Audience reviews
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Firechick12012
ToHeart is an interesting beast. It's considered the second non-Hentai anime adaptation of a visual novel, only beaten out by the very first one, Nightwalker: Midnight Detective, which came out in the summer of 1998. The original game was an 18+ eroge and didn't have as much of a marketing push as previous VN adaptations, but the 1999 anime would go on to be pretty popular, selling 10,000 copies in terms of home video sales, which was considered successful back then. It even managed to get an English dub and DVD release in the US a few years later, and even got a sequel series, ToHeart: Remember My Memories, though I've heard said sequel isn't very good. I did watch the first episode of ToHeart on a whim years ago, but child me thought it was dreadfully boring and dropped it. My tastes hav…
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I have been watching anime since around 2020 or so, when the pandemic hit hard and forced everyone inside their homes. At first, I didn't really knew what type of anime I was into, however, little by little, an apreciation for easy to digest, easy to follow slice-of-life shows with a tad-bit of comedy and other strorytelling elements sprinkled here and there, with a charming and unique ambience and a lovable set of characters began to form. I searched far and wide for these (admitedly very specific) set of qualities in the many animes I watched. There were some who came close to what I was looking for, others who deviated completely from what I was searching, others that fell just in middle or along the way, but none that left me completely satisfied at what I was looking in screen.
That…
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Sorry for the mistakes, I'm terrible at english :c
Here is the URL to my point of view in Portuguese (my native language): https://jpst.it/3IWtB
For me, watching this anime was like wrapping myself under the blankets on cold days.
It's a simple and pleasant novel, but it lets me want to see much more of the characters. Maybe for that, I need to play the visual novel. I can't imagine how much the adaptation is different from the original, but I believe that the word "presentation" is more viable, because it makes us interested in the original work. I would like to play, but my lack of knowledge of japanese language and the lack of translation prevents me.
Visual art was something that caught my attention. The animation is beautiful and fluid, part of the last glorious days of cell art f…
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Honestly, I enjoyed this anime more than I expected to. It's just a nice relaxing anime to casually watch, each conflict is episodic and usually gets revolved within an episode or 2, charming characters, and visually looks lovely. Reminds me of a simpler time in life where my problems weren't that big and life was a lot more peaceful. There's something fluid about the way they animated shows in the late 90s and early 2000s, makes the characters feel more real. If you're looking for something a little more plot heavy, then I don't think you would like this anime, however if you're looking for something easy going to watch, then you will like To Heart.
Read at the sourceMalchikRepaid
I recommend this anime for several reasons.
1. to experience how this is a pinnacle example of 90s school drama anime that can be very experimental by dabbing with elements of slice-of-life and iyashikei
2. to understand what emotions are, how complicated can they be
3. to show that harem anime doesn't always need to have fanservices
4. to feel that one isn't alone even in dire (or feeling-wise uncertain) situations as the whole storyline feels like an Aesop lesson 5. the composer of the OSTs in the anime, Wada Kaoru, created some of the best music that melts the tender hearts
I must say that a person with a very slow-paced set of emotions could appreciate this anime.
From the bottom of my heart when I first watched this as a teen who just turned 14, I simply wish there were filler O…
Read at the sourceGuts-Valley
I am going to honest here. First story is lame and very slow, its based on a harem game but in some stories the MC doesn't seem to make any romantic advancement to any of the girls. In one story he helps a girl that was bully him and his main squeeze helps her. She thanks them for the help the whole episode is them getting their classroom ready for a cafe boring. Talking about boring watch this in 1.2 or high speed because it's slow and they talk slow. One episode is them studying for a test and talking about when they were young no flashbacks(i guess not in their budget) just talking and staring not each other but blank staring. Are the characters any good, one is very good. She is too good i didn't want her to start liking the MC but in the end she does. The male best friend is a basical…
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So To Heart anime series is a romance story without any romance,meaning all you are left with is SOL and its a bland SOL.
Its very slow as well,the slowness was kind of refreshing when it was just the 1st episode but then it became very boring and more slow during the next episodes.
There is no plot,so nothing advances or changes outside of Hiroyuki(the main character)meating some new girls.
Speaking of Hiroyuki,one thing i give them credit is that he is different,in the sense that he is distant,lazy but sociable enough,he is the only thing i found kind of decent outside of the artstyle(which is way too good for this anime).
The soundtrack was kind of forgetable,but its not like you can expect much from this show to begin with.
Read at the sourceBAVBR
Apesar da história ser fraca, a animação datada e o final ficar em aberto (bem descarado, por sinal), para quem quer algo leve e não é exigente (MESMO, já que, francamente, deste anime não dá para se esperar praticamente nada - pode ser até que a Visual Novel do qual foi baseado seja um pouco mais interessante), dá para acompanhar sem sustos.
Mesmo assim, o bom Character Design, as músicas de abertura e encerramento, a trilha sonora, os personagens e algumas das tramas, me fazem lembrar deste anime com certo carinho, já que foi um dos primeiros animes curtos, de temporada, que eu assisti - mas sei que poucos se sentirão desta forma.
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Although the story is weak, the animation is dated and the ending is open (well cheeky, by the way), for those who want something light and not de…
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To Heart is the forgotten predecessor to Clannad and the early formula to archetypal dating simulations. There’s a guy surrounded by a bunch of cute girls, with a boring personality, but every few episodes leads to an arc that makes the girls exceedingly interesting or just plain Janes that ONLY have their moe points going for them and nothing further.
