Audience reviews
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yanaoraa
Prétear tells the story of Himeno, a 16-year-old teenager who tries to adapt to her new life after her father remarries. One day, she meets seven boys, called the Leafe Knights, who are looking for a Pretear: a girl capable of "merging" magically with them.
So far, everything seems alright. We start from a rather interesting concept. The work is based on by the popular tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, offering a narrative reinterpretation mixed with some elements of the magical girl genre.
The problem lies in the writing, and it becomes more and more evident as the story progresses. Love, loneliness, mourning are the main themes of the work. While thematically interesting, the narrative quality is too poor to carry them properly, to the point of drowning them and diminishing the…
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Pretear is a foundational title of the modern shoujo genre, and, to those who lived through the era of its release and the decade that would follow, an iconic title as well. Pretear stands proudly and nostalgically as a definitive early 2000s title, complete with the visuals, style, and humor that would define the rest of the 2000s and serve as an important element in otaku culture going forward. It also serves as an interesting inflection point between what anime was in the 90s and what it would go on to be in the 2000s, a transfer phase which follows the medium's move into a digital era. Now, enough with the generalizations, let's get into the review itself, beginning with the story. Pretear is a genuine, funny, good-hearted magical girl reverse harem that is loosely inspired by Snow Whi…
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This underrated show was one of my favorite shoujo anime when I was 13 and I still really love it ! its abit like a magical girl take on fairytales to a degree what I really liked is this anime does not really follow the typical magical girl formula I feel it stands out on its own and it has more depth to it than what you would expect , the characters are all pretty likeable and go through development Himeno and Hayate have the classic tsundere thing going on mainly with Hayate who starts off really cold be he warms up to her and falls in love with her its pretty much expected but I really liked watching their relationship grow,and its explained why he puts on a cold act later on which makes his personality understandable, the designs are very nice with attractive male characters for the c…
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So I am a big fan of magical girl shows and when I wanted to watch a somewhat shorter show, I landed on this one. It's short, it's sweet, it's a magical girl anime: I enjoyed myself.
But seriously guys, the main conflict of this show is beyond stupid.
STORY
So the story... In my opinion, the show moves through it's story beats relatively well and it doesn't try to be too complicated or sophisticated.
Which,, might be what's the problem here. The conflict in this show is SO melodramatic and #firstworldproblems , it's just plain funny. I wanted Himeno to roast the main villain for her ridiculous motivation so badly, but alas, the plot took itself seriously.
If you are above the age of 14, you probably can't take this story too seriously.
It is very much a magical girl show centered a…
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Ah, another magical girl anime. I loved this because I typically binge watch these types of anime! The mc Himeno has the ability to "preet" with handsome slightly older men. They give her the ability to fight against demon... larva(?) and aid her in her battle against the princess of despair...
(Spoilers here)
In the end I kept getting upset over the deaths that happened (aka Sasame dying to be the princess of despair's knight, and Hayate dying to protect Himeno from the tree) but then they came back to life- and I almost shed a tear after Himeno "died" but then she came back to life after Hayate kissed her- I- my feelings had been toyed with at that point. It would have been great if it ended with a little bit of angst, but still a great beam of hope. But it was still good I'd watch it…
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It is because of Fullmoon wo Sagashite that I stumbled upon this animation. So I expected the art style, sound, and story to be old fashioned. I would prefer reading the manga over watching the anime though. One of the only plus sides to this anime would probably be the curse words. Back then, people could actually swear in dubbed animations. It's great to find gems like that nowadays.
Though I did find some of the voice acting in the dubbed scenes to be meh. And the character development was both rushed yet slow at the same time so it was confusing to watch. Those two would have to be my lowest scores. The art and story were my most favorite things in Pretear.
Anyway, I hope no one actually takes my review to heart. Especially how short it is. But this anime comes from a childhood cla…
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Himeno Awayuki was a normal sixteen-year old girl until her father married a woman who happens to be rich. Since then, she has been perceived as an outcast by both her new stepsisters and her classmates. Later Himeno finds out from seven men called the Leafe Knights that she is something called Pretear, a girl who has the power to merge with and control the nature of the elemental-oriented powers from the Leafe Knights and stop an evil being called the Princess of Disaster.
