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Mar 30, 2022
Contrasting with 2020's anime, which commonly features average or unhappy protagonists that suddenly are teleported/have their lives changed and their frustrations are magically solved, anime from the 70's often features protagonists that come from unfavourable origins or poverty and that have to overcome their situations by themselves. They usually show an inspiring strength to endure the often exceedingly unfair circumstances they are put into, and courage to face all sort of hardships. You see similar situations in anime like Attack No.1, Candy Candy or Ashita no Joe.

Sasurai no Taiyou follows this trend, featuring the tale of a girl who, being switched from her rich birth ...
Jan 29, 2021
Mixed Feelings
|TL;DR|
Stop!! Hibari-kun! has an interesting and unique premise, and an acceptable approach to it, for 1982. The comedy is absurd and full of references to pop-culture, similar to other gag-manga of the time, which would be cool if it didn't overwhelm the show, overshadowing the possibilities of developing *anything* of the relationship between the protagonist and Hibari, which stays limited to funny skits until the last episode. Which is especially bad since this anime has the average-length of 35 episodes.

|Review|
Stop!! Hibari-kun!'s premise is quite cool (considering this is the 80's in Japan): the main character suddenly has to live in the house of a (comical) ...


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