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Pros:
1 - Great 3D rendering of mechas, guns, vehicles, and others.
2 - Lots of cool combat scenes, explosions, etc.
3 - Entertaining enough to watch when you're bored.
Cons: Everything else.
CHARACTERS Heavy Object has a duo of uninteresting, unlikable protagonists that have permanent jokester personalities. Most if not all other characters are equally uninteresting, to the point where I can't mention a single one that I have liked. On top of being uninteresting, they also have stupid names, such as "Sladder Honeysuckle" and "Prisewell City Slicker".
The anime also fails to properly develop them. There is near zero character development nor is any work done on their backgrounds.
A recurring trope is girls falling for one of the MC's, Qwenthur. But, honestly, he is such a bad charact…
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I don't know how many times I have re-watched this anime, from 2019 until now in 2024, it's probably countless.
But the anime is still good, and I really need it to change the atmosphere after many anime about romance or Isekai, especially I do like military-themed anime like this.
For the quality of Graphics, Characters, Voice Actors, Soundtracks, and others, I think this anime is perfect.
Especially the girls in this anime are made beautiful, so watching it doesn't make me bored.
The storyline is very good, it always makes me curious and wants to keep watching it, I watched from the first episode without realizing it was already episode 12 and after looking at the clock, it turned out that it was quite late at night, time for me to sleep.
I love watching it at night after work, lol!
In…
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Fun and underrated
If you watch expecting a big war anime you're gonna be disapointed, its good but not something that will change your life or make you fall in love with it
Overall, its good, animation are very well made and consistent, these big ass machines really look scary and mix well fantasy with something that could happen in real life
The characters are fun too, so thats good
Overall, its good as long as you're able to relax and enjoy some fun, trying to get a full on serious war anime out of this one will just make you mad and unable to enjoy the show
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Heavy Object is a story about these war machines called Objects and each has a pilot. However, the story doesn't focus on them. Instead it focuses on three other characters: a regular male soldier, a noble male soldier and their female commander. The commander, like every other female character besides an old woman, only exist because of fan service. Boobs, legs, asses. Everyone knows that's all an anime girl is for, right? As if this wasn't enough, there's loads of sexist remarks and jokes that I don't appreciate one bit. Even their own pilot is just fanservice.
Moving on, these 2 soldiers get so many focus on a story about massive war machines because the plot is like a David vs Goliath sort of thing. The idea is how can 2 meaningless teenagers put up a fight and actually defeat these…
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tl;dr: A mech anime with a flat but really fun cast that despite having a pretty serious plot is also really amusing throughout.
Heavy Object is a two cour adaptation of the first three volumes of a light novel series by Kamachi Kazuma with somewhat of a filler arc at the end. It is set in a world where wars are fought between giant mechs known as Objects that are each uniquely built with advanced weaponry. It’s very much a quality over quantity thing, wherein they are extremely expensive and thus only a few of them exist, but because of this they are so powerful that anything not at their level is considered comparatively useless and thus obsolete. Just the idea of mere foot soldier managing to defeat one was utterly absurd. But that is what Qwenthur Barbotage and his partner Havia Winch…
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Overview:
Ever heard of the phrase "one-trick pony"? If you haven't, then the best description is that it is a person or thing that can do one thing really well but is average at best in almost every other respect. This is a pretty good way to describe "Heavy Object", a military-mecha anime based on light novels written by "A Certain Magical Index" creator Kazuma Kamachi. In this case, its one trick is its "David vs. Goliath" battles, featuring mere foot soldiers taking down giant superweapons with nothing but brains and whatever tools they have at their disposal, allowing the series to be very entertaining in spite of itself.
Story (6/10):
In the not-too-distant future, war has changed. It has become far simpler, shorter and cleaner thanks to giant vehicles known as Objects. As a result…
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'Heavy Object' is... odd. After 24 episodes of it, I'm still not 100% sure I've got a decent grip on what this show is, but I'm going to do my best to find something coherent in this.
