So, a space ship crash-lands just off the coast of Japan, with 150 humanoid aliens on board. Oh, and they all look like super hot high-schoolers with supernatural abilities and a weirdly submissive nature. (Yep, this means EXACTLY what you think.) The ship is FUBAR, so they are stuck on Earth, but that's no problem, since the humans welcome them with open arms, naturally. I mean, smoking hot aliens with inexplicable intelligence and magical powers (and a history of abuse and slavery...oops, spoilers) cannot possibly be dangerous, right? RIGHT?
Anyway, the story opens with our protagonist, Ikuhara Takeya, an exceptionally generic high-school student with the intellect and personality of a brick. One transport accident later he finds one of the female DearS, naked (of course), utterly oblivious of everything, who immediately makes out with him....and then Chobits happens. That's the best I can describe the series. Ren, our titular alien super-bimbo, is a blatant ripoff of Chi, down to the same hair style, and Takeya is just a more stupid and arrogant version of Hideki. There is one thing being an endearingly clueless farmboy, but Takeya takes the "oblivious asshole" trope to a new level of annoying...
Eh, on second thought, it's pretty pointless to describe the story and the characters. DearS is basically a dumbed down version of Chobits with it's heart ripped out and replaced with incredibly generic archetypes and a giant plothole for a story. What the series does have, is a disgusting amount of almost-hentai ecchi fanservice, that drowns everything else out. If the series had any endearing qualities or profound meaning, it's been lost somewhere between the nymphomaniac homeroom teacher who makes their students read porn out loud, and the magical sex-slaves from space. But even the ecchi is so corny and low-brow, that it's way more tiresome than fun.
In the last few episodes the series does try to cobble together a sequel bait by dropping some character development and semi-coherent story bits, but it's too little, too late. There was much potential in the setting, and with some rework it could've been turned into something interesting, but sadly, it's was not to be. The art style didn't age well either and the sound/music is just forgettable background noise.
There is literally nothing remarkable about DearS. It's just some mediocre ecchi fap-fuel with busty alien slave girls and bad slapstick comedy. There are some fun moments and interesting bits throughout the series, and it's only 13 episodes long, so if you can look past all it's faults, DearS could be a good choice for a boring afternoon, if you have nothing else to watch, but that's about it. If you haven't already seen it, you'd be better off watching Chobits instead.
