Apartment Invaders!? #01 — Guardian Hearts 1.5

July 11th, 2014

  

Does anybody even remember Guardian Hearts?

Impressions:

An episode of two halves, but both lacking in different ways. The first half was just plain dull as all hell. There was a moment or two when the director put some effort in, or at least said “I want this scene of her hair blowing in the cherry petals overanimated as hell,” but yeesh. One might think it was a PA Works show from how absolutely bloody nothing happened at all and all the soothing music trying to put me to sleep.

At about the halfway point, things took a turn for the stupid and it just kept double down more and more on that. It’s very reminiscent of Guardian Hearts (or I guess KoreZon for you more modern kids) in the way its trying to sell itself as a parody by slopping together as many different cliches as possible and go “This is bonkers, guys.” But to go back to the GH intro (and it’s not even a good OVA), that was significantly weirder and actual parody instead of just aping the cliches. They did kick off the stupidity almost decently with the protagonist showing a degree of competence and trying to beat one of them with a bat for shooting beams at him, eg the inklings of maybe some light hearted action, but the action never materialized past some beams and they ruined it anyway with all the crying and groping that soon followed. It also never ramped up to be truly humorous stupidity instead of the same kind already found in… well, pretty much any kind of magical girlfriend harem show around.

Too much bad intro and whatever the hell the first half was supposed to be, not enough… well, I guess it’s supposed to be mostly a comedy. Production’s about middling without any of the clever direction Silver Link sometimes shows. I guess the standout feature is that in a rare feat, the self-narrating protagonist ends up being one of the less obnoxious characters in the harem show, but that’s mostly because so many of the other characters are picking up the slack. 

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5 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • il-Palazzo says:
    July 11, 2014 at 12:47 pm

    “Does anybody even remember Guardian Hearts?”

    The first thing I think when I see this review’s title is: “Whoa, someone actually remember Guardian Hearts”

  • jingoi says:
    July 11, 2014 at 12:52 pm

    “Does anybody even remember Guardian Hearts?”
    I remember dling a few episodes then discovering there are uncensored versions which made me hunt for the BDs then later BDs with subs (not like I was ever going to watch it).

  • Neclord X says:
    July 12, 2014 at 2:59 am

    I remember Guardian Hearts too, was probably one of the most forgettable things I’ve seen, but for some reason I remember it, like I remember Yumeria, may be because are some of the first series I downloaded. I guess is more difficult to forget bad anime than good.

  • The Phantom says:
    July 12, 2014 at 12:36 pm

    I rolled my eyes in disbelief when all those females appear out of nowhere into his room:

    A ghost girl magically appeared, then another appear from below the table? from the wall? breaking in from the window? then the landlady came from the front door? I was expecting the sick girl to appear from the ceiling!.

    I suppose that expecting a good plot in a harem is not realistic, but I certainly was not expecting to be this bad.

  • doomentio12 says:
    July 12, 2014 at 2:35 pm

    Finally, an anime that’s not some yaoishitty fuckjoshit crap. Oh wait, just another show with a shitty male MC.