Conceptually, 'Heavy Object' is simple but reasonably unique. The basic concept of Objects, of these huge, indestructible war machines, provides an interesting take on mecha, that is, if nothing else, genuinely unique. The general premise of two soldiers using their skills as an engineer and an analyst to destroy these Objects, that supposedly can't be destroyed by anything other than another object, is cool. The show manages to find a balance between these feats involving plans that are creative and anything but repetitive, but manage to never feel pulled out of thin air; keep an eye on the little, seemingl…
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The story of the anime is somewhat fascinating, very similar to the mecha anime, "Aldnoah Zero" in that the main characters have to battle vastly superior mecha with no real powers of their own and don't have any abilities as special as super intellect like in aforementioned anime or Geass as in Code Geass.
This helps the originality of the story but unfortunately never builds to a real plot and just repeats, we also see lots of stupid enemies that grow a lot less and this makes the real antagonist in the story very week, also hurting character development as the antagonist changes.
The art is extremely good perhaps the real reason to watch. The lighting is accurate and fun, muzzle flashes and art form are good. Body art is not overdone.
The audio quality for several versions I've seen…
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One of the best mecha( if u call.object a mecha). In the middle of series it became a bit fast paced but I enjoyed the series nonetheless. Truly a hidden gem
And did I say there are nice ecchi scenes in first half, not like those baseless fanservice but truly nice ecchi.Never once I got bored and it kept me entertained throughout the show.
Good plot, nice characters, fantastic outmaneuver, some top notch ecchi scenes makes it among one of the best entertaining show I've ever watched
"Story goes like this in future wars using aircraft, nukes become obsolete as new machines called Object become future of war. So much OP r these objects that they r capable of tanking a nuke( Holy Moly), so aircraft, tanks, fighter jets are paper in front of them. Enters our MC which find themselves against th…
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I dislike this anime for two reasons.
First - I hate it when itelligence of character is shown by making other characters dumber. I'll never believe that no single soul in the whole world didn't think about different tactics against objects and mc's solutions are unique.
Second - this anime ruined the great and surprising relationship between Heavy and sidekick dude (I don't remember any other names). At the start it was clear that Heavy must be better because he's mc. Sidekik dude had little more physical training and weapon skills to compensate. But they were both... same. These two both were equally clumsy, had same interest in girls. I thought that while Heavy would get object pilot girl, the sidekick guy would end up with commander girl. But nope. Heavy gets a freaking harem and the o…
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The anime follows the story up to the third LN volume. The ending is original because they decided to give the show closure instead of leaving it on a cliffhanger.
Basically, the entire show is about Heavy Objects waging war on the battlefield. Havia and Gwenthur are made to fight against large meccha objects. There is a mention of human-like objects in production (gundam?) but I don't know if the story is going in that direction. The anime wasn't able to adapt the source material at the time and I have not read the LN yet so I cannot confirm or deny this and thus can't be a spoiler.
Essentially, Havia is a radio analyst and Gwenthur is a designer student. They aren't even real troops but are expected to destroy Objects somehow even though nobody has ever done it before. The idea is to e…
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It's the distant future, we finally have flying cars. Our technology and medical advancement is at its highest. We no longer have to work, machine has taken over everything. Energy is free, food is free, we even settle on Mars, my god, Aria will come true... Oh wait, damn, I'm reading the wrong script from Back to the future, shit.
Hmm, let's start again. In the distant future, world's peace is no longer a thing. Even warfare is not the same, somehow we still use the same old shit like from WW2 but this time, there's a difference. A deathly weapon follow by the name "Object" makes waves and strikes fear to soldiers on the battlefield. Cant be defeated by any other weapons on earth, its presence scatter countless soul, "Object" is seemingly invincible. Huh, what do you say? It's not? It's…
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Heavy Object 8/8/7/8/8/8
First things first. My "reviews" system is explained on a blog entry. Which can be found through my profile.
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✦Story
A rather military/strategy nerdy Anime with fun dialogues and very light-mooded war Anime. Comedy aspect was mostly sexual in a narrative manner, whereas some of light visual stimuli fanservice.
I found approach of fan-service rather interesting, especially since most characters went along to it and the world itself reacted to the most fanservice elements. What I disliked about that same thing I mentioned, is that characters felt rather "loose" in a sense. But I simply went with decision that they are vanilla pervs.
Anime teases you with possible romance.. but there it stays.
Even though I really despise military/war by concept, I found th…
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I found the anime pretty fun to watch for both the fan service and antics.
However, from a story perspective the premise of all the countries abandoning conventional military in favor of just dueling with Objects ends up feeling extremely contrived by the author.
