MÄR

i'm going to do this review since there is no review for thing anime yet. now i feel that this anime is underrated since MAR is a really good shounen anime. MAR is also an anime that would make you laugh in each episode and keep you interest in the story but now i think i will start the review.

story- the story is kind of unoriginal where the main character is transported to a fantasy land to help stop the evil force and save that world. yah we've seen it before, but made me keep watching because of interesting ways the fight. yes they ... fight with thing call "arm" that transform into awesome weapons like swords, element control, and monster to fight for you. now there is a war going on between the chess and MAR. and i found it confusing because instead of fight army against army like a real war, they fight like a tournament style instead. in my opinion i think that chess would conquer this world if they would just plan and invade each country until the they control the whole MAR Heaven. even though there some flaw the story is good and decent to watch.
8/10

art- by 2006 standard it is okay but not great. the background are nothing special and the character design seen unoriginal. i also have to complain how in some of the fight scene the character is shown stabbing or dodging back and forth for 10 or more seconds and i think it is just kind of lazy of them to do that.
6/10

sound- the opening and ending music are okay to listen and the voice acting is okay. background music, i don't pay attention too much. that is all
7/10

character- now this is where anime shine its best, with its character. almost all the character in this anime is very like and they provide a lot them. each of the character are different and likable in their own way. since there so many, i just pick three. first alviss who is curse to be a immortal zombie but doesn't want to. he is very coo and he also has the strongest weapons. he maybe a jerk but just enough to not make him douch. i also think he has a fairy fetish because of the fairy next to him who seem to like him. next are the comedic duo, Chaton and Loco. chaton is a girl who is dresses like a cat and is very outgoing. while loco is a old girl that get younger each time she uses an arm and is always serious and i have never seen smile. each time these two are together it like gold and i wish there was more moment with them in the show. final verdict
10/10

enjoyment-even though it has its flaws i really enjoy most of the episode in this series and want to finish it but it still being subbed. all that
9/10

overall- now i'm just going to include story, character, and enjoy in overall score. i don't worry about the art and sound that much unless it has really crap animation or horrible voice actor. now add it together.
9/10

Okay so I have been a fan of this anime since a long time and since I think that the anime is underrated i am doing this review so Enjoy :)

10/10 STORY: Okay so I guess the plot isn't that original. You know the whole "going into another world to fight evil and save the world" but it isn't your typical story too since it does have some detailes that just make you go "wow i didn't see that coming for sure"

10/10 ART: I usually really like it when in an Anime the art is clean and in really huigh quality while the ... more old animations aren't exactly my cup of tea. With that said ,the art of MAR isn't anything new It's basicly your typical anime art but it still has that effect on the viewer , it just gets you really into the story

9/10 SOUND: I liked the openings and Endings as well as the voice actors that were chosen , the music through out some of the battles or some of the sad/happy scence is really fiting too.

10/10 CHARACTERS: Okay now this is where MAR really shines in my point of view. And now if you've watched the anime you're gonna say "what these are your typical shounen characters and they were way to predictable' However i really liked them and to prove that i am going into detail with some of the main characters that i like Warning contains some spoilers :

(he is not my favorite but he is the main hero so i have to give a little info about him too)
Ginta:
Okay so Ginta is the main character.The hero of the story. He is your averrage kid that goes to a school in the normal world like everybody else/ Really, nothing interesting right ? WRONG. Although he may seem stupid and clumsy he is actually has quite the outstanding personality.Sure, he's cheerfull and happy and he's the good guy that defeats the evil guys, but he is also a dreamer. He dreams about this other magical kingdom that is usually beautifull and peacefull. but now Great evil is threatning it.He has had that dreem for over 102 times [ like the amount of episodes] and even though everybody says that it doesn't mean anything he still believes that he is some sort of chosen one and he wants to go to that world. Well my firend ,a wish come true . it is !And so he goes of to the world Of MAR Heaven and that's when his journey begins.


Dorothy:
She is the first person that Ginta meets in MAR Heaven. She's a witch and a really powerfull one. In their world, people fight with things called ARM. There are Guardian Arm, Nature Arm, Weapon Arm and so on... These are basicly guardians , weapons and element controling magic items that are usually in the form of a bracelet a necklace, rings, chains, and such. These things are ,as you can guess, soleless and most of them can't talk. But The One That Ginta finds is actually a living, talking moving arm with an atitude.Dprothy's goal is to get as many arms as she can because she has to defeat her sister Dianna that has betrayed their country and the law there is that if a sertain person is considered a traitor a member of his own family has to defeat and kill him.She is usually cheerfull and happy and she has has developed a crush on Ginta but she also has a really dark side. That of a strong and mighty witch. She doesn't hesitate to kill her oponents in batle but she promised Ginta that she son't kill anymore people in their fights.

Nanashi:
"Nanashi" means Nameless as ina person without a name. Ironic isn't it ? He is the leader of Luberia , a guid of thiefs. He is very skilled in using arm and his physical streingth is huge too. He also loves women and in a fight with a lady he always pretends to be injured or hurt ,when he wins, so that the girl can still keep some of her pride . Although this often makes him look like an idiot, he is actually really serios sometimes. His goal is to find one of the bad guys,named Petta, and kill him for killing a huge number of his comrads ,years ago. Petta ,however, is one of the strongest arm users in the land but that doesn't stop Nanashi from seaking him out and chalanging him to a fight.

