6HP (Six Hearts Princess)

6HP(シックスハートプリンセス)

6.2(707)

MAL Score

Ranked #9965

Popularity #8221

Mahou Shoujo

Duration: 24 min
Aired: Dec 30, 2016 to ?
Status: Currently Airing

Otaku Consensus

6HP is valued less as a conventional crowd-pleaser than as an artist-led mahou shoujo artifact: Takashi Murakami’s direction, mebae’s character and costume work, and Poncotan’s maximal visual identity are the clear points of interest. Its weak critical center of gravity, reflected in a 6.16 MAL score and 53/100 AniList score, comes from the same thing that makes it fascinating: an irregular, collage-like production whose pacing and coherence struggle to match the density of its ideas.

Why You Should Watch

Watch 6HP if you want magical-girl anime treated as a contemporary-art object rather than a clean genre product. It is best suited to viewers who enjoy dissecting visual systems: mebae’s designs and costumes, JNTHED’s mechanical contributions, Hiromasa Ogura’s art direction, and Hironori Motooka’s CG work all sit inside a production led by Takashi Murakami, making it feel closer to a curated aesthetic experiment than a standard TV mahou shoujo. If Sailor Moon represents the genre’s classical team-fantasy appeal and Puella Magi Madoka Magica its thriller deconstruction, 6HP occupies a stranger gallery-space corner: urban, godly, kaiju-scaled, train-adjacent, kemonomimi-filled, and willing to throw samurai, superheroes, archery, restaurants, coastlines, and nudity into the same symbolic blender.

What Makes It Stand Out

1
The series is directed by Takashi Murakami and produced by Poncotan, giving it an unusually art-world-facing identity for a mahou shoujo anime rather than a typical committee-driven franchise profile.
2
mebae is credited for both character design and costume design, a meaningful overlap for a magical-girl work where silhouette, transformation fashion, and identity coding are central to the viewing experience.
3
The staff list pairs JNTHED’s mechanical design with Hironori Motooka’s CG direction, signaling a hybrid visual approach that has room for both ornate character styling and harder-edged object or effects work.
4
AniList’s tag cluster is unusually dense: Urban, Gods, Trains, Kaiju, Coastal, Nekomimi, Kemonomimi, Restaurant, Samurai, Superhero, Super Power, Swordplay, Animals, Nudity, and Archery all sit at 79%, which makes the show stand out as a motif-heavy magical-girl oddity.
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Its public reception is niche rather than broad: MAL lists it at 6.16 from 707 votes with a #9965 rank and #8221 popularity, while AniList records only 28 favourites, placing it firmly in cult-curiosity territory.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: 6HP began airing on December 30, 2016 and is still listed with an open-ended end date, an uncommon database footprint that reinforces its reputation as an irregular production rather than a neatly completed seasonal title.
Fun fact 2: MAL does not assign it standard genres in the supplied data, but it does identify the theme as Mahou Shoujo; that mismatch fits a project whose tag profile sprawls far beyond ordinary magical-girl categorization.
Fun fact 3: Daichi Nakagawa handles series composition, placing the show’s structure under a named writing lead even though its public identity is dominated by Takashi Murakami’s directorial authorship.
Fun fact 4: The visual pipeline credits are unusually specific: Hiromasa Ogura is art director, Hitomi Fujii handles color design, Kouichi Gonda is director of photography, and Hironori Motooka is CG director.
Fun fact 5: Tooru Nakano is credited as sound director, rounding out a staff list that emphasizes production craft across design, color, photography, CG, and audio rather than relying only on the director’s name.