pretty blatantly obvious that there was 0 effort put into this work. I can almost guarantee the people behind this realized how bad what they were working on actually was, so they tried making it as bad as possible so that nobody would want to buy it. Is this anime at least enjoyable? HELL NO! At least something like Dark Cat or Mad Bull 34 can bring some entertainment to how ridiculously stupid & over-the-top they are, at least Mad Bull actually has halfway decent music attached to it. Sword For Truth has nothing, with everything said, my final rating is going to be a 1/10, there's absolutely no reason as to why you should torture yourself with this thing like I did. If you want some actually "So bad its good" OVAs, I already mentioned Dark Cat & Mad Bull. But Angel Cop is also pretty stellar with its poor quality. Panzer Dragoon & Garzey's Wing also come recommended.
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