{"id":91,"date":"2000-06-13T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-06-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2000\/06\/13\/ask-john-when-will-we-see-to-heart-and-orphen\/"},"modified":"2000-06-13T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-06-13T14:00:00","slug":"ask-john-when-will-we-see-to-heart-and-orphen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-when-will-we-see-to-heart-and-orphen\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: When Will We See To Heart and Orphen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat is To Heart like and how many episodes does it have? What is Sorcerous Staber Orphen like? How many episodes is it? When will ADV release it?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\nTo Heart is a 13 episode life-sim TV series focusing on the daily lives of a group of high-school age friends.  It&#8217;s based on a series of popular PC and Playstation video-games.  The show is relatively slow moving but has charming characterizations and unusually good art and animation quality by TV show standards.  I really like the show a whole lot, but it&#8217;s definitely not a show for people looking for typical anime action and adventure.  For example, virtually the entire first episode is devoted to choosing seat assignments for home-room.<\/p>\n<p>Orphen is a 26 episode humorous fantasy\/adventure TV series with unusually good character design, art and animation quality.  Think of Orphen as a slightly darker version of Slayers.  Orphen also has a second 26 episode series titled Sorcerous Stabber Orphen: Revenge.  Contrary to what the title suggests, from reviews I&#8217;ve read and TV commercials for it I&#8217;ve seen, the second series discards the darker and somewhat serious content of the first series entirely, focusing on absurd slap-stick comedy. AD Vision has not yet announced any information regarding their release plans for Orphen, so there&#8217;s no telling when we&#8217;ll see it in the US.  To Heart has not been licensed for release in the US yet, nor do I honestly anticipate seeing this series brought to these shores anytime soon seeing as shoujo and life-sim anime, with a few exceptions, have not proven to generate and sustain a large mainstream consumer market base in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: What is To Heart like and how many episodes does it have? What is Sorcerous Staber Orphen like? How many episodes is it? When will ADV release it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-john"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}