Audience reviews
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nless1
I think pretty much everybody here already talked about the ending, and I'm also aware of the fact that nobody will ever read this review when there are already so many. But just in case I'm wrong -- just in case somebody (you) does find this review -- let me tell you this, and please heed my words: The ending really is that insane. It's worth watching those five episodes just for the ending -- if you don't mind putting your mental health under severe risk.
It's been months since I watched this shit and I still can't get it out of my head.
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High school sophomore Aya Iseshima was on her way to school one day, alongside her peppy best friend Natsume, when they happened upon a strange sight; A shrine maiden named Miko was engaged in a dramatic battle with a flight attendant, right in the middle of the street, in broad daylight, throwing each other into car windows and punching each other’s clothing to shreds. Deciding to step in, Aya both sides with and befriends the shrine maiden, inadvertently taking her place in an underground martial arts tournament called the Platonic Heart. The winner of this tournament would be granted one wish upon completion, and when her new friend suddenly disappears without a trace, Aya embarks on a string of deadly battles to work her way through the tournament to find poor Miko. Unfortunately for h…
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Master of Martial Hearts, oh boy where to start on you. Oh, that's right, the ending. Jokes aside, Master of Martial Hearts is an interesting anime, to say the least. Not good, but interesting.
Martial Hearts is one of those animes that blends into the crowd. in the late 2000's ova market, it was just another fighting show made essentially as fan service. With only 5 episodes as well, you can easily assume that Martial Hearts would be just another horrible anime with a poor plot that you only watch as dumb fun or because you want to watch girls strip fight each other. And you would be right.
Story:
Martial Hearts follows Aya, a high schooler who has entered into a mysterious fighting tournament. The prize if you win, the platonic heart. A jewel that can grant any one wish to the winn…
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This anime is one of the greatest things I've ever seen. While the story has room for improvement, the art and animation is beyond terrible, which is what makes this a divine work of art, not to mention the use of nudity at the most improper moments. Watching this alone is a mistake but should definitely be watched with friends as a group.
The list of negatives is fairly short. Mainly there needed to be more episodes. While the plot is fleshed out within the 5 episodes made, I wish it had gotten a full season because that's how much I enjoyed this. Another issue is that the character development is almost non-existent. The characters stay the same the entire time from what I could see.
Overall, watch this with friends but do not take it seriously
Read at the sourceDyceAverruncus
Never has a fighting tournament anime dropped the ball harder than master of the martial hearts. Ut's best described as a poor man's Ikki Tousen and that show was already a poor man's Tenjho Tenge. The only thing keeping this over series from being completely mediocre all across the board is the infamous ending that needs to be seen to be believed.
Our story centers on Aya, a kind-hearted girl who always more than willing to protect the weak. It's this attitude that brings her to the martial hearts tournament when her friend Miko goes missing after losing a match. It's said that whoever wins the tournament can have whatever wish they want granted.
For the majority of it's run, MOTMH never tries to be anything more than a standard female based fighting series. Big busty girls punch each o…
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Every April 1st, I spotlight a heartwarming anime with a special place in my heart. Last year, I covered the wonderful family film Shoujo Ramune. A film where we learned the lesson to choose ice cream over frozen yogurt, because some yogurt isn't even yummy at all! This year I'm covering "Master of Martial Hearts", which is the greatest magical girl anime you've never heard of! Move over Doremi, there's a new sheriff in town!
Why you should watch Master of Martial Hearts:
1. The characters. Simply put, Aya is one of the loveable and well developed characters in the medium. However, great characters can't exist in isolation. Even Don Quixote needed Sancho Panza. In Master of Martial Hearts, we get to see the astoundingly realistic family life of Aya and her mother Suzuko. The relationship…
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Well ,this will be my first review and it's gonna be really short
I gotta say this OVA wasn't good at all ,I struggle to finish this show to find any decent positive point but no there's nothing good here ,the character wasn't that interesting and that dumb fight scene is just awful ,and the ending is just like a forced tragic ending ,neck-snapping?,exploded building ayy come on is there nothing better than that to conclude a story of a bunch of wahmen martial artist where they use a pistol in the end
Overall ,this OVA is fucked up,this the first time I gave 2 to an anime not even school days can get down to this level
Read at the sourceRaines_Epitaph
Alright, so I'm gonna go against the grain here and actually recommend this anime. For 4 of the 5 episodes this anime is painfully bad: garbage animation, bland artstyle, boring characters, flaccid fanservice. I had to force myself to get through it, but it was all worth it for the absolute mindfuck of an ending that puts this anime into the territory of so bad its good. The last 12 or so minutes of this anime are so bafflingly convoluted and hilariously edgy that you'll be laughing your ass off and yelling "what the fuck is going on?!" as you are slammed with a flurry of eleventh hour plot twists. So basically, if you enjoy shocker endings and don't mind slogging through the other 4 episodes to give said ending a veneer of context then go for it! Especially if you have a friend who can ri…
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A friend of mine, recommended me this by telling me "This is the worst echi fighting anime ever made, but it's a whole trip".
