Another bad news for R1 collectors and H&C fans(as if hardsub wasn't bad enough). KomoriKiri from AOD reports that VIZ's release of Honey and Clover is actually edited version. According to KomoriKiri, ring-tone of Mayama "Moon River" is now changed to..
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I like to indulge in things that remind me of days gone by, even if the memory gets a little fluffed and imagined way better than it really was. Being able to hook into into Honey & Clover like that has made watching it more fun than I expected. What Honey & Clover does well, I [...]
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Using my l33t hacking skills, I have worked my way into THAT Anime Blog and started to deface their blog by rambling on about Honey and Clover. OK, not strictly true. I was invited by one of the authors to join him in a joint, ani-blogging project to discuss our alternate opinions on this widely praised Josei series. Though [...]
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ExecutiveOtaku’s Intro: Honey and Clover is a series that has been written about fairly extensively in the anime blogging community. It’s also a favorite of many. So when, as a brand new blogger, I found out that Scamp from Bokutachi no Blog was currently working his way through the series, I proposed that once he [...]
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Now, I know this series gets a lot of love amongst blogos and after watching the first two episodes I’m into it, but I can’t help but wonder if the only reason I’m enjoying Honey and Clover is because it feels different, like an anime not made for otaku. This makes it refreshing (as an [...]
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I am finishing up the last bits of Hachikuro, so I’m currently really into the series and will do up the pairings first. Hachikuro is one of the most meaningful series I’ve ever watched in the truest sense of the word. Hachikuro philosophises over relationships and the phases in life. I’m doing away with the [...]
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I always found myself to be rather passive but I guess there comes a time for all of us to just start growing up and reach that point in time where one starts to feel anxious and overall worried about their current life situation. I’m 22 and this is my last semester of college. [...]
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He opens with barb that I cannot do better than simply quote, if only because I’m in full agreement: According to ghostlightning, his wife, sybilant, hates tragedy. Apparently she enjoyed Honey & Clover all the way through, up until the ending—and apparently the ending was too much for her. When ghostlightning related this to me, [...]
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According to ghostlightning, his wife, sybilant, hates tragedy. Apparently she enjoyed Honey & Clover all the way through, up until the ending—and apparently the ending was too much for her. When ghostlightning related this to me, I thought to myself, “was the ending… tragic?” I recalled lots of tragedy throughout the course of the show, [...]
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As was rehashed a million times before, there’s no “II” in Honey and Clover II, the story was artificially interrupted for some technical reason on the break of broadcast seasons. So, it makes no sense to watch the first half only. It’s the kind of idiotic trick you’d expect from GONZO (see Druaga). The show itself [...]
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Seen the first half of Honey and Clover at Hulu. The biggest impression is, Hulu sucks enormously. You can tell that it’s made by incumbents. Firstly, what the heck is with only having the first half? It makes even less sense than posting the first half of Vandread. Secondly, pausing the stream posts a huge [...]
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Props to otou-san for writing this awesome H&C post. Eternal, too, though that's one monster of a post I vowed not to read until I've actually rewatched H&C and truly appreciate it for what it's worth. The first time I watched Honey and Clover was August 2006, as I remember it, basking in 2-3 eps a day in my hotel room in Cebu after work during my first business trip, glued to the screen of my laptop whilst my roommates are busy playing DoTA; not exactly understanding what was going on through the lives of Takemoto, Morita, Mayama, Yamada, Hagu, Morita, Shuu, and Rika, but knowing enough to realize that there's so much more to the show than how I was seeing it back then.
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I’m not sure what first gave me the idea to watch it, but it became apparent almost immediately that it was a good idea. Everyone I talked to seemed suddenly seized by a compulsion to rewatch at least some episodes (in ghostlightning’s case, the whole damn thing in 2 days). No one seemed to have [...]
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Moe and fetishes aside, Yamada-san is my favorite female character hands down. I recently got back from a camping trip in Maine where I didn’t have Internet access so I found myself reading Japanese manga mostly when we weren’t hiking and what not. I’m not an avid reader of manga at all so maybe I [...]
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_eternal, no hard feelings. I like you, I like your blog, I want to keep it that way. First, for the unaware, direct your attention to A Thematic Analysis of Honey & Clover, a spoiler-ful post by our buddy eternal. For now let’s leave aside the fact that the ‘analysis’ doesn’t really focus on themes, [...]
