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Main Title Canaria (a744)
Official Title ja
Type OVA
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Season Spring 2002
Tags erotic gameAn erotic game (eroge) is a Japanese video or computer game that features erotic content, usually in the form of anime-style artwork. In English, eroge are often called hentai games in keeping with the English slang definition of hentai. This is sometimes shortened to H games. In Japan, eroge are also referred to as 18+ games. Most erotic games are visual novels or dating sims but are not limited to them., gameBased on an interactive (even if minimally so) form of entertainment software, generally available for PCs, consoles or arcade machines., high schoolA secondary school that usually contains grades 10 through 12 in Japan, or 9 through 12 in America., musicMusic anime generally revolves around people concerned with music in their everyday lives. In addition they often adhere to certain genre conventions, the emphasis on training and practice in preparation for competitions, characters desire for self improvement, and pursuit of a specific goal. This is not unlike the Sports category., musical bandA musical ensemble also known as a music(al) group or music(al) band is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music, typically known by a distinct name., school clubsEven though school clubs in Japan are not mandatory, there is some pressure from the social grid (e.g. fellow students, teachers) to participate in some kind of after-school activity, be it in sports or arts. Colleges also have clubs. There is the element of social commentary, making it clear that you have to join a club. Since self-founded clubs need at least 3 members, the desperate search and advertising for new members can be cause for hilarity in anime., school lifeSince a large part of the anime audience still takes part in school life or is visiting college, it is only natural to choose a setting the audience can identify with, be it elementary, middle, or high school. For the older viewers a college setting with more mature real-life problems is appropriate. And since clubs take up so much time in the lives of students, these are obviously also important., seinenSeinen, literally "young man", is one of the main demographic classifications applied to manga, and, by extension, to anime, especially manga-based ones. As the name implies, seinen works are marketed primarily to an audience of young men; the age range commonly understood to be the target of such works goes roughly from 17 to somewhere in the 40s., visual novelThe two terms are similar yet different, however, the fact that they look and `feel` the same outweighs the technical differences. For clarification, visual novels are considered a sub-genre of adventure games and the term does not cover simulations. - [similar]
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Rating 1.93 (352)
Average 4.58 (355)
Review Rating 4.33 (1)
Added by hidden on 2003-05-11 00:52
Edited by hidden on 2023-04-07 14:22
Main Title Canaria (a744)
Official Title ja
Synonym Canary
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Yukino Satsuki as Chigasaki Megumi
Saitou Chiwa as Hoshino Mai
Koorogi Satomi as Hozumi Eri
Kanai Mika as Katagiri Mika
Mannaka Yukiko as Saeki Ayana
Sumitomo Yuuko as Shinjou Chiaki
Nishihara Kumiko as Yahagi Sena

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Original Work: Front Wing
Direction: Motonaga Keitarou
Character Design: Tanaka Ryou
Animation Work: Soeishinsha
* Based on an erotic game by Front Wing / NEC inter-channel / HuneX in 2001.

Mika wants her band to perform at the upcoming festival. However, her keyboard player quits and the mayor threatens to take their stage away! Will she be able to fix things before the festival starts?

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1.93 (352)
#7926 (#203)
#6465 (#165)

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Running Time

approx. 25m

Completed

519 (54.3%)

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434 (45.4%)

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Rating: 4.33
Approval: 79.3% (4 votes)
Animation:
To start off, we need to keep in mind that this OVA isn't realy recent nor old. the 'age' of this OVA will be verry noticable in the color-palet. There is verry little variation in the colors and allmost the complete OVA episode lacks variation. You just cant feel any 'life' in the pictures. One of the somewhat positive points when looking at the artwork done by the artists are the backgrounds and the outdoor locations. Those 2 things are of decent quality compaired to the rest of the OVA (However you will have to keep in mind that the quality of the video could alter the quality of these 2 factors).
As for the characters, they can perform actions in this OVA that are totaly unbelievable (i never saw 2 persons on 1 bycicle being able to catch up with a car that rides at normal trafic speed). Several scenes in well look totaly unbelievable, even for an OVA that has a partialy humoristic setting. In the end this OVA is still aimed to be one with an outcome that is serious and not humoristic. The scenes that i'm talking about will be verry obvious from the start and will occure often in this OVA.

Sound:
The sound is maybe one of the only decent points (maybe for some of you even a good point) in this OVA. The opening and ending songs aren'ty realy good but aren't bad eather. I see them as a good choise for this OVA since they give the title a meaning. These 2 songs (opening and ending) will only be good for you if you like some decent rock music mixed with a repetitive song (the songs would have been much better if the music was played different and softer).
The sound effects are a good chois to part with the humoristic scenes of this OVA, but the rest of the effects aren't exacly a good chois to conbine with the scenes. The melodies that you will hear in the episode itself can be placed in the same category as the opening and ending songs (+ you should not expect a lot of variation in this episode)
The voise acting was realy bad for some charactes while surprisingly good for others. Some of the charactes will have a childish voise while others will have a voise that fits their personality perfecly.

Story:
Well i'll keep the stroy short since i did not realy likeit and since it was short (1 OVA episode long) The story is about a group of students performing in a music band. They play a variation of Rock music in my opinion. The OVA will start as 1 of the members leaves the group. The female lead character will be verry unhappy about this since they wont be able to play the best song they have anymore (song title: Canary). The rest of the group decides to find a solution to their problem, but since they aren't verry luck their show new show was canceled by the city autorities. So basicly they will have to solve all their problems in a limited time to be able to perform on stage in a couple of days.

