Audience reviews
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tripping_hazard
I laughed a few times but I feel like I couldn’t take my attention away from how toxic the relationship between the entire school and Handa is
Handa has multiple people who stalk him, and obsess over him like a god. None of them actually know who he really is and assume he’s perfect in every way. I could get into more specifics but I don’t want to type it all out right now.
Other than that, I feel like the show gets boring over time as the gimmick, “i think everyone hates me, but they actually love me (too much)”, gets old quick. by the last few episodes I was just trying to finish the series so I could move on.
I also feel like many of the characters were just underdeveloped.
Anyways, wouldn’t really recommend it. I’m just gonna go rewatch Saiki K for the 5th time.
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tl dr; A good anime to watch on a daily basis
Even though, this anime Handa-kun is full of funny, stupid moments that you can probably find in any other slice of life/comedy plot set in a high school, I believe it is better than a majority of those other similar anime JUST because of how good its ending was.
In general:
There's no fantasy element, no romance, no drama--none of those common themes we see in all sorts of films, books, and anime that is overdone to make it seem "unique" than others. All we have is our boy Handa-kun and the stupid events that end up happening because he thinks everyone at school hates him when its the opposite in actuality.
When you begin watching:
The first episode may feel a bit odd, like a 4th wall breaking moment almost, but just bear through it, and y…
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in my opinion, the worst thing a comedy can be isnt being "unfunny", its being boring. thats exact what handa-kun is.
i should start off by saying that i only watched handa-kun because i wanted to watch something akin to sakamoto desu-ka and danshi koukousei no nichijou, which are two animes that are really good at not only executing the jokes/visual gags, but also being generally entertaining and engaging. so coming into handa-kun, i came in pretty unbiased but from what ive heard about barakamon, i had high hopes.
story (3/10): there really is no story. every episode revolves around the main premise of the anime which is that handa thinks that everyone hates him, but in reality, hes the coolest and most popular person. hijinks ensue when handa interacts with his peers because theres u…
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The story of Handa-kun is pretty simple line. Handa sei is a normal high school average guy who presumes that everyone around him hate him for no reason. There is a black telephone booth kind of aura wall around him most of the times he is at school. At home how he behaves shown very little. Story beautifully unfolds how his friends' group increases thanks to the misunderstandings of all the people around him. It reminded me of 'school rumble'.
Every one in his school chants his name and even student leaders of some notorious high schools in his vicinity, consider him with regard. It's a hilarious showcase of the misunderstandings of people who come in contact with him. Only the viewer, his friend kawafugi and the average guy in his class who becomes member (forcefully) by the others know…
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GENERAL - In Handa-kun we dive into Handa's high school life. While we do nto receive anymore of Naru and the rest of the islanders form Barakamon, Handa-kun is sitll enjoyable to watch as an act of beign a prequel.
So the majority of the comedy comes from Handa endlessly thinking that his clas hates him. With Handa be a well known calligrapher he often gets stares and this leads to him thinking taht they hate him. (Along with other many situations).
While its comedy is nto as great as Barakamon it is still a fun series to watch I was surprised by it as I wasn't expecting to much out of a prequel.
CHARACTERS - So the characters are Handa and the Handa squad.
Handa seems a bit different here. In Barakamon he started off more rude and inconsiderate, here he seems more obliviou to what th…
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I do not understand the negative reviews. I really loved this anime. If you like slice of life stories that will make you not be able to drink a soda while you watch it because your laughing to much this is the anime for you. I have watched this anime and the one that came before it Barakamon and enjoyed both equally. Both anime eventually bring the main character out of his shell and realize how the people around him see him. Don't watch this anime as a continuation of Barakamon because though its got the same main character they are not the same anime and should be treated differently.
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Mine will be shorter than 90% of the reviews here.
I believe what threw most people off with this series was its genre.
Barakamon 80% slice of life; 20% Comedy
Handa Kun: 80% Comedy; 20% Slice of life
Of course, the above percentage I provided was solely based on my opinion. I believe most people hoped for a slice of life feel which exactly what Barakamon was but this series didn't deliver this. Instead, comedy moments took over despite the repetitiveness. Essentially, we all have a different opinion but this series took a different path from its predecessor; therefore, please try to watch this without comparing to Barakamon.
