fgrady - 2016-01-14 20:16:55

(This is a review of both seasons of Heaven’s Lost Property, sans movies and OVAs. Also, old review is old.)

What on earth do I say about this show that I haven’t said for every other effortless exploitation anime I’ve seen? This show has the tendency to bring out aspects of unmoderated immaturity to whoever decides to watch it, either in the form of enjoyment from its target audience, or in my case the unbridled urge to yell at it for being a boring, tumorous disease. I don’t feel good giving this show much more attention than I normally do, but there’s no use talking about the anime without addressing why it aggravates me so.

Heaven’s Lost Property is about a boy who has a childhood friend with big boobs. One day, a mysterious being with wings and pink hair crashes down to earth right infront of him, calling herself an Angeloid. She has big boobs too. An outside student joins the boy’s party in order to research the Angeloid further. He has an assistant with big boobs. In time, a blue haired Angeloid joins them, and although she doesn’t have big boobs she wishes that she does. The show’s continuation introduces another Angeloid with blond hair, and she also has big boobs. Throughout the show, the boy finds many ways to peep on schoolgirls to look at their big boobs, and even finds ways to grope their bog boobs. Other mysterious Angeloids with big boobs appear as antagonists, and a conflict between two worlds is interspliced with wacky school shenanigans and humorous filler. I’m sure everyone in there has names and all, but the show will agree that their cup sizes are of more importance.

The characters are pretty straightforward. Protagonist boy is a puppet for the viewer to slip into so they can experience the show from an easy POV. Childhood friend is there to stick with him as a permanent hot body despite the constant beatings she gives him for being a pervert/molester/asshat. The Angeloids are there for more body decoration, with Ms. Pink Hair being socially oblivious so she can be easy dandere spanking material, and Ms. Blue Hair having chest insecurities and a childlike personality to check off another ecchi archetype. The student is there to support the plot by being the master of technical exposition, and his voluptuous assistant acts as more eye candy. Lastly, blonde hair Angeloid is incredibly ditzy and airheaded so that she can be in as many situations of embarrassment and degradation as possible.

The story is also pretty straightforward. The Angeloids come from a world where they live as slaves and servants, so their escape to earth provides a painfully predictable arc of fitting into a normal society and learning overtime how to act around people who aren’t abusive masters. The usual story structure to what is essentially a borderline hentai romp. The unpredictability of the show comes from said romp, taking form in the cast’s downtime away from the Angeloid story. The protagonist’s hormonal desires fuel the episodic vignettes, as the show makes sure to effectively present its list of easy reusable elements. A half-assed inspirational speech about a new world by the student, an angry beating by the childhood friend, chibi boy basking in the glory of so many hot girls, Ms. Pink Hair learning a tiny bit more about society, all fitted into a variety of scenarios constructed to produce the highest amounts of fanservice, raunchy humor, and material that’s easy to write and animate for an audience that will eat it all up as cheap laughs. A few episodes dedicated to developing the overall story (still full of sexual service and juvenile joking jollies), and an added episodic element in the second season so that the clutzy blonde can be exploited as well, and we have all of the elements needed to create a financially successful ecchi. To top it all off, a shallow psychotic villain provides easy final conflict, a lazy ending to make room for more material (and considering the movies and OVA, they’ve already jumped on it), and one final send-off episode with all of the leads in wedding dresses after building up each of their romance arcs for protagonist boy to satisfy the viewer fantasies. The content speaks for itself and I don’t give any praise to stories built around wish-fulfillment, so we move on.

The art is awful, filled to the brim with horribly rendered, flat character designs and stale, generic backgrounds. The special effects during magic scenes have no impact with their unoriginal portrayal and flashy desperation, though some of the areal fights were animated okay.

The music is awful, consisting of uninspired Garage Band ditties to fit in alongside the simplistic scenes of safe adolescent comedy and uninvested action fights. The dub at least fits the show, providing simple deliveries and a jejune script adaptation that supplements the tone of comedy.

I’ve made my thoughts pretty clear, so I’ll just say that this is the type of show that cements my loathing of the ecchi genre as an easy means for half-assed production and annoying writing to cater to an braindead audience that will just keep coming back. Every time I watch an episode of this show, I feel like I’ve been deprived of a week’s worth of sleep. So before any horny escapist deviants try to convince me of any sort of value this show exhibits, I’m gonna get some well needed shuteye.

Heaven’s Lost Property (2009-2010):
2.2/10

matteo.lang - 2015-07-02 03:17:37

Its an ecchi! NO wait, its fanservice with a side of ecchi! YOUR ALL WRONG, ITS HALF ROMANCE, HALF FANSERVICE WITH A SIDE OF ECCHI!!!!!

orn.arlie - 2015-03-07 13:25:00

As i wrote on S1 ! I ADORE this anime. Its amazing !

