Story: The story is well, pretty generic when it comes to the Slice of life school life genre. The MC gets pulled in to a club by a random person, and the two of them rope in more people to officially form a club. Sure, they have their struggles in between, but they settle them before completing the final climactic dance. Apart from the Yosakoi dance, the story idea is quite generic and average. The one thing that I liked about the story is how it's not rushed. Every episode has character development, and sometimes we have 1 entire episode devoted to one specific character. And as you know me already, I like knowing the characters and falling in love with them further down the anime.
Rating: 7.7/10
Art: The art is pretty beautiful in this anime. From the sakuras, to the fireworks, Hanayamata's artwork is quite stunning and compelling to say the least. However, if there's one aspect which I didn't exactly like about the art, it's the character animation. Some of the character's faces and facial expressions looked kinda weird.
Rating: 8.5/10
Music: Probably the category which I like most in Hanayamata. Hanayamata's music is just exciting, catchy, rhythmic and in some ways beautiful to listen to.
Rating: 9.6/10
Characters: As I said earlier, great character development. We have at least 1 episode devoted to that 1 particular character which allows the viewer to be attracted to that particular character and eventually fall in love with them as the story progresses. We get to know all the character's strengths, weaknesses, likes, dislikes and passion. 1 particular character made me fall in love with her, and that's none other than Tami. She's like the perfect Japanese girl. Beautiful, good-mannered, gentle, caring and supportive. I really loved Tami while watching Hanayamata.
Rating: 9.5/10
In conclusion, an anime which I enjoyed greatly. The music, the characters, the animation, they were all great! And the ending to the anime was great too with all the 5 girls getting to dance together. And of course, mixing in tradition to modern life really draws my love for this anime!
Overall rating: 8.5/10
