Japan can come up with some weird and wonderful things. This is a country where people can preorder their Christmas dinner months in advance from KFV have hotels with rooms that are slightly larger than coffins for those who simply need a place to sleep on the cheap and have mascots for literally everything that you could think off such as bottled water train lines and even prisons. But its not like the west doesnt have its fair share of weirdness either just take a look at wrestling for example. Throughout the history of wrestling there have been wrestlers such Doink the Clown a depressed clown Xanta Claus who is an evil Santa Claus and who could forget Perry Saturn a man who has a mop with a face on it that he fell in love with. So naturally there would be some crossover between the two. The culmination of the two is the wonderfully weird KickHeart. KickHeart came out in 2013 and is a short film produced by Production I.G. and directed by Masaaki Yuasa having previously directed and wrote Mind Game 2004 Kemonozume 2006 Kaiba 2008 and The Tatami Galaxy 2010 and went to work on Ping Ping the Animation 2014 not long after this and KickHeart was produced closer to a supervisor that producer by Mamoru Oshii who directed Ghost in the Shell 1995. So there is some serious talent behind this OVA. It was fully funded on Kickstarter and it was the first anime to be fully funed by crowdfuning and opened up the doors to many other anime projects to make the plunge into crowfunding. It was screened at several festivals such as the BFI London Film Festival and first aired on television on Toonami. KickHeart is a love story between two people who have a secret to hide one a prowrestler and the other a nun. There isnt much of a story to KickHeart beyond its initial premise and considering that its only about 12 minutes long anything beyond its inital premise would be a spoiler. In short this short has a high energy art style and animation and boy does it have a lot of energy and style. Its animation is fast and energetic and it goes hand in hand with the concept and plot very well. Unsurprisngly because of its style and concept KickHeart has ended up with a cult following. Surprisingly it did manage to get itself an English fandub while the fans were waiting for the official English dub to get released. Whether its worth listing to is up to you but I imagine if youre already into something like KickHeart the fandub wouldnt be too much of a stretch for you to enjoy. If youre into watching some unique and on the weirder side KickHeart would be right up your alley. Just be warned its not for everyone. Plus its short enough for you to watch on a lunch break so its easy to pick up and watch.