So as you can see even though the main characters are a group of strong arm users that are all fighting against the same enemy,each of them has their own different goal and that is one fo the many things that is unique about them !

10/10 ENJOYMENT:
I don't know about what other people thought after watching MAR but i really enjoied it sure it had some of it's minuses but it was a really good anime worth the time .So i recomend this if you're a person who enjoies great fights [ the fighting is actually done in matches on 1 on 1 fighting.]


10/10 OVERALL:
I think every one of us should just make a stop sometimes and just watch something that is a little cliche but still good to see.So everyone should stop for a moment , take a breather from the ecchi,horror,blood-filled series , and give MAR a try and remember that .. in this world full of evil ,misery and hurt there is still hope as long as you believe in it yourself.:)

Simple put, MAR Heaven is so damn fun to watch.

The story revolves around a young boy named Ginta. He has these weird dreams every night he sleeps where he's in this magical world filled with weird people and creatures. One day at school, a portal opens and pretty much the journey begins clear and cut like that.

Sounds stupid right? Think again because it isn't. One day at school, a weird portal opens and so Ginta decides to go inside the portal upon having a choice by some weird monster that rules over the portal. From there, Ginta meets, as in his dreams, weird creatures and ... people of all kinds. It sounds very cliche because we've seen these "GO TO ANOTHER WORLD" Anime at least 200 times, but MAR Heaven to me got it right. It doesn't feel forced at all it feels magical. Ginta just wanted to get away from his boring life.

The Openings for MAR is just AMAZING. The 1st opening feels so magical and nostalgic. You will NEVER stop humming it on occasions. It takes you back to a time when you were young and every Anime felt magical.

The story goes at a good pace and he meets various people and this big spiked ball who can actually talk but I won't spoil anything for who it actually is. It has some great fights and emotional scenes as well but you can still have a good time with the adventure that Ginta goes through. Each character has a diverse personality as well so you won't get bored with the characters. As it goes on it does get serious.

If you're into shounen you'll love it as well as Action adventure fans.

Just give it a try.

This is the same as the anime rpg game, its storyline and characters are the same as in rpg games, especially the monsters, enemies, and magic.

It reminds me of Yu-Gi-Oh! and Shaman King - shows I watched when I was about 13 and really enjoyed, back then I didn't even know what anime is and I'm no sure I was even aware of the shows' origin, but I still enjoyed them.

I picked MAR for the sole reason to relive that excitement and since it had 102 episodes I expected to have tons of fun with it, alas, the reality was different.

The show started well, the premise of the main character being transported to a fantasy world he has longed for was interesting. The first few episodes, where he still figures ... out what goes on and characters are being introduced were the more interesting ones for me.

After that, the majority of the show is about a tournament, but that's where I started skipping just to get through and say I've finished it.

The story on paper sounds fun, but in reality it's really mediocre and poorly executed, very predictable and uninteresting.
The art style is OK, I can't say ti was bad, but it wasn't anything remarkable either, many characters shared similar features, like color palettes and such.
I think the show, like other long running ones suffers from recycled sounds to the point where it becomes noticeable, not a deal breaker, but just one more negative to the list.
The characters were extremely poor developed and suffered from "Anime Humor Syndrome" - a grave disease where one would fall in the same absurd situation over and over and react the exact same way without ever noticing it, the worst part of this disease is that it spreads in the air and it's very infectious, by the end of the episode, every other character would have contracted it.
After passing the 41st episode, I found it really hard to enjoy it and decided to fastforward just so I can say I've finished it and not dropped it, I really wanted to see the end without losing track of events.

Overall I both regret wasting my time with it and I'm also glad I know what is it about so I won't have to bother with it again. On a positive note, I think that if I was 13 again I might've enjoyed it A LOT more.

I know there are people who'll say this show is unoriginal and dosen't do anything new or ground breaking or exciting, but the problem with anime is that there's so much different anime and manga out there that it's hard for a any show to stick out unless it's so big name or some new trending show like Mob psycho 100 or Twin star twin star exorcists, witch both of those are great but there do exist anime that is good just get shoved of as unoriginal and meh because critics don't want to be bothered with having to review them because they don't do ... anything new. However it's not also something new that makes your show stand out it's the execution of it and Mar dose good execution. Ginta, Babbo and the rag-tag group of friends they team up with and fight along side with are interesting, enjoyable and have their share of funny moments, the animations is pretty good, The music isn't anything super duper but it's pleasant, the plot has charming and is very fitting for this kind of show and the fight scenes are cool. I really like the ARMs witch is the weapons the use to fight in this show, they require the users own energy to use their special magic attacks and are ranked by class like holy Arms, dimension ARMS, Darkness ARMS and so on, It's kind of like the NEN chart From Hunter X Hunter. I will say the tournament battle arc does drag on but they change locations on where they fight witch really helps for any tournament arc and I do have to complain about the use of CGI but it's not as bad as say Kirby right back at ya. Over all I enjoyed MÄR Heaven and if your interested in checking out underrated anime I say check it out! And check out the Sequel manga Mar Omega.

