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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Based on the manga series written by Kosuke Hamada, published by Kodansha since 2013.

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Hanesaki, Ayano

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Oowada, Hitomi
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Aragaki, Nagisa

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Shimabukuro, Miyuri
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Shiwahime, Yuika

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Kayano, Ai
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Christensen, Connie

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Ise, Mariya
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Fujisawa, Erena

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Kohara, Konomi
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Izumi, Riko

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Mimura, Yuuna
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Ishizawa, Nozomi

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Sakuraba, Arisa
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Hanesaki, Uchika

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Ohara, Sayaka
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Serigaya, Kaoruko

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Shimoda, Asami
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Tachibana, Kentarou

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Okamoto, Nobuhiko
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Cook, Justin

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Watase, Shouta

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Furukawa, Shin

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Satomi, Tetsurou

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"Futari no Hane (ふたりの羽根)" by YURiKA

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	1: "High Stepper (ハイステッパー)" by Yuiko Ohara (eps 2, 4-13)
	2: "High Stepper (Acoustic Ver.) (ハイステッパー (Acoustic Ver.))" by Yuiko Ohara (eps 3)

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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 ...

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Mar 23, 2024

RacingManiac

Mixed Feelings

Youtube recommendation brought me to this with all the cool animation sequences of the matches. Weirdly I ended up reading the manga first then I think that influenced my feeling for the anime.

Hanebado!'s manga isn't necessarily that much better, but I think it presented the ultimately similar tone of the story in a more balanced way than the anime did. The anime's biggest issue to me I feel like is just that, it feels very unbalanced. The show is a mixture of upbeat appearances from the color, the character design and the OP, the first tier animation, and then really unlikable characters throughout, plus ...

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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.

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