Saturday, April 8, 2006

Honey and Clover
Sheesh. I finished this series about a week and a half ago and I still haven't posted anything! How silly of me. I watched most of the 24 episodes in a span of two nights. I guess I really got into that one.

If I were to compare H&C to a movie genre, I'd say it would be an independant movie. There isn't a big, overlying plot. Instead, it focuses on the relationships between characters and imagery.

Honey & Clover is about 5 normal college kids at an art school in Japan... or not. Honey & Clover is about 3 normal college kids and two rather extraordinary ones. A lot of the series revolves around the introspective thoughts about life and love from the three "normal" characters: Takemoto, who is a normal person from a middle class family who isn't particularly good at any art but likes making things with his hands and is in love with Hagu, Mayama, who graduates soon in the series but still hangs around everyone and is love with an oldergirl that he works for, and Yamada, a brilliant pottery student who is in love with Mayama.

The other two students in this group are both geniuses, but are very different from each other. Hagu is very tiny. So tiny that, although she's 18 at the start if the anime, she looks like she's about 12. When I was first getting into Naruto, my sister said that she didn't like Rock Lee because his eyes made him look like a doll. Well if you think Rock Lee looks like a doll, you should check out Hagu. As I've mentioned, Hagu is a genius and has had many works of art exhibited in museums.

Morita is a different kind of genius. He provides almost all of the humor in the series as the eccentric genius. Morita is actually in his seventh year of college but does amazing things whenever he puts his mind to it. He also does a lot of strange things... like dress Hagu up as some kind of mythical creature and take pictures of her for a website. He even started calling Hagu "Mouse #1" for a while when he had plans to dress her up as a mouse.

Honey & Clover is a good piece of storytelling. The characters are likeable and realistic and you find yourself rooting for them to succeed. It is definately up there among my favorites.
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