To Heart 2 AD Plus

On To Heart 2 AD Plus we are introduced to two brand new robot girls to complement our already extensive set of characters: Shy but somewhat temperamental HMX-17c "Silfa", and HMX-17b "Milfa", or Harumi Kouno, as she is more widely known throught the series.

Speaking about Harumi, she's kind of weird character, she has so much lore behind her and yet it is never properly explained in pretty much any point of the OVA. For starters: yes, she is a robot, this also came as a surprise for me as she is only referred as such just ONCE in the anime and I had to ... actually consult her MAL page to confirm it. This however, makes sense, as her mysterious apparition on the franchise seemingly out of nowhere could very well be explained as one of Sango's excentricities towards Takaaki (because she is the one that builds the robots, you know) altough that is never explained properly also, as you might suppose, and I am only making suppositions on my parts, at this point.

Another thing I also quite don't understand about her is that on her character page she is listed also as "the robot teddy plush toy that Takaaki looked at", that would certainly explain why she is so obssesed with him, but still, that would have to mean Sango at some point transferred the "conscience" of the teddy (or whatever robots have) into a fully-fledged human robot body, but that's also never hinted at any point of the series.

By far, she most mysterious character to have been introduced into the To Heart franchise until this point.

Still, I like the idea of Ilfa, Silfa and Milfa (or Harumi, I don't even know how to call her at this point) beign three little robot sisters, each with their owns gimmick and personalities all competing for the love of Takaaki. So I'll let all of the aforementioned beforehand slide, just this time, and more importantly, because cute robot girls were involved and I also happen to have a sort of strange weakness for those.

Moving into the contents of this OVA in general: I am happy to announce we finally got what previous entries of this franchise had failed to deliver on large cuantities: fanservice. Yep, you heard me right, we finally got fanservice on To Heart! And yeah, yeah, I know what you are gonna say: we already got a few panty and upskirts shots on this IP before, but have we ever gotten an entire episode whose entire plot revolves around the girls beign in bikinis all day? Lol, I think not. Not even the beach special we got a few OVAs past was so daring when it came to show skin to the audience, it's for something that this anime is tagged as "Ecchi" on this website when the rest of properties from this franchise lacked such label.

My only complain is that we didn't got to see Karin in swimwear, tho >:(

Now, on a more serious note, the only thing that sets apart this OVA from the rest of the others is the inclusion of an explicitly "fan-service-y" episode among its catalog. Other than that, we got to see an episode were Silfa tries to get over her crippling shyness while Harumi does everything in her power to stop her to prove herself a potential better "wife" for Takaaki and all other sorts of situations that are very typical for the To Heart franchise, at this point.

Why don't watch it? I mean, it isn't anything special, but if you like To Heart in general you will no doubt like this also since, as I mentioned previously, is quite literally more of the same. This whole franchise of OVAs, ONAs and specials could very well be the same series fragmented between different IPs for how similar they are.

Go give it a chance, it makes for a nice watching.