High School Jingi (original) (raw)

Story: 5/10
Are you familiar with the premise if the Anime/Manga Great Teacher Onizuka? This is basically the same thing, only written about half a decade earlier, only focusing less on the personal problems of the students and more about the troublemakers.
Or so it seems, as the plot basically gets abandoned for a more traditional Yakuza plot in the second half of the OVA. Both halves are good enough, but could have been both improved on.

Art: 6/10
High School Jingi is animated in a typical late 80s/Early 90s artstyle, but borrowing from several other styles such as one reminiscent of Leiji Matsumoto's in one scene for... example. The character designs are also blocky and simple. I think it's quite charming, despite looking way cheaper than the average production. Unfortunately, the female characters look kinda horrible from a regular distance, due to poorly drawn noses.

Sound: 6/10
The soundtrack is a contemporary synthpop influenced one, which in my opinion makes it automatically good until proven otherwise. Nevertheless it's quite standard. Unfortunately, the Ending theme is quite a mediocre song.

Characters: 7/10
The main character of this OVA is basically Eikichi Onizuka, but with nicer yet simultaneously way scarier and sleazier, while pulling combat moves straight out of the Ryu Ga Gotoku video games. Nevertheless, he's a fun main character. The secondary characters matter little.

Enjoyment: 7/10
It's quite a fun way to spend 50 minutes with some mindless fun. Its funny, it's charming and surprisingly less perverted than could be deducted from one of the first scenes. I quite liked it.

Overall: 6,5/10
I liked it, though it's probably not the best anime.