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Its kind of sad a lot of reviewers hating this series because it is repetitive and boring but I'll do my best to give a positive reviews and try to make you watch it.

Handa-kun is the prequel of Bakaramon, and this anime covers Handa Sei's High School life. The story each episode has a common sequence new character - hate handa - handa makes a move - misunderstoods - likes handa. Although it has that formula I still found it entertaining because it has some moment where you can smile, giggle, and cringe. Also the characters are pretty funny(for me) and each of them have ... different ways of interpretation of Handa like someone sees him as god, respects as powerful man, wants to be him, rival and etc.


Handa-kun vs Bakaramon

There is a huge difference in both series because it has different story and how it is presented. In bakaramon it is focused on Handa Sei's improvement as a person while in Handa-kun it is focused on his struggle on how can he maintain his persona(that is wall joke i guess).

So to be precise these two series should be viewed as an art(since this anime is focused on calligraphy) Handa-kun represents appreciation while Bakaramon represents motivation or inspiration.

How can I say it that way?
You have to understand the people around Handa Sei. In Bakaramon, people around him always tries to make him different stuffs and they interact with Handa in a different way and it is the not the usual way Handa was treated. How can it be inspiration/motivation, inspiration usually fires when new things is being experience and motivation because of the words that townsfolk says to him like "People always look up, the key is a breathe look down and you will see opportunities" not the actual quote but i hope i get the context from the mochi episode. While in Handa-kun, people around him always misunderstood his actions but this kind of interpretation always lead to positive rather than negative so that's why I call it appreciation.

Ending remarks:
I like Handa-kun and I wish it has a second season its either his 3rd year highschool or his college life because I still don't see the people on the picture in bakaramon. And lastly its hard to watch bakaramon without imagining ERASER is around the bush watching him xD