This thing moves like a fever dream powered by genuine religious conviction and 80s key-frame animation that has no idea how funny it looks. Takeru's quest for the Sacred Treasures plays it completely straight while the Chimimouryou designs and combat choreography orbit somewhere between earnest mythology and unhinged camp. You're watching something that predates irony, made by people who believed entirely in what they were building, and that sincerity is the only thing keeping you watching through five episodes of beautiful, baffling nonsense.

Takeru Aoyama, a young man, carries on his quest to find the Three Sacred Treasures, which he seeks in order to save humanity. Along the way he faces the Chimimouryou, evil spirits of the mountains and rivers drawn from the creatures of Japanese myth, and meets them with courage. The five-episode OVA mixes action, adventure and fantasy.