Sol Bianca Review

Post number 4 and were going classic anime with OVA Sol Bianca.

Sol Bianca is a ship crewed by a team of five female space pirates as they go through the universe plundering what they can find, our ragtag band of individuals are as follows.
April: The main fighter of the group, she acts as the stereotypical male space hero even though she’s clearly female, she also acts as captain when the regular captain is too drunk to be useful.
Feb: The captain and a master tactician and more than a little bit of an alcoholic.
Janny: The butch muscle of the group complete with temper to match.
June: The hacker who is also whiney and a little bitchy.
May: The chief half pint engineer who is often seen piloting a small mecha as well as act as the quote on quote youngest team member with the personality to match.
Now we’ve met our crew all named after months out of pure laziness so what happens?
Well this OVA is only two episodes long so don’t expect it to be ground breaking, the first episode starts with a boy smuggling himself onboard of the Sol Bianca who wants to go to a planet called Tres who is caught in a revolution against the Planet Uno. The second episode the crew steal a large supply of a special mineral apparently worth more than some planets but get caught up by a competent band of bandits who successfully hack the ship and try and get the minerals back. There’s also a subplot about June not being completely human but the anime ends in a way that there is meant to be more episodes but nothing happens because of cancellation.
Sol Bianca had potential and the remake Sol Bianca: The Legacy shows that it wasn’t a total failure but this OVA as a standalone is dull and lazily written with nothing stringing together the plot or anything that really tells the audience what’s going on, I will get to the remake at some point but based on what I’ve seen so far, it might be a bit of a far cry to expect too many changes. At least the art direction and music is good.
There is a dub but the copy I watched didn’t have it packaged with it, which is a shame because some of the actors chosen for the characters looked really promising and may have salvaged a bit more from this anime.
Final Verdict: Lazily written and quite dull, I even fell asleep during episode 2. I have higher hopes for Sol Bianca: The Legacy but at the moment I can’t really give this anime a passing grade.

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