Hananoi-kun to Koi no Yamai

Hotaru Hinase has lived nearly sixteen years without romance. She is satisfied alone as long as she can enjoy the little things in life with her beloved friends and family. In her mind, she is not meant to fall in love, nor does she understand the concept.

While out with a friend, Hotaru witnesses the severe breakup of her schoolmate Hananoi, to whom she has never spoken. Afterward, she sees him sitting in the snow and holds her umbrella over him. To her surprise, this gesture results in him confessing his feelings for her at school the next day. Though Hotaru rejects him, Hananoi insists on letting her get to know him. He does whatever he can to woo her, from changing his hairstyle to finding her lost hairpin in the snow.

Although she has no romantic feelings towards him, Hotaru believes that by spending more time with him, she will learn how to love. She agrees to date him and slowly begins to navigate what being a girlfriend entails, including how to reciprocate the kind gestures that Hananoi continues to perform for her.

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Hananoi, Saki Main

Kobayashi, Chiaki Japanese

Hinase, Hotaru Main

Hanazawa, Kana Japanese

Shibamura, Tsukiha Supporting

Sakamoto, Maaya Japanese

Kurata, Keigo Supporting

Oosaka, Ryouta Japanese

Yao, Souhei Supporting

Kimura, Ryouhei Japanese

Mother Supporting

Takahashi, Mikako Japanese

Yui Supporting

Hinase, Tomori Supporting

Hidaka, Rina Japanese

Father Supporting

Nojima, Hirofumi Japanese

Kuroe, Yukihiro Supporting

Okitsu, Kazuyuki Japanese

Kurosu, Nobuhiko Producer

Matsumoto, Takuya Producer

Makino, Tomoe Director

Ootera, Fumihiko Sound Director

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Apr 18, 2024

Ellenwitch

Recommended

Preliminary (3/12 eps)

A Condition of love. More like a play on the meaning behind it.

I say this, as it's what the show basically presents itself as. Which can add to this show as a concept. While it will have a story, and plot. But it's noticeable undertones, really showcase what the anime is all about.

Story and characters: 7
These two mix together in a show such as this. The characters make the story, and the story is built around them, and the concept of it all. Because we all fall in love. We've all had our crushes, or how our perception of love is judged and added up ... throughout our lives. We've seen the red flags, and we can see how one can feel in regards to the concept of love. Which is where I feel like the writing of this show really comes full circle. We all approach love differently, and you see it through how the characters act. Hananoi might be the hot guy girls crave, but under that could be too much to handle. Meanwhile Hinase compared to 'other' girls could be seen as plain, or boring. Which brings insecurities about oneself, even if you've got a good head on your shoulders.

Point being. How they've written the concept of love, and how addicted people get behind it, is a really detailed and great way to put it. and the show has done a great job of understanding that in more ways than one. Quite an interesting take, and a way to write a romance kind of show, and how it'll develop beyond that.

Art and sound: 8
This gets a higher grade because the style is a really great looking style. Which is rather fitting for these kinds of shows. The kind that you wish certain shows of different genres that have some odd choices of art style, and animation wish they had. While it's not breathtaking, but the style not only matches the theme, but is fit for purpose, and good to look at. What more could you want? To top it off with good voice acting, and a well presented direction in terms of reactions, and how to capture the theme of the moment. Both have done a great job here.

A Condition called Love certainly is something. Really showcasing love in every department, which if you've got the taste for it, will be enjoyable for you to watch for sure.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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May 11, 2024

The_W3za_Man

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (6/12 eps)

Halfway into the show, I've gotta say...it's alright.

This is a show that tackles something I love in romance anime because it's something I relate to when I get to know and bond with people, being the question of, what is love? How is it supposed to feel? And while it does do that, it's just about it.

Story does well enough for a school romance. It's those themes of finding meaning in live that do the heavy lifting though.

The other characters barely matter, it's basically all focused on the couple. Which is honestly fine, their chemistry is what makes this show any interesting. As for those ... main two, it's weird.

Hotaru, our main girl, is fine. Pretty generically designed with a standard personality but who's enjoyable and has that "what is love" (baby don't hurt me) story going on, which is nice. But Hananoi? Oh boy...

This. Fucking. Guy. He checks every single box of an overly-clingy creep partner. Closely inspects what she likes to tune himself to those things? Check. Frequents places she goes to? Check. Doesn't like her fiends and treats every guy like a level 100 threat? CHECK. Now he apparently does develop, and there's been hints dropped so far why he is the way he is, and to the show's credit, it seems interesting. But for now? Yeah it's rough. But he's also voiced by Chiaki Kobayashi, so he can't be that bad in my book.

