Me being me I love seeking out watching really awful anime OVAs. With me also liking to write reviews on these said atrocities on occasion I have come across some real stinkers such as Dark Cat Sword For Truth Kennel Tokorozawa Kite to name a few. Kimera just so happens to be another victim about to face my wrath. Im kinda hoping this will be somewhat bearable but well find out I guess. Story: 1/10 The story is completely incomprehensible. The plot is supposed to be about this guy named Osamu finding the titular character protecting her I think? The only thing we really know about Kimera is that its a guy that looks like a girl though its rather confusing at first. Because Kimera looks exactly like a woman it isnt until we see a shot of his chest that we realize it isnt a girl instead a guy. Basically nothing happens until like the last 15 minutes of the movie. Where the main villain whose name I forget because the villain is just that forgettable. The villain goes on about some betrayal nonsense that ultimately doesnt matter because it isnt mentioned before these events it isnt explored it sure as shit isnt brought up after the villain dies. Osamu saves Kimera from dying he drives off into the sunset with ultimately nothing being resolved me having barely any idea of what happened during the OVA still having barely any idea whilst reflecting upon it. There are two big issues with this plot the story is both uneventful incomprehensible. Barely anything of note happens during this OVA. Theres what? A rape scene that lasts all of 5 seconds the OVA acts as if it didnt happen once its over? A tedious exposition scene about this betrayal that isnt brought up beforehand isnt explored upon? Honestly this OVA is so uneventful. At least in something like Garzeys Wing or Shoujo Tsubaki there was stuff happening. Oh yeah so two more things before I go on about the characters. Osamu his coworker Jay are supposed to be cereal salesman yet we never see them doing anything of the sort infact the bulk of their working environment takes place in a laboratory ya know a place youd go if you wanna sell cereal to people. Osamus motivations for why he wants to save Kimera are also nonexistent. He just sees her falls in love because? I dont get it. I know somebody is probably gonna reply but you dont need a reason to love something. Heres my thing I dont think you need a deep reason to love something. It can be because she has a mouth I would buy it. Just give me something please. Lets take Neon Genesis Evangelion as an example. Now my memory is a bit hazy on this specific detail. But if I remember right Hikari stated that she likes Toji because hes a nice guy. I could possibly be wrong about that but my point is she has a reason however shallow it may be to like Toji I completely understand her motivations/reasons. Osamu on the other hand has nothing seeing as I like neither him or Kimera I cant get behind either of them. Characters: 1/10 I honestly dont have much to say about any of the characters because they themselves dont have much to say or contribute to the narrative. Osamu is the main character. His partner Jay is the more rational of the two. Kimera is the title character who barely speaks sucks people dry. The villain whose name I cant remember is evil. The characters are nothing beyond the 1st dimension its absolutely pathetic. While the characters in Shoujo Tsubaki were also nothing beyond the 1st dimension. They at least had something going on with them make them memorable. Art: 4/10 Ill be honest. The art isnt the worst thing out there. Environments can actually look halfway decent at times. The tentacle monsters are somewhat ominous the color design at least looks better than Shoujo Tsubaki. The character art when its on model can actually look like there was some effort put into it. The problem is the character art is almost never on model so the character art looks bad in most instances. The dog at the beginning of this movie is one of the worst looking dogs Ive ever seen in any anime. If theres even some slight credit I can give to Kimera. Its the art. Ill give it to the character designer of Kite hes consistent. His art can be good but theres always a blemish somewhere in between the cracks Sound: 2/10 The voice acting isnt the worst thing Ive ever heard. I wouldnt call it good. But its halfway acceptable I guess. They rarely emote range certainly isnt apart of the vocabulary on any of these individuals. Though Ill chock that up to poor voice directing the fact that theyre working on Kimera so its not like itd do them any good to actually try in the first place. The sound mixing isnt particularly great. It can be difficult to hear sound effects a lot of the time taking a note from Kings Game the sound effects barely leave an impact because theres seemingly a delay to the connection point. The audio quality is really bad muffled staticy its not good audio quality. This came out in 1996 by the way. I know this is a low budget OVA but I at least expect the sound quality to be halfway acceptable. The music is practically nonexistent Overall: 1/10 While there may be some silver lining in there this is honestly one of the worst pieces of shit Ive ever seen. With its incomprehensible narrative with underwritten characters a plot that really makes no sense once you actually start to think about. Plot points that arent explored. Plot points that get brought up out of nowhere. Awful structuring flat directing decent character art when its on model. I was bored out of my mind watching this when I wasnt bored I was angry at the fact that I was watching Kimera. On the offensoscale Id probably give this like a 7 or an 8. Its above Dark Cat Sword For Truth tied with MD Geist but below Cipher. It isnt the worst OVA Ive ever seen but it comes pretty damn close honestly. My final rating for this one is going to be a 1/10