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I honestly have no idea how to say what I want to say about this show. Basically, it's the weirdest, craziest, most nonsensical, stupidest mind-f*** of a show I have EVER seen. However, I can't exactly say it's bad. Because, really, it's not.
It's about a boy named Sakura (yes, he is a boy, and his name IS Sakura), a remarkably normal kid who just happens to have a murderous angel living in his room. This is Dokuro-chan, a mallet-wielding psychopathic angel from the future to protect Sakura from the other angels who want to kill him, all because (in the future) he accidentally found ... the secret to eternal youth in an attempt to make a pedophiles' world. And what is this 'guardian angels' biggest pleasure in life? To mercilessly torture and kill poor Sakura every chance she gets, to distract him from studying so he will never accidentally find the secret to eternal youth! And she doesn't just kill him... She slaughters him, the most common way being lobbing off the top half of his head with her club-thingy called 'Excaliborg' in giant explosions of blood. After he has collapsed to the floor, his own blood usually decorating the surrounding walls and ceiling, she brandishes Excaliborg once again to heal him back to life with a 'Pipiru pipiru pipiru pi!'
This may sound funny to you, it may not. It sounded funny to me, but in the end the sheer amount of stupidity I was hit with just baffled me and I couldn't watch it anymore.
If you want plot, you're definably not going to find it here. It's just 8 jumbled episodes of unrelated stupidity, filled to the brim with Sakura's pain and misery. Actually, Sakura was the only character I actually liked, and that was mostly because I felt bad for the poor guy. He's abused by his classmates in various ways, Dokuro kills him every few minutes and he's publicly humiliated in front of the girl he likes on numerous occasions. To me, it was much more cruel than funny, considering that one time he's killed, washed down a river, had to hitch-hike his way back, and is greeted by concern and caring from his classmates only to find out the food they gave him is poisoned.
That's... Just cruel.
The art is cute, if not disturbing at times (and I don't mean the blood, I mean how radically the characters change from normal and cute to deformed and ugly) and the music is catchy. The voice acting is pretty good as well. I found it to be funny here and there, but the rest of the time I just felt my brain cells die as I watched it.
Bottom line, I say give it a try... I know several people who loved the show and though it was insanely funny, but I just couldn't handle it.

*Note- I've only seen about ten episodes, the first few and some random ones scattered among the series
I went into this with high expectations... Which is probably why this hit me so hard when I found out it was so bad. The Jeanne manga was my first ever manga, and I still read it over and over again to this day.
But this anime... It doesn't hold a candle to the manga. The story somewhat follows the plot of the manga, but it stretches it and adds to many unnecessary things that just don't seem to fit. The sound isn't too bad (the voice acting is ... competent, and the sound effects are pretty good), but the opening theme just want to make me rip my ears off.
I have to give it props for at least keeping the characters basically the same, though, and the art style is very reflective of the great Miss Tanemura.
All in all, I wouldn't suggest this to any fan of the manga, but anyone else may be able to stand it more than I can