Audience reviews
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BimaSylirian
A sports anime with no sportsmanship!
That is the thing that went into my mind after going on half of the episode. That way, it gave me a bad impression already in the story. Too much drama, arrogant characters, inconsistent development, all in a sports anime. If this is reality, then Japan must be one of the most hated country in any world class sports tournaments for sure!
Okay, now move one to every aspect of this anime. It has a rather inconsistent visual as well. During the early part of this anime, everything looks very good. However, on the second half of the story where everything gets more serious, the art started to look downgraded. Not sure the latter part was rushed or not, but the inconsistency is just too obvious for me. Over hundreds of anime I've watched, this is the thir…
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I'm going to keep this short.
Hanebado! is a melodramatic piece of garbage.
Besides the very good art direction in some of the badminton scenes and pretty backdrops, Hanebado! is really bad. Bad characters, decent sound design, terrible secondary characters, and an extra terrible main character with an even more terrible mother.
Of all the sports anime I've watched Hanebado! is the most infuriating to watch. It honestly doesn't even feel like a sports anime but rather a drama anime for edgy teens that just so happens to be about a group of people who play badminton.
Connie is a bitch but then isn't? She claims she wants to be a family with Ayano but treated her like dog shit she stepped in when they first met. Okay. Nagisa should have been the main character because Ayano is insufferab…
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This anime isn't for everybody and that's for sure. The amount of toxicity and salt emission generated by this anime is on par with the Union Carbide gas leak. People with weak, shitty hearts like those who can't take mere online criticisms will find this anime very unappealing. On the other hand, people with a strong heart and know that they are the lord of edginess and drama by heart will find this anime very appealing.
Hanebado! Is way too dank due to its realistic aspects and toxicity. Sports are meant to be toxic. It’s even more toxic if it’s competitive-based. I think Hanebado! Depicts this very well. Looking down on others, acting…
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Although I’ve marked this series as “Completed”, I actually ragequit in the last episode with only a few minutes left to go. I’ve never seen a supposedly character-driven show fail so hard on every plot-related aspect while acing everything else.
The OP drew me in with its slick, beautiful animation and the charming smile of Ayano Hanesaki. Unfortunately, upon finishing (or near-finishing) this show, the only positive impressions I was left with were indeed the animation and Ayano Hanesaki.
Hanebado! seemingly wants to depict the growth of Ayano and her counterpart Nagisa into badminton players who play with a happy, healthy mindset. Yet while it sets that up decently, every step along the way is fumbled. Most damning of all (and it’s hard to pick any one thing here) is the treatment o…
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Sports anime are usually a bit over-the-top and rely on internal conflicts of the protagonist, but here this was taken in a particularly weird and annoying direction. Most major characters in the show, including the protagonist Ayano, act in an erratic, exaggerated manner that makes them simply unlikeable. Ayano's mother especially is an unbelievable piece of **** and while her actions were vaguely explained, none of the drama she causes is really believable or adds anything interesting, she's simply a horrible person dragging others down with her. Everything ends with a great confrontation between two deeply unreasonable individuals without anyone to really root for and a pretty anticlimactic resolution.
Other than that, the series is solidly produced - it looks and sounds very good and…
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I used to play badminton a small while ago(and no I was not very good at it). At one stage, I also decided to quit watching anime since there weren't many I enjoyed and I started to play games instead of watch cartoons or TV series. However, my friends saw this anime and recommended and I was bit excited. But the more I watched, the more I was disappointed. Story was terrible, some crazy girl how was addicted to badminton, wasn't very that emotional although the creators tried to be. However, the way they play Badminton is supposedly "national/professional badminton level". Other commenters say that Hanebado! is one of the most realistic sports anime at the moment due to "no special powers" although you not only stupidly play with some long ass anime hair (which will get in the way) but ab…
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(This review is spoilerless.)
This series is a very bad sport series.
Honestly, based on the ideas and quality productions alone cannot make this series to be an interesting or even watchable. Personally, I like nothing in this series starting from plots, ideas, characters, pacing, tones, dialogues, progressions and developments. This is one of most pandering and corny sport series I have ever seen for a while. It feel like I'm not even watching sport or let alone the series itself. Everything look fan service to me.
