Story: 3/10
This Girl called Aya has to participate in a tournament to win the Patonic Heart (AKA, Martial Heart), which has the power to grant any wish, as long as you're a girl. She is fighting to save Miko, a girl in a priestess get-up that she met one day earlier. I don't think I would try to save someone by entering a fighting tournament. Personally I'd call the cops and let them handle things, but I'm just a guy who spends his spare time watching anime, reading manga, and reviewing said anime/manga, so what do I know? Aya has to fight and defeat 5 girls with her epic martial arts skills. So yeah, this has been done before in shows like Sekirei and Ikkutusen. Well, besides the ending anyway. Like I said earlier, we'll get to it later.
Characters: 2/10
Most of the characters are ecchi stereotypes that get no real development, apart from the main lead Aya, who does get some amount of development through the course of this OVA. That doesn't mean she stands out as a great character. None of these characters are really all that memorable. To be fair though, this is a 5 episode OVA series, so they would have to work a lot harder to develop their characters properly. That being said, I think they could have done it a little bit better. Since they aren't that well developed, it's hard to develop any sort of sympathy for the characters, and this really comes to light during the climax of the final episode. Most of the villains are just stock that appear for one episode for Aya to defeat in the tournament. I can't even talk about all the villains because that would spoil the ending too. I know, I'm bringing up the ending a lot, but it has such a huge impact that I can't help but continually mention it.
Art: 4/10
It's alright I suppose, but for an ecchi show that throws most of its money at making the characters look as good as possible, it's lackluster at best. The animation is average, the fight scenes are slow and clunky, and the artwork has this shiny, cheerful look about it that isn't all that appealing. Oh, and this is one of those shows where clothes are made from paper and can break apart with one punch. You know what's funny? In Claymore, most of the main characters and girls with swords that go around fighting monsters (and occasionally each-other), and yet somehow their clothes get less messed up then in Patonic Hearts, where one punch can cause your clothes to just get torn to pieces. This is common in a lot of ecchi anime though. I've gotten used to it, but I wish that the clothes would at least come off from some sort of special attack, not a simple punch or kick.
Sound: 5/10
The voice acting for the Japanese dub is just average for me. The English voice actors put a lot of effort into it though, more then this turd deserves. The music is mediocre at best, and that opening is very, very annoying.
Enjoyment: 2/10
So this was a standard ecchi anime for me at first. Like I mentioned before, I've seen this kind of thing before, although it was not as good as the others. Still, it was a harmless, predictable show. And then the ending happened and.... well.... how do I put this? Okay, you know what Fairy Tail is about right? It's about this girl who joins a magic guild and they have a bunch of adventures and beat the bad guys with the power of friendship and whatnot. The main bad guys at this point is a bunch of "dark guilds" that are no longer a part of the normal guild system that Fairy Tail was a part of. Now imagine if at the very end of the series, Fairy Tail defeated the final dark guild, it was revealed that the dark guilds were actually good and were trying to destroy the normal guilds because the normal guilds wanted to enslave the Earth. Fairy Tail would then show its real colors and take over the world, and then they do horrible, unspeakable things to the main heroin who joined the guild at the beginning of the series. The climax of the final episode of Platonic Hearts is like that. The ending is a dark twist that comes the hell out of nowhere. And contrary to what some people believe, a dark twist doesn't automatically make an anime better. These kind of things are definitely more memorable then the typical happy ending that you see so often, but a twist like that has to make sense in context. The way this one is presented seems needlessly cruel to me, especially considering the tone of the anime until that final episode.
Overall: 3/10
A standard Echhi tournament OVA with a rather needlessly-cruel twist ending. I recommend staying away from this one.
