DearS?

[Aleolus]

OK, I'm just starting to check out a series called DearS, and I'm wondering what the opinion of my fellow CAAers is. Is this a good series, a silly series, what? Is it worth the time it takes to watch it?

[Tenshi no Ai]

First off, I LOVE Chobits. Ecchi at times yes, but complete love the series and own the DVDs and manga. I noticed that DearS had the same flavor as it with extremely adorable characters! After one episode I thought "that was a waste of time..." The whole theme (and the theme song as well) involves her being a slave (in a perverse way, of course) to her "master" and that just spells out wrong with me right there :/ As a girl I shake my head at that. Sad thing is, Peach Pit, the authors of the manga, were girls as well! Sometimes I wonder...

From another point of view, even reviews from non-Christians think the show quite trashy :/ I mean, I can take sexual themes up to a point, but with that whole slave thing going on and a bunch of other stuff... Blah :/ It ruined it for me, and I'll stick to Chobits...

[termyt]

I watched the first DVD. It was enough for me. I can take a lot of fan service and such if the story and characters are interesting, but nothing in this show really appealed to me personally.

[uc pseudonym]

I hope this post won't be superfluous, following two good answers. While I haven't watched the entire series, I am aquainted with some that have and I've seen a few episodes myself.

The previous two posters are correct: the series is a massive exercise in fanservice. Also, the themes that irritated Tenshi no Ai are not going to go away. It never really gains much in the way of a real plot and doesn't have characters if you define the word as anything more than bodies and archetypes. The only good thing I could possibly say about it is that one of its gags made me laugh, which is more than can be said for anything else in this genre.

[Tenshi no Ai]

On another note, with the manga itself one of the Japanese covers were so bad, that they actually changed it in the Tokyopop version. I'm only assuming it was because the of the provocative cover, which contains more skin than most manga covers I've seen (with the except of Saikano, but with that the manga itself is sealed in wrap.)