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Pandora Hearts

Pandora Hearts

Alternative Titles

Synonyms: PandoraHearts
Japanese: パンドラハーツ

Information

Type: TV
Episodes: 25
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Apr 2, 2009 to Sep 24, 2009
Duration: 24 min. per episode
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
L represents licensing company

Statistics

Score: 8.281 (scored by 16667 users)
Ranked: #1852
Popularity: #105
Members: 36,326
Favorites: 1,728
1 indicates a weighted score
2 based on the top anime page.

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Synopsis

Oz Vessalius, heir to one of the duke houses, has just turned fifteen. His life is rich and carefree, darkened only by the constant absence of his father. At his coming-of-age ceremony, however, everything changes. For no reason that he can discern, he's cast into the prison known as the "Abyss", only to be saved by a "chain" known as Alice, the bloodstained black rabbit. It is unknown why was he cast into Abyss, how does Alice factor into it all, and what does the organization known as "Pandora" want with him.
(Source: ANN)

Related Anime

Adaptation: Pandora Hearts
Side story: Pandora Hearts Specials

Characters & Voice Actors

Alice
Alice
Main
Kawasumi, Ayako
Japanese
Kawasumi, Ayako
Break, Xerxes
Break, Xerxes
Main
Ishida, Akira
Japanese
Ishida, Akira
Nightray, Gilbert
Nightray, Gilbert
Main
Toriumi, Kousuke
Japanese
Toriumi, Kousuke
Sakamoto, Azuma
Japanese
Sakamoto, Azuma
Vessalius, Oz
Vessalius, Oz
Main
Minagawa, Junko
Japanese
Minagawa, Junko

Staff

Kajiura, Yuki
Producer, Theme Song Lyrics, Theme Song Arrangement, Theme Song Composition, Music
Kato, Takao
Director
Kaida, Yuriko
Theme Song Performance, Music
savage genius
Theme Song Performance


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Feb 7, 2010
Charry
When you lose everything and end up with nothing, how do you pick yourself up and move on? Do you lash out in anger and bitterness, hiding your wounds? Do you allow the emptiness inside you to shut out any emotional reaction, numbly accepting your fate? Do you desperately search everywhere for what remains of you, hoping to piece yourself back together? Or do you fear losing again so much that you spend all your time protecting what you already have, nearly crushing it in your tight grasp?

With each of these suggestions, I refer to a particular character in the story whose struggle with loss read more
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May 31, 2009
shinigamiallie
I would just like to say that this is the very first anime I've given a 10 to without watching it in its entirety. I've always enjoyed twists on Alice in Wonderland and I love the darker genre of anime so needless to say Pandora Hearts drew me in right away.

The synopsis doesn't do the story justice. Imagine being 15 and having everything and then being sucked into a world that is similar to a broken toy box where the dolls try to eat you. Thats just what Oz Bezarius goes through on his coming of age ceremony on his birthday. I won't say read more
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Recommendations

Similar setting: rich, somewhat arrogant noble kids, older (and hotter) servants, Gothic styles. Both try to present a fantasy world that resembles a historical European setting to various degrees, but with the critical aspect of the story based on a supernatural twist. In Kuroshitsuji, it is the concept of demons and angels. In Pandora Hearts, it is the "Abyss," a dimension where time is warped. Both protagonists have been bestowed with a sort of life-binding curse that they view as a punishment, yet ironically neither seem to value their lives very much.
Kuroshitsuji is much darker in tone than Pandora Hearts, however. It is quite heavily Gothic, while PH adheres to more typical anime conventions.
They have a very similar dark atmosphere. The sceneries are very similar.

Opening Theme

"Parallel Hearts" by FictionJunction (Wakana Ootaki, Keiko Kubota, Kaori Oda, Yuriko Kaida)

Ending Theme

#01: "Maze" by savage genius feat. Tomoe Ohmi (ep. 1-13)
#02: "Watashi wo Mitsukete. (私を見つけて。)" by savage genius (ep. 14-25)

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