Tenshi no 3P!

Since entering high school, Kyou Nukui has not attended a single class. Instead, he spends his days locked in his bedroom composing music and posting it on the internet accompanied by his only friend's drawings, an artist with the pseudonym "Kiriyume." One day, Kyou hesitantly uploads his newest composition, and first departure from his typical style, TR03. Additionally, he does not upload under his usual handle "HibikiP," but simply under the name "me," and without a drawing from his mysterious friend.

Shortly after, Kyou receives a very polite email, not only praising his music but also somehow discerning that he is, in fact, the composer behind TR03. The e-mail also asks for a meetup in a nearby park, to which he cautiously decides to go. To his surprise, however, he finds three elementary school girls at the meeting place! Suddenly, Jun Gotou, Nozomi Momijidani, and Sora Kaneshiro ask for his help to hold a concert in their home, an old church now used as an orphanage. And though Kyou is reluctant at first, after seeing their musical abilities, he eventually decides to accept their proposal.

Based on the light novel of the same name by the award-winning Sagu Aoyama, Tenshi no 3P! follows Kyou as these three angels change his life.

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Gotou, Jun Main

Oono, Yuuko Japanese

Kaneshiro, Sora Main

Koga, Aoi Japanese

Momijidani, Nozomi Main

Endou, Yurika Japanese

Nukui, Kyou Main

Inoue, Yuuki Japanese

Toriumi, Sakura Supporting

Itou, Kanae Japanese

Nukui, Kurumi Supporting

Hidaka, Rina Japanese

Ogi, Koume Supporting

Hanazawa, Kana Japanese

Ogi, Sayuri Supporting

Hikasa, Youko Japanese

Aigae, Yuzuha Supporting

Iguchi, Yuka Japanese

Sawatari, Masayoshi Supporting

Ookawa, Tooru Japanese

Satomi, Tetsurou Producer

Kawamura, Hiroshi Producer

Miyagi, Souji Producer

Okamura, Takema Producer

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Sep 25, 2017

HaXXspetten

Recommended

Is it already the year 2017 and you still haven't converted to the church of lolicon yet? That is very unfortunate, but maybe this anime will manage to enlighten you. At least it did a good job of reminding me of why I became one in the first place.

Tenshi no 3P is more or less the spiritual sequel to Ro-Kyu-Bu, coming from the same author and adapted by the same animation studio. So if you've seen that show, you can consider that a rough baseline on what to expect here too, merely that instead of loli basketball we here have a loli rock band. However, ... it must also be stated that Tenshi no 3P is generally a bit more serious and wholesome than RKB was, but on the flipside it has less ecchi elements instead. As for whether that's a good or a bad thing... well that's up to you to decide.

The story mainly follows three orphaned elementary school girls, ostracized from their school classmates and living inside a church. In an attempt at spreading some joy both for themselves and for the local kids, they decide to form a band and then host a concert for them. In order to do so, they seek the help of the anime's high schooler protagonist Nukui Kyou—an independent music producer they found on the internet who lives nearby—and asks him to become their manager and help them fulfill their modest dreams.

Now it should be said that while the show is clearly made for lolicons primarily, it's not like it's totally unwatchable even if you aren't one because content-wise Tenshi no 3P actually has mostly more wholesome key plot elements in it. For one, the music is a rather central theme over the course of the story, and while it doesn't exactly go into detail about how the girls' are improving on a technical level, there is at least a respectable amount of effort put into the musical department of the anime, with numerous live performances and songs done by the main seiyuu cast. I guess you could argue that the girls are perhaps a bit *too* good at it considering their ages, but well that's anime for you. Mind you though, this is *not* an idol anime by any means; the girls are not trying to become professional musicians at all. This is only a small scale spare time project of theirs. We also have a decent amount of drama and characterization in the form of these girls' rather miserable life situations as orphans and outcasts in their school, and there are some genuinely touching moments every here and there. I especially find the rather noble intentions behind the girls' musical ambitions to be rather heartwarming. There are also some secondary characters introduced over the course of the anime who add some additional perspective on the strange relationship between Kyou and the kids and end up influencing the story in various ways as time goes on.

That said, even though there are numerous more serious merits to the show, in order to get the full intended experience of Tenshi no 3P then I think you pretty much have to be a lolicon in the end. Take my word for it: if you're not feeling some sort of subconscious desire to split Jun in two and attempt to make babies with her half the time she's on screen then you're missing out on about half the potential enjoyment value of this anime. Not to mention the dominant and sexually aggressive HanaKana loli Kiriyume that is introduced in the latter part of the show; I'd lick her toes any day of the week. It's definitely not as lewd as Ro-Kyu-Bu was and in general it does have a more serious atmosphere, but in the end the show's main selling point naturally lies with its lolis, especially the main trio consisting of Jun, Sora and Nozomi. They are rather different from each other with Jun being the ultra-moe poster girl, Sora being the comic relief character and Nozomi being the more vocal and emotional of the trio, so they balance each other out quite nicely as a group. Amongst the side lolis we also have the MC's jealous little sister Kurumi (who unfortunately doesn't get as much screen time as she probably deserved) as well as the rather forceful aforementioned Kiriyume who they end up meeting in the second half of the anime. To add a bit of variety there are also a pair of non-lolis involved in the form of the MC's childhood friend Sakura and Kiriyume's caretaker Yuzuha, the latter of which is supposedly an elementary schooler too but she looks way older than that so I'm not sure what that's about. So that makes seven girls in total, but as for whether that makes it a harem or not is a bit debatable since it's pretty unclear what kind of feelings the little girls really have for Kyou considering that they're still prepubescent (they probably don't understand what love is yet). Either way, their general depiction is leaning more towards moe than ecchi though—which is another difference from Ro-Kyu-Bu I think—as while there certainly are some occasional shots with a lot of underage skin showing (like bathroom scenes), for the most part the girls are presented as more cute and adorable than alluring. Most of the "lewd" scenes of Tenshi no 3P basically just consist of sexual innuendos in the form of some intentionally ero-sounding dialogue which in reality describes something totally innocent (you probably know what I'm talking about, it's a pretty common narrative trick in romcoms and stuff), usually as the opening scene of an episode.

