Ban's past hits different when you see what he was before the sins made him human. The short stories do what the main series never quite manages: they let you sit with these characters in moments that don't need saving the world. For fans who already love this cast, these OVAs are the permission slip to remember why.
Two OVA episodes came packaged with the limited editions of the manga's fifteenth and sixteenth volumes. The first puts Ban, the Sin of Greed, at the center and shows a portion of his past. The second is an anthology of nine brief tales starring the main cast, with titles including Teach Me Captain!, Diane and Ban, Gilthunder's Truth and Partner. Both are extras for an action fantasy adventure, and they add side material to characters that manga readers already know.