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It's hilarious as f*** on how they treat Handa-kun as a God here. But, this is most certainly ain't Barakamon though as most of the characters here are not present and instead we focus more on about Handa-kun's High School life 6 years before the actual scenes.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give to you, the prequel of Barakamon, Handa-kun.
Long story, short, Handa-kun is all about Handa's quirky High School days. His classmate's and other students' perspective, he's the most popular guy in school and everyone likes him. From his good looks, to his coolness and over-the-top seriousness. But in Handa's perpective, however, he taught that this is an opposite matter, he's anti-social, he's uncomfortable to someone before him, he's frightened so much it's like someone is watching him menacingly, an…
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Barakamon is one of my favourite slice of life anime of all time and I was disappointed that it only has 12 episodes. After hearing about the prequel, I got a bit too excited because I get to see more of Handa but I also told myself that the prequel exists just to capitalize on Barakamon's success. And.....After finishing the show, I guess I was right.
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There's a lot of reasons why I love Barakamon. From its relaxing settings to Naru being one of the cutest and most fun anime characters to watch to Handa’s amazing growth and him coming to terms with his career anxieties by living in a rural countryside, it was a great piece of quality show that I really enjoyed. The comedy was also one of the best I've seen in anime. I'm all for more Barakamon content so that's why I was a bit ex…
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Here is my first review:
Spoilers ahead
Handa-kun is a prequel to the Slice of Life series Barakamon. However there except a few characters there were hardly any similarities between the two. To watch this series you don't need knowledge of Barakamon characters a priori.
Story: 4/10: The story revolves around the main character Handa-Sei in his high school life. There is utter misunderstanding between Handa and other characters. Handa constantly believes that people around him hates him which is not at all in reality. There is no such plot here. In each and every episode a new character is introduced and for some stupid misunderstanding he/she starts to worship Handa. The logic may seems funny for one or two episode. However the same annoying thing to happen for 12 episodes gives you an…
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Its kind of sad a lot of reviewers hating this series because it is repetitive and boring but I'll do my best to give a positive reviews and try to make you watch it.
Handa-kun is the prequel of Bakaramon, and this anime covers Handa Sei's High School life. The story each episode has a common sequence new character - hate handa - handa makes a move - misunderstoods - likes handa. Although it has that formula I still found it entertaining because it has some moment where you can smile, giggle, and cringe. Also the characters are pretty funny(for me) and each of them have different ways of interpretation of Handa like someone sees him as god, respects as powerful man, wants to be him, rival and etc.
Handa-kun vs Bakaramon
There is a huge difference in both series because it has differen…
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Let me start off by saying that I don't believe it's necessarily fair to judge an anime based on its legacy. Perhaps on a personal or contextual level, but an anime, show, or any form of media should, if possible, be judged on its own merits and accomplishments. Therefore, I don't think it's fair to call Handa-kun bad just because it didn't follow the same path as it's amazing predecessor, Barakamon. It should be judged as what it tried to be, not what people expected it to be. It was clearly made to be something different, and there's nothing inherently wrong with that.
So with that said, I will judge this show based on its merit as a comedy.
This show sucks.
(Good) Comedic shows usually come in two forms. One is the dynamic/sophisticated comedy. It's a comedy at heart, but it's given…
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Hey folks, this will be a review for Handa-kun. This show seems to have a few people upset with how it was handled. This show is not Barakamon. However this show is an excellent comedy, and highlights how Handa came into his personality.
There really isn't much of a story. Handa thinks the entire school hates him. In reality everyone loves him. How they tell the story is what made it fun to watch imo. Handa is the main character but the handa force (Kondou, Nikaidou, Tsutsui, and Aizawa) are the tellers and focus of the story. The misconceptions surrounding Handa bring these characters together to create the "Handa force" in which they spread false truths around as they misunderstand Handa's actions.
I'm not sure what people wanted to be honest. Each review brings up that they had wanted…
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Handa kun has a very simple but reasonable setting that purposefully made for the sake of the comedy rather than its story or moving the plot forward. And dont judge this anime based off from its sequel (barakamon that came out first), because, you know, both of them is a slice a pretty typical slice of life anime with comedy as a mix to it. Since slice of life's essential facet is to add the comedy into them. All slice of life are like that, even if the greatest slice of life anime in the UNIVERSE like Barakamon that delivers its theme, character development, relationship, and philosophy for success in life and shit.
