This review may contain spoilers-
As you may know Pandora Hearts is one of my favourite and even though I want to fill this review with all positives I know that it probably wouldn't help you if you are planning to watch it. So anyway if you read the description you would know what this anime is about and so on... now lets start properley. First the story was amazing up until the last few episode where I think they ruined it a bit by changing the ending completely and in the end ruined the end of the anime for me (sadly). However most of the story kept quite close to the manga which made me happy and even though they change a few things the basic story was the same. This made it more enjoyable for me because that also meant that the end wasn't the complete end and if I wanted to carry on the story I just needed to read the manga (but this isn't meant to be all about me so I will stop here). Anyway the story had just about everything, it was just the ending that ruined it slightly.
The animation was different (a good
different) compared to some of the 'mainstream' animes which I thought
was pretty good. The character designs were amazing you can tell that
they put as much detail as they could fit in (but isn't that a must have
in the animation company).
Moving on, the music matched the style of
the series amazingly and whoever pick the music should be proud because
they matched the theme perfectly. The opening 'Parallel Hearts'
captured the historical atmosphere quite well (as well as being really
addictive). The first ending was again a perfect fantasy j-pop song,
then the second ending was a nice way to finish off the series. Finally,
The Lacie music box melody...this was a nice aspect to the series and
with all the other music choices (insert songs and stuff) it fit in
perfectly.
I felt that the characters matched
perfectly with the type of anime it was but again most were really
undeveloped, and the only advice I would give to those who want to go
further than what the anime gives, read the manga.
Overall even though I love this anime so
much, the ending was left wide open even though now we know there
probably won't be a second series. Also the characters were undeveloped
and if you really want it in much more detail you need to read the
manga, I personally prefer it to the anime.
~AngelBeatsYui~