Introduction
During the Taisho era of 1918, 17-year-old Benio Hanamura thrives on bucking tradition. As a boisterous and quarrelsome tomboy, Miss Hanamura leads a life of kendo and tree-climbing adventure with her best friends Tamaki and Ranmaru. Benio determines to find love on her own, though her family has other plans. Benio will encounter tests of love, independence, and friendship during wartime.
(Source: Eleven Arts)
Audience reviews
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Haikara-san: Here Comes Miss Modern is a blisteringly fast-paced, wacky with a capital W romcom that commits to the bit so hard that most of its glaringly obvious faults simply become dust in the wind. It fully indulges in all of the tropes that a period piece romance has to offer in a manner that rarely becomes abrasive or overly clichéd, but is also completely unapologetic about their usage, and the breakneck speed at which it attempts to cover the entire first half of this story in just over 90 minutes rarely allows for a dull moment. Does it often end up sacrificing potentially more complex characterization in favor of said pacing and lead to unbelievably quick changes of heart for certain characters? Yes, absolutely, but the sheer amount of energy and fun being put on display mostly m…
Read at the sourceRESOLVING_POWER
I watched both the Haikara-san ga Tooru movies, also known as Here Comes Miss Modern. Here are my thoughts:
This anime is about a tomboy who is pressured into an arranged marriage with a half-jap soldier in the Japan army. The story takes place during the first couple decades of the 20th century and has a socio-historic flavour that some viewers may find appealing. It involves a lot of social issues in Taisho-era Japan, mainly involving female gender roles. It is somewhat interesting from a sociological perspective, although the plot velocity and runtime constraints limit the depth to which these themes could be explored. Even so, someone interested in historical Japanese society might appreciate this anime. These movies also incorporate the political nature of marriage in the writing – I…
Read at the sourceBobbylolhah5
The first time I heard of Haikara-san ga Tooru was when I saw a clip on youtube and realized I needed to watch the anime movie. I'm not sure why this is such an underrated anime movie but I hope if you give it a try, you enjoy it as much as I did.
The story is about a "modern Japanese girl" with a tomboy-ish personality who discovers that she has an arranged marriage set up with a guy she met (and didn't like) prior. After this, she tries different things to get out of the arranged marriage and... ill let you watch the rest to find out what happens after that.
If you're looking for some comical (but not cheesy) romance with a beautifully portrayed historical background, you will love Haikara-san ga Tooru.
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Read at the sourceFirechick12012
Let me ask you: Have you ever heard of an old manga called Haikara-san ga Tooru? Yeah, me either. Not until this, at least. Anyway, the original manga by Waki Yamato, which ran from 1975 to 1977, actually had a bit of a rough history with animation. It was adapted into a TV series from 1978 to 1979 and received 42 episodes. It was apparently supposed to be longer, but from what I've heard, it got cancelled due to low ratings, and as a result, the anime had to end in a different way than the manga. Ever since then, it just sort of faded into obscurity, as nobody ever really talked about it. The manga and the anime series were never licensed in the US, likely due to their old age and old school artstyle. Considering all of these things going against it, it seemed that Haikara-san ga Tooru wo…
Read at the sourceFlueckli
I watched this movie at the Akibapass Festival in Frankfurt, Germany. First of all, I have to say that I'm not familiar with the original source (published from 1975 to 1979) or the older anime series, which aired from 1978 to 1979. As it is I cannot compare it to these works and watched it completely unaffected and without any previous knowledge, besides the information which has been included in the trailer. Though as it is written on the manga source page, Haikara-san ga Tooru won the first Kodansha Manga Award for shoujo in 1977, so likely it has been very good as well.
The story is put-together enjoyable and the art of storytelling has been made in a very lovely way. The transition between different scenes was often in such a smooth way that you just had to smile at how it was done.…
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