Handa-kun's comedy is a pretty unique and peculiar one to me as an anime "watcher", or as a fucking Otaku. Like really, just call me an otaku coz you all are one as fucking…
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Spoilers Alert
when you use one idea in an anime over and over it becomes boring and hard to deal with and that is main problem with Handa kun.
The Story :
handa is normal guys who is good at calligraphy and very famous in his school but somehow he thinks that everyone in his school hates him and that it , the whole anime revolves around that idea for entire season . and that is the main problem here , i mean after 2 episodes its very hard to deal with him and other characters , how come it never occurred to author that this is a boring idea for entire season . i mean common man the whole season it never occurred to main character everyone likes him rather then hates him , he only realize this in the last 10 minutes of the last episode , thats just plain stupid to me.
Characters :
cha…
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As you've probably noticed, the reviews for Handa-kun are varied, ranging from excessive praise to blind hatred. This is largely caused by the show's setting as a prequel to Barakamon, a heart-warming comedy series which aired back in 2014.
Negative reviews seem to centre around the argument that Handa-kun wasn't worthy as a predecessor to such a well-reviewed anime, and despite having some returning characters, doesn't actually share much in theme with Barakamon, disappointing hardcore fans. Handa-kun's comedy is quite different to Barakamon's and is far more comparable as a series to Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou or Sakamoto desu ga?, than it is to the anime it is supposed to set the stage for. I can understand some disappointment, if you were hoping for more Barakamon content, but it r…
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Barakamon was a series that gave the calligrapher Handa Sei a journey through self discovery on an island village where he was able to create a form of calligraphy that he felt comfortable and happy with. It was a show that garnered a decent following and had a relatively lasting popularity during 2014. And so, to remind us that that series existed, we have Handa-kun, a look into his earlier days in a comedy gag series that...should've never been made.
Story: As previously said before, Handa-kun is a series about Handa Sei in his school days, where he was still as awkward and uncomfortable as he was in Barakamon (probably even more so), thinking that literally everyone in his school hated him when in reality...he's considered as a god walking among them and that anything he says or does i…
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Handa-kun has a problem...and no, not just Sei Handa's problem of misunderstandings of his classmates...as in the anime has a problem AS well as Sei Handa's problem of misunderstandings of his classmates. Here's LA's beef with Handa-kun...
For what a good-meta first episode of the Handa Force gave LA, Handa-kun quickly turned into a repetitive comedy anime without a reason to watch Handa-kun other than seeing the same thing happen to Handa-kun and the Handa Force and EVERY OTHER CAST MEMBER getting misunderstood sans Yuki Kondou and really the first episode essentially told LA further down the line what kind of anime this was gonna be, Handa Force having almost 80% screentime with Handa himself having 20% from the anime itself...ohhh boy...this is gonna be a sit...let's get to one of LA's…
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Note: Before I get into this review, I will say earlier on that this IS NOT a prequel to Barakamon. It doesn't relate to Barakamon in any way storywise.
Now, avoiding the fact that this wasn't much of a prequel for Barakamon and more of a comedy of Handa's high school life, it was highly enjoyable. I would also say that his calligraphy wasn't a big part in it, although it is brought up many times.
There is no main story to follow throughout the series, but each episode has its own story to follow. Each episode usually revolves around everyone completely misunderstanding whatever Hand-kun is thinking/doing which leads to some funny scenarios. I even nicknamed this Misunderstandings-kun at one point haha.
Now to pick it apart.
Story: 6/10..... again, it doesn't really have a story to fo…
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"This show is shit."
-Basically everyone
Remember that senile old relative at your family gatherings growing up with an oblivious grin emblazoned on their face, who without fail would tell the same cringeworthy story each time you saw them? Every time they'd start the tale's prelude, "did I ever tell you about the time...?", your parents would shoot you a glance or an eye roll signifying just to let them roll on with the story. It was always better to nod in agreement and force unwarranted laughter than to call them out on their repetitive idiosyncrasies. You almost felt sorry for them in a way, and bit you own tongue to preserve their blind innocence. Handa Kun is the anime version of this cheeky relative.
Sometimes in television, writers just don't "get" comedy. As I've said countless…
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