So overall, this is a show that looks like it's going somewhere, but is definitely rough at the start (solely because of Hananoi), but I feel when it does go somewhere it might not be that far due to seeming like a pretty generic romance. But hey, there's still half a season to go to really see

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Apr 28, 2024

Benedito29

Not Recommended

Preliminary (3/12 eps)

Hananoi-kun to Koi no Yamai it's an embarrassing anime in many ways, which has had a terrible start so far, and even if this gets better in the future, it won't erase how depressing and weird this anime is at the beginning. If this story continues in what I will say throughout the my review, I would say that this anime could be the WORST romance anime I have ever seen. Even animes with shy and generic characters would be better than this(in romance anime).






History

By a coincidence of fate, Hananoi and the main girl (I forgot her name) meet in a ... park and she helps Hananoi in the middle of a terrible storm, with a lot of snow, sharing the same umbrella for a very brief moment, hananoi falls in love madly, at that moment the narrative starts to get weird(yes, the story begins in this fantasy that emerged only from hananoi, something very unique, right? hahahaha what a joke this anime is), remembering that this happens in the first minutes of episode 1, which does not count as a spoiler;
What follows in the story is Hananoi's constant persecution of the girl who only helped, as she would perhaps do for anyone in that situation, but for him, that was enough.to make him fall in love madly. The boy becomes a totally different person from his previous personality and starts to pursue the girl, with the intention of making her fall in love with him, and this doesn't happen for a while, and even if it happens it clearly wasn't something natural, because he literally followed her for A YEAR, and besides, his actions to make the girl fall in love with him are extreme, where Hananoi puts her own health to the test just to try to get the girl's attention, becoming extremely embarrassing to follow a failed attempt to make her fall in love with Hananoi.
The narrative continues in this pattern,indicating that, it's clear that o author had no idea how to make this beginning of the story in a more natural and healthy way, and simply chose for a beginning that mixes romance among teenagers that actually emerged through with a chase, and that becomes disgusting of to follow following along the plot.
Long story short, it's about a boy who claims to be in love and pursues a girl, in order to make her fall in love, he does everything. Trying to forcefully create affection with someone is simply something horrible, and as said before, even if it improves the relationship and attitudes, the author opted for this narrative using poorly executed means, staying far from what I would say that it was a romance that it came naturallyand continued to a great level, sticking to a horrendous premise. 1/10








Characters

The secondary characters are the same as those found in any anime, "standard" without any highlight, they are just there to interact with the protagonists and nothing more than that. Hananoi is an obsessed and unhealthy boy, who tries to force an emotional relationship on someone and appears to have a chaotic past due to the way he resolves his feelings that arise in such a way superficial and then turns into something more disturbing. The main girl is simply without personality, she is someone who can be easily manipulated due to her naivety.there are moments when I see her more like a robot, as she lacks feelings at certain moments.
It is clear that after what has been said, interactions between them are expected in the worst possible way, whether due to superficiality or strangeness in a lack of communication and expression of feelings that are really real, in that the author did not know how to to create ANYONE, absolutely NOBODY who is at least average in the middle of this embarrassing narrative. The studio even tries to give expression to the characters by sticking to colors clear in moments that need to express what each character feels, but this even worsens the experience as a whole, leaving everything just weird. 1/10









Scenery/sound/animation

The setting is normal, not bad nor remarkable, it's forgettable.The opening and ending are a little good, but nothing too admirable. The dubbing is good, the soundtrack is also good. The animation is average, there are times when the studio highlights the colors of the animation in an attempt to give life (emotion) to the narrative but these are rare moments, for the most part the animation varies between bad and something good operation , therefore becoming something simplistic, with some strangenesss at certain times. Even though most of the time the animation is bad. 3/10




Pleasure

Did I enjoy watching this? No, at no point was it so terrible in a way that I simply expected that each episode would pass as quickly as possible because it was exhausting to watch to this. Can it improve in the future? Yes, it has potential. But that beginning was the culmination of the abyss of bad that became try to follow the plot. The studio tried a few times to add emotion to this but... it didn't work. 2/10







In conclusion, I wouldn't recommend it, even if the narrative improves in the future, the plot still lacks better characters, because without that the experience would still be bad, apart from the terrible story it still has scenarios and animation that are not very notable for the credibility of a good experience, disturbing the viewing of the anime as a whole.There are several good romance anime out there, don't waste your time on it, because it's not worth it, you won't find anything good in it. I will continue watching hoping to have a different opinion on the story, that is, hoping that it improves at least a little this terrible narrative.

|| Final grade/sum of review scores with a fixed average: 1,7/10. ||

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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