I can't actually qualify this anime (so just ignore the rate), it may look that it suck, but if you know that, and expect the worse of it you can have a really (I mean REALLY) good time, sometimes brutally bad animes are fun.
Laugh my ass all the time by watching how stupid everything was, and in the end I actually enjoyed it.
A really good recommendation would be to watch it English dub, it highly increase the fun material.
So how can I qualify it bad if I ended up enjoying it, there's no way.
If you're doubting about watching it, give it a try, the first episode is nothing from another world, but after the second everything goes wrong, and in the final chapte…
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Ahhh, mastapiece.
From the amazing opening, blissfully filling our ears with a sense of dread, to the incredibly fleshed out characters. Astounding original sound track, and twists up the ass. What's there not to like?
The story is the root of what makes this anime one of the greats. Standing along such titans like Sword Art Online, and the newly minted Eromanga Sensei. Now, comparing the 3 gods, it's hard to tell who is better. Honestly, after 100 rewatches of each, I still can't seem to figure it out. But you know what they say, "anutha day, anutha play."- Martin Luther King Jr.
Of course, there may be haters out there, but they do not understand, nor do they appreciate art.
Please, check out the english dub, for the voice acting is probably one of the best I've ever heard.
To concl…
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Master of Martial Hearts is the utter definition of "So Bad It's Good".
I have long prided myself on being a lover of the best and worst that the visual medium has to offer. I don't limit myself to watching anime and movies that people, critics, or my friends think are great. I love watching things that just plain suck sometimes. So bad it's good, so bad it's HORRIBLE, I don't care- I think you can get something out of anything, even if that's "I want that hour of my life back and a bag to puke in".
I've seen a good number of godawful 80s and 90s OVAs that exist solely for exploitative purposes- tasteless, shameless, filthy, or just plain obscene things that have no good reason to be out there but for some T&A, but are cult hits regardless. Mad Bull 34, Violence Jack, Angel Cop, the lis…
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Sometimes you have to look at yourself in the mirror and tell yourself, "it's gonna be OK. You have a purpose. You are going to live a happy, healthy life full of wonder and awe. You are going to make a difference, whether it be to one person or to millions of people. You will be amazing." But then things like "Master of Martial Hearts" reaaaaally begin to make me want to shatter the mirror and eat the glass shards so I can forget all about the horrors of such a piece of shit show.
Look, I understand why ecchi anime exists. Yeah 90% of me finds the genre sexist and deplorable and not very progressive towards putting female characters in a positive light, but I get it. I'm not going to scream into a megaphone about how it's the worst thing ever, because it caters to an audience the same wa…
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Words cannot describe how terrible this OVA is. In fact, you know how you see lots of bad reviews on MAL and think to yourself "oh maybe I shouldn't watch this?" Go with that thought. This is one of the many terrible Ecchi shows ever made. You can seriously skip this show, there are so many things wrong with it that I'm sure have already been explained. The story is terrible, the Opening intro sounds like they just grabbed some random non talented girl off the streets and paid her to sing. The art, is really bad for it's time. It has more of a 2001-2004 feeling to it. I found it rather difficult to continue watching, however I made it... mostly because boobs. I would NOT! recommend this to anyone, especially if you're like me and want to watch bad shows for laughs and giggles.
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Zettai Shougeki Platonic Heart.
At the picture on MAL, you may think that the art is pretty good. That was why I watched this series, ignoring the complains of other users... and yes, at first I was disappointed. The animation is not fluid, and I believe the cover above is drawn by a completely different person from the one who drew for the anime (well, there are a lot of others, like Mikagura School Suite anime from the song video).
