Post 24 returns to my roots as we look at Mask of Zeguy.

You have to understand that back in the 90s it was customary to get anime that was either a little crap or really crap on VHS, further exemplified when you consider that what I used to watch in the early days is exactly the same as pretty much 90% of Youtube Reviewer Bennett the Sage's portfolio, if you don't know who he is then to sum up quickly he's part of a group of reviewers on Channel Awesome consisiting of Nostalgia Critic and Angry Video Game Nerd among others. In short, I'm old and this is what we had to put up with in the early 90s.
Mask of Zeguy is an OVA about time travelling/universe jumping historical figures who try and stop a powerful mask falling into the hands of the deity Himiko who wants to open these mystical gates to control the world but also needs a preistess to complete the ceremony, by chance a regular school girl named Miki is transported to the alternate world in the clouds by accident, Miki's friend gets kidnapped by monsters and is mistaken for the legendary preistess. Miki lost in this alternative world stumbles across a flying machine piloted by our two heroes.
Our warriors on the good side are Hiraga Gennai and Hijikata Toshizo along with a mystic cat and on the evil side working for Himiko but argubly in it for themselves are Zhuge Liang (Named Koumei as that's his Japanese name) and Leonardo Da Vinci who looks closer to an oversized dwarf.
The heroes must stop Himiko from opening the gates while preventing Miki from getting captured.
Okay the premise shows a lot of promise and you could argue that elements of this OVA helped the likes of Read or Die and Inuyasha that have many of it's plot elements however the story in this is confusing at best and at worst downright tedious and incredibly rushed. There is a lot of dialogue and fair play to Tristan Goddard's performance as Gennai in the dub who really took such a mess of a story and made it somewhat understandable but it doesn't stop it from being confusing nor does it really give a clear motivation for the side villains who never really do much once their scenes are over, Himiko is a pretty stupid villain who doesn't catch on the first time that the girl she kidnapped is not the priestess she needs, Toshizo is on the stupid man hero scale who thinks women shouldn't be on the battlefield, a statement that is both redundant and sexist while main character Miki spends the entire anime whining and asking a million questions while saying she's useful which basically confirms what Toshizo has been saying about not getting her involved.
Sigh...Gennai is the only one who actually has a good part otherwise the anime is just really bad, for an early dub it's not bad but doesn't really save it.
Final Verdict: Mask of Zeguy fails to take advantage of a premise that has enough going for it to be creative; it leaves some character motivations unforfilled, a climax that is rushed, a bitchy main character, a bland male hero type and a stupid villain. I'd skip this one.