6HP (Six Hearts Princess)

This show is quite the hidden gem.

It's an art project by Takashi Murakami and his team and has been released one or two episodes a year since the end of 2016. It's release history has been troubled and it's a testament to the perseverance of the team that they've gotten as far as they are now.
At one point, they created a whole pilot with a much different story and then scrapped it almost entirely to start over. You can find this pilot online, so it might also be worth a look if you are curious. Maybe once this show is finally completed and entirely subbed, ... it might gain some more recognition from western audiences.

It's a little hard to write about the story of 6HP, due to my limited grasp on the language, but thankfully, the first two episodes have been subbed already at the time of me writing this, which makes my job a little easier.

6HP takes place in a beautiful city within a wasteland. A catastrophe in the past has destroyed much of earth and humanity seems to be losing it's ability to reproduce, slowly dwindling in numbers. In this city, our protagonist, an ordinary albeit dorky school girl, has a prophetic dream and is later dragged into a magical conflict. The Moon Cats are at war with the Earth Dogs. The latter are using Sin Fragments, magic stones embodying the seven sins of humanity, to create monsters while working towards an unknown goal. The Moon Cats each carry a Heart Sphere, which can allow a person chosen by them to become a Heart Princess and fight the creations of the Earth Dogs.

All of this is quite pretty and well made. I especially love the backgrounds of this show. They city is an interesting place and it's quite fun to just pause and look at all the details in places like the hill covered in giant windmills or the shrine they visit early on.

If you are in the mood for something obscure and artsy, I recommend you check this one out. Even if you are watching it without subs for most of it's runtime, it should still be a good time just based on the art alone. I hope 6HP grows a little more of a following, because it deserves it.

Wasted potential.
Started watching it because I was curious of the character designs which seemed amazing!

The beginning of the first episode really made me positive about it. Animation was also quite good.
However next 5 episodes were a complete disaster. The whole theatre thing makes no sense, it adds nothing to the story and is just wasting the viewers time. The battles were just boring and predictable. Even the jokes were lame. All five episodes are a waste of time as you don't really learn a thing about the plot and it feels like watching another power rangers episode.

I'd love to say "it's a waste of time" ... and "don't watch it" but I can't as the last two episodes really have potential for a greater thing, sadly it was wasted.

So do as you wish, watch it or not. Don't waste your time on it but if you really want to, just watch 1st, 6th and 7th episodes. I really hope the next episodes would focus on the main plot instead of stupid school girls.

6HP (Six Hearts Princess) – What in the Magical Acid Trip Did I Just Watch?

Okay, so I finally sat down to watch 6HP (Six Hearts Princess), and... I have no idea what just happened. Like, genuinely. My brain feels like it got drop-kicked into a kaleidoscope and left there to scream.

This anime wants to be Puella Magi Madoka Magica’s edgy, misunderstood cousin. And I don’t say that lightly—Madoka already messed me up emotionally and existentially, but 6HP? It takes that unsettling magical girl darkness and shoves it face-first into a vat of liquid LSD.

The animation? Imagine a fever dream, but worse. We’re talking fluorescent colors, ... jagged edits, inconsistent styles, and moments that feel like a glitching VHS tape possessed by spirits who never went to art school. It's the kind of thing that makes you question whether your streaming service is buffering or if the show is just intentionally this messed up. Spoiler: it is.

Then there’s the actual plot—if you can even call it that. You’ve got magical girls. You’ve got furries. But not just furries... these bizarre wolf-suited weirdos with their human heads poking out like cursed Pez dispensers. They show up, there's a fight, there’s symbolism I think is supposed to mean something—but I wouldn’t bet on it. It’s like they made a storyboard out of Tarot cards and dreams someone had while under general anesthesia.

And can we talk about how this thing just stops at episode 6? Like someone had the mercy to pull the plug. Honestly, that’s probably the real hero of the show—the executive who said, “Nope, that’s enough nightmare fuel for one lifetime.”

Look, I get experimental art. I like weird. I celebrate surreal. But 6HP feels like the kind of deep-fried madness that even David Lynch would watch and go, “Okay, what the hell was that?”

Final verdict: If you enjoy confusing plots, eye-bleeding visuals, and the magical girl genre getting dragged into a haunted psychedelic funhouse, then 6HP is your jam. But if you value your sanity? Maybe just go rewatch Sailor Moon and call it a day.

2/10 – One point for ambition, one point for the guts to be this weird. No points for coherence.