Masters Of martial Harts – 5 Episode Anime

Title - Masters of martial harts
Language - Japanese
Genre - Ecchie, fighting

This came up as a recommendation from a certain on line shop so I looked at some reviews and didn’t find many that had anything good to say about it but as I had a bit of spare time and it was only 5 episodes long I thought I’d give it a watch.

The Series follows Aya Iseshima, a seemingly normal school girl who comes across a fight in the street between a young temple priestess and an older flight attendant, Aya helps the Priestess and the two become friends.  The priestess, Miko, tells Aya that the fight was part of a contest where the winner will get access to the ‘Platonic Heart’ a gem that can grant the winner their greatest wish, but anyone who loses a fight will be banished to a dark realm.  As Milko’s wish was for friends she drops out of the contest but soon disappears and, around the same time Aya receives a text message saying she is Milko’s replacement.  Aya now fights to find out the secret of the Platonic heart and to find out what has happened to Milko.

Masters of Martial Harts is an Ecchie anime with a lot of nudity.

The story telling does not seem to flow well at the beginning, the narrative jumps from slow scenes of dialog between Aya and either her friend Natsume or her mother to the fights.  Each ‘dialog’ scene is meant to further the story and, as the show continues the do but you do need to stick with it for a bit as the narrative stats out slow and then suddenly rushes through, the penultimate episode seem to jump from one fight to the next as if two parts have been spliced together.  The overall feel is that there is that there should be more of the series and from some of the other reviews I’ve seen there was more written.

The Fight scenes give the series most of its ecchie content, each fight pits Aya against opponents each of whom  have a different theme , each time a character is injured their clothes end up getting ripped or shredded. 

The Story takes off from episode 3 and once it gets started it does have a good story line and a few twists and turns and I did enjoy it, I just think it would be better if there were more episodes and the story was not so rushed.