The many female "love interests" in the show are mainly just friends. The two have been best friends and neighbours since kindergarten, and the show highlights the strong ties between the two of them. Fujita Hiroyuki is generally a nice, caring guy, and Kamigishi Akari is a well rounded, kind-hearted girl.
To Heart doesn't really have any truly memorable characters (except maybe Multi). The OP and ED aren't really anything special though, and the sound effects, although quite well used, are sparse at best. The music in the show is generally quite mellow, again, reflective of the show's slice of life perspective. The show makes use of watercolour stillframes to good effect, and although the animation is a little dated compared to most you see these days, it still retains a certain "realistic" quality about it. The true qualities of the show can only be admired when you watch it as a slice of life show, and in this way it reminded me of Aria far more than Clannad et al.Īt times the artwork in the show is exceedingly good. The episodic nature of the show actually works when you look at it from a slice of life perspective, and the fact that there is no "real" romantic development becomes irrelevant at that point. To Heart (unlike it's sequel), is slice of life. It get's misnomered as such because people assume that, because it's based on a dating sim, and has a male lead who meets multiple females, it has to be a harem highschool romance. To Heart isn't a harem highschool romance by a long way. This detracts from the various possible romantic developments (of which there are few), but it gives the show a very different feel from the norm.
The story doesn't follow any straighforward plot, but adopts a more episodic approach. However when you look a little closer you find that To Heart is actually quite unique in it's approach to the romance side of things. amongst many shows (Clannad, Kanon, Lamune, etc). The stories aren't that different between the two, and indeed the theme (harem highschool romance), is generally quite common Where the sequel feels quite forced, To Heart is far more natural in the way it progresses. That said, I was pleasantly surprised at how different the atmosphere between the two shows actually is. Unfortunately I watched To Heart 2 first so I wasn't expecting much when I eventually got around to watching this. I first found out about To Heart when I watched Comic Party, and I thought I'd give it a whirl.
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