That is the worst part of Zettai Shougeki Platonic Heart.
The other not-so-important weak parts include a horrible shout at the OP song, and the strange waves emitted by the girl's attacks resulting in clothes ripping. And it wasn't censored, at least in my version (kinda shocked about it).
Now for the good parts...
The story is about a girl who wants to sa…
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***Caution advised, lots of cursing and overall bad mood.***
So, anime as a whole has the reputation of not only being really, REALLY overblown and stupid but also to not be the greatest example in media when it comes to portraying female characters. Even though the days are long gone when people considered anime nothing but "oversexed teenage girls and tentacle porn", its ugly reputation as being sexist, stupid and overly violent still resonates. Especially whenever something like... well, THIS hits the shelves.
I don't even wanna type in the name of the anime because it's such a disgusting piece of crap. Let'S just call it "Schlocky Ikki Tousen Fanfic", or SITF for short. It's not possible for me to accept the fact that really awesome, thought-provoking and just downright beautifully…
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So I've watched this series probably anywhere from 5-7 times out of the boredom and interest of just watching whatever comes on. In an entirety the plot doesn't really make much sense at all even if it tries to tie things together it doesn't do even a decent job. It's mainly just a lot of nudity and fight scenes where girls get their clothes torn off with even a slight hit until the end there is little to no real storyline and even though there is one it's difficult to find yourself following it even when the plot tries to come together at the end it still doesn't make enough sense to care about this anime at all.
Sure, it can be fun to watch bad anime and this is not the worse I've seen overall. I say that there are just one to many loose ends in the anime and they really try to just pl…
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Master of Martial Hearts is a mixture between Mortal Kombat & My Little Pony, but in all the wrong ways. Everything about this anime is bad. The story is dumb, there's no other way that I can describe it. It's just dumb. The characters all wear clothes that you'd tell your girlfriend to wear to spice up your sex life e.g. a high school girl, a hot teacher, a stewardess, a nurse & a police officer. The original soundtrack is meh. It's not really the type of soundtrack you'd want to listen to on a daily basis. However, when there's bad, there has to be good (or at least tolerable in this case). The animation is actually OK; for an anime based on an original project, it's quite good. The voice acting is also good, but it still doesn't help how sh!tty most of the dialogue is. Also, the fight s…
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When it comes to anime that's commonly called the "worst", many people will generally answer with shows from one of 2 groups of thought - new school anime fans will say something like School Days, Mars of Destruction, or Pupa; old school anime fans will generally say something like Genocyber, Violence Jack, or MD Geist. I'm here to present the case that THIS is the worst anime of all time, hands down.
Story - 1/10
The short version: Take Ikkitoisen, make it as edgy as the anime adaptation of Akame ga Kill!. Then, condense the end result into a 5 episode OVA, and give said OVA an ending as shocking as School Days - without the satisfaction of said ending. You now have the plot to Master of Martial Hearts.
The long version: A girl gets forced into a fighting tournament, with the prize bein…
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In this world, there exist all kinds of anime. There are good ones, bad ones, as well as REALLY bad ones. And then… there are some that transcend the idea of good and bad, so much so that one cannot simply express their opinion of it by means of such trivial things like “numbers” or even “words”.
This is one of them.
Only 5 episodes long, the story is rather simple for something of its kind. Our protagonist, Aya Iseshima, one day finds herself participating in the tournament of Martial Hearts, and determined to win the tournament so that she can have her wish fulfilled. The first four episodes are pretty dull, and kinda just mediocre overall. Boob and panty shots are in no short supply thanks to the help of Arms, with everyone apparently liking to wear clothes that explode on impact, and…
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I'm going to make this review short and sweet. The reason I loved this anime so much was because of the ending. A lot of people didn't like the ending but I thought it was not only original but strong and different from most (if not all) other movies or anime out there. But let me go through my ratings with you
Story: 8
I rated this high simply because I like unique characters and this anime has them in spades. Some times I also like anime that stand everything you ever thought you knew about the characters on their heads simply because you know a little of their story. For me the story, especially the ending was worth the price I paid for it.
Art: 6
I have seen better, but also some a lot worse.
Sound: 6
The opening song was good, but they do use it a lot and it seems that is the only…
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