My thoughts:
I really enjoyed this anime. I love the characters and my favorites are Hayate and Sasame. It's very well dubbed and her outfits change when she preets with a different Leafe Knight. Kinda reminds me of Sakura in Cardcaptors when she changes outfits when chasing down a card. Prétear is an anime worth watch…
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"The snow falls. The snow of miracles fall all over. Those with a weak heart. Those who have committed sins. The white Leafe will heal them all."
First of all I adore Pretear and writing a review about it should have happened years ago but I always ran out of words to describe this anime.
The synopsis is rather simple, Himeno moves into a mansion owned by her new step mom and two step sisters where she has a hard time fitting in with her new reality. One day she meets 7 Leafe Knights who tell her she has special power needed to save the world which requires her become Pretear together with the knights, each knight acting as her armor, sword, and shield. The highlight of Pretear are the transformation scenes and the emphasis on character interaction and development. There is hidden depth…
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So, I seemed to have rated this lower than a lot of other people.
I will spare you the synopsis because, well, it's on the first page.
I went into this anime due to the art work. I'm one that bases a story by it's cover first. If the art doesn't appeal to me, I don't want to try it unless I run out of things to watch.
I really was enjoying this story to begin with. I felt it was going a little quicker than I would like, but I was still enjoying it.
Then there was a huge twist that did not make sense to me at all towards the end and that just turned me off from the show.
I enjoy twists in shows, if they logically make sense. If there had been hints and things through out the series I wouldn't have mind the character change.
I finished it, it had a fairly decent ending but due to th…
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From the first impressions I had about this series, it seemed like it’d be a simple magical girl anime about magic and something about fairy tales. It didn’t seem that it would go that deep and the art itself seems like it’d be a typical shoujo-slash-magical girl anime. I remember I came across the OP during my Internet travels and liking a lot because it’s by Yoko Ishida, one of the more well-known singers for anime.
The first episode introduced a lot of the elements to the series, more specifically, something exactly we’re going to get. There might have been attempts at being deeper while introducing Himeno’s feelings from taking care of her drunk novelist dad to sudden immediate comfort and her needs being met. Not only that, there seemed to be some tension between the sisters, Mawata…
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This anime is sort of like Snow White and the Seven Dwarves... except they're all hot men.
This is the typical fairy magical powers anime. It follows a girl, who is the chosen Pretear. She can use each and every one of her new guy friends powers.
Struggling at the start, she eventually becomes a master at the magic and is a true hero.
There are many sacrifices, love, and a budding relationship between the girl and the man she secretly loves.
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"Solitude is everyone's greatest fear."
When most people look at the mahou shoujo genre nowadays, there are probably two things that immediately pop into their heads. The first is a traditional, happy-go-lucky mahou shoujo series with young girls fighting evil with the power of love and friendship, a la Sailor Moon or Pretty Cure.
The second is Puella Magi Madoka Magica, the dark and gritty reconstruction of the genre that became the darling of the anime fandom almost overnight.
However, Shin Shirayuki-hime Densetsu Pretear, or simply known as Pretear, seems to straddle those two preconceptions. While the series starts out as light-hearted as a traditional magical girl series, the latter half exposes many of the darker elements that made Madoka Magica so popular, even though Pretear wa…
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As a high schooler with little experience watching anime, but plenty of enthusiasm, I jumped at the chance to buy Pretear when I found the series in the bargain bin at Best Buy. If I could go back in time and warn myself against this total waste of money I would. This series belongs in the bargain bin for sure, not in a DVD player.
Even as a 16 year old, when my tastes were far less developed, I was disappointed with this show. The characters are shallow, the plot is pointless and the stakes are very low. It tries to pull at your heart strings without investing you emotionally in the characters.
The protagonist and main love interest are both fairly unlikable. In fact all the characters are very one dimensional. It was very difficult to finish watching Pretear and I wouldn't recommend i…
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Story - 7
Although the target audience was probably teenage girls....there was enough of a kind of Shounen feel to this to keep this 25 Year Old Male interested...kinda like a reverse Bleach/Buso Renkin.....and that was good enough for me. The nice...albeit cheesy....sentiments in the last couple of episodse raised a slight smile. Slapstick 'Looney Tunes-like' subplot with the stepsister laying out traps is also quite amusing.
