Audience reviews
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O1991
Premise: I chose Hanayamata based on its trailer, as I usually do when choosing an anime to watch. I went into it with genuine curiosity and few or no expectations, without any hype or external influence.
I only assigned a score because it was required to publish this review.
Hanayamata turned out to be a truly special experience for me. I was happy with my choice from the very first episode, which was both beautiful and genuinely funny. As I continued watching, the anime kept making me laugh and moving me emotionally, throughout the series.
One of the things I loved most about this anime was its humour. There were countless funny moments, and even the short interludes and previews could make me laugh. I often found myself laughing so much that I would say “enough” while still laughing,…
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CGDCT is a genre in which all anime usually follow the same formula: episodic, no plot, cheesy, and has no stakes. However, Hanayamata went beyond the typical CGDCT and experimented with an overarching plot, theme, and had tons and tons of drama and stakes, for better or worse.
Hanayamata is an anime about yosakoi, and friends who dance yosakoi. It's pretty simple but the club members have a lot of depth and development, which is the main draw of the series.
Naru, our protagonist, is an airhead who is average and has no passion. I feel like she's very relatable, but at the same time painfully generic and cheesy. She had room for development through her trauma, but for some reason the show scrapped it aside. Hana is a foreign girl who introduced her to yosakoi, but I thought she was very…
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The most important thing IS having Fun. Fun, I think, doesn't mean things like not being serious or catering to some things you follow or something else. They are a part of having fun. But Fun is - Doing what you want to do and to the best of your ability; led by passion and feelings, not reason or responsibilities; just be you and give it everything you've got - give the performance of your life. To me, I think that is Fun, if I am wanting to convey my current feelings to someone. Of course I feel more than I could ever write. And I can assure you, knowing what you truly want right at this moment, takes a struggle.
For now, I am gonna do what I want to do - sort some of my mangas. And I'm gonna do it to the best of my ability. So thank you Hana, Naru, Yaya, Machi, Tami - HaNaYaMaTa.
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Dazzling artwork ✓
Incredible animation ✓
Great voice acting ✓
Enjoyable setting/focus ✓
Excellent characters ✓
What's not to love?
Well, there's a huge lump of coal in my anime stocking and it's that Hanayamata is just a series of melodramatic setbacks that constantly get in the way of all those positives. About halfway in I was shrugging off the negativity because I really enjoy CGDCT and I figured the series would follow a typical pattern in that around episode 8-9 the roadbumps would be done and everything would cap out with a good vibe. Well...that doesn't happen until the last four minutes of the last episode. In fact, it's around episode 8-9 where more and more melodramatic setbacks are introduced, all the way up until the aforementioned finale.
Just...why? What's the point? What…
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U n d e r r a t e d.
Sometimes when you lurk around to find an anime to watch, you hit a jackpot. It's even better if the rating of the series is mediocre but you still enjoy it more than you should be. Well lads. I think I've hit yet another jackpot. Hanayamata is truly a hidden gem that gleams even brighter than multiple of anime which I've given 10/10.
Story : 10/10
The story's simple! Cute girls that blushes 100% of the time forms a yosakoi club and does yosakoi activities as they gather more members and overcome the obstacles of depression! Not trying to be rude or anything. But the Yuri inside this show is more fucking solid than my erection. Uh- no, I think your thoughts are misinterpreting from my exaggeration. What I'm truly trying to say is that this anime is so fucking pure…
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An anime which I watched some, SOME, episodes on Animax, I decided to complete Hanayamata because it had the one element which I love. Tradition. An anime which focuses on Yosakoi, a traditional Japanese dance with cute girls dancing it. Nothing better than cute girls dancing! Plus, we have a gaijin girl in the anime, all the better!!
Story: The story is well, pretty generic when it comes to the Slice of life school life genre. The MC gets pulled in to a club by a random person, and the two of them rope in more people to officially form a club. Sure, they have their struggles in between, but they settle them before completing the final climactic dance. Apart from the Yosakoi dance, the story idea is quite generic and average. The one thing that I liked about the story is how it's not rus…
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Where should I start?
Five girls, and a teacher. They're all crying for 11 of 12 episodes, very predictable, supposed to be a comedy and they're always crying.