Now before i get started this anime was base on the story and art of Nobuyuki Abzai and was licensed by Viz media and with that in mind i throughly enjoyed this anime it was the first one i watched and even though only (i think) 52...maybe 53 of the episodes are dubbed i did watch untill the end.

-ARTWORK- If you know that mar was created by the same person as 'flame of recca" then you may or may not be disappointed with the change of style; i actually liked the change -it's almost chibi but it keeps the same realistic side as flame ... of recca - i also enjoyed the mix of cgi; such as babbo's transformations.

-STORY- Now i have watched quite a few anime with people being sent in to other worlds but this one does have a certain charm to it- while saying that it can be a little predictable at times.

-SOUND (music and dub)- Now i'am no way a purist; yes i admit, when i have a choice i will always chose dub and because of that i can't really say on how well or bad it was subbed but i did enjoy the dub; it was a little old fashioned in a way that it reminded me of all those anime characters in the 90's with the real high pinched voices (not saying there not still dubbing like that because they are) so it made it have an older feel which may or may not be you cup of tea.

-CHARACTER- What can i say? spiky hair, big boobs and lots of love. the characters are well drawn - typical for an anime but very colour and fun.

-ENJOYMENT- Now i got real enjoyment out of this for whatever reason, it's pretty simple minded just like Ginta; if your watching this because your a fan of the manga i should warn you that the beginning follows pretty close but around the time the dub ends so does the closeness.
-OVERALL- i enjoyed it beginning to end it can make you laugh, think and it can be depressing but a great anime all the same i recommend it.

Happy watching

I really love this anime personally. I don't care what about the people who say this anime was too cliche or whatever. They also call this a kid anime. I'm 16 and i really enjoyed the whole thing. This anime really grabs your attention and keeps you laughing throughout the thing.

Story
The story has been used before, but I really like stories where the main character leaves our world to become part of another.

Art
I really liked the art style for this anime. I can't explain why, I just did.

Sound
I don't have much to say about it lol. The characters each had ... distinct voices...

Characters
People really complain that the characters weren't original. Personally I really liked all of them. The chess pieces and the main characters were all different and looked good too.

Overall
I just really like this anime as a whole. It's actually the anime that got my friend into it whereas he used to hate anime. Too bad they canceled MAR omega

To be Honest I did watch up to 70 episodes then just started to skip the whole series is based a kid who goes to a world where he has to protect it from evil guys.

If your are thinking of watching this don't, unless you like battles. The whole series from around episode 10 to 102 all involve continuous battles over and over.

I think there wasn't a lot of development of the characters in the series. The story over all they were really easy to figure out. Its waked up, the series is OK for kids under 8 but to my experience I ... didn't like the story repeating things over and over. There was no sense of adventure the story mainly focused in three or four areas excluding battle area.

MAR is a series that embodies a lot of the worst qualities of shounen anime and brings nothing new to the table. Almost immediately, the story steers itself into a ditch with an interminable Tournament Arc that lasts well over half the run of the series. While there are a handful of decent moments in the 70 or so "X vs Y" episodes that follow, most of it is an agonizing waiting game, slogging through one utterly predictable fight after the next, with no sign of plot progression for dozens of episodes at a time. When the end of the Tournament Arc blessedly arrives though, ... the story fully goes off the rails into an extended denouement that is totally confused, full of questionable narrative choices and other decisions that make it apparent that they had no real plan for where to take this story beyond the Tournament Arc. The ending is heavily telegraphed and feels unsatisfying when it arrives, both because of the middling story content and the sense that it probably should have wrapped up about 20 episodes earlier than it did.

The writing is juvenile and character motivations are thin and riddled with cliches (oh, you want to become stronger so you can protect everyone's smiles? I've never heard that line before). Action scenes are often boring due to the lackluster animation - likely a necessary sacrifice to produce weekly TV for 2 years straight, but that's hardly an excuse when it cuts into the core appeal of an action anime. More unforgivably, the CGI used to animate the summoned Guardians is absolutely hideous and badly composited to boot. These are supposed to be the most powerful weapons a person can wield, but they have all the visual majesty of a guy summoning some stray PS2 assets. The character designs are also uninspired and feel like a conscious attempt to mimic Dragon Ball. See if you can count how many boys with similarly spiky hair are in this series.

So what was actually good about this show? Well there isn't much, to be frank. Dorothy is a pretty fun side character, though her obsession with the main character can be overbearing. The relationship between Dorothy and Diana (left vague to stay spoiler free) is one of the few compelling plot threads on offer here. Every once in a while, you'll get an interesting battle when 2 people have special abilities that combine in a unique way, though the obviousness of the outcome of every fight dampens any thrill you might get from that.

Overall, I can't say my time was well spent watching this thing to its conclusion. I recommend simply skipping it, but if you are at all curious and inclined to give it a chance, watch until the first fight of the War Game and you'll know by then if this series is going to do anything for you.