The depth it tried to cram into that short amount of time is too close to biting off more than it can chew – this sort of stylistic directing works in an actual VN where players have all the time in the world to absorb and digest, but it’s a little more difficult to reconcile the same effect in animated form.

Unfortunately, while it’s definitely an improvement, this is an OVA with a mere eleven minutes to its credit.

The OVA at the very least feels like it has a grasp on the direction it wants to head – the Christmas metaphors and “intellectual” dialogue it throws around feel like they have a meaning that might actually culminate in something. I won’t say it succeeded entirely, but the atmosphere and mood it sets is on a different level than the uneven tone and strange dramatics of GC the series. Lost Christmas is still flashy, but its tone is a lot more serious and there is an almost pseudo-philosophical air that pervades the dialogue, which tries to provoke some deep thoughts regarding the state of the world. The original Guilty Crown was all about the heavy-handed, flashy sequences, with little to no subtlety in the way events were carried out. One characteristic feature in the auditory department of the OVA that differentiates it from its predecessor however, is the classical pieces that play throughout the episode, which add a more somber and ironic atmosphere that wasn’t present in the original series.

The soundtrack is all from the original Guilty Crown, only tracks like Bios actually sound a lot more epic here than it ever did anywhere else. exercises their usual stylish flair here, and the animation quality is what one would expect from them at this point – good, flashy, entertaining. The bulk of the content in terms of the “plot” are in the trailers instead, and frankly, Lost Christmas is what the original should have been. The short is essentially an extended teaser to the VN Guilty Crown: Lost Christmas by Nitro+, and hence explains very little about the premise. Well, just in case anyone was about to forget about it, Guilty Crown returns with this 11-minute OVA after a season and a half after its finale.

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