Set during the early 1800s the early years of the United States of America Early Reins takes place entirely on a train en route to Sunshine Hill shortly before it gets hijacked by robbers. While the soldiers onboard are caught unawares the tables are turned as several women on board manage to stand up to the robbers and fight back. The heroine of this story Margaret Hart a young woman determined to become a sheriff but lacks experience. Early Reins is one of the rare anime that is a regular straight up western. Normally when an anime takes influence from westerns its usually just the visual and tonal motifs incorporated along side another genre such as with Cowboy Bebop Trigun Gun X Sword El Cazador de la Bruja and Coyote Ragtime Show. But with Early Reins its actually set in the actual wild west and its pretty refreshing to see this genre played straight in anime form. In my research for this review there does seem to be a few other western themed anime and manga along with the odd Japanese developed video game such as Wild ARMs but it seems to be far and few between. Which is a shame because there is such an untapped market for western themed manga and anime. Unfortunately there isnt much to say about it outside of its basic plot synopsis and to point out that its one of the few anime that plays it straight as a western. And since its only 40 minutes long theres not really room for much plot or character development along with not much to talk about with outright spoiling a lot of it. I know that it seems like my review isnt exactly all that complimentary towards Early Reins but I actually really like this short OVA and I wish there was a few more episodes. Sure its a bit cliched but it had a certain charm to it that a lot of anime doesnt. It would have been neat to see our main characters as they went about their daily lives in an old timey western town with each episode featuring a new conflict for our main characters to deal with. It wouldnt even had to have a ton of episodes maybe 46 episodes in total. But I can only talk about what is available and what is available is a one episode OVA thats just OK which is a shame.