Hiiro No Kakera

I can change my mind about this as this is an interesting story, so, for the series' sake I hope it has more than the traditional 26 episodes.

Firstly, very few writers/animators can do reverse harem correctly and this show is no exception to that pattern.

Reverse Harems are based on games as we all know, in which the player chooses her love interest, unfortunately, when it comes to animes they chose one for you and more often than not its one of the most cliched/boring characters out there. *Hint* Its the most tsundere character.

There in lies the major problem of this show so far. The characters. They are all cookie cutter love interests with cookie cutter personalities. You have the innocent young boy, the energetic kid, and two tsunderes, one slightly more tsundere than the other, and finally the wise calm guy that probably has an interesting story/character than the typical angsty boy but the animators chose not to highlight him.

The female lead. I've seen better and I've seen worse. There isn't anything memorable about her and honestly I wouldn't mind if she wasn't the focus of the story. We wouldn't miss a thing. I could go on and on how she's an affront to women who truly have minds of their own, but I can't blame her for the writing. You have five guys following you around in rural Japan of course the girl's gonna have no say in anything whatsoever. I don't anticipate her getting better.

One thing I do think is working so far, believe it or not, is the lack of romance. I can stomach that than having her suddenly end up with the most obvious, most uninteresting, most cliched, most angsty boy who'd seemed like he'd rather cry and punch walls on a daily basis than ever be interested in a girl.

Directors. You have five guys. Five guys is not that much to develop while moving the plot along. Other reverse harems out there have had more guys and managed to make them all different and moderately personable. When they do develop any of the male leads (which is very limited in development might I say) its the same three guys, while the other two are pushed back into the background. Who knows, those guys maybe real treats, if the directors gave them dialogue or even a scene by themselves so we can get some insight into who they are.

Character designs are okay. Maybe it's the uniforms, but four of the five main leads seem to blend too much together. I get the white-haired guy and the red haired guy mixed up, because they are so much alike in height and personality. The two smaller boys I get mixed up because of similar hair color and style, but their personalities are different enough.
The only one who sticks out is their "leader". (Is he really a leader? He doesn't do much leading) His design is visually different: long hair, glasses, robes, so it would seem he would have some sort important role than the uniformed boys, but alas the most visually interesting of the five gets no character development.

The bad guys are the best thing I've seen of this show. Their designs are all different and interesting, each has dynamic and interesting characteristics. I don't care much for their evil loli leader, but the side-kicks themselves are interesting enough. But its not enough to save this show.

Is this show bad? It's not a "bad" show. The action is there, so if you all just like watching pretty boys pull off a Jason Statham movie you should have no problem with this.

But for the genre, there are waaaay better shows to watch than this. The best one to be seen on this site is Neo Angelique Abyss, because they handled the characters well and the ending well. La Cordo D'Oro is interesting plot wise but falls into the same trap of cliches and that the girl ends up with the obvious uninteresting character.

So, in short, this show is nothing new, nothing ground breaking, and overall, despite good action scenes and good animation, just falls flat. It had potential from the start, but with slow development with the series potentially halfway over, I don't see this show redeeming itself.

i love this while it is innocence to the max it a boys harem anime. i love the fact that they give fan service for girls in each episode and that the girl is actually choosing who she wants to be with, but don't worry boys there are lots of action and only a little romance when you look at both season of the show. it like five episodes of actually romance and most of it is at the end of the series and you see it coming. it a great ending that really pulls the story together. if you want action boys harem magic and good clean fun i say check it out

Hiiro no Kakera está basada en un juego dirigido para féminas, condición que aclara muchos aspectos de la serie desde el primer capítulo, por ejemplo, el hecho de que la protagonista cuenta con un harem de chicos que tienen por deber inalienable velar por su seguridad las 24 horas del día, los 7 días de la semana. Esto debido a que ella es la Princesa Tamayori y ellos sus guardianes, roles que obtuvieron gracias a unos ancestros bastante lejanos, que les dejaron como herencia esta "maldición" a todos los de su sangre.
Más concretamente, veremos en la primera temporada como nuestra Princesa Tamayori sufre por no despertar sus poderes y verse incapaz de ayudar a sus guardianes, además de disfrutar con batallas recurrentes en defensa del objeto culpable de todo este embrollo, estelarizadas por los guardianes y por unos peculiares enemigos que desean robarlo para su provecho. En la segunda temporada, la Princesa estará más activa y los guardianes bastantes más cariñosos, la serie se teñirá de más movimiento y personajes sin importancia de la primera temporada comenzarán a cobrar sentido y mayor relevancia, sin embargo, el final termina siendo pobre y si no ven la serie de forma maratónica, con tal de hacerla parecer una película, no sentirán que valió la pena, ya que posee muchos diálogos repetitivos y variadas escenas a propósito de nada.

There are a lack of reverse harems in the world, or at least "good" reverse harems. I really don't like the generic archetypes cause if you watched one reverse harem, you watched them all. I tried to watch the first episode of this, but what turned me off was the girl. She's too helpless for her own good. That girl can barely stand on her own two feet. She was tripping all over herself in the first episode and her quiet behavior did her no justice for me.

I do love the stronger male figures, but I like it more when girls can carry their weight around also. I really wanted to like this cause I am picky about art work, but I am more picky about predictability. Like the drawing are phenomenal but hat is brought down by a bad story line and character development.

If you're the type who loves the 10 boy - 1 girl scenario this is good for you, however if you don't like the weak girls, I suggest you keep away. I'll try to give this another shot on a day when I am desperate for a r.harem.

I am still waiting for the one show where the girl doesn't end up with the guy with the problems or the guy who's outgoing but has some back story. I want something new.

My only problem with this anime is that it took a while to understand what was going on. I think it was to show how confusing Tamaki's situation was as she'd been thrown into this new world of gods and guardians, but I didn't like how the story line wasn't very well explained.
Once you got into the anime, however, it was definately worth it. You warm to the characters straight away and the once you get your head around the plot you can appreciate the thought that has gone into developing it.
I have seen similar anime, but its unique for its characters and how their relationships grow during the series. I just wish they would make a 3rd!

I watched both seasons and really enjoyed this series. Each episode draws you in, ends too soon and leaves you waiting impationtly for the next episode to be aired. I loved the short segment at the end of each episode where you spend a private moment wth one of the characters. I thought that was so cool and a nice touch. The art work of the characters and scenery is lovely, The music, especially the opening themes, is beautiful! I am hoping to find the theme music on i-tunes. This is a really enjoyable series and I reccomend it.