Sora no Otoshimono

Take note that i've not read the manga or seen the other seasons yet but i'm planning on doing it in the near future and that i'm going all out with my honest opinion here. This is my first review on this site and i really wanted to talk about my disappointment for this anime to someone and what better place than on myanimelist.com

Hello everyone! This is your guy, HogisGuy. And i'm here with my first ever written review. I decided to write this review because i've never been this disappointed of an anime ever but boy have i got a lot (And i mean ... A LOT) of hate for my opinion on this series but i hope that you'll hear me out.

The first thing i wanna talk about is the story... wait! What story?!! Oh yeah! There was something about an angel from some a*****es in heaven. I totally forgot because i was so busy laughing at Tomoki's crazy and hilarious shenanigans (if you can't tell, I'm being sarcastic). Seriously, sometime i forgot that Ikaros really was an angel and thought she was a casual cosplayer or something. It seems like this anime was more busy showing us boring ecchi scenes and those many non-funny scenes with Tomoki and that it probably thought that we would get bored if they didn't show us more ecchi scenes and keep the actual plot at 45 seconds per episode. And even then the story itself wasn't that great but at least a hundred times more interesting than the other garbage they threw at us in the series. Though i will admit that i did laugh at some jokes there were a lot more jokes that just fell flat on it's own face and just died. It also feels like this anime didn't have any idea what audience it wanted to entertain. The comedy crowd? The drama crowd?! The perv crowd?!! I don't know and i have a feeling they didn't either.

The art and animations was really good and even beautiful at times. The designs on the characters was well done and i enjoyed the art style in every single scene (except for the "HILARIOUS" nipple-song scene).

Characters... OH JOY!! I'll start and finish it all with the poor excuse of a protagonist, Tomoki. Let me quote something from the book "I have no mouth, and i must scream" to describe what i feel for Tomoki... if i was a machine:

“HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.”

I HATE Tomoki! He is not funny! He is not deep! He is not interesting! He is nothing! I would love to know who decided for this thing to be the protagonist of the series so i could slam his/her head into the wall and scream "Why?!!" into his ear over and over again. Tomoki doesn't contribute with anything to the series. I love how the anime is constantly trying to make me believe that he is important in this anime when the most common problems he runs into is following:

1: How can i sneak into the girls locker room?
2: I can't afford this porno magazine? Well in all my years. I guess i have to work for some cash then.
3: How are we ever going to get those panties back on Sohara. What a pickle!
4: What's that Ikaros? You wanna move the plot forward? Hah! That's funny but seriously though, how can i sneak into the girls locker room?!!
5: Are you sure that transforming me into a girl is gonna get me inside the girls locker room?

You got a beautiful angel that will do ANYTHING for you! And if any of you people say he doesn't do anything with her because he's deep and emotional and would never take advantage of a woman like that. Yeah i think it's kinda too late to convince me that when i just saw him grope two women. You know what? Sugata is the better protagonist for the series. Yes i know that he too got some weird fantasies, playing around with dolls but here's the thing! He (unlike our villain "Tomoki") actually gets some s**t done. He researches the angels and seems to be more understanding and interested about them and want's to know more of their world. What does Tomoki do? ... He writes songs about his nipples. CHARMING!

I want to give this anime a lower score because giving it an overall score of four makes me feel dirty but the thing is that this anime isn't poor. Because when you get to the good parts and especially the last few episodes i was really invested and found it even sad for what poor Nymph had to go through to get Ikaros home. I have nothing against Ecchi animes or mangas, hell i even love them but when you focus on it too much to the point where it gets in the way of the story you have to realize that it's going to wear out fast. I actually love Manyuu Hikencho and High School Of The Dead.

- But HogisGuy!! HOTD has breasts and unnecessary panty shots. And Manyuu Hikencho is just naked breasts through the whole series.

Sure. HOTD has a lot of pointless ecchi scenes but they are out of the scenes as fast as they are in and yes, they do get boring at times with those panty shots but it never loses track of it's story and even has time for good character build-ups except for Shizuka who is totally pointless to the show and manga so far. Manyuu Hikencho's story revolves around big breasts. You can find it funny, you can find it hot. I see it as a hilarious and to be honest, a good story for it's ludicrous world and that's something this series gets right unlike Sora No Otoshimono.

Now then, i don't hate Sora No Otoshimono. I just don't think it was as good as some people tried to make it out be. Here's to the second season being better but i have my doubts.