Who tries to frame each faction's actions in a logical manner but ends of doing the exact opposite right out the gate.
The whole plot of the story centers around how the MC's break the conventional belief that that "Only Objects can destroy Objects" but the sheer obviousness of their actions makes the viewer wonder what everybody else is doing.
The 2 main characters don't do anything particularly clever, their plans mostly boil down to just running up to the enemy heavy object and sabotaging it somehow for the female lead to…
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A mecha series from the writer of A Certain Scientific Railgun and the animation studio that brought us Food Wars, I had very high hopes for this series, and... it is beyond awful.
The show is set in a confusingly fractured world of poorly defined nations who constantly fight for no apparent reason using "Objects", spherical ultra-strong mecha-tanks with guns attached to them. The protagonists are an enthusiastic genius student weapons designer named Quinther, his perverted slacker of a friend Havia, and Princess Milinda who has very little in the way of any defining personality traits beyond a few hilarious scenes.
Our two male protagonists are both irritating sexual deviants who constantly slack off of duty and make inappropriate comments about their commanding officer's breasts, and wh…
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The story of Heavy Object revolves around two young soldiers in the military, Qwenthur and Havia. Originally they have their own ambitions they want to achieve but, that soon goes down the drain when they become Object killing specialist. The story is somewhat an interesting take as many military anime tell their stories from the perspective of ace pilots or badass soldiers, in this case though it told through one being a training to be Heavy Object specialist (Qwenthur) and a radio analyst (Havia). This gives it a bit more of an interesting take to the story seeing that Object's in this story are very much like the Gundam's in those Gundam series, it goes into some pretty deep information about how both Qwenthur and Havia come up with their plans even if most of it is fictional. Another n…
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Watch it 10/10 my favorite anime since its launch. Watched it many times over. The only thing is I like the music but I wish it was a lot mor intense like Aldnoah.Zero's music. However it suits it well. If you like a main character that outwits his opposite in cleaver ways and never actual stupid decisions you will like this anime. I know, everyone acts like certain anime's like Death note or Code Geass have super smart main characters but I do not think so. They think to much in the box for having those kinds of power but in Heavy Object he does not have powers all he has his in knowledge on the Heavy Objects. Due to this I am never like what are you doing, your a genius just do this it is within the rules of your magic powers. Beyond that the only other thing is and it is not a complain…
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You know, in my country we have a word, "stratokavlos", roughly translating to "army-d!cked". Boy does it fit here.
In the future, giant robots handle warfare in place of human soldiers. They're incredible exterior armors make them immune to nearly every conventional weapon, so basically the only way to kill these "objects" is with an object of your own.
Qwenthur and Havia, a military engineer and a soldier respectively (whose royalty background you'd swear they swapped by mistake), don't have that luxury. While the "Princess", the female lead, handles riding their nation's Object, they are pretty much errant boys, assisting in maintainance and being looked down on by their superiors. Eventually an enemy Object attacks and the 2 fail to evacuate. As a result they are left on-foot agains…
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(This review has been adapted from my blog/reddit thread. Spoilers ahead!)
The heaviest item I have ever picked up was a giant television in my parents’ basement.
Though, at the time, it felt like I was carrying a medium-sized engine rather than a piece of technology that I once played all of my video games on. I distinctly remember picking it up, but, I had so much trouble, my father had to help out. Even then, when it finally got stashed away, the muscles in my arms convulsed from the strain.
That either says a lot about the TV or a lot about me. Probably both.
Regardless, it weighs nothing compared to the monstrosities created within Heavy Object. I’m talking pounds versus tons. Hundreds of thousands of tons. But more than weight, it also has tons of problems, too.
STORY
Heavy Ob…
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A couple of weeks ago I started watching all of the 2016 anime that I either missed or put on hold directly after I watched the first episode. So I decided to watch some of the Fall 2015 leftovers that finished in 2016 and Heavy Object was the only one that I haven’t already seen or was a sequel (apart from Brave Beats). I finished it recently so I decided I should review it. So, let’s get to it.
Story:
Story wise Heavy Object is pretty bare bones. The main premise is somewhat unique since instead of focusing on Object battles it instead focuses on the main characters Qwenther and Havia defeating a variety of different Objects without using an object and instead using careful planning, tactics and some split-second decisions. Because this premise is filled with infinite possibilities the…
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