Overall Ratings: 6.2, 6.4 and 7.3 out of 10
I can clearly recommend adnext. ad and adplus are also alright.
Writing separate reviews for every OVA for to Heart 2 is rather tedious. They are grouped in strange way too. First OVA had 3 episodes in total and the remaining three are two episodes each. To make matter worse, episodes are grouped in a completely random fashion and do not make cohesive pairs at all.
Because of that pirates of torrent sites simply number all OVA and ad-series episodes from 14 to 23 and you need a list of episodes with description to make sense of what is what. You can find one on wikipedia.
I already covered 3-episode OVA in a separate article. There is also one for the original to Heart 2. Now this is a joint review for the three two episodes OVAs, ad-series.
Overall ad-series are gradual improvement over the 3-episode OVA. OVA messed up the original concept without offering much in the way of redeeming qualities. First two ad-series offered different but interesting and somewhat likable in its own way content. Ad-next even managed to outshine the original.
Ad and Adplus had episodes about unlikable Yuma and Karin. I criticized these two in my review of the original to Heart 2 ad-series tried to redeem them, they managed to do it halfway only.
Other than that ad had episode with Takaaki amnesia where most of the girls tried to take advantage of that. It was somewhat funny but not likable.
Adplus had another robot maid episode. It was not as much of a disaster as Yuuji abuse episode from OVA, but it's not what it was supposed to be either. Theme and reasons why men want robot maids was not covered properly.
On the other hand, adnext first went with Manaka episode and showcased her shy insecure and vulnerable side really well, that is in a likable, dateable way. Manaka's beach episode was somewhat confused (it was still the best of three in OVA), but adnext one is showing her character in mostly good way.
It followed with Kusakabe and robot maid's episode, where they actually doing chores properly. Finally, I got something very close to what I wanted. If they would not destroy things as they compete at being better wife/maid/gf and stay gentle and well-mannered at all times, that would be perfect.
There are still issues, for example Konomi's character is still messed up and there is nothing left of what made her so endearing in the very first episode of the original. Some minor messed up scenes here and there are somewhat annoying, but such scenes are minority.
Also, Sasara is now dresses in cute clothes in intro sequence. Somehow OVA and ad creators like her for some reason.
Overall, I can surely recommend adnext. Ad and adplus are passable too. If you skip Yuuji abuse episode in OVA (the first one), then its watchable too.
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