Introduction
Since childhood, Hana Haruyama has been enthralled by the art of storytelling. After watching a child her age perform on television with mesmerizing grace, Hana decides to try it herself. She practices by reciting tales to Tonaki Island's children, who are always enthusiastic about her performances. However, growing up in such a small community, Hana remains unaware of the possibilities beyond her world, satisfied with how things are.
Entering Sumomogaoka High School as a first-year student, Hana catches the attention of Mizuki Usurai, the president of the broadcasting club, with her skills. Despite Hana's hesitation and anxiety about the road ahead, Mizuki successfully convinces her to join the club, nurture her gift, and perhaps one day reach the top—the nationals of the NHK Broadcasting Competition.
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Audience reviews
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thewaflwizard
First and foremost, the concept of this show is great and unique: The beginning of a student's training in poetry recital just sounds like a dream come true in terms of something being adapted into an anime! And to a certain extent, this premise delivers really well. Thanks to the premise, we get to focus our attention more on the art of voice acting and on the VA's performances themselves. I have to glaze the VA of the heroine for how good she portrays Hana, and the tiniest of details in her performance made watching this a delight. The other VAs do a great job to so that department is not lacking at all.
The visuals are also "simpley loveley": Gentle and very fitting to the environment of a slice of life. There are also visual sequences that match the characters' performances that threw…
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Flower and Asura is a perfectly fine show. In fact, for what it is, it is an exceptionally good show. The animation is striking, the voice actors are incredibly talented, and the plot is meaningful and makes complete sense. However, there's something about it that is just a bit...boring.
If I have to put words to it, it's a disconnect between me and the concept. The whole concept of Flower and Asura is a high school broadcasting club striving to compete in the national broadcasting competition. Most of the plot revolves around dramatic readings of various texts. These readings are obviously deeper in their meaning, and often pair with the characters' own feelings. They also are artistically adapted to convey the emotion of the reading.
However, there's a problem. The VAs are already so…
Read at the sourceMysticLyre
The combination of beautiful visuals and music used to represent being pulled into characters' readings was very well done. The characters themselves feel genuine and fun, and despite the relatively short run, there is demonstrated growth. I think it's an enjoyable "sports" anime with some serious slice of life vibes.
However, this might be rated higher if a big part of the climax wasn't spent on one character's family drama. Also, the resolution to that drama ultimately felt too convenient, rushed, and unearned to be truly satisfying. It would have been a good character event if it didn't feel like it delayed us from ever getting to the competition they've spent most of the season preparing for.
Read at the sourceGrGs
Highschool girls or just highschool kids in general working hard together to reach their dreams and be a better version of themselves isn't a rare view in anime, from the likes of Bocchi The Rock, A Place Further Than The Universe, Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight we now have Hana wa Saku, Shura no Gotoku or HanaShura for short.
Unlike the animes mentioned peviously HanaShura has a more niche topic at hand which is reciting and announcing as apposed to Bocchi The Rock's playing in a band or A Place Further than the Universe's going to Antartica. Therefore watching this show we're then thrown into this very new and unusual side of things, despite listening to announcements every day I never really thought of the process and the hard work put behind it and with the addition of the world of rec…
Read at the sourcePasukori_yochien
Hana wa Saku, Shura no Gotoku tells about Hana Haruyama struggle to find herself and to getting better at recitation.
While the plot may be a bit too common in it's developements, it still is generally good.
The animation on the other hands it's superb especially during the recitations parts.
The Characters instead are exactly what you can aspect from this type of anime, with most of them having a darker part of their past influencing their current behaviour, not so original isn't it?
And the seinyuus? they are fairly in the middle, again their best performance are during the recitation parts.
In the end it is a fairly good anime, not exellent per say.
Read at the sourcekiyo_seibah
Okay, for this one, i really enjoy it from beginning as it was very promising, and underrated as well.
It was a classic drama school slice-of-life anime with club activity and tournament as the main plot. For a very familiar genre like this, u need a very good story and characters quality to be more than just regular school anime.