This pattern does admittedly change a bit towards the end of the show (episodes 10 and 11 to be exact) as then the more serious arc that was ongoing has just ended and apparently they decided to round that out the anime with being a bit more light-hearted and harem-like than the rest of the show, and it does have more ecchi elements in it. However, considering that this show was ultimately made for lolicons primarily, I can't say this was a very unexpected development, nor did I mind it at all. It's difficult to say whether or not that means that the anime would've been better as a whole if the rest of the show had been more ecchi-oriented as well or not, but I'm fairly happy with what we got so I won't think too much about it. That being said I still certainly hope we'll see some doujins of these girls in the future. The last episode does provide a quite satisfying finale though.

All-in-all I would probably still say that Ro-Kyu-Bu was a bit better than Tenshi no 3P but this is still something I would wholeheartedly recommend to other lolicons or people who just like moe girls in slice of life shows in general (as the show doesn't really have much ecchi other than the last few episodes). Unfortunately anything remotely loli-themed is bound to get slammed by prejudiced and narrow-minded westerners for no other reason than that "it's creepy" so I'm sure there'll be a bunch of clueless statements thrown around in some places, but hopefully people will be sensible enough to not pay them too much heed. But at least the show is obscure enough to be able to dodge most of the obligatory hate bandwagon, so maybe not all hope is lost.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Sep 25, 2017

Stranger_Hanyo

Mixed Feelings

Another season, another cute girls doing cute things show.

Welcome to Tenshi no 3P! another boring show with moments of excitements that you can find in almost any cute girl anime. Our protagonist Kyou is an average schooler with a passion for music. He loves to make music and is, unsurprisingly, a NEET. With a cute little sister at home, his only aim in life is shown to be making music.

But a NEET can't stay one forever in an anime, so a bunch of cute girls come along and ask him to help them for a band. He agrees and what follows is your usual anime ... plot.

STORY: Extremely predictable, Tenshi no 3P! has one of the weakest storylines of this season. Kyou meets girls, they try to seduce him, exciting moments and the end.

ART: This is one part where Tenshi did okay. The characters look good, the scenery appears beautiful and the girls look cute. No complaints.

SOUND: Being a music focused anime, I thought that I'd get some good OPs and EDs to download. While they may sound good to some, I hated them nonetheless.

CHARACTER: Don't expect any huge character developments from the show. Kyou remains shy as ever, the girls get cuter and my ship doesn't sail(Booooo).

ENJOYMENT: If you are in for cute girl stuff, you have hit the mark. There are plenty of tingling and exciting moments. Abundance of pantsu shots and whatnot, so if you love them you are in for a ride. Just don't expect to get overwhelmed watching Tenshi no 3P! It really sucks.

Conclusion? If you have nothing to do in life(like me) you can probably watch it. Otherwise, rewatch your old favorites. I should have done the same too.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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May 6, 2018

sinisempi

Not Recommended

I watched Tenshi no 3P because I adored Ryuuou no Oshigoto, a more recent loli show from the same studio. It was obvious straight away the two aren't at all similar in spirit or quality, and furthermore Tenshi no 3P shouldn't be compared with anything that's not also a pile of garbage. With the studio's next upcoming work being for a mobile game, one gets the impression they are all about budget contracts, so it's not surprising their output includes adaptations of trash.

Overall, Tenshi no 3P is unsalvageable. Usually I wouldn't bother writing a negative review on an obscure last year's show that I should ... have just dropped, but the contrast with Ryuuou no Oshigoto, still somewhat recent and superficially similar, is so stark that I thought it was worth noting.

The show starts as weak, and devolves to being totally phoned in, becoming a letdown despite the start. Around episode 3 or 4 I was starting to warm up to it in a you-ground-me-down kind of way, but then after the band's first performance it kept going further and further off the deep end.

There was no real overarching story - the band plays for the first time and then plays a few more times while a few bizarre or at least bizarrely handled sidestories happen. Seemingly major plotlines get casually dropped or brushed away multiple times, which at times felt merciful because of how bad the writing is. There was a "Christian" theme, gifting us with loads of hamfisted inspirational dialogue. At the beginning there was really squalid fanservice, and by the end there was full-on hareming, both of which suffered from the poor writing, and the visual quality, while adequate, didn't help them pop either.

The best that can be said of the visuals is that they were competently cheap. Anything more would have been wasted on this show. I didn't mind the voice acting.

My interest was perked for a second time when the mc promised to go on a date with each of the girls. I'm not sure if I misunderstood or if that "plotline" just got dropped, because in the end he only ever went on a date with one, the story apparently preferring to spend its time on stuff such as a cringeworthy mentoring sequence.

There were no eligible male characters other than the mc, because conveniently the mc was a shut-in pussy and therefore not even a token friend was required. There were traces of serious character development (or if there were more than just traces I'm in denial because of how bad it was), but in the end everyone is fodder for comedy or sex appeal, which is not a criticism per se. Of course, the show fails to be funny, and the fanservice wasn't laid thick enough to carry it for 12 episodes either. Sora (I think that was the name of the low-energy girl) was the only thing I found passably funny with any consistency.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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