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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May 10, 2024

QQchoco

Recommended

Preliminary (5/12 eps)

So far one of my favorite romance animes!

Why? you may ask, IT HAS GREAT COMMUNICATION AND CONCLUSION!

At first you meet our main girl who has no experience in love and is pretty distant to it. And our main boy who is too hard on love who becomes deeply in love with the main girl. He goes so far that he puts his own needs down. the girl always tells the boy why he shouldn't and that they have to go through this TOGETHER. So as they have struggles and uncomfortable situations they always talk it out and grow in their relationship. which is very realisticly ... a Healty relationship.

unlike other animes where it's just charisma and love is all fun yay yay. This goes deeper, they talk about their flaws and face them like it's supposed to happen in relationships. it's very fluff and sweet.

as you may read some negative reviews about the main boy being weird.
this is true, but he always explains himself why, and he is never hurting the Main girl for it or has intentions of hurting her.
in fact they talk out their things and reflect.

BEST ANIME WHICH WARMS MY HEART AND MAKES ME FEEL VERY HOPEFUL AND LIGHT!!!

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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May 9, 2024

ReXiRa

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (5/12 eps)

The Yearner meets AroAce girl

A quick summary in 5 words or less

Initially a very accurate depiction of an AroAce person in the protagonist, who ends up on the receiving end of romantic love from a guy who feels it deeper than most.

An interesting idea on paper but very prone to poor execution.

Most of the problems stem from Hananoi's warped view of human relationships, possibly due to his upbringing. He idolizes romantic relationship and neglects "normal" friendships.
When asked by our protagonist if he wanted to be friends with her even if she turned him down, he answered with "If we can't be lovers, I don't want ... to be friends" which is already very selfish.
Most of his displays of affections can also be read as very selfish or atleast very self-serving in nature whilst also being self-destructive at times. He gives his 200% in everything he does for a lover which was also the reason for his previous breakups.

What Hananoi needs isn't a girlfriend, it's a few regular everyday friends and only when he learns about personal boundaries and whether or not if what he's doing bothers someone who doesn't know you that well, should he start dating someone.

The overall message of the story is also very confusing. It makes it out as if being AroAce is inherently an unnatural/bad thing that can be remedied by meeting "Mr. Right". The Protagonist, Hotaru just needs to be able to pick up on more romantic nuances to avoid misunderstanding but, with the current overall direction of the story, it might just turn into another "girl falls in love for the first time" type story.

Another potential message of the story is, "if you're obsessive enough with your displays of affection, you'll one day get someone who loves you back" which is a terrifying messaage in the current age with parasocial relationships between fans and idols, celebs and the like.

In short, Hananoi needs "regular" friends and learning about boundaries.
Hotaru needs to build up her romantic awareness to avoid misunderstandings.
Overall, this story could've been an interesting exploration of the nature of romantic relationships whilst being a good representation of an AroAce person, but falls short and insists on it having to be a romance.

It's not a bad story by any means, but suffers from what ifs and a less interesting story development.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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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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