kenneth.grant - 2017-04-10 12:50:31

Super Lewd

rhianna.abernathy - 2016-01-14 20:16:48

(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

bryana.mueller - 2015-03-07 13:24:14

This is a anime worth watching ! Do you love anime girls with big boobs and can fly? (me i couldn't care less) but the way they look is amazing! the story line is just gorgeous. Definitely a anime worth seeing !

heaney.percival - 2014-11-13 21:29:19

Great story and mixed with great animation, overall a freaking sweet anime. I think if you love comedy you should give this a try cause you wont regret it. It can get a little overboard on dirty jokes, but if you look past that the comedy can be funny. All the characters are very memorable and have hilarious personality's. That bundled with a great story concept you will probably like if you are into comedy/fantasy. Give it a few episodes before you make any judgements.I cannot wait to watch more in this great series!     

cullen01 - 2014-08-14 23:45:49

In this review I'll be talking aboutSora no Otoshimono and cheesecake.

Much like cheesecake, Sora noOtoshimono isn't the biggest hit in terms of originality orcomplexity, but it's still damn good.

The anime is about the ordinary andhighly perverted boy Sakurai Tomoki whose oh-so-loved peace and quietgets ruined one day when an angelic robot (angeloid), Ikaros, fallsfrom the sky and accepts Tomoki as her master. Over time, Tomoki thencollects his own little harem of cute girls and lives through allkind of typical situations like beaches, bath houses and festivals.

So far so cheesy, but wait, there'smore!

While a lot of the episodes are mostlyfiller and only 4-10 minutes of each such episode advance the plot,the characters, or their relationships, the rest of the show deliversan interesting setting, likable and reasonably deep characters, anddiscusses the hardships of slavery, freedom and kindness through therelationships between them.

To avoid spoilers, I will not go intodepth as to who experiences what trouble and conflict.
What I will say is that the charactersseem to have your typical run-of-the-mill anime personalities; apettanko tsundere, a ditzy blonde, a psychopath, a geek, etc. thewhole lot of them. Again, nothing groundbreaking, but they arelikable, well executed and consistent in their behavior.
And even though Tomoki shows almost nogrowth in terms of personality the entire time, each of the angeloidshave their own problems to solve, inner conflicts to handle anddecisions to make.

One paragraph ago you might havewondered, how can a series have so much non-story-related content?
The answer is copious amounts offanservice and silly humor. So silly that I had to avert my eyes acouple of times because it was too cringy for me to handle.
If you're looking for logic duringthese ridiculous scenes, you'll be disappointed. They throw aroundtechnically-lethal punches, create physical impossibilities and doloads of stuff that simply doesn't make sense (did I mention theoverabundance of fanservice?). But at least they're consistent withit.
Another thing they like to do is tojuxtapose feigned seriousness with the goofy parts, which actuallyworks uncannily well.
To put it in a nutshell, if youconsider yourself to have “mature” humor, it'll be pretty hardfor you to find Sora no Otoshimono funny or even bearable. On theother hand, if you can shut down large parts of your brain whilewatching, you'll have the time of your life.

Anyway, what the anime is really goodat is switching between ridiculousness and seriousness. I have noidea how they pull it off, but the scenes that advance the plot andthe characters' relationships can actually be taken seriously eventhough they sometimes are nestled between utter stupidity.

There even are entire episodes thathave almost no fanservice or silly humor, which are simply fantastic.If Sora no Otoshimono only consistent of these kind of episodes itwould have gotten a straight 10/10 from me.

What's left on the recipe? Oh right,art!

Overall the animation is solid.Especially during goofy scenes, the characters often are animated ina chibi-esque way, which is fitting, cute and funny most of the time.
The fighting scenes look stunninglyawesome and combined with their music, create an experience that'snothing short of epic. Goosebumps will be had.
The only negative points that come tomy mind are the slightly weird-looking eyes (matter of taste, Iguess) and slightly inconsistent bust-sizes (I can't believe I'mactually mentioning this)

To come to a conclusion, Sora noOtoshimono is one delicious piece of cheesecake that won't leave youthinking about the inner mechanics of human nature, but still is verymuch enjoyable albeit cringy at times. 8/10 would eat again.

jesse.ullrich - 2013-06-10 02:19:07

When I first started watching episode of Sora no Otoshimono, I thought it was going to be a serious drama anime. The way the story and plot set up, it could have gone that way and still would've been a decent anime.

However, unexpectedly and sudden, the story changed dramatically. The main chracter, Tomoki had to chance to wish for anything in the world. Instead of anything useful, he uses it pause time and look at girls panties. It all escalated from there. 

The story is fast paced and never boring, and each moment is filled with quirky comedy. Each episode will get you and keep you laughing the entire time.

The only thing I might complain about is the series introduces too many characters, and it's hard to create personalities for them without being too overused or cliche. 

Overall I'd highly recommend Sora no Otoshimono if you like the comedy genre of anime and can handle the fan service parts and pervertness prsent.