Introduction
Kamizaka Haruhi having been rescued when she was young by a mage, longed to be a mage herself, so she enrolled into a special school that allows regular and magic classes into two different sections. Together with her rival/best friend, Hiiragi Anri, they study magic together while she is searching for the boy that saved her years ago, to give him a Valentines' chocolate.
(Source: ANN)
Audience reviews
8 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
ShyNinjaGirl
It's six hours of my life I wish I could have spent getting anything else done. It's like, "Okay, let's take an interesting idea, populate it with the most boring, stereotypical characters we can design, make the interactions all boring because they're all dumb as posts, and make the overarching story dumb as rocks because it'll be about a girl searching for a special guy to make choco for.
There are better, and honestly, this anime could have been half the episodes if they but all used a little in the way of common sense. I'm just not impressed by most anything with this anime- the animation's okay, the VAs did okay with what they had, but hoo boy the story just... yeah.
I wish there was a way to remake anime that could help rework some of these because there's potential in the setting…
Read at the sourceAristophanes
Happiness! may look cheap or low budget and it probably is, but that does not hamper it significantly from how wonderful the story is. It is the best romance anime I have ever seen. The very premise upon which the story is built sounds like the best scene from "It's a Wonderful Life". The opening and closing sequences fits perfectly with the music and brings in summary the story to life or as a good reminder of the essence of the story that happiness and love are magic. It is hard to beat such poetic imagery displayed by the show's story. Though I can forgive it's frugal budget a bit, there are a few things that I can not which drag it down just a tad. The biggest drag on the show is the backstory reveal shown around episode 10/11 about why Yuma came to be where he is. It simply makes no s…
Read at the sourceiroll
There are plenty of series where I've been unimpressed by the first few episodes, but grown to enjoy or totally love the result. It can be all about the writers hitting their stride, learning the characters, finding the new twists on old ideas that will surprise you, and somewhere in the middle there'll be a beach trip.
This is not one of those series. This is the complete opposite.
The writers actually started with a decent enough twist on the "magic high school" trope, and the first few episodes are "good enough" to make you want to see where it goes.
IT GOES NOWHERE! Instead, the writing spirals downward after about the third episode. The characters are completely two-dimensional (no pun intended). They're stupid to the point of absurdity, and it's only their stupidity moving the plo…
Read at the sourceShiro-
Let me say that I was kindda confused around ep 10-12 until I understood what it was all about Yuuma's powers.
I have to say...this anime is decent...not good...just decent..To be honest until the episode when all people gone to the beach I was kindda bored to watc, and at some point I even wanted to drop this anime...But then suddenly it became more intriguing, we even saw just some little tiny bit's of ecchi moments and from then to the end of the 12 th episode it had 2-3 gags that I actually liked.A little bit of drama, a little bit of romance, school life and magic...Is a weird "combo" but oddly enough I really liked the ending.The plot was kindda plain...A girl that was saven when she was little by a young boy who used magic...she enrolls in school at a magic division[after she met th…
Read at the sourceDunkjoe
This series, I HAVE TO DECLARE: I stuck with it to write a review, and so I will write a shortcut way to watch this show at the bottom of this review. Some episodes in the middle were a bit unnecessary.
[Mood: light-medium, dull]
[Notable pickings: Magic: 7 l Comedy: 4 l Romance: 3 l Action: 4 l School life: 8 ]
Story:6
Hmm the story eh? Ep 1- 2 were sort of intros, 3-7 were more of character-based, and ep8-12 were with a plot.
The storytelling method is really really dull at times. I especially only appreciated about 30% of the content in eps 3-7 on average. The producer sorts of using a beat around the bush and slow form of presenting the story. I skipped soem parts of ep7 as a result.
The story plot is incredible. In the first few episodes we see a few Unidentified Characters (UC)…
Read at the sourceTsukiouji
Happiness! is simple, light, easy to understand, and starts off and ends with a decent storyline; however the majority of the in between episodes left you wondering if the series had a plot or not. Nothing of great significance happens until episode 9 (excluding episode 1 of course). But in the end, the writers left no questions unanswered and concluded it well.
The characters were very simple, straightforward, and didn't raise much interest with the exception of Yuma since they did a good job of making you wonder why he disliked magic when used inappropriately.
Overall, I enjoyed the beginning and ending episodes and the circumstances surrounding Yuma and Haruhi. If you want to watch a light, magic themed anime, and don't mind a lot of filler episodes then this series might be worth w…
Read at the sourcePapa_G
I'll keep it short...
A great story of magic, love, a childhood promise and a cross dressing friend.
Watch this short series (12 episodes) and watch how these things all fit together in a wonderfully written and animated show.
Read at the sourceYemi_Hikari
Story: 9
I really liked the whole idea that there is a school that is seperated into two devisions, magic and non magical. A lot of mysterieous events happen that are unexpected and there are twists and turns. While some things are quite obvious what the awnsers are, there are things that are less so.
Art: 10
The artwork is extremely detailed, expessully the costumes of the magic users. This detail helps to give each character their personality.
Sound: 8 There were way too many explouding noises and odd noises that weren't so much needed. There was also nothing that stood out to me.
Character: 10
The cast has a wide range of characters, from a crossdressing boy who wishes he was a girl, to a boy who hates, to a girl who is looking for the boy who saved her as a child using magic.
En…
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