IS: Infinite Stratos 2 - World Purge-hen

While Ichika Orimura departs to visit Kuramochi Engineering's laboratories, an unidentified enemy hacks into IS Academy's core and cripples its systems. To fend off the attack and repair the damage, his older sister Chifuyu enlists Ichika's harem: Houki Shinonono, Cecilia Alcott, Huang Lingyin, Laura Bodewig, and Charlotte Dunois. Together, they utilize virtual reality to confront their opponents in IS Academy's network.

Unbeknownst to the girls, a piece of malware named "World Purge" is activated when they enter the digital realm. The program forces them into fabricated realities, where they each experience an ideal romantic version of their bond with Ichika. Once Ichika returns to IS Academy, it is up to him to rescue the five girls and wake them from this virtual reality.

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Dunois, Charlotte Main

Hanazawa, Kana Japanese

Bodewig, Laura Main

Inoue, Marina Japanese

Shinonono, Houki Main

Hikasa, Youko Japanese

Sarashiki, Tatenashi Main

Saitou, Chiwa Japanese

Orimura, Ichika Main

Uchiyama, Kouki Japanese

Alcott, Cecilia Main

Yukana Japanese

Huang, Lingyin Main

Shimoda, Asami Japanese

Sarashiki, Kanzashi Main

Mimori, Suzuko Japanese

Orimura, Chifuyu Supporting

Toyoguchi, Megumi Japanese

Shinonono, Tabane Supporting

Tamura, Yukari Japanese

Iwasaki, Atsushi Producer

Ishizuka, Masatoshi Producer

Sakurai, Yuuka Producer

Tosaka, Shin Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

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Jul 11, 2017

Tyrannicswine117

Recommended

Warning possible Spoilers

What I really got from this is that it just felt like a need to really show off how sexy the girls in Ichika's harem can be and how it does that is by literally going into their minds.

When a program called World Purge affects the academy the girls have to go into a machine to shut it down however this requires the girls to conquer their ultimate desire.
For something that was only 44 minutes I thought it provided some entertainment even though it's mainly fanservice entertainment it was fine nonetheless.
I thought it was fun seeing how the girls imagined Ichika in their ... own way and I thought it was funny how Ichika spoke in the native language of each of the girls like with Laura he was German or with Cecillia he was British.
Despite the fanservice parts there was another battle going on outside and even though we don't get to see the reason behind the attack on the Academy we do get to see pretty good action.
The ending too gave me chills too since it was setting up for a season 3 that may never happen, but if it does it'll definitely be interesting.

There isn't really any character development between the character's other than what their ultimate desires are, however I have to give Josh Grelle credit for trying to make the girls version's of Ichika sound like he's from their country, we also get to see Chifuyu kick some ass for once which just increased her badass level for me althought other than that there really wasn't much difference with the characters overall.

When it comes to the artstyle I did like Chifuyu's suit even though it wasn't an IS unit it was still pretty badass and the settings where the girls illusions were despite looking like sexy encounter places they looked pretty detailed.

The fanservice was off the scale this time and is pretty much the reason why this exists, but I didn't hate it in fact it was pretty good it definitely made some of the girls more sexy or cute like Laura in nothing but an apron or Cecillia getting washed in a bath, it was certainly a good site to see.

Overall this was alright for an OVA, the only thing that really peeked for me was the ending that may have shown a possibility of a season 3 which I hope will happen cause considering what happened at the end it's got me pretty interested for the next chapter in this story.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Nov 29, 2014

Macho

Recommended

Review of IS: Infinite Stratos 2 - World Purge-hen

This OVA is at least 50mins long and it is about 1.87 GB to download to watch with HD quality.
First of all, you should realize OVAs can do anything 'crazy' off topic from the original Infinite Stratos story. ( Crazy I mean well, obviously ecchi stuff and unbelievable things.) To me, IS: Purge hen is more for enternainment AND no connection whatsoever with IS since the second season of IS.

Story: 5 - I give it a five because there's no focus in the story, keeps changing stories due to the number of heroines ... in the IS.

Art: 10 - If this OVA deserves an outstanding ten, that means it had the same art as the last IS series. No problems at all! Enjoyable and no need to squint your eyes because such as "man this scene's art is done poorly" situation won't ever show up!

Sound: 9 - Yeah, it's similar to the last series of the IS. Nothing was bothersome.

Character: 8 - Some characters were well made and some characters weren't so good.

Enjoyment: 7 - I know that this is a 'Harem and ecchi' genre anime, but as an entertainment, it reveals too much ecchi and unnecessary scenes. Unnecessary scenes such as showing underwears of a girl casually like it's so natural. For some people, they enjoy those pantyshots and fan service scenes.

Overall: 8 - OVERALL, this OVA still deserves an 8 for being made just for an entertainment purpose of others. If it's an OVA, making people who watch feels comfortable comes in first. This review is my opinion of the OVA, no need to say "No, you are wrong or right". Take your time watching the OVA.

Thanks for reading.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Nov 14, 2021

HeroVladimir93

Mixed Feelings

Infinite Stratos, what happened to you? You used to be filled to the brim with potential for a great story with interesting characters and now, you end up doing this? Whatever. Let's just get this over with.

There are spoilers, but come on, do you really care?

Story
Ichika has to go to a special facility to get his IS unit checked out while the girls enter some sort of virtual world to counter a cyber-attack into the IS Academy's network (trust me, I'm just as confused as you are). Meanwhile, the girls that don't enter the cyber-world have to confront a military group that attacks the academy, ... again for ill-defined reasons (doesn't this count as an act of war or something?).

Something that really annoyed me from Infinite Stratos 2 is that the story played awfully, awfully, awfully coy with its long-running plotlines and World Purge continues that trend by not bothering to explaining what the fuck is going and instead indulges in more harem antics. Yes, the girls use the virtual world to live out the personal fantasies with Ichika. I thought this was gonna be one of those stories where the girls had to choose between fantasy and reality because that would give the story and the characters some degree of pathos, but instead Ichika has to save them all on his own. Never, not even once, do the girls wonder if this is all good to be true. Common sense is thrown away for the sake of harem antics and that's just sad. (3/10).

Characters
No matter how generic and rudimentary a story is, it can always be elevated by how much you connect and relate to the characters, but unfortunately, World Purge forgets that and doesn't bother trying to get us to make the characters relatable. Yes, the harem antics are fun at first glance, but then you realize they are fake and they don't really teach you anything new about the characters, only that they're in love with Ichika.

The worst part I can say about World Purge is that the characters were painfully reactive this whole time. Nothing they do actually changes the course of events and when the story ends, the antagonist (wait, is Chloe an antagonist?) has already gained what she wanted, so the protagonists and the viewers are left wondering what the fuck what that all about. (4/10)

Art
One thing I can't fault World Purge about is the aesthetic values. The budget of the story really went into the fanservice and the action scenes, but they don't do much elevate the story. The action scenes involve secondary characters and the fanservice is distracting and doesn't compliment the story (other than showing that the girls are really into Ichika). (7/10).

Sounds
God bless the brave voice actors that partook in this steaming pile of garbage. Infinite Stratos doesn't deserve them. (8/10)

Conclusion
Infinite Stratos continues its downward spiral into mediocrity and obscurity with a story that didn't really add anything new to the grand scheme of things and when it does add something new, it's something obscure that will probably never be explained because we have no idea when season 3 will reach us. I'm telling you, Infinite Stratos is really showing its age in a time when anime is pushing boundaries of what the harem genre is really capable of. (5/10).

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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