Sep 10, 2021
I have conflicting opinions about Hanebado. It's a melodrama show disguised as a sports anime. Now don't get me wrong, the animation was definitely not subpar; every match was well drawn out that it just looked explosive. The facial expressions during tense moments were outstanding and I dare say it sent shivers down my spine at times. You can tell a lot of dedication and hard work went into making this anime very pleasing to the eye.
Now, where do the flaws kick in? If it has good animation then surely it must be good right? You're about half right. You don't get into the
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juicy drama until about a few episodes into the show. Ayano is the daughter of an Olympic athlete, Uchika. She was considered one of the best professional badminton players of all time. She trained her daughter from a young age to play badminton. Pretty cool right? Well not so much after. Serigaya was another badminton player in middle school that had a match against Ayano. She caught a cold and contaminated Ayano to "play even" and the latter lost. Now the genius mother thought with her Giga brain that abandoning her daughter when she needed support was an amazing idea to make her become a stronger badminton player. She had no guarantee nor proof this was going to work, but it miraculously did when her best friend Elena convinced her. She later left Japan and adopted another child and trained her instead. This person was Connie, a professional player from Denmark. It's also baffling how she thought they would reunite as a family.
Now realistically this would work. But not so morally. Ayano became a monster; cold-hearted and ruthless to her opponents, destroying most of them. The mother ultimately accomplished her goal at the expense of her daughter's loving and innocent nature.
What really made everything worse was the ending. Ayano, self-doubting herself on the brink of losing a match against Nagisa and being a dick to her teammates prior, all she needed was a little encouragement from one of her mates and she completely changed. She turned over a new leaf and basically forgave her mother, as if to say "I'm sorry for acting this way, I now know you did it for me so everything is back to normal". The mother got away with being a terrible parent and that's it.
Honestly, it was an utter disappointment, and felt like the buildup was all for naught. In the end we were given a terrible happy ending bullshit.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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