Handa-kun

Hated by everyone around him, Sei Handa goes about his high school life regarded as an outcast—or at least that is what he believes. In reality, Handa is the most popular student on campus, revered by all for his incomparable calligraphy skills, good looks, and cool personality. However, due to an endless series of misunderstandings, Handa perceives the worship he receives from his legions of fans as bullying, leading the school's idol to shut himself off from the rest of his classmates.

But distancing himself from his peers does not deter them from adoring him; in fact, his attempts at drawing attention away from himself often end up unintentionally converting even the most skeptical of students into believers. Fashion models, shut-in delinquents, obsessive fangirls, and more—none can stand against the brilliance that is Sei Handa.

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Handa, Sei Main

Shimazaki, Nobunaga Japanese

Kondou, Yukio Main

Yamashita, Daiki Japanese

Tsutsui, Akane Main

Hosoya, Yoshimasa Japanese

Nikaidou, Reo Main

Kakihara, Tetsuya Japanese

Aizawa, Junichi Main

Hirose, Yuuya Japanese

Handa, Emi Supporting

Kuwatani, Natsuko Japanese

Kinjou, Miyoko Supporting

Hondo, Kaede Japanese

Kawafuji, Takao Supporting

Okitsu, Kazuyuki Japanese

Hirayama, Kasumi Supporting

Kugimiya, Rie Japanese

Mori, Maiko Supporting

Itou, Miku Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Eriguchi, Takeshi Producer

Suzuki, Megumi Producer

Soga, Hidetada Producer

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Oct 24, 2024

Kaydansnk

Recommended

Handa-kun was funny, but overall a very sad story which left me kind of depressed. It’s no genius masterwork, but it surely has entertainment value.

I can see why people wouldn’t like this, and I can see why some do. So definitely give it a try if you’re on the fence and make your own decision. The characters really started to grow on me as the story progressed.

It’s over the top humor for the most part, and the story as well as how some situations played out are far from realistic, so don’t expect some down to earth deep anime. Just have fun

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Aug 9, 2024

tjhyy

Mixed Feelings

I went into this anime, not knowing it was a prequel to Barakamon. I never watched the anime, but on social media, its fans were in despair at their main character falling for the kid when they grow up?? Like everyone loved this story, only to end up feeling betrayed by the author for letting this happen??? So it lowered my star rating by 1 since I didn't watch the series after all.

But other than that, without knowing it was connected to that show, I decided to watch this for Tsutsui because I saw a short of his backstory and thought he would be ... hilarious which he kinda was. But my favorite ended up being Yukio Kondou because he may be ordinary, but in the crowd, he really is the sweetest and most sincere type of guy. I won't lie that I kinda wanted to ship him and Handa together, and I'm so sad that he doesn't get enough love from the fans.

However, the story isn't all that funny to me (¬_¬") Which is why it got such a low score, and it further doesn't motivate me to watch the main story. The characters are charming, but the jokes are really basic.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Oct 12, 2019

berserkersoul

Not Recommended

in my opinion, the worst thing a comedy can be isnt being "unfunny", its being boring. thats exact what handa-kun is.

i should start off by saying that i only watched handa-kun because i wanted to watch something akin to sakamoto desu-ka and danshi koukousei no nichijou, which are two animes that are really good at not only executing the jokes/visual gags, but also being generally entertaining and engaging. so coming into handa-kun, i came in pretty unbiased but from what ive heard about barakamon, i had high hopes.

story (3/10): there really is no story. every episode revolves around the main premise of the anime ... which is that handa thinks that everyone hates him, but in reality, hes the coolest and most popular person. hijinks ensue when handa interacts with his peers because theres usually some huge misunderstanding. however, its a gag that really runs its course over the span of 12 episodes. it was cute and funny for the first two or three episodes, but the trope gets pretty tired and i wanted to see something new; but i dont think thats the main problem here. comedy is subjective and its totally fine for me to think this anime isnt funny. the issue comes from the fact that the episodes are just boring. i alraedy know what the gag is before the episode even starts so i have nothing to look forward to. the episodes are generally wacky and outlandish, which is fine, but because i have no interest in any of the characters and i can predict whats going to happen in every episode, it really leaves me disengaged.

art (6/10): the visuals were fine. animation wise it was standard quality. to give credit where its due, there were some visual gags that did make me chuckle and the characters were designed pretty distinctly which i can commend. often animes that are this short dont really care to put in the time to design auxiliary characters.

sound (6/10): the sound design was fine. i quite liked the OP and the voice acting was decent. to be honest i was having a hard time concentrating on the episodes to really note anything too egregious

characters (4/10): they are very tropey and i felt like nothing new and creative where done with them. everyone was too typecast and ive seen all of the jokes about those tropes before. defying the expectations of the viewers would have been a good starting point because if they arent able to mix things up in a funny way, it would at least captivated the audience.

enjoyment (4/10): like ive said before this anime wouldnt have been so horrible if the intention wasnt to make me laugh. if it were a regular slice of life high school anime i could have been able to forgive some of the things the anime did. however, it was meant to be funny and entertaining and did neither. it felt like it should have been a one episode ONA or something and not its own anime series. it reminded me a lot of the second season of osomatsu-san; the second season had a lot to live up to, made itself be a full fledged comedy anime but ended up flopping because it reused the same jokes and overplayed the same tropes :(

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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