Talking about the art, the only cute girl is Hana, for the rest, they have the "bunny teeth" that is damn annoying, it's not cute at all. And their eyes, damn, the shrunk and got huge by time to time, but by a big difference. I know it's anime, but they have like a huge forehead that it's just ugly. And they're always crying, so you know what I'm talking about.
The only thing good about the sound, it's the opening, and maybe the ending. But sometimes, the girl's voices started echoing, like bugging or whatever.
The characters? Typical tsundere, a typical shy girl who wants to shine, a typical rich girl without friends, typical stu…
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Hanayamata isn't good enough to compete with all the available CGDCT anime (it's good, but it's not great), however Hanayamata's competitive advantage is that it has a good English dub which lowers the required investment into the show (e.g., I can watch while doing chores with English-dubs). While Hanayamata's English dub is inferior to the Japanese original (as English dubs usually are), it's good enough that the show isn't ruined by it, and if you've got the extra time to focus for English-subs there are better offerings...
With the lowered investment (as an English dub) Hanayamata is definitely worth watching, though definitely watch k-On!! first (which also has an excellent English Dub, one of the very rare cases where I prefer the dub to the sub (for everything but the k-on! movie a…
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HaNaYaMaTa is fantastic. It's really cute, but it's also really gripping. It's the best CGDCT (Cute Girls Doing Cute Things) anime out there. It's also a really good Slice of Life show with some tough questions and solid answers. But it's also a good sports anime, not solely because it may be the only anime to ever cover Yosakoi, but also because it makes it interesting for the viewer. What's really, really good about HaNaYaMaTa, though, is how it brings all of these aspects together and makes something fun, exciting, pretty funny, heartwarming and emotionally honest. Also, the OP is catchy as all hell.
The first thing you'll notice about HaNaYaMaTa, aside from it being really goddamn cute, is that all of the characters are the typical archetypes you'd expect to find in this kind of serie…
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WARNING CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS IF THAT"S EVEN POSSIBLE FOR THIS KIND OF SHOW. I ALSO GET REALLY TECHNICAL SOMETIMES.
The first thing Hanayamata greets you with is a stunningly beautiful scene with two of our main characters having an almost transcendental encounter against a super-moonlit setting. Then we dive into what is probably the catchiest and colourful opening of 2014. What. An. Opening.
Hanayamata promises a great deal with it being directed and written by some prolific names in the industry. Ishizuka Atsuko had just cemented herself as a force in the industry the previous season with the conclusion of No Game No Life whilst Yoshida Reiko had a solid base having worked on numerous similar anime before. Hanayamata is a CGDCT anime that dares to challenge the might of the season's-…
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Note: Expanded. I'm binge watching this series today.
Hanayamata will probably responsible for implanting the stereotype in Japan of American girls being hyper parkour practitioners who speak near-perfect Japanese and want to recruit everyone into dancing yosakoi. Eh, I guess that beats the idea that American girls in Japan speak near-perfect Japanese with a terrible American accent and absolutely putrid English with a Japanese accent.
This is a show I picked up on a whim-- I had no clue what it was about, the title looked appealing, mainly. I was introduced to Naru's story at the beginning and I was quickly hooked-- I dunno, maybe I have a soft spot for fairy tales.
Like any good character show, this is about journeys. Watching Naru blossom from wallflower to one of five stars on a sta…
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So i'm Dion and i have a condition.I swear a lot and i can't hold back my sarcastic,nihilistic side.So if you're not old enough to know what your willy is for then i suggest you read something else for a bedtime story.
And onto Hanayamata which is just another "cute girls doing cute things" type of anime...Cause we needed one in 5 minutes,right?But then i'm a soulless fuck so what do i know.
The story is about a girl who one day while walking past a shrine at night while on the influence of LSD,she heard rhythmic clacking coming from the shrine grounds.Curious,Naru follows the sounds and finds a ferce dragon.The dragon started chasing her and then a fairy came to her aid and with might and a tazer she fought off the bad dragon and then Khaleesi came and some shit went down and the rest i…
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What starts off as your typical cute girls doing cute things anime actually evolves into something more with Hanayamata. Yes there are still cute girls doing cute things in the anime so don't fear. But the show isn't afraid to call itself on its on use of tropes, often breaking the fourth wall and breaking the characters down into those groups out loud and shattering them with character development. I'm not going to say that the characters completely break those molds but they do in fact go further past just the tropes that anime usually keep to in these sorts of anime. Even some of the more background characters have development and grow with the story.