The "Magical Girlfriend" genre is one that's been around long before anime became mainstream. Shows like Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie being prime examples. However, the series that made Magical Girlfriends a popular theme in anime would be "Ah! My Goddess". A charming, feel good show that has become a pretty big influence in the industry. Being a template for other similar titles like Chobits, Please Teacher!, Mahoromatic, Sekirei, and many others. Though with every good attempt at a magical girlfriend anime, there's always those poor attempts that are so horrible, that it makes the others I've mentioned feel bad about themselves. And by ... far, the ABSOLUTE, WORST magical girlfriend show to EVER disgrace the genre.......is Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan. But Heaven's Lost Property comes in a close second! And heres why.

The Story (If you can call it that) (2/10)

Tomoki Sakurai is this little punk ass who's been having the same dream he's been having ever since he was young. One his friends Sugata believes it to be a new world. However, Tomoki and his circle of friends have their lives change forever with the arrival of Ikaros. An angeloid who feel out of the sky and became Tomoki's master. Sparking a series of really perverted misadventures.

So as you can tell, this is a very familiar set up that's been done several times before. Examples I've already listed. But is it at least done well? OH HELL NO! Almost every episode is filled with plot holes and continuity errors, and the "romance" elements are poorly executed. Not to mention that it's VERY inconsistent with how angeloids work and function. I can honestly blame all of this on the shows usage of fanservice! Look, I don't mind fanservice in an anime as long as it's not overused and it doesn't take up the majority of it. Examples I can think of are "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya", "A Certain Scientific Railgun", and for a magical girlfriend example, "Ah! My Goddess". The problem in this case is that this series focusses WAY to much on the service, and seems to mostly care about giving male watchers erections, that the quality of everything else turns out horribly! And what makes it worse that it can be considered an excuse to give Tomoki perverted reactions to them. Who by the way, has to be the WORST male protagonist I've ever seen. But will get to him later.

So if you're looking for a deep, feel good romance anime, THIS IS NOT FOR YOU!

The Dub (6/10)

.....It just baffles me how this awful series would have a very good cast of voice actors for it's dub. I mean, it has the likes of Greg Ayres, Brittney Karbowski, Eric Vale, Jamie Marchi, Alison Vikorin, Mike McFarland, and Trina Nishimura. These people are very good at what they do! Some of which did voices for some of my all time favorite characters......so HOW they saw potential in this series I'll never know. I'm surprised that the women who did the voices for the female characters didn't feel insulted by how this show treats and objectifies women. You could argue that they might be use to it considering they've working on ecchi animes before, but if I was a voice actress, and was offered to work on something like this, I would feel disgusted and decline in a snap! But you know what pisses me off the most, is that there are other animes that are considered masterpieces, or at least fan favorites, they have yet get dubbed for the american market. And yet animes like Heaven's Lost Property get dubs about a year after the first season finishes airing. It REALLY boggles the mind.

The Characters (2/10)

Now I talk about what I think is the animes lowest point. And what better way to start, but with the main protagonist of the show, Tomoki. This prick has to be the WORST male protagonist I've ever seen, period! A lot of the time he's just being a no good pervert towards his friends and many of the background girls, and has very little respect for them! Now I just know that fanboys will try defending him by saying he does have his moments where he's nice towards the other characters, but he suffer the same problem as Louise the Zero! Any sense of character development that he'll get will be thrown out the window by the next episode, making that nice moment he had completely insincere. And don't get me started on his treatment to the other main characters. Speaking of which....

Ikaros was just.....boring. She's just your typical emotionless girl. Now I don't mind coming across this archetype more than once, as long as there's a good variation of it. Just take a look at Yuki Nagato, or Ennis from Baccano!. They were great emotionless girls. But Ikaros has nothing unique to her character, and just comes across as a downgraded version of Ren from DearS. Plus, this anime does a terrible job at being consistent with the fact that she's an android from heaven, since that fact doesn't stop her from eating food, shedding a tear every now and then, and so forth. Nymth, I'll admit was one of the two likable characters of this show. She did have a tragic backstory and her calling Tomoki an "insect" is another plus. Sohara I did pity over her treatment she gets from Tomoki.....until I discovered a disturbing fact about her, that makes her looks like a masochist. Now these main girls are somewhat tolerable, but what makes them unlikable to a certain extent is that they REALLY have no valid reasons to be in love with that asshole. Since he's guilty of the following.

1. Hitting Ikaros and talking down to her whenever she screws up with something.
2. Puts Nymth down for having a flat chest. (Cause yeah, that's REALLY an important feature for a girl to have. *Sarcasm*)
3. Peeps at Sohara changing from next door, as well as stealing her underwear. Not to mention that once he broke into her house during her birthday, ate some cake without asking, and gave her something his grandpa gave him as a birthday present. Yeah, SOME friend you are Tomoki.

