Audience reviews
19 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
R_2_R
Hana no Uta is what happens when you have a bunch of interesting ideas tied into a lose-lose plot. Normally, something like this would be a mess (which it is), but it is still an enjoyable kind of mess thanks to its solidly animated action sequences, cute art style, and quirky characters.
You probably heard of animation studios overworking their staff (cough MAPPA) but sometimes, you get to watch something that looks like there aren't any compromises made during its making. Hana no Uta is one such case, where there's practically nothing to complain about its visuals. In fact, there are many details in visuals that add a lot to the experience. Whether the story is laid back or intense moments, the visuals do a great job at keeping things engaging.
The characters and plot are all half baked…
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I don't usually write reviews, but goodness gracious this show is abhorrently terrible. There are possibly some things for some people to like in this show, but it fails on pretty much every single level I can think of aside from the occasional bit of spicy sound design and the one good character.
The weird thing about this show is that absolutely nothing happens. Like, the plot is technically in a different place by the end, but it might as well not be. There's no progression or real resolution very often, and most of the time it's just characters doing menial tasks or sitting around. You can make a show like that fun, but this show's comedy is always incredibly out of touch and really childish aside from a couple special cases. Even when plot happens, it's surrounded by all this junk, a…
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If I were to sum this up in one sentence: It's fullmetal alchemist: brotherhood, with excessive, and over the top panty shots, with flat and unlikable characters.
Honestly, the best part of this was the art.
The original Yozakura art was better than this. Actually, the more I watched this one, the more I wanted to give the original yozakura quartet anime a higher score.
Ignoring the ridiculous and pointless panty shots, the whole thing was just terrible.
I hate all the characters in this anime. I couldn't tell you one redeeming thing about them. Things done for comedic fact in the middle of serious, and important battles just made the characters in question seem stupid. Well, they're already unlikable, so they're stupidly unlikable.
All in all, this anime is basically Fullmetal Alc…
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YOZAKURA QUARTET: HANA NO UTA REVIEW by CRISTOU (spoiler free!)
INTRODUCTION
Yozakura Quartet is a very strange show. I've had my eye on it for a while, having read the synopsis a long time ago and becoming interested. After watching it, I can say that the show is definitely interesting, and in most cases, worth your time. I will probably remember this show as one of the most notable that I've watched this year.
SUMMARY
Strengths
-Good art
-Incredibly fluid animation -Interesting characters
-Interesting plot
Weaknesses
-Split between 1 show and 2 OVAs
-Strange pacing
-Odd ending
NOTE:
In case you didn't know, there are two storylines for Yozakura Quartet. There is the original animated Yozakura Quartet by Studio Nomad in 2008, and there is the three part series started by Tatsunoko Pr…
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It's like watching Durarara all over again but with two differences being the camera angles and the fact that this show started boringly.
Yozakura Quartet is good but it lacks many things. As the series ends as a cliffhanger, many unanswered questions were left creating the feeling of unease. The show doesn't really start off well for the first few episodes but the story starts to line up as you progress through the show just like Durarara. Only difference is Durarara was intriguing since the beginning. At least for me.
Interesting "natural" camera angles. Unique art style. Mediocre story but satisfactory character designs. Yozakura Quartet is the perfect anime for people seeking for the MIDDLE. And by that I am talking about some actions, some chill and a little bit of sadness. Some f…
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Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta has almost everything you'd expect of a shounen anime. Cute girls that kick ass, tsundere, characters with their own extraordinary powers, devilish cool-looking antagonists, dope fight sequences, high tempo music, blasting sound effects and fanservice. Almost all the ingredients you need for the shounen anime you can get hyped and drown in awe for is prepared, then it all comes down to execution.