The story line is good, even if most of the storytelling is done in the background its done so that the characters themselves can shine…
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I got hooked to it, but sadly the anime was very much like Love!Live! It was annoying in that sense. A lot of the plot was very similar but simplistic to fit into 12 episodes. If you decide to watch it I recommend the sub over the dub. The dub would of been good but for some reason they LOVED saying the phrase "Ya know" after everything. It drove me insane. Ya know? All jokes aside. solid 7/10 good but pretty generic and predictable. It's a good anime to watch just to watch or as something to have in the background.
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well this is my first review and i'm not good at doing it xD but when i look the average score that get hanayamata and its low popularity i'm upset . First of all i just wanna write a small review and i will sum up what i wanna say , it's not because the review is small that it's wrong or incomplete , a long one is rather boring and may be wrong too . So to sum up hanayamata its about a american girl who come in japan because her mom is too busy with work , and she wanna live the dream of her childhood : dance yosakoi . The positive points of hanayamata it's that first it's short and easy too watch , the animation and music is very good with one of the best opening ever (for a infamous anime) , its interesting and original . Another good point about hanayamata is that you get attach very e…
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every person regardless of it's whereabout should inevitably have experienced a point in its life where it encountered talented people. those types of people who excel in certain fields or sometimes at everything they do. this person definitely felt pathetic and discouraged after comparing itself to them. expressing a little bit of jealousy is unavoidable either. unfortunately, this unfair rule applies evenly on everyone. the talented people always hold an advantageous hand over the normies, that's what the majority thinks. only a few individuals look at it from a perspective that talented people are only specials cases, and when thinking about it thoughtfully one could realize that almost all of the people surrounding his daily life are only normal/untalented beings. receiving this idea f…
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Despite having different personalities, different circumstances, anyone can come together and be as one for their dreams. Shining alongside each other, these girls showed their love, their burning manly spirit, for yosakoi.
Hanayamata's a nice show.
The art is pretty well done. All those beautiful colors gives the show appeal, and the smooth and continuous animation makes watching cute girls dance all the more fun.
Music is definitely great. While the soundtrack was just average, I liked the ED theme, and loved the OP even more.
They did a good job with the characters. There was a good amount of growth with each one, and it had a good grasp on the relationships of everyone.
Story is simple. The emotions are there, but wasn't really executed well enough to make full use of it. Calm an…
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Hanayamata
Anime of ∞.
Ha -na
Na -ru
Ya -ya
Ma -chi
Ta -mi These are the 5 girls that make up Hanayamata and this anime is simply amazing. When I was acting a little silly a week ago, Cajun and I were talking when he linked me the OP for this song in it's full glory and I fell in love so hard; I listened to it nonstop for at least 5 hours. I was captivated by the song and going into the anime, I had no idea what I was in store for.
The main girls of Hanayamata are Hana and Naru, though the other three are also mains without a doubt, it's because of Hana and Naru that Hanayamata is what it is. It's a great story about fitting in, about doing something that you want to do because you just want to have fun, not doing things that you're forced into or that you're burdened with. The way it's…
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[TW: weight loss is talked about in one episode of this series; otherwise there are no notable trigger warnings.]
Hanayamata is the story of five middle school girls and how they all grew closer through yosakoi, a form of Japanese dance that is described in the series as a sort of "free-style" form of traditional Japanese dance. The show follows their escapades in forming a yosakoi club at school, practicing and performing their dance, and how they change over the course of the series thanks to the friends they have made in the club.
It's a sweet, typical slice-of-life story, it progresses how you would expect and there are no real plot twists of any sort. Each of the five main characters are typical anime archetypes and they don't really do much to deviate from this. As a result their…
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Have you wanted to know what is yosakoi dance is all about? This anime can provide you what is the meaning of yosakoi all about. Combination of Slice of Life, Comedy and Japan Culture is what i could think that make this anime as a good candidate to receive a season 2. Well done Madhouse studios!
Story: 8/10 - With 12 episodes available, i say the plot of the story was really impressive, not only impressive but the development between characters too and how they brought their club which is the Yosakoi club to at least 2 big festivals, one failure but manage to complete and one successful and quite memorable festival. Sadness, happiness, kawainess, it was everywhere.
Art: 8/10 - I love the character designs of all the 5 girls, it was rather unique in my perspective, beautifully done. Bac…
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