Otogi Story Tenshi no Shippo

Well, talk about another underrated series.

Angel Tales, is a very simple anime. It's just that. No huge plot-twists, no useless drama, useless elements, nothing. It's just a king of a harem anime.

Shortly put, our story starts with Goro Mutsumi, a young man with a bad luck. In his past, he took great care of lonely, stray, wounded pets, (in total 12 of them) and they wanted to repay his kindness by being his guardian angels. Simple, no?

Art is nothing outstanding, since it was a 2001 anime, still it was not outdated for it's time. Bandai Visual was lovely again.

Sound, this is where ... anime goes north and south. Pros, some of the angel's voice actors was good and elegant. Some of the angel's... well, was not on the spot. And Goro's acting... I do know it was low on budget and it's kinda hard to find actors for all the 12 girls, so I'm letting it pass. Opening was mediocre, ending was pretty good. I downloaded it to my phone and still listen to it.

Character, this is where Angel Tales shines... yeah no. Like I said, it's a simple harem anime, and with 13 characters, it's clear that one can't develop characters. It's just Goro was a real good guy and remained that way the whole time.

Enjoyment-Overall: Well, it should be clear now that Angel Tales is a simple anime. And other than increasing the girl's number in the harem, it was nothing new. Still, the anime was full of little things that made you love it; like Goro's harmonica, or finding out that he wasn't a pussy despite his first appearence (that was a relief for me, first impressions are bad indeed) or Goro's father's last bow to the girls in episode 12. Anime was full of those little things, and it kinda made you attached to it. Of course it had it's bad moments, but pros over cons with this anime.
If you like harems, go for it. This one was a gold mine for harem-romance lovers.

I remember watching a few episodes of this anime as a child an is probably the first harem romance anime I have ever watched. I found tenshi no shippo quite enjoyable and nostalgic.
It is about a young man named Goro who is your typical kind harem protagonist. He is a loser who recently lost his job and quite unlucky but his luck starts to change when he meets three beautiful girls who turns out to be his guardian angels. We later find out the the girls are reincarnated versions of animals Goro helped or took care of in the past so they decide to repay ... his kindness by being his caring guardians. He then meets more guardian angels who live with him and serve him. Plot wise it is decent but it gets repetitive and boring. The art is fine for an old anime. Even though the plot and art was not as good as I wanted it to be I still enjoyed it because it's not like normal harem romcoms which focuses too much on echii or on typical characters but don't get me wrong I normally enjoy harem romcoms. Tenshi no shippo won't make you laugh out loud or drown you in echii fan service but will give you a light heart warming harem that will give you a pleasant change to your typical harems.

The show itself is so cute and I fell in love with some of the characters. Having said this, it’s good to note that this show is pretty much a copy cat of every other harem out there. The story line is not that much different then all the others and it gets hard to keep things in line with 12 girls all over the place. It was hard to keep them all straight though because it seemed that there were more characters coming out of the wood work as the story went on. I don’t want to have to have a list with every ... girl’s names and animals in front of me when I am trying to watch it. There is a reason why this show isn’t fully well known.

Goro is so bland that he just makes it hard to feel for the guy. There really seems to be no personality and is completely shallow and he can’t even feel for the girls feelings at all. Even the girls talk about this in part of the show as his screen time seems to be cut down as more girls come in.

The girls… I can pretty much pick out one piece of their personality and use that to give them a name. Seriously, when you’re going to do a harem anime, limit the characters down to at least 6 or 7. Not a whole 12! I mean, it doesn’t even make much sense, it would of made more sense if it was the twelve Japanese Zodiacs instead of us getting the frog, the gold fish, the hamster and so on. Then it would work much better to the story of the 4 gods.

The art style is alright, though it felt like the characters have rather flattened heads; especially when they look right at the camera and when they turn, their heads seem oblong too. It’s well… mediocre at best. I’m not sure what the artist was trying to do but it’s not really well done.

The music was alright, though a bit tinny and music box-ish. The other music really does not stand out except for one song they play over… and over… and over… and over… again. It’s annoying and I felt like having a drinking game to that song, it happened so much.

I mostly only watched if for the story line that seemed a little different then the other shows.