Audience reviews
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starfarts
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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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 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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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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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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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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Hanayamata is a slice of life, comedy anime based of the manga Manga Time Kirara Forward by Sou Hamayumiba and was created by Madhouse studio. The anime aired from July to September 2014 and lasted 12 episodes long.
Plot
Hanayamata’s Plot revolves around 14 years old girl, Naru Sekiya, who has a lack of interests except for fairy tales, until she meets Hana N. Fountainstand, one night and watches her dancing Yosakoi. Together, they create a Yosakoi club at school so they can enter the upcoming Yosakoi, but getting new members is not so easy. The story of Hanayamata may sound like some other anime involving music and dancing, do not let you think Hanayamata is the nothing new. While the main focus is on Yosakoi, the show doesn't fail in the development of the main characters over the cours…
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Hanayamata is something we've all seen before whether you've seen it specifically or if you've seen any other random SoL with a similar plot, unfortunately it could have been greater. The subject is something known as Yosakoi. A Japanese style of dance you've most likely never heard of unless you're into that sort of thing or live in Japan. The show does next to nothing to bring you closer to the subject and barely informs you of anything that has to do with the style of the dance outside of the fact that they use naruko and its done in groups. I could almost forgive this if there was actually more to the show though, because I can understand it was intended for a Japanese audience.
Story: 4
Have seen K-On? Have you seen any show like it? If yes then you know the story already. A girl wi…
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I just finished watching Hanayamata and I didn't regret picking up this anime after all.. :3 Why? Let me explain..
Story 7/10
Hanayamata is about 5 middle school girls creating yosakoi (Japanese unique traditional dance, combining traditional with modern music) club. It brings up school club theme commonly used in a lot of anime & manga recently. Despite having light, predictable story, it is still interesting.
It has the goodness of shojo and slice of life anime - cute and girly, light yet with values about life and friendship - and uses it to its fullest. It is not overly dramatic, emotional or patronizing. It feels natural, especially if you put yourself as a middle school student, struggling to grow up, make friends and be a better person. There are values I find relatable, even as a…
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Jersey Girls aren't trash, trash gets picked up.
That should be the description for Hanayamata. When I first heard that this show would feature a character from the greatest state in union I was incredibly excited. However, that was short lived. I soon realized that like with many shows, the Japanese depiction of a foreign land is far from accurate. Seeing a blonde haired girl who speaks fluent Japanese in Princeton, NJ is rarer than finding one in Japan. Luckily the depiction was not along the lines of a Jersey Shore parody, but at the same time I felt that it would have been a more entertaining depiction of the first New Jersey native depicted in anime. What is even more strange is this New Jersey resident's love of “yosakoi”. Now you may be asking: “Ayyy yo Tony – what the hell's a yos…
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What am I doing writing this review??. . . . . I have no idea! I'm sick, I'm bored, and I suck at writing reviews. But here goes!
As always when starting a new series you have to know what you're getting into.
For what it is Hanayamata is very charming although it's very basic. Is it bad?? Absolutely not! Could it have been more interesting maybe.
The story:
Our main Naru is a plain girl who doesn't stand out in anything and has no idea what she wants to do in life. She meets the transfer student(big surprise) Hana, who tries to get her to dance Yasakoi with her. Yasakoi is some sort of traditional yet free spirited group dance that you use these things called Naruko for. Naru ofc doesn't want to at first, but then gives in. They start a club for it and try to gather more people.
A stor…
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Your first impression of this show is probably spot-on. Yes, it’s a show about cute girls doing cute things. Yes, it’s flowery, adorable, and sweet to the point it makes you cringe. And yes, it’s a typical story about the friendship between five girls in a club setting. On the surface, Hanayamata doesn’t do much to deviate from being the stereotypical anime featuring everyday lives of girls in a school club. Since the anime realm is saturated with these types of anime, you will more or less get what you expected with Hanayamata, especially in terms of the overall plot progression and the character developments.
However, Hanayamata is obviously not a show you will love because of all its stereotypical aspects. It’s a show you will love because of how it takes those stereotypical aspects an…
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Hanayamata is a story about building a friendship through the love of a certain activity, in this case; yosakoi. Along the way they will face challenges that will not only test the staying power of their club but it will test their love for one another. It's nothing too complex but it is simple and done interesting enough to keep watching.
While the characters don’t get better and better, they do stay at a level of interesting to keep you invested. Naru is the shy girl who has to learn to overcome her self esteem issues, Hana is the energetic foreigner who may come off as annoying, but also comes off as cute, Yaya is your typical tsundere, Tami is the perfect girl at first glance, and Machi is your mean spirited student council president. Each character is given a back-story or subplot a…
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(This has been adapted from my reddit thread)
Dancing is usually seen as something different to many people. For some, it is an art form for the human body. And yet for others it is an expression of the soul. When it comes down to it, dancing is what the dancer makes of it. In Hanayamata, Hana, Naru, Yaya, Machi, and Tami come to learn that yosakoi, to them, is a bond of everlasting friendship and love.
STORY
Hanayamata starts by introducing Naru, a young girl looking to become more "dazzling." One night, she witnesses a young girl, Hana, dancing beautifully in the moonlight. After becoming friends, Hana makes it her mission to recruit Naru and a few others into her yosakoi club so they can all have fun together.
When going into this show, it's important to understand that this is a "c…
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There are various rules when one talks about a series related to “Cute Girls Doing Cute Things”. (CGDCT) First, the show must consists of a main female characters cast for at least the core characters. And throughout that series, there are hardly or if any male characters at all. Second, the girls must be doing something cute. This could be anything considered cute whether it’s having a tea party, playing at the beach, singing a song, or planning for a vacation. In the case of Hanayamata, the cute girls performs yosakoi, an unique form of dancing stylized in Japan. And finally, these activities are usually random in no precise order. In other words, there usually isn’t a complex or ongoing plot with the girls that connects the story together. However, this doesn’t always apply as a major t…
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