I’d been making fun of Venus Versus Virus for a little bit, so I felt compelled to put it in my Netflix queue. VVV is the story of Sumire and Lucia who fight viruses (demon type things), but Sumire has an uncontrollable power that could cause her to turn on her mentor, Lucia.
From watching the first volume (eps 1-4), Venus Versus Virus doesn’t seem bad enough to be good and not good enough to be good either. Maybe if they actually animated the action scenes it would have been more interesting. Instead of seeing someone knock a weapon away and tackle their opponent to the ground, we hear a generic sound effect, cut to the weapon flying in the air and then we cut back to the person already tackled. Even in the first episode, it’s full of animation shortcuts.
In the absence of a really engaging story or slick animation, as a poor substitute I would have taken some occasional fan service, but there’s absolutely none. In a few scenes physics should have dictated undergarment exposure, but no nothing. Oh wait, there was Lucia pulling a knife from her garter in the first thirty seconds and two cases of handgun stroking, but after that none. I actually appreciate that there is almost no fan service, but without any real action on the screen or in my mind, I’m sort of looking for fan service just to get some eye candy.
So VVV hasn’t got a worthwhile story or characters, nearly no action on screen, and no cheap fan service, yet somehow I managed to watch all four episodes on the disc. Was it Lucia’s eye-patch?
It does go by pretty quick, so it might not be as bad as I made it sound (though it probably is). I usually finish a short show like this once started, so I’ll probably wind up watching the rest of Venus Versus Virus. There’s a couple of ways I can see it go. Who knows, it might get better (not counting on it) and at the very least it doesn’t annoy me.
I must admit, it wasn’t too good, but the possibility of delicious yuri kept me watching until the 6th or 8th episode (I think). After that, interest just dwindled away.
Is there a yuri angle? If there is, I’ve noticed I unconsciously do things in groups. The other dvd I got from Netflix over the weekend was Simoun.
VVV is only go for the artist that are going to make and sell VVV yuri doujinshi at comiket.
It was definitely the character design and the eye-patch that got my attention on this show – but like yourself I found it seriously lacking beyond the character design.
Yeah, I kind of had mixed feeling about this one myself. It’s just too much like anything else in the same genre. I do like the whole beserker angle, but other than it, it’s eh.
Yeah, I could see this as doujin bait for sure.
The too much like everything in the genre angle I think made it quick to watch though.
The fact that Sumire was voiced by Chihara Minori kept me watching… till the 4th episode or somewhere there. Will continue it if I have the time do to so.
VVV was slow to start. actually IT SUCKED TO START TO THE POINT WHERE HALF THE WORLD REFUSED TO WATCH IT AFTER EP 3. but thats just an exxageration. it only started to pick up around episode 7 or so and the last few episodes were so epically awsome i watched it all in one go. that was only te last few eps though, when the REAL plot/complication/wahtever the exciting part is called, was revealed. it onyl gets real exciting and epic and jampacked in the last 4-5 eps. which is a pity because alot of peopel dropped it wen it first started out and i cant blame them for that XD but VVV is worthwhile.
Okay, so I won’t banish VVV to the bottom of my Netflix queue then. I did plan on finishing it, but least I know there is a story there, somewhere.
I thought this was a yuri show….. no fanservice? Strange….