Honey & Clover
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 8:19 am
I've found a gem of a shoujo title. It's slice of life with nothing supernatural in it whatsoever.
It's about a group of college students and their favorite teacher. They're all art or architecture students. The show revolves around their lives as they deal with unrequited love, confusion about what to do with their lives, when and if Morita will graduate and what in the heck is Morita thinking?
My favorite character is Takemoto Yuuta, who often narrates the episodes. He's the kind, sensitive type who tends to take care of his friends, particularily the eccentric Morita and the innocent and driven Hagu. Takemoto has been described as a shiba dog for his eager and caring ways.
My other favorite character is Hagu, a young artistic genious. She's shy and sheltered when you first meet her and you get to watch her open up to her friends, especially Takemoto. Hagu's driven by an intense vision, constantly creating and making herself ill with her high self expectations. Tiny and child like, Hagu can't be anything but cute.
Morita is often comic, often strange one that's incapable of being serious for more than 5 minutes. Watching him, you may not realize that the clown has a heart of gold, at least when he's not trying to dress Hagu up as a mouse.
Honey and Clover has a mixture of comedy and drama. It's everyday comedy and drama, such as Takemoto losing it when he hears a word vaguely resembling "rococco" or Takemoto's dislike of Christmas. In addition, there's lots of sap for those of us who are romantics. Some of my favorite warm and fuzzy moments include [ecs]Takemoto keeping Hagu company on her first night totally alone, and another time him waking up in the school after an all-nighter while working on an assignment, to find that Hagu covered him with a blanket and several of those little chemical hot pads.[/ecs]
The show's also got great music that fits it very well. I particularly like the first ending song, Waltz. In addition to that, many episodes include an insert song by either Spitz or Suga Shikao. Courtesy of H&C, Spitz has emerged as a favorite Japanese group of mine.
Samantha
It's about a group of college students and their favorite teacher. They're all art or architecture students. The show revolves around their lives as they deal with unrequited love, confusion about what to do with their lives, when and if Morita will graduate and what in the heck is Morita thinking?
My favorite character is Takemoto Yuuta, who often narrates the episodes. He's the kind, sensitive type who tends to take care of his friends, particularily the eccentric Morita and the innocent and driven Hagu. Takemoto has been described as a shiba dog for his eager and caring ways.
My other favorite character is Hagu, a young artistic genious. She's shy and sheltered when you first meet her and you get to watch her open up to her friends, especially Takemoto. Hagu's driven by an intense vision, constantly creating and making herself ill with her high self expectations. Tiny and child like, Hagu can't be anything but cute.
Morita is often comic, often strange one that's incapable of being serious for more than 5 minutes. Watching him, you may not realize that the clown has a heart of gold, at least when he's not trying to dress Hagu up as a mouse.
Honey and Clover has a mixture of comedy and drama. It's everyday comedy and drama, such as Takemoto losing it when he hears a word vaguely resembling "rococco" or Takemoto's dislike of Christmas. In addition, there's lots of sap for those of us who are romantics. Some of my favorite warm and fuzzy moments include [ecs]Takemoto keeping Hagu company on her first night totally alone, and another time him waking up in the school after an all-nighter while working on an assignment, to find that Hagu covered him with a blanket and several of those little chemical hot pads.[/ecs]
The show's also got great music that fits it very well. I particularly like the first ending song, Waltz. In addition to that, many episodes include an insert song by either Spitz or Suga Shikao. Courtesy of H&C, Spitz has emerged as a favorite Japanese group of mine.
Samantha
