Na Nare Hana Nare

In any competitive cheerleading contest, it is almost certain that Kanata Misora is going to be the star of the show. As a member of the winning squad in Japan's middle school cheerleading nationals, she joins Takanozaki Prefectural High School with her friend Megumi Kaionji intending to seek glory once more. However, following an incident at a competition, she loses touch with her talents and never returns to the club for practice.

While despondent, Kanata ends up spotting internet sensation Suzuha Obunai parkouring with an impressive level of athleticism and ends up befriending her in the process. Through Suzuha, Kanata meets Anna Aveiro and Nodoka Ootani, as well as Suzuha's classmate Tanizaki Shion—each carrying their own talents that apply to competitive cheerleading. Gathering through sheer coincidence, the six girls now work together and cheer each other on to chase their unique dreams.

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Aveiro, Anna Main

Takeda, Larissa Tago Japanese

Misora, Kanata Main

Nakagawa, Rika Japanese

Kaionji, Megumi Main

Itou, Miku Japanese

Ootani, Nodoka Main

Iwami, Manaka Japanese

Obunai, Suzuha Main

Nakashima, Yuki Japanese

Tanizaki, Shion Main

Kahara, Moe Japanese

Nabatame, Hana Supporting

Kitahara, Yuuna Japanese

Aieda, Mari Supporting

Ichinose, Kana Japanese

Satou, Chiwa Supporting

Saitou, Chiwa Japanese

Banka, Lala Supporting

Hanai, Miharu Japanese

Cao, Cong Producer

Kanno, Hayato Producer

Kido, Kensuke Producer

Fukuda, Kouhei Producer

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Sep 24, 2024

Reviewholic

Recommended

Narenare takes the structure of idol or music band anime, replace the theme with cheerleading, and does one different thing: the girl group formed with no grand goal in mind, they just wanna cheer. This key difference may make the anime feel all over the place as it lacks a general direction. The group leader, Anna, would casually say things like getting rich or famous, but she never cared about those stuffs. The lack of promise, the lack of a clear destination, would frustrate the viewers, but it also makes their progress unpredictable and open to wider options. Most importantly, this approach is in line ... with the characters' motivation and personalities. Rather than the competitive, do-or-die, sports-like mindset, the girls in this anime are just happy-go-lucky teenage girls who decided to cheer outside school just because. So whether you would like this anime or not could depend on if you can tolerate the mindless youth vibe these cute girls are going for.

Do mind that, this anime is a teenage drama first, whatever second. These girls may not wanna be top idol or perform live on Budoukan, but they still mean business, they often get into intense dialogues and sometimes get a little bitchy. Well, there are only like 3 girls being bitchy, Anna being the boss bitch most of the time. So, thanks, Anna, for spicing up the drama. The most impressive qualities of Narenare is that its drama rarely feels forced or cringey. The characters' struggle are always laid with reasonable setup, their emotions have a steady buildup, and their responding solution is going back to their theme, cheerleading. Ahh, the classic. The dialogue or scriptwriting has a masterful flow too. In a few instances, there are conversations about cheerleading that smoothly transition to characters expressing their emotions, vice versa. The emotional moments also never overstays its welcome, its duration always matches the weight of the buildup. I usually dislike teenage dramas for how excessively sobby they get, however, Narenare consistently hits the right balance for me.

Spoiler alert, I guess. Unfortunately, the anime concluded with little to no potential of season 2. I am still shocked. I thought the pacing flowed perfectly, and they would run another season to further develop the girls' chemistry. But story ended abruptly with a reason set up since the first episode. In hindsight, it does feel like a Ending B prepared in case the anime doesn't get the green light for Season 2. It's a nice Ending B, but I am devastated. I love the outlandish and hilarious voice acting of Anna, Kanata and Lala. I love the artstyle choice of using coloured outlines. I love the contrast of sadness and happiness this anime shifts around. There are so many good things going for Narenare, it hurts a little to see their journey end so soon.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Sep 23, 2024

six20

Mixed Feelings

Na Nare Hana Nare is probably one of the best cheerleading animes, considering there is two that I can remember, Arima Yell which completely forgot it was supposed to be about cheerleading. That being said, as an anime, it struggles with stuffing too much in one season.

Na Nare Hana Nare's animation, music and upbeat nature is a treat. The girls look fine, the cheer choreography is great. Every character feels like they are their own entity and have relevance to the world.

The only problem with this show, is because the characters are actually realistic, they all have problems that are entangled and the show ... respected that enough to attempt to address all of them usually at the same time. It really did its best but the effort stumbled a lot as clearly by the final episode, a lot of new problems were poorly introduced but it was at least adequately solved.

If this show had 2 seasons, this would have been great, but with the 1 season we get, it is a well thought out jumble of a show, that I liked but I know could have been done much better with a few more episodes.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Sep 23, 2024

patkarunungan

Not Recommended

**A forgettable story with a forgettable set of characters**

Going by the description that it is a sports anime but with cheer dance, I expected it to be school-based. It defied my expectations. It's an after-school cheering club for girls from different schools.

It's what is called an ensemble, but the problem with having too many characters is that you need to be with them for a long time to get to know them. Sometimes 26 episodes aren't enough, let alone 12. There is this character named Nodoka that I forgot who she is and what her role is, and if only she had her own character ... arc, she would not have been a waste of character.

Anyway, it would have been better if this anime was based on one school competing against other schools. I know it's a more standard plot but it's better than the mess this anime was.

The first several episodes were bad. They had to deal with Anna's shop closing, and it didn't feel like a cheer show until Ep 7 or 8. I forgot the episode where they cheered a certain school's baseball team. Then it was more tolerable, but at this point, many people would have dropped this.

Also, Kanata is annoying in her naivete. Mari's drama is forced so that by resolving that drama, they could end this purposeless slop.

It's great in a few places, but overall it's a turd.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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