Comments on: Aoi Hana, A Review

By: Anime Diet » Aoi Hana 10 – my apologies

Anime Diet » Aoi Hana 10 – my apologies — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:58:14 +0000

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By: Ryan A

Ryan A — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:50:18 +0000

Aw you wrote a lot :) At the end I was like, “I wish for another season, pls”

More of this would be great even if the characters changed or something, because the style and little occurrences really made it satisfying. Maintain the lightness, ideas, sweetness, etc… that’d be fine… ~su~

Also felt there could have been more fleshing of characters, like Fumi and A-chan… or at least more development for Fumi.

By: nekosasu

nekosasu — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:21:46 +0000

Interesting. A Sugimoto family, now that’s… interesting, to say the least. Wish I could read the manga.

Yeah, the end was fine, content-wise, but it just fell a little too short in the end for my tastes. But if, as you say, the possibility for a continuation exists, then I will definitely be looking forward to it.

By: B1

B1 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:02:05 +0000

Like you, I hadn’t read the manga before I started watching this.
I found it very satisfying to see relationships portrayed in an anime in a realistic and complex fashion. It was such a breath of fresh air after all the cookie-cutter crap out there (‘I must protect all those I care about!’, ‘do you remember our childhood promise?’ yada yada). I’m not much of a yuri fan, but the genre was pushed to one side for me by the quality of the storytelling. The characters were very believable – I swear I’ve met a family just like Yasukos in real life down to the last bitchy,spiteful and loving detail, and I’ve also met more than one hopeless Kyouko-type – willing to sacrifice everything including their self-esteem for the chance of love with someone unattainable. I thought the ending was fine. There was closure in many ways for the characters at that stage of their life – what might follow would be a whole new story.
After seeing the anime, I did catch up with the manga. What I discovered was that the anime has been pretty true to the original in many ways, and that the anime couldn’t have gone any further due to the fact that it covered nearly all the manga chapters that had been released up to that point. It comes out glacially slowly – one chapter every two months. I’d love to see the anime continue, but I think it may be a couple of years before there’s enough material to work with.

By: nekosasu

nekosasu — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:55:55 +0000

Most likely, hence I must read the manga. But there’s a backlog to take care of first… :(

By: Enthousiaste

Enthousiaste — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:07:33 +0000

Interesting article.

Most of your questions can be answered by “because this is only a 11-episodes anime, and therefore it adapts only the beginning of the manga”.