Hanebado!

After her crushing defeat of 21-0 at the National Junior Badminton Tournament, Nagisa Aragaki's love for her sport begins to distort. Unable to deal with the shame of loss, she starts to terrorize the members of her high school badminton club. Her grueling drills bring some to the verge of tears while others quit the club outright. With the team losing members and new prospects being too terrified to join, the future of the badminton club looks exceptionally grim.

That is, until Kentarou Tachibana joins as the new head coach. Not only is he an Olympic-level player, but he also comes bearing a secret weapon: Ayano Hanesaki, the girl who defeated Nagisa six months ago. However, Ayano is not the rival Nagisa remembers, but a girl with conflicted feelings wanting to distance herself from badminton. With her future in sports now on the line, Nagisa must find a way to face her fears of inadequacy, heal her rival's troubled heart, and bring victory to Kitakomachi High School's badminton club.

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Hanesaki, Ayano Main

Oowada, Hitomi Japanese

Aragaki, Nagisa Main

Shimabukuro, Miyuri Japanese

Shiwahime, Yuika Supporting

Kayano, Ai Japanese

Christensen, Connie Supporting

Ise, Mariya Japanese

Fujisawa, Erena Supporting

Kohara, Konomi Japanese

Izumi, Riko Supporting

Mimura, Yuuna Japanese

Ishizawa, Nozomi Supporting

Sakuraba, Arisa Japanese

Hanesaki, Uchika Supporting

Ohara, Sayaka Japanese

Serigaya, Kaoruko Supporting

Shimoda, Asami Japanese

Tachibana, Kentarou Supporting

Okamoto, Nobuhiko Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Furukawa, Shin Producer

Watase, Shouta Producer

Satomi, Tetsurou Producer

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Jul 14, 2023

BlueEclispe

Recommended

After reading the reviews for this anime i think it gets looked down on too hard.
The show suffers from not having enough episodes. The writers cut out large parts of the source material in order to get the bulk of story into one season. This, of course, left a hollow shell because of characters and entire arcs being removed. Small things like a character learning a new move or improving a skill got removed. For example a character was always able to play with two hands in the source. they even practiced doing so, but in the anime it comes out later from thin ... air

So lets look at what was left over. This show starts with what will become our two main characters, Ayano and Nagisa, playing against each other in a tournament. The battle ending with both girls wondering why they even play the sport is what sets the pace for the rest of the show. We watch everyone we meet toss over the same question as the episodes tick on for different reasons. Given that everyone is only alloted a few minutes to have these arcs. I believe that the show does a good job in engaging you with them.
While it may be a villain of the week story. You can still understand everyone, which is something that alot of shows fail to accomplish even with the right amount of episodes.

Its not a bad show. it has good everything and im sure if it had more episodes would be held in great light. I recommend you try it then read the source. (It has ecchi angles if that helps)

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Mar 10, 2025

JSheps

Mixed Feelings

Ayano’s mom sucks so much oh my god. Realizing you mentally ruined your daughter by leaving her at her lowest and then coming back and understanding what you did is “unforgivable”, but not regretting it or saying sorry because she “grew and learned why she wants to play badminton” makes you an absolutely awful parent. Not to mention after leaving your daughter, you train a new girl to be a badminton superstar in Europe. The fact that she still has the gall to act upbeat and jovial to her is infuriating. Try talking to your daughter next time you piece of shit

Good animation and fun ... badminton scenes

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Dec 29, 2022

BimaSylirian

Not Recommended

A sports anime with no sportsmanship!

That is the thing that went into my mind after going on half of the episode. That way, it gave me a bad impression already in the story. Too much drama, arrogant characters, inconsistent development, all in a sports anime. If this is reality, then Japan must be one of the most hated country in any world class sports tournaments for sure!

Okay, now move one to every aspect of this anime. It has a rather inconsistent visual as well. During the early part of this anime, everything looks very good. However, on the second half of the story where everything ... gets more serious, the art started to look downgraded. Not sure the latter part was rushed or not, but the inconsistency is just too obvious for me. Over hundreds of anime I've watched, this is the third title that shows obvious inconsistency in artwork quality. The artwork was going between just very good to just okay. But overall, I'd still consider it is as good.

The sound effect is one thing that this anime quite excel. The music is also very good. I'd say the audio quality is actually the best part of this anime. You got an energetic and motivating opening theme that doesn't really match the story. Also an energetic and cheerful ending theme that again, doesn't really match the story. But it is not bad. I am just saying the music is too good for this type of gloomy story.

The characters are... mediocre. Nagisa is the only one with good development. She went from a loser to a... winner. Ayano is all over the place. From nothing to loser to villain to whatever the creator wants her to be. Most of the characters from different schools have no sportsmanship which is terrible for a sport anime. The other supporting characters in the same school barely shown any development. Oh well... none of the chicks are the type that one would want to make them wives though.

And finally... about the story. Honestly, having a story with a flow like this and type of female main character like this is something new for me. But not in a good way. Actually, the story itself is what dragged this anime down in my view. It shows a bad example of people should behave in sports competition. I know, it is just an anime. it is just a fiction. But should you know, fictions have power to shape or motivate people! See how Long Riders attracted people to do cycling or Yurucamp attracted to do camping for example. Hanebado doesn't show the good way of Badminton. It's just a drama which sets around Badminton unfortunately.

Overall... I have too many complaints about this anime. Mainly the story and characters' personality. They ruins the enjoyment of the anime. They don't motivate people to do Badminton. They showed how bad sportsmanship in sports competition. When seeing the PV back then before the anime was aired. I was truly impressed. But the actual product is too much of a disappointing.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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