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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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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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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"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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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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First few episodes may have you wavering between dropping but if you stay with this its well worth it. Its a beautiful plot and works on the theme of magic and nature. The main characters father has remarried and this give the family settings a cinderella feel as the new home is huge. Our main character meets up wth a collection of people and our story begins. The anime is similar to princess tutu and sailor moon but more elemental.
Its worth continuing with and has some very suprising shockers in the plot, I enjoyed this anime and wish it had been longer so the plot could perhaps develope more.
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I just finished it today. 1/13/09
And i've got to say it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.
I thought "oh this is going to be another salior moon knock off,"
but to my surprise, it was slighty different. Yes, there are magical beings, and such, but this was such a tear jerker.
I mean at first the series is very corny! (I did watch it dubbed, since I was to lazy to read subs)
But once you get into the 2nd-3rd episode, you think, "it's not so bad" and you kind of get hooked.
Once you get deep into it you can't help crying since the characters affection have for each other is so sweet!
But if your looking for an amazing series...
I wouldn't say this would be good for you. I liked it, but wasn't totally in love with it.
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At first, I thought Pretear would be some dumb rip off of Sailor Moon using elements instead of planets but man was I wrong. This show was much deeper than I thought it would be and even made me cry at the end! One thing I liked about this anime was that all of the characters developed into likeable people and it also wasnt predictable-- because predictable shows are just plain boring. I couldnt stop watching it and finished the series in one night! So I give this one two thumbs up, although I wish I could have watched it over time other than all at once so I dont reccomend my method haha. I defenitily reccomend this series!!!!!
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At first, this show seems like every other Shojo anime you might've seen. And, you're pretty much right. This show is horrible.
Story: 3/10
This plot is very generic and boring. I cannot believe that I sat at watched this. A girl named Himeno Awayuki moves into her new home, and stumbles into a guy named Hayate. Then she discovers she has powers, yada yada yada. There's obviously romance involved, duh, it's a shojo anime. The rest of the plot writes itself, pretty much. I haven't read the manga (I never plan to) so I have no clue how much has been changed.
Art: 6/10
The art was probably one of the only half-way decent things about this show. It's not mediocre, but not amazing. So it's actually pretty standard. Though, it has some horrible art at times. That's one thing I can say about…
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Upon first looking at the title you may be thinking to yourself, is this some sort of story about someone about to cry? (Pre-tear) Hahahaha but no, in all seriousness this is actual a magical girl style anime with a more interesting concept.
Story: 8/10
Basically it follows our main heroine "Himeno" as she tries to stop the evil demons made from the "Princess of disaster." (main villain) But how she does this is pretty interesting, she basically has to merge with these beings called "The Leafe Knights" in order to temporally take control of their powers, and this is quite important as she will need different elements against the right foe. It basically sticks to this the whole way through, all along giving the viewer some pretty nifty plot twists and surprises after the half way point. Th…
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At first, I thought Pretear would be some dumb rip off of Sailor Moon using elements instead of planets but man was I wrong. This show was much deeper than I thought it would be and even made me cry at the end! One thing I liked about this anime was that all of the characters developed into likeable people and it also wasnt predictable-- because predictable shows are just plain boring. I couldnt stop watching it and finished the series in one night! So I give this one two thumbs up, although I wish I could have watched it over time other than all at once so I dont reccomend my method haha. Well hoped this helped even though it was written kinda bad :]
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