destiny.waters - 2013-07-02 14:16:15

Ok, this is my first review as you will probably notice, i am not that great in reviewing, but after seeing other reviews i just had to give it a shot, ok so im going to review Sora no otoshimono forte, an anime about a boy that has angeloids, that pretty much sums a lot of it up, but there is more to the story than you thinkStory:The story is very enjoyable, as i have noticed in the first season and what they are doing now in the second season is that they pretty much have loads of fillers and pointless episodes as some people might call them untill around episode 8, then from then onwards it just gets very good and actiony, the thing is tho that its not a very bad thing, i would really call those episodes fillers or pointless fan service episodes, each of them is very creative in its own way and will always make you laugh your head of. If it wasnt for the ecchi and the comedy then the show wouldnt be as enjoyable as it is. The story overall is very enjoyable nevertheless it is pretty ecchi xD, i like the idea of Angeloids coming from somewhere random and getting into the hands of Tomoki, he is the bggest perv on the planet and with the Angeloids he can do anything, go watch it to find out how he carries on from the first seriesArt:The art, ahh yes, the art is outstanding, the quality is perfect, th characters look sharp and very well made, the background doesnt lack anything either, the special effect while fighting are still impressive and the bouncing boo** look even better than before, especially in some of the episodes that you get. The face expressions they make are good and over all its very good looking, Tomoki as usually stays in his Chibi form a lot but when he does go all serious he looks very manly and cool.Sound:hmm the sound is pretty good, nothing outstanding, just the usually, an OP thats pretty good, an ending that is different every episode (i never watch them anyway only saw them to make this review) the sound in the anime is good as well, the sounds effect and explosions sound good, the voice acting is still to a very good standard, i really like that one tune that goes on everytime something evil starts happening, i just love it, it gives you the chills when the song turns on while something bd is happening, makes you go OMG this scene is EPIC.Characters:Hmm the characters, we have the same ones as in the first season, all still very enjoyable and funny, especially that Ikaros feelings towards Tomoki have grown even bigger, we also do get to meet 2 new characters, the first one is Astraea, a type Delta Angeloid, shes the strongest in terms of hand to hand combat but has no range weapons, also shes a BAKA, and later on we meet another Angeloid called Chaos, shes a second generation angeloid but i wont give away too much about her because that would be considered a spoiler, we still have my beloved Nymph and her feelings grown stronger, bigger and more clear towards Tomoki as well, shes still the only good loli character in this anime, but she is the ultimate loli,

ngrimes - 2013-03-15 08:28:53

I finally got around to watching the second season to Sora no Otoshimono, and it's caused me to form a love/hate relationship with the series. I love the series for it's crazy over-the-top comedy, and the occasional bit of successful melodrama that it manages to add in, even if the characters are all a bit shallow.But for some reason, Forte came off as a lot more sexist. Although there certainly some sexism in the first season, it was either justified by the context of the story (such as the initial objectification of the angeloids), or it just wasn't really noticeable enough to get in the way of the comedy. Maybe I've just gotten better at spotting sexism within fiction, but there were a few times where Forte's sexism actually did ruin the comedy, and sometimes they even seem to cross the line between fanservice and objectification, without justification. There are a few scenes in particular that I'd like to point out:The first is episode 4, in which Mikako organizes a huge snowball fight between the male and female students of the school. In the battle, the women seem to solely rely on huge catapults to chuck boulders of snow at the men, while the men are ridiculously good at actually using their arms to throw the snowballs, easily overpowering any of the women in close-range combat. Although it's true that men generally have better arm strength than women, scenes like this that greatly exaggerate the difference power between the sexes, sends the message that women are weak, and don't stand a chance against the unstoppable force of men.What's worse is when later in the episode, Tomoki and other men take the character Astarea and a dozen of the women as prisoners, and proceed to tickle their breasts against their will; a fanservice scene utilizing the same kind of sexual harassment that Tomoki often partakes in, except now it's a group of boys doing it instead of just him. What's really bad about this scene though (if mass sexual harassment wasn't bad enough,) is that Tomoki ends up taking off his pants, drawing an elephant's head above his penis, and snickering as he approaches a tied up Astarea. Snickering like a rapist, or a molester. Even for a character like Tomoki, that's just...man, what were the writer's thinking?Then there's episode 9, in which Mikako sets up another game, in which teenage girls are tied up, and thrown into a pool for the men (and some women, but mostly men) to dive in and fish them out. They are treated as fish, and presumably are doing this against their will. Probably the worst case of objectification in the series, in that the women are literally treated as objects. It's also another event that Mikako organizes, but that's hardly an excuse.The dramatic elements of the series were also worse, since a lot of it dragged on, such as Nymph's constant wishing that she had a master and wings, and Ikaro's constant questioning of what love is. They introduced these dramatic conflicts in the first episode, and constantly reminded us about them with little character development until the climax of episode 11. I honestly stopped caring about Nymph's story arc when we got a fourth (maybe fifth) inner monologue about how she wishes Tomoki could be her master and restore her wings, which was pretty much identical to all the monologues she had before. The only subplot that really interested me was Sugata's adventure's into Synapse. In fact, I wish Sugata got more screentime, since he's easily the most interesting character of the cast. He would kind of make a better protoganist too; even if Tomoki is the center of the harem, and is hinted to be some sort of "chosen one", Sugata's the one doing most of the mystery solving.Despite all these apparent flaws, sometimes it seems as if Sora no Otoshimono is a stealth parody of harem shows, hentai, and the weirder television shows that anime is often stereotyped as. If you take away the comically over-the-top context of the hijinks that the main characters get themselves into, it sounds just like the kind of stuff you would hear about from any shallow parody of anime; Tomoki transforming into a giant watermelon and attempting tentacle rape, Tomoki fusing himself with the school pool so he can grope female swimmers, Sohara's anger manifesting itself as a giant snowman, etc. etc.Tomoki's pervert attitude is also an obvious aversion to the chivalrous protagonist found in virtually every harem show; then there's the fact that Tomoki manages to get four girls to fall in love with him, despite his perverted attitude, as if they only like him because he's the protagonist... Perhaps in a bout of depression and anxiety over the state of the anime and manga industry, Suu Minazuku created this series as "take that" to the many cliches and tropes often found in ecchi comedies? Or maybe he created the series as an *affectionate* parody?Anyways, for the most part it's still an okay series, but Forte just came off as a lot worse than it's predecessor. Hopefully the 2011 movie (which I have yet to see), and the upcoming third season are better, but Forte has caused me to seriously doubt the quality of this series.