Pandora Hearts

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Japanese: パンドラハーツ
English: Pandora Hearts
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Type: TV
Episodes: 25
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Apr 3, 2009 to Sep 25, 2009
Premiered: Spring 2009
Broadcast: Fridays at 01:29 (JST)
Producers: Square Enix, TBS, flying DOG
Licensors: NIS America, Inc.
Studios: Xebec
Source: Manga
Genres: AdventureAdventure, FantasyFantasy, MysteryMystery
Demographic: ShounenShounen
Duration: 24 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.641 (scored by 178009178,009 users)
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Ranked: #14412
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Popularity: #551
Members: 440,802
Favorites: 5,223

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Preliminary Spoiler
Feb 7, 2010
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 ...
May 31, 2009
Preliminary (9/25 eps)
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 ...
Jul 2, 2010
Mixed Feelings
Pandora Hearts is a prime example of wasted potential. It starts out with an interesting premise that grabs you at the start, but after a few episodes, it’s nothing but downhill from there until it finally crashes and burns at the end of its 25-episode run.

Why do I say this?

There are many interesting plot threads and ideas that are introduced at various points in the story, but they are almost never followed through with or they’re executed in a way that, frankly, makes them boring. For example, when we learn about the four dukedoms of Pandora, I get the sense that there’s a lot of ...
Jun 25, 2013
Imagine your reality falling into pieces on your fifteenth birthday, pushed into a broken toy box and relentlessly pursued by people you barely know.

Pushed aside and left broken, do you accept death in the name of saving another's life, desperately looking for pieces of yourself to confirm your existence? Knowing nothing about yourself, wanting to find out, yet scared of finding out, how do you move on? How do you protect something you once lost, in fear of losing it again, suffocating it with your loyalty and inability to let it leave your sight?

Pandora Hearts explores the story of Oz Vessalius ( or Bezarius, as ...
May 30, 2009
Preliminary (8/25 eps)
First off, I have to confess that the only reason why I'm writing this review is because there is a review here that says it's a horrible anime and I can't allow that to be said, 'cause this is my favourite anime of all time! (sorry MAL this just had to be said don't worry I focus only on the anime from now on)
Pandora Hearts is a anime/manga that is completely unique, seriously I've read over 200 manga's (i haven't added them all to my list on this site btw) and searched through hundreds more to find one similar to this and I can't find ...
Apr 17, 2011
Mixed Feelings
Pandora Hearts is an anime that draws inspiration and many thematic elements from the story Alice in Wonderland. It is about a young aristocrat named Oz Bezarius, the heir of a noble house, who becomes the victim of a dark ceremony in the first episode and is cast down into the "Abyss" - a prison like area inhabited by monsters called Chains. While there, he meets the Chain known as Alice, the Black Rabbit.

The show starts out incredibly strong, but its strength doesn't last long at all. The overlying problem with the show is that it doesn't seem to know what ...
Apr 25, 2009
Preliminary (3/25 eps)
Suffice to say I love this anime so much, by just watching the first episode I'm already addicted to it.The plot of the story is Original and Interesting,the background music suits the anime well,The art is good but the quality kinda pisses me off but overall this anime is spectacular.Can't wait to see more episodes of it.
Oct 15, 2014
Mixed Feelings
Oh Pandora Hearts, how you have let me down.
I'm kicking off this review by saying that I didn't watch this at anyone's request. A friend of mine mentioned watching it in passing and with nothing else to go on I threw myself headfirst into it.
Pandora Hearts had potential which is a downright shame because it wasted it by veering off into "nothing-is-explained land."

Story: 5/10
The initial premise was awesome. Dark, horrific, desperate. A lot of the story elements in Pandora Hearts are drawn from Alice in Wonderland and twisted into darker themes. The basic premise is that Oz Vessalius, a spoiled rich kid, is thrown into ...
Apr 4, 2010
(This is my first review ever.)

Oh, dear. I'm shocked at the overall positive vibe people have for this show. Was I watching something else by mistake?

The story itself is serviceable, perhaps even interesting, but it's buried under a glacial pace. They managed to cover about 12 episodes' worth of material in 25 episodes, which seems like the director was suddenly told just before they went on air that he had twice as much time as he thought he did. I just read that the manga is still going while the anime has finished. Oh wait, no. It didn't finish. It ended. Finishing sounds like they ...
Jun 20, 2010
What gives people the strength to go on after they have fallen? What makes them strive for the perspective of a bright future? Seeking to answer those questions, “Pandora Hearts” gives the impression of a charming, unique series that differs from its counterparts through adapting a popular scheme, but not entirely living off it. Why, then, is it nothing amazing in particular?

STORY (7)
Good beginning. This series starts with really nicely developed foundations. It seems very promising; we get to know Oz Vessalius, your typical young hero-wannabe, but as soon as Alice shows up, things start getting interesting. Oz ends up in the twisted realm of ...
Jul 12, 2009
Preliminary (15/25 eps)
The Story:
I rated the Story of Pandora Hearts a full 10 because the series simply has one of the most amazing stories i've seen so far in anime. The story is well written with multiple twists and the cliffhangers at the end of each episode really get you on the edge of your seat waiting for the next episode. The story also has some elements from Alice in Wonderland but they are all modified to fit the anime story.