TL;DR
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Story(7/10) + Character(6/10): I am particularly a plot maniac when it comes to anime so it could be the very reason why I gave this show a 6. Plot-wise, Hana no Uta really has nothing much to offer. What does our MCs and friends do? Protect the town and discover more about the…
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Hana no Uta is a show that I like because of all the things it does differently. It consistently fails to adhere to an ordinary story pacing, and it relishes in, and often pulls off, fast tone shifts. The themes have a lot of stuff to do with demons and half-demons and whether they should be protected or banished, and yet, rather than treating this as a grave affair that propels every event, I felt more often like I was in a blended slice-of-life that sometimes has action and drama. There are story arcs, of course, but it often feels like the show and the characters have mutually agreed to give them lip service so that they can go do something way more interesting with the screen time. You can guess what's coming next, but you don't know what the "good scene" will be, because it could be a…
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Yozukara Quartet: Hana no Uta is one of the most underrated anime and needs to be more known to the community.
The show starts off with quite a bizarre start. Giant fish tanks and then all of a sudden a flock of pigeons. This is done to confuse the viewers. It then transitions to a highly attended Sakura Festival showing the happiness and enjoyment the people are having in the festival. The story is told in a steady episodic flow with occasional flashbacks to fill in plot holes due to the lack of explanation in some scenes. Being only 13 episodes, the pacing is bound to be inconsistent. Sometimes there is an episode solely to describe a character’s back story and being only 13 episodes, that takes up a lot of space which leaves not enough room for other plot details. This leads to the sen…
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in my opinion yozakura quartet is one of the most underrated shows of the 2013 fall season, what makes it even worse is the fact it's not very known among many people. just by looking at the members amount down in this website you will understand what i mean -almost 16000 members, compared to a 30k or 40k one can tell it's insignificant-. so as a result after watching this series along with its OVAs i decided to write my thoughts about it.
well then, as many of you may know yozakura's adaptation is manga written by Yasuda, Suzuhito and still on going. before the series started broadcasting in 2013, it already had 3 OAD featuring one of the events that occured in the middle of the story -Yozakura Quartet: Hoshi no Umi-. i wouldn't call it a prequel nor a sequel, but as an advice watching t…
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*NOTE BEFORE WATCHING THIS ANIME PLEASE READ THIS*
i thought i should mention this cause no one told me about this before i started watching. to fully watch the anime u have to watch the yozakura no quaret OVA hoshi no umi after watching the 8th episode because though listed as a side story it is actually important to the story because it introduces a new character and builds up on a present one.( though u can get the general idea from the op of the 9th episode it feels a bit confusing) this was probably cause due to constraint on the number of episodes.
*END OF NOTE*
REVIEW:
okay so after watching this series i have to say that it was a wonderful experience. this show is a hit or miss kinda thing but for me its a hit. this show has everything comedy, badass fights with fluid animation an…
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This review is only on the Sound, as i agree with almost every other review, so read those instead :D
Apart from beeing very outstanding overall, what struck me most in this anime was the sound.
I cannot really describe it, but the OST is getting used very fittingly everytime.
There are scenes where its completly silent (because nothing is happening) and then the sound just explodes.
The Soundworks and volume is just as extreme as other parts of this fantastic anime, when a wall gets broken near the camera, it tries to break your speakers/headset.
That felt very refreshing, because every other series i watched limits the sound to fit the picture.
I can only recommend this anime.
PS: I was also very surprised about the end, but its a very good end.
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Man, this show has everything: a vibrant art style, a sufficiently interesting premise, a diverse cast of characters, a series of pulse-pounding action scenes with fluid animation, a good mix of humor, and of course, a healthy amount of fanservice. So need I say more about this show when it seemingly has everything good going for it? For the sake of a longer review, I do.
Think of it this way. In reference to the title, a “quartet” can only pull off a beautiful performance when all four musicians play in sync with each other, complementing each other’s melodies to create the perfect harmony. It is not about one musician playing exceptionally better than the rest. Everyone has to make compromises and work together to get the perfect sound. The same idea holds true for anime as well, in tha…
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I'll write a brief review on this one (Spoiler Free). Hana no Uta is a reboot of the original Yozakura Quartet, and in my honest opinion, you can't enjoy the reboot to its fullest without watching its predecessor, you'll miss important character information and maybe some bits of the story that might make you enjoy this one a lot better.
