![]() You know...I can't say that I've ever watched an anime series that could take something that ordinarily would be kind of interesting and unusual...and manage to turn it into something boring, ordinary, and completely inconsequential...that was until I watched To Heart. This is basically the type of anime series they might show to the unstable crazies in the insane asylum. It's the elevator music of anime. The prosac of anime. Every character is completely devoid of any real personality and nothing actually ever happens. Imagine if they made an anime series out of your boring everyday life...but then somehow managed to make it even MORE uneventful on top of it all! Static, one dimensional characters, no real conflict at all, no real point to ANYTHING that even happens. Here, let me sum it up real quick: There's this girl named Akari (whose hair is an obvious rip off of Kiki) whose in love with this guy she's known since she was a kid. That guys name is Hiroyuki...he's like bored with life, wants to sleep all the time and throughout the series you wonder why he doesn't just kill himself off considering he seems to take no pleasure in pretty much EVERYTHING he does or tries to do. Akari spends the entire series lusting after him, the high point is when her friend Shiho learns that Akari is in love with him so she backs off (cause she also has feelings for the guy) Hiroyuki spends the entire series surrounded by gorgeous girls, but apparently he's gay or stupid cause he never even gets to first base with ANY of them...and that's pretty much it. Fuck, I knew LOSERS in high school that got more action! Here and there Hiroyuki also inadvertently winds up helping some other pretty girls out and builds up his harem of lovely anime girls with funky colored hair...not that it really matters. Oooo, I like that, THAT should be the theme for To Heart: "...not that it really matters." Or we could really take it to the limit and sum it all up in just one gesture: *shrugs* I swear, every character in this series is strung out on Ritalin. Here's my impression of Akari talkin to Shiho: Akari: "Yeah, I'm deeply in love with Hiroyuki, I can't imagine anyone in the world I want to spend the rest of my life with, I feel that we're practically soul mates...oh but if you're in love with him and wanna get with him that's really okay, I won't mind at all, I'll just be without true love for the rest of my life, it's no big deal cause my mom started doubling my daily dosage of Ritalin and nothing in the world bothers me at all, let's all go to a Kenny G concert!" o_O |
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