The Art:
Pandora Hearts is drawn and animated quite well and i quite like the Victorian style of buildings and clothing. Still the animation is not even ...
Jul 3, 2009
Preliminary (14/25 eps)
This is the first review i am writing so excuse me mistakes or anything.
Pandora hearts is one of the most ORIGINAL animes i've seen so far and i have seen many. The attention to detail is very sharp like the clothing and plot. If you haven't read the manga then i suggest you do, it tells u everything from episodes so far with a few spoilers. But the anime itself follows the manga very very closely and giving the same manga titles as the anime titles. The story of Alice and Oz's adventuress outbreak of discovery, pain and realisation is immense and addictive leaving me ...
Dec 18, 2013
Ah, what do we wonder have here? A fine lot, a fine lot indeed, all wonderfully fat and skinny and in between. Come to tea then to wonder? Hmm? A wonderland you say? A wonderland! A wonderland? Fallen down the rabbit hole, you wonder? Bees in your bonnets? Butterflies in your stomach? Bats in your belfry? No need to wonder... You're already here, Wonder! It's wonderland! A wonderfully wonderful wonder of a wonderland, Wonder. But you must have wondered by now if Wonderland's the name, Mr. Wonder? No, Mrs. Wonder. It's-

...the Abyss.

W-what the hell? Who's there?

Pandora Hearts was adapted by a manga of the same ...
Jun 4, 2011
If I was told : 'Hey, there's another season of Pandora Hearts' I would believe it...
I feel like something is still missing after 25 episodes. If I was to delete the few last episode from my mind and write this review, I would have been able put a way better score. I often say : When the Ending is bad the whole thing becomes bad. This 'rule' apply to Pandora Hearts. In fact... it's like it is made for this show.

Pandora Hearts had a lot of potential !

The First Episodes were mysterious and I had a lot of question on my mind. I have ...
Nov 2, 2009
Tii
I wish the ending would continue on... yet that is what the manga is for. I heard the anime pulls you in for the mangas sake. I was automatically pulled in at the very start when Oz was bowing down to the people of abys.

This anime is my favorite, and for the very first time on the top of my list to recomend to people around the world. -nod nod-

My favorite movie when I was really really little was Alice in Wonderland, and now as Pandora Hearts captures that feel to it, I love it as well.

If you enjoy Disneys Alice, then you'll enjoy this ...
Sep 3, 2009
Preliminary (21/25 eps)
first off I whould like to say this is my first REAL review so I hope its good ^-^

10/10 Story
I love the story for Pandora hearts its one the most original stories i've seen in an anime.The story is veary funny yet trippy because you first start of with this party and its all happy but then Oz falls in the abyss and its so trippy with all the floating dolls,furniture,food,ect and oz meets Alice and Oz ends up trying to find her memories and its just awsome overall

9/10 Art
The art in Pandora hearts good and really sets the mood for a funny,sad ,scary,ect sceen.The ...
Jun 19, 2022
Pandora Hearts

I have to make one thing clear in advance, if you want to watch "Pandora Hearts" but at the same time you are a manga reader, do yourself a favor and read the manga.

The anime adaptation of Pandora Hearts includes the first 3 arcs and thus roughly the first 35 chapters. The last 3 episodes are filler episodes with an alternate ending.

Although I was mostly entertained by the anime, this is one of the worst manga adaptations I've seen. The pacing was almost non-existent, and some episodes dragged on for ages. Tension was completely undermined thanks to that, of course. Even some ...
Jul 22, 2014
OK, short version, take your mouse and click the arrow to take you the other direction.

Get far from this show of indecisive characters, pointless enemies, and plot holes, no plot chasms so deep you find cavemen, dinosaurs, and a cackling maniac smearing feces on turtles.
I'll wait...

Still here? Ok, I can understand that this is going to take a little more convincing.

Story: 3
Starts out fine. Oz, a 15 year old, seemingly carefree noble is attacked at his Bar Mitzvah (j.k.) and is pulled into a world called abyss where he meets a crazy woman named Alice. Alice is ...
Jun 12, 2009
Preliminary (11/25 eps)
Pandora Hearts, a great story for people who likes adventures and fantasy. I guess this will be the first and most precious anime that I gave "All-10". It's from Square Enix, and they make the whole scene really amazing. Let's relate it to some games, ..like, kingdom hearts, a boy lost in his way? To tell the truth, this is the first time I've ever seen related to that game, that's why I like to watch it over and over again. Even though I didn't finish it yet since it's still airing, I know the left episodes for the viewers to watch will be more ...
Mar 17, 2015
Mixed Feelings
Every now and then you come across an anime with all the right tools for success but ends up having to fight an uphill battle against unfortunate surrounding factors. Take a manga that's nowhere near complete, hand it off to a studio with an unimpressive track record, and what do you get? Well, honestly now that I think about it, a lot of adaptations of manga/LNs/VNs fit this criterion, but today I'll be highlighting yet another unfortunate case in Pandora Hearts. An anime with a compelling backdrop but not a clue as to how to handle it in the long run. Whilst the show may ...