I'll say the original was definitely not that good, the story was interesting but poorly managed and the characters could have been developed a lot better. And oh boy have they fixed it in Hana no Uta, besides the different takes with the art style and the more common comical gags (and panty shots!), which were great additions, the series has become enormously better and more entertaining.
Story 7/10:
Why am I giving a 7 here? Because the story just fe…
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*SPOILER FREE REVIEW*
Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta
What an anime this is. An anime which fell through the cracks of all the other hype anime that surrounded it during its release. Do you have a craving for a super powered over the top action? Well look no further because your knight in shining armor is here and it's name is Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta.
Story:
Let's get down to business here. If you read the synopsis then chances are, that didn't make you interested in this show whatsoever. It''s hard to describe the show without spoilers but basically follow a group of four high school friends that are gifted with supernatural abilities to fend off supernatural things. Really, that's all I can say. Pacing wise the story starts to move pretty quickly and is filled with action until a…
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Yozakura Quartet. The quartet of the night cherry blossoms. What a resonating name.
This is another one of those shows that started off with a bang. Nekomimi girl with pantsu shot? Check. Randomly appearing huge goldfish? Check. All that crazy spiced up with a dash of ecchi. Yummy. I am one of strong believers that the start and the end of an anime are the two most important parts to get right. After all, if you don't get episode 1 just right, you're gonna lose viewers. If you don't get the final episode right, you leave a sour taste in everyone's mouth. So there's that. Yozakura Quartet. Great title. Epic start.
Characters were like-able right off the bat. You have the tsundere main girl who literally hums a tsundere song, sports a long-ass scarf for image which scores +1 in my book, do…
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This anime was a mixed bag for me. I haven't seen the original show, so my experience with this franchise is based entirely on the reboot. Yozakura Quartet had a good story set up going on, but that was it. I feel like this anime feel short, it didn't really go anywhere. There were all these clues leading to this big climax, but in the end it felt like nothing had really happened and nothing got accomplished. Yes, it think the story was good, I just would've liked to get more out of it. This series could probably have benefited from being slightly longer.
There characters, however, are what really make the show. There are a lot of them, most introduced within the first few episodes, and it's a diverse, fun cast of characters. Hime and Akina were handled nicely, but I would've liked to see…
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What do you get when you mix a weird and refreshing supernatural setting with cliched shounen character backgrounds and battle elements? When you mix a solid plot-line having interesting aspects with unnecessary and distracting fan service? And add pleasing art style & character designs with diverse yet quite unoriginal cast of characters? Apparently you get this show, which, as these mixtures suggests is a flawed yet quite an enjoyable experience at the end of the day.
This is not the first adaptation of the manga, there is a previous series as well as OVA's; but quite thankfully for someone new wanting to join the excitement you don't need to watch those to understand the show as it starts the story anew. The plot setting is a town where humans and youkai leave together and the focus is…
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Upon gazing at the ridiculously short synopsis and the total episode number, I was convinced that there is nothing too special to see here. And looking back on complaints with its first run five years ago under “Yozakura Quartet,” I was skeptical on how this reboot will deliver. How wrong I was; this anime left me with a lasting impression. You might have been put off too, but don’t back away now, because the simplistic synopsis is not all what this anime has to offer.
Given the synopsis and thirteen-episode span, I was led to believe that this anime’s storyline wouldn’t get past a good mark. That proves to be quite true when it isn’t so often that the characters do their duties of kicking butt and defending the city and rather spend time dilly-dallying with ramen and swimming pools. But…
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The Yozakura Quartet franchise has been an odd ball in the mix. Some classifies it as a supernatural comedy while others sees it as a fun series with shounen battles featuring a diverse cast of characters. While the series itself doesn’t venture too far or drag like long term battle shounen series, it does take some patience to get used to. Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta is one prominent example of where it’ll take more than patience to get through the show. It’ll take endurance to get yourself familiar with the themes. Once you do, you might find a little charm in this show. As far as that goes, Yozakura Quartet still is like a stinger on a bee that might not always work out right.
Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta is a brand new anime series based off of the manga of the same name. The serie…
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