Anime

Hanasaku Iroha 02

by hn elly on April 13, 2011 · 17 comments

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Within a few minutes, we learn that Ohana’s mom is even more terrible then she seemed in the first episode. Well, not exactly terrible. She’s more of a self-centered and negligent mother who appears to rearrange her life to make room for her daughter’s needs. What she says to her daughter is harsh, and she’s [...]

COME FORTH!

Woah. Now this is what I’ve been waiting for!

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Ok, no power of love in this episode. Just the force of will. Who didn’t see this coming?

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Hanasaku Iroha is very misleading from the prior impressions I had of it—it is much darker then I had anticipated. The series is a slice-of-life/drama series that at the moment is heavy on the drama. There is some humor, but most of is funny in the schadefreunden sense.

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Well, it’s over. Thank god.

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We are full steam ahead for some deus ex machina finish…

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*sniff sniff* Hmm, I can smell the finish line. It smells good.

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Everybody’s talking at me / I don’t hear a word they’re saying / Only the echoes of my mind.

No, this is not a Christmas episode, despite what the opening shots might make it seem.

Recently released was the extra K-On episode that came out with the DVDs. While the episode has been floating around for a wee bit, the subs that had been released were questionable at best, so I waited for the Coalguys release. Now with that release, I can finally get one more taste of the adventures [...]

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Koogy acts like an ass. Everyone redo’s their name, then gets their five minutes in the sun. And there’s a 4-way tie for the finish. Ok, that last one remains to be seen. But you get the gist.