Kick-Heart

There is not many dialogue in here. So most of the time you are served with the creative artstyle. We can see visually a love inside their heart and body, it is represented beautifully. I can safely say that this anime artstyle is really unique and the characters design too. Looks like an old anime where every character personality match with their body appearance. Though, I give you a warning if you have an epilepsy because the fight scene is filled with rapidly color change.

The rest is average really. Like their voice is average, music, BGM, and the story. Its not good and its not ... bad either. The story plot didn't really stick to me because I got confused about what is going on. And the MC backstory didn't either, they barely make anything understandable except for his fetish and objectives. Found this anime because the Jack Stauber - Buttercup MV. It is fairly watchable if you have spare time to spend.

The story had potential, but there are just too many loopholes for it to be actually good; it's just a 12-minute movie so it makes sense, but even so that doesn't mean I'm gonna rate it higher overall. However, for the story I'll give it a 7/10, which is more for the potential than the execution.

The story is about 2 pro wrestlers, a sadistic woman and a masochistic man, who have 2 matches and who happen to encounter each other outside the wrestling ring without knowing. Its main theme would be the power to resist temptations to protect what's really important; we get to understand ... that from the second match, in which the man participates wishing to use the money for an orphanage. Lady S, who is actually a nun at the said orphanage and knows the man and that he's a masochist, requested the match to test his resolve.

Which is all good; but then aside this we have a lot of question left unanswered. How did Julia, the nun, know that the man that visited the orphanage is her opponent? What happened in that scene with the "python" in the toilet? Why did the man and his wrestling partner, Chicken, have to run after the first match? Aside all the questions, there is also the development overall that could have been better.

The art was alright, but it isn't the kind that would get you amazed or that would make the anime better.

Well, overall it's not really such a waste since it's only 12 minutes long, but you won't lose anything if you don't watch it either.

(Story: 7/10, art: 7/10, sound: 6/10, character: 7/10, enjoyment: 5/10, overall: 5/10)

I know that director Masaaki Yuasa is loved here on MAL but I was still shocked to see how many 8's and 9's this short by him was getting. Kick-Heart wasn't very good, guys. The short was only about 12 minutes long but I'm still giving it a 3/10. The story is bare bones: a masked wrestler is also a masochist who falls in love with a female opponent because she beats him up. Yeah, it's awkward. Don't watch this in mixed company. He literally gets turned on by watching her slap the shit out of his tag partner. Did I mention their names are ... Masked M and Lady S? S&M, get it!? Ugh, it's so bad. The anime is also pretty gross, like there's a part where M gets stuck inside the fat body of S's tag partner and he sees dead bodies and sludge in the folds of her fat? Kick-Heart features Yuasa's trademark chaotic animation style which I find grating. It was also really blurry and hard to make out some parts. I actually liked the design of Lady S, the fact that she was physically intimidating (part of why I didn't give this a 2/10), but again I just wish she (and the rest of it) was drawn better. Some scenes look like a middle schooler drew them. In the end M throws the match to S but it's ok S still gives the prize money to save the orphanage because *drum roll* surprise twist, S was the new nun at the orphanage the whole time!? Wow, I totally didn't call that twist the moment the nun was introduced!? Wait, hold on. M acts surprised, like he didn't know she was S...so why did he still throw the match if he knew his orphanage needed the prize money? It makes no sense. He literally just agreed to the match because he wanted her to beat him up some more. Again, this is an awkward one. Blech.