Plots that building up to be an obnoxiously over-dramatic sport life where everyone don't play sport as they feel like or love to play it anymore. They only play sport for winning which in my opinion isn't the purpose or goal of sport itself.
Ideas that having weirdly mo…
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First of, full props to the animators and sound designers, the badminton match sequences were some of the most well-animated I have seen in sports anime. The sounds were also great, special mention to the OP and ED which I loved.
That aside, the story did suffer at points, and at times it just got a little bit too over-the-top with the drama, especially for a sports anime. Some of the characters also had flaws, it's just a little rushed to watch a character do so many u-turns in personality over a few episodes.
All in all, still a decent watch. I did enjoy myself especially at the episodes of badminton matches. Some of the matches got me really intrigued and I could feel the excitement and intensity just by watching.
Now excuse me while I go out to play some badminton.
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It takes a lot of effort to fail at sports anime but this one manages to do it.
Yeah, it's pretty bad. The worst thing for me was that it felt like they didn't really know if they wanted the show to be your typical "funny, upbeat with a few serious moments here and there" sports anime or something more serious and realistic. At times they want to make the whole thing sound really serious and realistic and then they give one of the main characters an "eye transformation" power up or an "i win because of the power of my heart even though i'm actually playing injured" moment which throws away all the seriousness they'd built up and overall makes the whole thing feel bs af.
The characters are average at best. By the time the last episode came i really didn't give a banana peel about any of t…
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I only write short reviews for the people who want a quick rundown of what to expect. (this shouldn't spoil anything for you)
The art and sound were incredible at least...
Now the story was enjoyable and I would argue the main points were believable for example Ayano's mom leaves her at a young age (guessing between 6-10) and she obviously resents her for it and thinks she left because of her talent. When she starts playing in high school she plays only to win to prove to her mom she doesnt need her (which i think is MORE the reasonable) which i enjoyed because it was consistent and it separated her from the crowd of protagonists in sports animes. But of course they needed to have a happy ending so in the last episode she realized how fun badminton is and makes up with her mom when she h…
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I honestly don't know why I bothered finishing this. As a child I grew up with Badminton so to see the first two episodes portraying the sport in such an ugly fashion put me off it for a while before I continued. But here we are and let's have a chat on Hanebado. (Insert joke about how you can't spell "Hanebado" without "bad" here).
I've watched two sports anime this season based on fanservice-heavy manga. The other one being Harukana Receive. While I can't comment exactly on how faithful each adaptation is, I would've much preferred Harukana's approach to the genre. That is to say a generic, but decently done sports anime on friendship happiness puppies sunshine and all that nonsense with a heavy dose of fanservice and waku waku shequasars. On paper, Hanebado's approach of forgoing most…
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Coincidentally, this anime aired when the hype was on Asian Games 2018 and I was fired up to watch sports! Phantom Thieves may have their own show this season but the one who stole my heart in this season actually not them but this very particular badminton anime. While many people resent how this anime flows (being overly dramatic), I am personally love them just because I could analyze everything in this anime scene by scene or even second by second. Hanebado! proofed that sometimes it is not too bad to change course from how the original material works for the sake of character building.
Let me start with how I could be dragged into this anime. Actually, there are two things that dragged me into this anime. And the first one is that first match between our two main characters, Ayano an…
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Hanebado! This anime has come under a lot of praise and criticism since it first released this summer. Some have praised it for its realism while others have criticised it for bad writing and character inconsistencies. For me though, I’m actually really happy with the way this anime went. I got invested in this show because there’s a lot I can relate to. To give us out some serious talk, all us have had some kind of issue growing up especially with our parents. Now granted, most of us didn’t have the kind of issue that Ayano has with her mother, but the anime gives a good example of what happens when you make a bad decision that has a long lasting effect along with showing just how bad life can get. This is the reason why so many people are so frustrated with this show.
And I get it. No h…
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When it comes to Sports anime Hanebado is one of the more realistic ones out there when it comes to the actual play of the game. No over the top nonsense like super powers or bring undersized and overcoming tall obstacles (im looking at you Haikyuu) or going down a Yaoi fanbase (im looking at you Yuri on Ice). Instead Hanebado focuses more on two girls who overcome personal issues to better themselves not only in Badminton but in life as well. I really would have liked to give this Story a 10/10 however the introduction of side characters backstories and side stories set this back as a whole. I would have focused more on Ayano and Nagisa's issues and worked with that instead of bringing in the team issues.