There are two more characters I need to talk about, which are Sugata and Mikako. Now Sugata I'll admit was pretty bearable, since he does have a nice personality and wants to help people. If anything, HE should've been the main protagonist instead. Mikako.......scares the crap out of me. Seriously....something is wrong with her. You just have to see for yourself. But anyways, there are two likable characters, but they aren't enough to save this atrocious cast, lead by that perverted bastard.

The Music (5/10)

The music was.....okay. But that isn't saying much. The opening theme isn't that memorable, and the ending theme.....actually, there's a different one for each episode. This may sound like a nitpick, but I'm use to animes that would have either one or two ending themes, as well as one or two opening themes. I just see no point in giving an episode a completely different ending theme. Because it feels more like an excuse to have even more ecchi fanservice to the running time. As if we had ENOUGH of that already!

Overall (2/10)

In conclusion, Heaven's Lost Property is easily one of the worst animes I've ever seen in my life. As well as a complete insult to the "Magical Girlfriend" anime. The storytelling is poorer than Oliver Twist, the main character is a hateful perverted scumbag, and most of the other characters are either forgettable, poorly written, or both. There really is little to like about this awful anime. If you want a GOOD "Magical Girlfriend" anime, watch Ah! My Goddess, Chobits, and even Please Teacher! They're more worth your time than this poor attempt at being in their crowd.

I am about halfway through this so far and this is where I stand. A boy finds an angel-type creature, and realizes it can grant him wishes, Being a perverted typical teen he goes through the usual thing, wishes for money, then causes girls to lose pants, etc.

Suddenly out of nowhere, we have a second move-in who initially is violent towards Ikarus, and as soon as this happens, pretty much moves in with no quibble t the house. It just becomes more retarded as it goes along, the house gets blown to pieces, no neighbor cares really, just ... come out to watch it blow up where suddenly the neighbor can control the one angel even though not the master.

It just feels one plot hole after another, and the repeated violence doesn't even make it funny. Is like the same stupid jokes. You want to unveil the story of the angel robots but you end up not wanting to watch the drivel in between.

But is your typical perverted boy, violent girl anime which is repeated over and over. He likes her, she likes him, but the way they both act, only idiots would date either.

I thought the angle of angel-type creatures would add a good spin but just added to my misery with plot holes, character flaws, and the fact Ikarus doesn't destroy or stop those trying to harm her master and doesn't obliterate those who try and destroy her n the last episode add to the flaws.

Taking anime is groundbreaking in that it takes beyond immensely idiotic to whole new levels. The first start of this anime isn't bad, it seems like it would be a serious one with an actual plot, whether good or bad. But it then devolves into a myriad of mindless sexual innuendo with no concern whatsoever regarding the plot.

The issue isn't the fact this is an ecchi anime but the fact that it lacks any sort of plot. It is just a collection of sexuality with no assembles of anything near logical. There is no music in this, characters aren't developed if to even say that ... there is anything close to being called a character. Story? What,story. You can't even make sense of what is going on.

Started by reading a synopsis of this anime. It sounded interesting and good. Started watching the first season and liked it for the most part. The main characters pervyness and stupidity was too exaggerated for my taste but those parts were spread out enough that you could overlook it and the main story and the other characters held it up to some extant. Than I started watching the second season and it was so poor that I started clicking my way thru the episodes just 'cause I wanted to know the conclusion. The main "protagonist" devolved from the overly pervy and stupid kid he was ... in the first season into what I can only describe as an unappealing, antisocial serial rapist in the making. 80% of the second season he's drawn as a three year old and is depicted as someone that anyone and everyone would want to beat with a baseball bat. I mean... it is an anime and one should consider that it's not meant for realism but no person in their right mind could have enough imagination to think that every one he ever meets wouldn't want to instantly kill him, much less that anyone would like him. It's really to bad because if they had made that main char just a bit less of an a**hole this could have been really good since the storyline was so promising but the "protagonist" drags the whole show down with him.

I'll finish up with an example of how "challenged" the main char is: He has a really beautiful and sexy angeloid who is, in effect, his slave. She has told him very clearly that she would do ANYTHING for him. And he's is VERY aware of this. It's been made REALLY clear. And yet he seems to see her as part of the furniture and instead tries to peek on or molest every other girl but her and really trying to make everyone hate him. Doesn't really make sense now, does it?