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Every time someone asks me for an anime reccomendation, regardless of genre, Honey and Clover will probably come up. Any ranking of my favourite anime must include Honey and Clover. Why do I like Honey and Clover so much? On a basic level, the plot (the lives of a collection of young adults) doesn't seem very different from some other anime out there. Other shows deal with friendship. Other shows deal with growing up and transitioning from teenagers to full-fledged adults. Other shows deal with unrequited love. What is it that makes a small but vocal minority rave about the brilliance of Honey and Clover?
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When I was still little…one day, riding the green bike I always used to ride, I thought: “how far can I go without turning back?” Life is like a lot of things; a quick google of the phrase “life is like” is enough to demonstrate that. One of the many things that life is analogous to [...]
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A few days ago, I watched the free episode of Honey and Clover that’s on iTunes to how the dub sounded and ended up buying the second to get a better sense of it before writing my opinion of it. Overall, I thought it was pretty good. I started unconsciously comparing the English actors to their [...]
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So, here are the quick facts:Nana (TV-MA) season one is available on iTunes exclusively until August 31, 2009. The first season (11 episodes) can be purchased for $19.99, or you can buy episodes individually for $1.99 each. If you buy the first season, you get episode 11.5 (a recap episode) free. You cannot buy episode 11.5 except as part of the season package. All episodes appear to be dubbed.Honey and Clover (TV-14) season one is available on iTunes. The first episode is FREE, until August 31, 2009. The first season (12 episodes) can be purchased for $19.99, or you can buy episodes individually for $1.99 each. Episode 13 is available as “Bonus Episode L” and comes free with the season package, but cannot be purchased otherwise.  All episodes appear to be dubbed.I find it a litte odd that episode 13 in the regular continuity is being offered ONLY as a bonus episode, although as far as I can tell it's not an episode that adds a lot of plot to the series.So, I sat back and picked up the first episode of each show. Here are my thoughts, sort of mini-”first dates,” if you will, for those of you not already familiar with the franchises.   Nana, of course, is the tale of two girls, both named Nana, who wind up seated next to one another on a train by sheer coincidence. Each girl is heading to Tokyo for her own reason: Nana Osaki is moving there to debut with her band in order to become worthy of her already-rock-star boyfriend Ren. Nana Komatsu is doing the exact opposite: following her boyfriend to Tokyo, jobless and oblivious.The two separate and we mostly follow Nana K.-- Nana O. is supposed to be more mysterious –but the two meet again by sheer accident at an apartment. At first the two prepare for a potential fight over the place, but then realize that they can save money if they just agree to live together. The show is very heavy on music, for obvious reasons, and the OP sequence “rose" is pretty badass. The dub is also pretty decent, although Nana O.'s voice reminds me a lot of Jane from Daria. I am glad that Nana K. doesn't sound like a complete airhead, which would be the obvious temptation in her comedic moments.All in all, it's a rockin', slightly adult soap opera filled with the kinds of things that actually do pop up in our real lives. Except with more rock stars.   Honey and Clover's opening sequence made me really hungry, because it's all food. In spite of that, the show is about a bunch of kids in art school. It's a slice of life show, so I can't give you a strong plot summary, but the cast of characters includes the slacker Shinobu, upright Takumi, innocent first-year Yuuta, ceramic goddess Ayumi, goofy teacher Shuuji Hanamoto, and his young cousin, Hagu.Hagu is basically the reason why I have trouble getting into Honey and Clover. She looks like she's eight, but is supposed to be 18. And not like, “she's 18, we promise! *wink nudge*!” 18, nor a stylistically young appearance that's consistent with other females. She just looks inexplicably young. And almost immediately one of the guys falls for her. It just..weirds me out a bit.The dub is okay, although I got pretty irritated with the “tah-KOO-mee” pronunciation pretty quick, and the visuals can be a little bit bright but low-contrast, making it feel a little airy. Other than that, though, no major complaints. The humor is cute, but this is more slice-of-life than comedy, so don't watch it hoping to crack up every thirty seconds. The characters are strong, though, and their stories may appeal to you.
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I generally don’t read many anime blogs, mostly because most anime bloggers have no idea as to what they’re on about. However, even amongst the ones that I do read, I’ve noticed one ugly pattern rear its head as of late–the comparison of 2008/2009’s Toradora! to 2005/2006’s Honey and Clover. Now, I know, in your mind [...]
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