• The pacing is probably the most terrible part of the first season of To Heart. Everything moves at a colossally languid speed, to the point that I preferred watching the English dub to the sub to avoid falling asleep at some points.
• It was similar to a boring school visual novel, where the girls make you go help with the student counsel committee and go on errands with them and then you’re just snapping your fingers behind the screen b…
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Hi guys and gals..Do you wanna know how it is to sit inside someone's ear and spend the rest of your bloody life doing nothing but just that?Well luckily for ya there is an anime called To Heart.
Word of warning,this review contains excitement and swearing and some really really graphic sadistic descriptions.With that onto the review of this...I dare not call it s@it cause that would be an insult to good s@it or even bad s@it..This has taken the idea of endless boredom and went all the way to 11 or 789 by the looks of things.
Stupid name,stupid anime,stupid stupid me for watching this shit without having a spoon around so i can slowly and painfully take my eyes out of their damn sockets.Honestly i'm not being captain dramatic,i wish i had the strength to cut my wrists and watch my blood…
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Overall
Ok, let's look at the genre tags on this one...
"Comedy"? No, not a single funny event in the whole series.
"Drama"? No, no, no. Not even a story.
"Game"? Probably. It would explain a lot.
"Harem"? Not really. More like an episodic "girl of the week" show, with very little coherence.
"Romance"? Not according to my experiences regarding the term.
"School life"? Check! All in all, this was a waste of time. I was expecting a romantic comedy but all I got was a slow paced and futile "we are gonna throw as many wierd and shallow girls at you as possible" show.
Ok, some episodes actually got me somewhat interested but they really didn't mean anything in the end. This would have been much better if they skipped most of the pointless girls and focussed on a smaller cast of main cha…
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story-8
i really did like to heart. i had just watched a long and dramatic show and then i watched to heart and it was like just a nice light and pretty cheerful show. super cute!
art-8
i think the art is realy nice on this anime. but sometimes the guys eyes were a bit weird.
sound-7
pretty good!
character-8
i found that there was something about most of the characters i didnt like all that much. but in general it was good.
enjoyment-7
like i said i liked it but to behonest it wasnt one of my favs. overall-8
a really cute show, totally recomend watching it!
Read at the sourceRomie-chan
Although To Heart is labeled as a romance series, it really didn't focus on that at all. This show mainly focuses on introducing new characters and giving them a little depth. The romance was put on the back-burner and left for the last two episodes.
~Character 6/10~
Since we were introduced to new characters so often it was hard to get to really know any of them. Akari, Shiho and Heroyuki were the main characters but I really didn't get the sense of really knowing them or knowing what they're thinking. Most of the characters seem very dense and unable to read body language.
~Art 8/10~
The art style is still great even though it appears to be old. The amounts of detail is wonderful and thankfully the art style was more consistent than most shows. By that I mean there wasn't any sudden bo…
Read at the sourceExileOnAkiba
Ah, the harem genre.
One lovable loser who through some bizarre circumstances ends up surrounded by a group of gorgeous women who all proceed to fall in love with him somehow; and then our protagonist must make the difficult choice of picking the one female cast member to call his own.
While it was always a stupid and sexist premise, it proved to be a very popular format (for an almost entirely male audience). And so, many titles made use of the formula with little to no variation. While these titles lacked creativity, they were still profitable and that allowed the same basic story to be reproduced many, many times. A ‘tried and tested’ formula simply became a tired one. Eventually, it got to the point that even making a few minor changes would create a stir.
Like all other harems, ‘To…
Read at the sourcePhantomLancelot
....no amount of numbers in the world could amount to how much Inloved this show. "To Heart" was amazing in both its story and its atmposphere. The story revolves around 2 high seniors, Akari and Hiroyuki, as they get ready for their final year of high school. Akari and Hiroyuki have been friends for years; ever since kindergarten, and Akari may have grown some certain feelings about her best friend after all these years.
...both the sound quality and the art are above par; the animation may look very old, but the anime's from the 1990's (...just the way I like 'em). The show has this very polished look that shows that it has aged very well. The sound quality, I thought, was rather well done, too. The number of charact
Read at the sourceRetro8bit
It’s funny, when I first started "To Heart" I thought I was going to be in for another harem title, but to my surprise it was nothing like that. This school life anime is probably one of the more layed back and relaxing ones out there!
The main chunk of the story will be Hiro (main male lead) interacting with the female students. Now I know this may sound like a "harem" plot, it isn’t at all though. Whenever he meets one of them that needs help, instead of having a romantic view of them (you know, the whole damsel in distress thing?) he simply helps them out with their problems like a good friend would. Which in turn really does describe "To Heart" the best...friendship! Many people (like me) would probably go into this anime thinking about romance, after all the title does ha…
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Nice. That's what this show is. Not thrilling or dramatic or bad, just.... nice.
I first found out about To Heart when I watched Comic Party, and I thought I'd give it a whirl. Unfortunately I watched To Heart 2 first so I wasn't expecting much when I eventually got around to watching this.
That said, I was pleasantly surprised at how different the atmosphere between the two shows actually is. Where the sequel feels quite forced, To Heart is far more natural in the way it progresses. The stories aren't that different between the two, and indeed the theme (harem highschool romance), is generally quite common amongst many shows (Clannad, Kanon, Lamune, etc). However when you look a little closer you find that To Heart is actually quite unique in it's approach to the romance side of things.…
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