Art - 3
This was one of the biggest problems for me....and would probably given this an 8 or at least a 7 Overall score if it wasn't for the art. Why? Two factors........A) The artist doesn't seem to know how to keep things within it's outlines or adds outlines that don't make any sense. It's unrealistic.......tell me...how many people do you see walking by in thi…
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Well, this little magical girl show is pretty much standard in many ways. It’s not that it’s bad, mind you, but the story feels like it was told before in other shows. A young girl is trusted with the power to save the world and only has to let pretty young men inside her… um, not that way.
The whole thought of ‘pretear’ing seems to stem around the thought that she and one of the leafe knights becoming one and sharing the power that leafe knight controls. You can consider it sexual except when you have three of the leafe knights as preteens and toddlers, it gives you a unsettling feeling. Each episode feels rather like a slice of life rather then a magical girl show because the only fighting that really happens is at the end of the shows and the rest is placed for talks of the heart.
Whe…
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If there's one word that sums up "Pretear", that word would be "cliched". It's not a word I personally use all that often, but whilst watching "Pretear", I couldn't help but have that word pop into my head constantly.
The whole magic girl setting is a well treaded premises, but usually there would be at least something that gives the show a sense of identity, something that helps distinguish it in some small way. That something is absent in "Pretear".
And as I watched, the cliches piled on one after another: the generic character designs; the overused magical girl transformation sequences; the annoyingly loud heorine; the emotionless bishounen architype; the stereotypical villain with the signiture evil manic laughter. In fact the villain overused the evil laughter to the point of obses…
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I had overlooked this series for years and while I was watching an ADV outtake of another anime one of the voice actors said how much passion they put into vocing Pretear.
This is what finally made me check it out and I have to admit UNFORTUNATELY it was a decent shojo-ish anime despite a huge waste of episodes at the beginning
Animation
Lets take into account this series was made back in 2001, animation is quite decent even up to today’s standards, yes the transformations are korny as well as Pretears special attacks and enemy designs but its kinda in line with the style this anime is going for.
Sound
A pretty strong point with this anmie imo. The opening and closing credits where very nicely sung. Character voices where decent I liked the wisecracks/jokes between the Pretear and her…
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Oh man. I loved this anime so freaking much. I bought it on a whim because it looked a bit like Sailor Moon and as soon as I finished the DVD, I went out and bought the next two in the series. This was the kind of anime that you tell all your friends about, not only because it's fun to watch, but also because the story is gripping.
I absolutely loved the characters. I loved their personalities, the way they interacted with one another, and how each one of them never felt like an unimportant part of the story. I can't remember if I watched the original with subtitles, but I can honestly say that I was satisfied with the dubs of this anime. As it was one of my very first anime to watch, I did not know better but now that I am a bit more experienced and have heard some horrible, HORRIBLE dub…
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We all have a point in our life when we fall into this darkness of despair, when we are scared, don't know what to do, at times we feel it's best to disappear, or a knight in shining armour should come to our rescue. In times like these we also have options- get consumed by that darkness of despair or refuse to be consumed by it. That's the scenario Pretear presents to us.
Story
It's a whooping 10. It's about two Pretears; one who was once a Pretear and the other that wants to be a Pretear and in between a whole lot of things happen. The key point is I-don't-want-to-be-alone and I-want-to-be-loved kind of story. You can start picturing Friends and Family kind of relationship.
Art
It's very good, the preting (which i think it's more like mating, it's just that there are no kids or creatur…
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The reason why I thought I'd watch this was because I love reverse harem!!
One girl - Himeno destined to be the pretear and fight against the evil princess who is draining leafe (a kind of life source) from the world... surrounded by 7 guys....
Kind of reminded me of sailormoon how she changes into costumes... but the wierd thing was- by combining with each individual guy. So if you think about it 13 episodes for the series... 7 changes with 7 diff guys and thats half the series gone just introducing the individual changes very briefly...
With all that taken into account, i felt the anime lacked a strong storyline and never really gave any depth to any of the characters...... Normally in a good anime I always feel a strong attraction to at least one of the characters but I didnt get that…
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