The Art and Animation was simply flawless throughout the entire series. I cannot wa…
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“this badminton anime has had like 6 or 7 different characters break down crying in the first episode. badminton must be absolutely miserable” -@shaun_jen
The protagonist of a sports anime will typically have some talent that makes them eligible to be the protagonist – Kuroko lacks presence, Hinata jumps high, Sawamura has flexible wrists, and the list goes on. This is an ability that they have, that no one else will be able to develop, no matter how hard they try, and it’s what gives them the edge over their competition. Hanasaki Ayano has every talent there could be when it comes to badminton – handedness, reflexes, etc – though it’s never quite that simple.
Ayano isn’t just talented; she’s also worked hard to hone her skills through a childhood of practicing against her mother Uchika,…
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Those who derive all of their entertainment and lasting impressions from anime out of said work’s production values alone, those in the so called Sakuga Community, have always interested me, because while their commitment to technical quality is something I deeply share and respect, their equally unshakeable lack of concern with every other aspect of the work has perplexed me to no end for as long as I can remember. I mean, no matter how beautifully made it may be, I just can’t imaging enjoying a show if the plot composition, character writing, visual direction, or even just the music or color design alone is bad in any combination. These are the people who convinced me to watch a show as embarrassingly incompetent as Fate/Apocrypha for its action sakuga alone, and watching a show that hei…
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I'm not a fan of the sports genre, I may be missing out on some treats, but I'm not interested in cliche games where the main character always wins. I came across Megalo Box and it proved me wrong, so I thought why not give this a try? It might impress me too... but it didn't.
The story is about a tournament in which challengers play against each other. I guess that's it, that's the most of the story. There's also the unnecessary drama which is also criticized by its fans, but if you dislike the drama, then what do you exactly like about the show? The tournament? Is it really something praiseworthy? I'm not here to judge anyone's taste, you can like whatever you want to, but I really want a legit argument as to why this is likable. Anyway, each character has some sort of story with badmin…
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No words could better describe this series than a progressive trainwreck of its characters, amidst the overall setting, and we literally just got so trolled over the fact that we don't ever know what this anime wants to be anymore. And that was the result of Hanebado!, a pretty intense yet mind-boggling series that has everyone calling foul over many issues that have since happened.
Let's get the bad things out of the way, then we can end this on a good note. (Spoilers be warned)
First off, it is the adaptation from the manga that immediately develops its own material while taking snippets from it. Immediately, with how Episode 1 focuses on the introduction of Ayano Hanesaki, a normal looking high school girl with a hatred from playing badminton, and that was displayed magnificently. Howe…
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Ever wonder what the female version of Haikyuu!! would look like?
No, you say??? Alright, then…..carry on.
Its just, this anime bears some resem—….oh, you still don’t care. Okay. I’ll just leave you alone….
F—k you! I’m writing this review whether you like it or not. As regular as the seasons change, another sports-genre anime has graced our computer screens for what seems like the umpteenth time, the flavor of the month being: badminton. Not the most exhilarating sport in the world, but it definitely has intermittent moments of shock and awe (much like Hanebado!).
Following in the footsteps of its male counterpart, Hanebado! is a semi-serious sports anime that deals with the psychological consequences of youth athletics. As the story progresses, we begin to learn that each girl is p…
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Sometimes, I wish sports anime gets more attention whether it’s swimming, basketball, soccer, tennis, or anything competitive in nature. Sure, there was Free! from these past few years but it clearly had an audience from the very beginning. Badminton is a one of those sports where it doesn’t get too much attention, at least not on an international level. Yet Hanebado has its own fame when it comes to selling its sports drama.
I would have originally watched this show just for the sheer competitiveness feeling. However, Hanebado persuaded me to invest into its character cast from the first few episodes. We meet a colorful group that includes Ayano, Nagisa, Riko, Elena, among others. From my initial impression, it reminded me of characters trying to make a name for themselves. But as more a…
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