Character:
You'll probably understand that there won't be a big oportunity to lurn about the characters. None of the characters has a background. The story just starts introducing each character one after an other, but whitout any background information. There will be a small range of different personalities: from Extreamly serious to the 'i don't care at all'-personality. Even if the amount of characters is limited, you will be sure to see a wide range of personalities. However that is the only positive point when looking at the character. All aditional info delivered on the charactes seems uncompleted and so the characters don't look realistic at all.

Value:
This OVA doesn't bring anything new to the genre. The somewhat strange music and songs may verywell be the original, never-seen-befor (at least for the tie it was first released) feature. 1 episode is just too short to come up with a good OVA. The story even has a strange ending, that could sugest that the OVA wasn't completely finished and that more episodes should have followed.

Enjoyment:
Well it is obvious from the score i gave that i didn't enjoy it at all. I will probably never look at this episode again since it has no real value. If in the future more episodes were released to complete the story a bit and built up the character backgroun, i would probably reconcider watching it again. But as long as it stays at this one episode it would be a wast of time to look at it again. Those of you that like to listen to some original music themes may like this OVA a bit (but don't be surprised, since only the opening and ending songs are relatively good. you wont find any other good OST for this OVA!). So there is a small chance that you may lick one or an other aspec from this OVA, but at its current stage of 1 episode you will surely not like all aspects of it.

So you should be prepaired to face disapointment when getting this OVA!



One last conclusion could be that it is strange to see an OVA (which mostly have a higher budjet that multi-episode Animes) that is of sutch poor quality. It just looks too much like an unfinished OVA (the date mentions: 2002 (?)). I personaly think that i wasted my time getting and watching this OAV. I wanted to make this clear by writing this relatively long review (at least i think it is relatively long).
Now if you think i'm mistaking about it, i sugest you get this one episode, watch at it and review it in a more positive way as i did (at least if YOU liked it). But i honestly think that about 95% of the people that watched this OVA will agree with me that it has low value and enjoyability.
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· · stereotypesThis show presents stereotypes, which are generalizations about a group of people. Examples would be saying that people from a certain country or with a certain hair color are stupid. If the show deals with comedy, the stereotypes are likely to be played on for laughs; if the show is a parody, the stereotypes will be exaggerated to have their flaws exposed and may be used as a form of social commentary. ***
· comedyAnime whose central struggle causes hilarious results. These stories are built upon funny characters, situations and events. A comedy anime is laced with humour and sets out to provoke laughter from the audience. Japanese humour can be a bit strange to westerners, so if you`re new to this type of humour, just bear with it; it`ll most likely grow on you if you`re a fan of other kinds of comedy.
· · slapstickSlapstick humour is generally recognized by lots of physical abuse, horseplay and practical jokes. Also often seen are impossible situations, using sounds to illustrate impossible stunts that aren`t shown on-screen and to create tension for audience anticipation. **
· ecchiEcchi, or etchi (エッチ), is a common Japanese word meaning "indecent", "lewd", "frisky" or "sexy"; its usage can be compared to the English word "naughty". Among western anime fans, the term is used when vague sexual content, such as skimpy clothing or nudity, is prominent. In Japanese, however, it is a catch-all term for all things anyhow sexual in nature, mild or otherwise.
· · pantsu"Panties" in Japanese. Upskirt views in various positions are typical, however all forms of partial or fully exposed panties are accepted. Exposure is usually accidental, but may also be deliberate. Pantsu views may be exclusive to the viewer without impacting any characters. Bikinis are not pantsu. *
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· · erotic gameAn erotic game (eroge) is a Japanese video or computer game that features erotic content, usually in the form of anime-style artwork. In English, eroge are often called hentai games in keeping with the English slang definition of hentai. This is sometimes shortened to H games. In Japan, eroge are also referred to as 18+ games. Most erotic games are visual novels or dating sims but are not limited to them. weightless
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· · school clubsEven though school clubs in Japan are not mandatory, there is some pressure from the social grid (e.g. fellow students, teachers) to participate in some kind of after-school activity, be it in sports or arts. Colleges also have clubs. There is the element of social commentary, making it clear that you have to join a club. Since self-founded clubs need at least 3 members, the desperate search and advertising for new members can be cause for hilarity in anime. **
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· · musicMusic anime generally revolves around people concerned with music in their everyday lives. In addition they often adhere to certain genre conventions, the emphasis on training and practice in preparation for competitions, characters desire for self improvement, and pursuit of a specific goal. This is not unlike the Sports category. **
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Katagiri Mika
episode appearance appears in ep: 1
female, bloodtype: AB
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Last Update Name State N Episodes HE SP Languages Source Rating Cmts
11.10.2022 sorcery complete
1 0 ja en DVD N/A (0) 0
16.05.2022 MPRaws complete
1 0 ja DVD N/A (0) 0
14.11.2011 -SeT- complete
1 0 ja fr DVD N/A (0) 0
20.06.2010 inactive complete
1 0 en unknown N/A (0) 0
07.02.2004 FORCE complete
1 0 ja en DVD 2.84 (9) 0
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EP Title Duration Air Date Action
25m 22.03.2002