Hanasaku Iroha #01 — Taking Candy From Strangers
April 3rd, 2011
Don’t do it! She’s evil!
Impressions:
Let’s start with the good. As expected from PA Works, this is very beautifully made. Animation’s excellent, art looks good, etc. The music is also mostly good and fits the show fairly well. Or at least, the bassoons are less out of place here than there are in Merry. Only mostly though because there’s this truly godawful insert song in the middle where it sounds like the singer is either strangling or being strangled by a cat. Human vocal chords should not be able to make noises like that and still belong to a living person.
On to the less good. The entire setup is so cliche that it hurts. Ohana’s sent off to the inn where the entire family doesn’t want to and now she’s ruled over by a wicked stepmother grandmother who is a stickler for tradition and the proper way of doing things and enforces it by slapping people whenever anybody gets out of line. You’ve also got one wicked stepsister other girl who hates Ohana for simply existing. But Ohana’s not gonna let that get her down! She knows that with hard work and perserverance, she’ll win them all over and solve the deep rooted troubles in their hearts! And I think I may have just spoiled the ending of the show for you. I regret nothing.
It seems overall okay, but really not something I could ever be excited for nor my kind of show in general. It is pretty, I’ll give it that, but it also seems like it’s not going to amount to anything more than a very long Disney lifetime special perhaps matched up with Little House on the Prarie. If that doesn’t excite you, I’d steer far clear.
Preview:
Ominous glasses.
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And I think I may have just spoiled the ending of the show for you. I regret nothing.
Aroduc, you meanie. ~_~