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I am a HUGE overzealous fan of the Hyperdimension Neptunia games, and have even garnered myself a bit of a reptutation on DeviantART by creating "Custom Canvas Textures for use within the second and third games in the console series. (mk-2 & Victory)

I LOVE this anime, i think they did a great job mixing the plots of the games together to create a comprehensive story line for an anime that i believe is probably only ever going to have this one season. The art is beautiful and vibrant, and the character designs are as close to the game as possible without Tsunako doing the ... animation alone. The sound quality is great and it's very funny and entertaining.

As for the drawbacks, there are only 2 that really stand out to me. This is NOT a series you can just pick up just because....because the characters personalities and the humor don't make a lot of sense without playing the games.

The second Drawback is the English dub....at least for me, as a fan of the games. Because, They replaced 4 different characters actresses, and they chose to do an English dub for a song, which is one of my pet peeves when it comes to anime. the fact that that song also happens to be the song for the opening sequence of one of the games, makes it even more annoying to me.

And lastly, the first thing i thought when i watched the English dub of the anime was "wow, i just noticed that the more Purple Heart talks, the less cool she sounds." Because in the games, she doesn't talk all that much, and when she does, she's usually doling out either a good passive-aggressive insult, or passing on a few words of friendship and wisdom. So hearing her talk so much in the anime took some getting used to, but i understand why she talks more, it would be boring if The main character who by all standards, in her human form, is a regular chatty Cathy, were to stop talking when she transformed into her Goddess form.

Altogether, i give it a 9/10 for fans of the game, and a 8 out of 10 for others.

OK, well before i get too into this, i want to say that I read the ENTIRE DearS Manga, and i got so into it that i actually bought all 8 volumes, even though i was in highschool at the time and didn't have much money, because the story IN THE MANGA Drew me right in.

But as for the anime adaptation....it was extremely disappointing.

My biggest issue is with the story, so i will go into that last because there are some good points to ponder before we get to the really bad stuff.
First of all, the english dub, really wasn't bad, in fact, it's ... one of the few anime that i actually prefer dubbed, the dub is good...most of the time, there are some lines that are really monotone when they needed more emphasis (Usually on Takeya and Nenekos parts) , but over all, it wasn't bad. The animation...while inconsistent and sometimes just downright sloppy, it actually pretty close to the manga's art style (which makes the inconsistency even more surprising, considering it was made by Peach-pit.) The music was so-so, it wasn't anything special, but it set the tone appropriately as needed. The humor, although kind of cliche'd was really funny in parts, but a lot of it was too similar to the chobits series with a few "takeya's afraid of aliens, hehe" type jokes thrown in occasionally...

I could over look these things...if it weren't for the Worst parts...


They took the majority of the unique plot out of the anime and actually ended the manga around the end of the 5th volume of the manga, which removed the entire last arc of the story, which had some of the most unique and interesting parts of the manga, the explaination of "the gift" and the strange, but funny ending. They also removed one of the most important characters from the story altogether. They also took out any scenes that give any sort of depth to Ren's character whatsoever.

Anyways, in closing, if you have any kind of interest in this at all, read the manga, the anime isn't really worth the time unless you haven't read the manga and just want a shallow laugh and a cliche'd romance that's about as deep as a puddle. The manga offers much more in terms of character and story, but the art style in the manga is a little inconsistent, but still better than the constant inconsistency of the anime.