Story wise, it was pretty basic tbh, but kinda promising with its main character. And each character has their own backstory that makes them interesting. But the problem is, it wasn't maximize and executed well enough, so there's like something missing. Hana, mizuki, and akiyama are interesting character but their stories aren't maximized enough. But i think the main problem is the duration. It needs at least 24 episode or 2 cour, bcs 12 eps isn't enough to expl…
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Anime, being a Japanese form of media, contains entries portraying some of the finer elements of Japanese culture that may not easily appeal to Western audiences. Flower and Asura is one such title, spawned from the mind of Ayano Takeda, who also wrote the Sound Euphonium series. There are some story similarities but such comparisons will not be directly covered in this review. While Eupho resides in a more accessible realm of classical music, this entry's main focus, surrounding literature and public speaking, is more of a specific niche. Some of these types of anime can easily end up being lost in translation, but some of them, through their storytelling and visuals, are able to break the mold. Does this one do so? This review will have a gander at that question. Let’s begin.
Per the sy…
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Flower & Asura was surprisingly a very well done anime about recitation of famous poems/short stories and brings them to life. The
metaphors between the stories and the characters themselves were wonderfully showcased. The production alone for this show was stellar in my opinion and really elevated the story.
Overall Sentiments:
- The first half of this show was absolutely wonderful and WAS going to be my Anime of the Season HOWEVER at some point during the second half I felt it was lacking a little bit. It didn't feel as engaging as the first half. Also, the introduction of new characters kinda took me out of the experience as I wasn't a fan.
- Animation and Art were nice and clean. Studio Bind's animation style is nice and pleasing to the eye so it made the
series a nice watch.
- W…
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Hana wa Saku, Shura no Gotoku is a show I'll judge for its recitation and ability to wow me over with it. On that it fails the same way a show about singing would fail if it had great instrumentation and choreography overshadowing the singing. The recitation with a handful of exceptions relies on visual and sound effects to wow the watcher instead of relying the seiyuu's voice work.
The OP and ED are a nice listen to and fit the mood. The characters are unique enough and have decent chemistry. The story is fine and supports its recitation/reading/announcing theme. None of it is outstanding, and does not counteract the glaring flaw of failing to meet the show's intention.
Read at the sourceCynthesia
HanaShura is an anime that understands the interplay of audio and visuals perfectly and uses every tool at its disposal in order to telegraph beauty. The voice is the ultimate instrument, a tool with unlimited potential for expression. With it words become paintbrushes capable of overwriting reality and taking control over the listeners perception of the world around them.
HanaShura is at its best when it comes to sound. Even discarding the main premise of vocal recitation, the anime simply sounds good. BGM is rarely used but in its place comes extremely deliberate noise. Footsteps, chalk, clothing, animals, people, everything has a noise and that noise is made as high quality as possible. If you don't think about sound all that often that might seem confusing so I'll try to explain. The…
Read at the sourceKalokagathos
Flower and Asura is an anime that does not stand out for anything in particular. The story is very simple, the characters are very simple, and the only element that stands out is the animation. Regarding the theme of voice acting, the only thing that moves you is the visual representation—nothing in the performances truly adds to the story or engages the viewer. The anime never explains what makes a voice interesting, what nuances intonation can bring, or why it matters. Then, suddenly, the story decides you need to know the past of every character in the series.
So, the anime starts delivering one character’s backstory after another, with the incredible coincidence that, just as their past is being revealed, some event directly connected to it conveniently occurs—wow, very impressive! Th…
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Flower and Asura — a recital that's best further explored to see if its weight holds up.
I love exploring niche topics when it comes to just about any medium of content derived from the sources that it stems from that's full of awe and intrigue to find out what goes on behind the trait that just works. So, in this Winter season, courtesy of the musical maestro that is author Ayano Takeda and her globe-transcending franchise that is Hibike! Euphonium, let's explore the road less travelled with her rather peculiar story about finding your voice and the incantations that are pretty much the vocal life of literature: Hana wa Saku, Shura no Gotoku a.k.a Flower and Asura.
If you're coming into this show and thinking that it'll be a masterpiece like Hibike!, then I'm sorry to say that you're go…
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From the master of yuri-bait herself, Takeda Ayano, comes another series that’s sure to leave us fuming at the end after teasing a lesbian ship for years. In all seriousness, Hanashura might be a different type of series than Hibike Euphonium, but Takeda-sensei brings the same sort of energy that made her famous Kyoani project so beloved. A school club setting, loveable characters, an MC that’s lost in life and trying to find her place and finding solace in a new hobby club, cute girls making lifelong bonds that totally aren’t lesbian coded, etc., but Hanashura also manages to forge its own path as something unique. The focus on broadcasting and bringing literature to life is truly one of the coolest things I’ve seen. This show takes the meaning of the phrase “a good book is a portal that…
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