{"id":4822,"date":"2011-04-19T00:34:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T10:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=4822"},"modified":"2011-04-19T00:34:38","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T10:34:38","slug":"anime-briefs-hanasaku-iroha-jdmusdm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/04\/19\/anime-briefs-hanasaku-iroha-jdmusdm\/","title":{"rendered":"Anime Briefs &#8211; Hanasaku Iroha (JDM\/USDM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deja vu.\u00c2\u00a0 I get the feeling I&#8217;ve seen this all before&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 In the late 90&#8217;s, TBS started a long-running afternoon drama, <em>Onsen he Ikou!<\/em> about a woman in he waning years of her marriageability showing up at the onsen-yado run by her estranged mother. After her wedding plans fall apart, the heroine seeks to reinvent herself by taking on a job as a live-in maid at the inn. Of course, cattiness, tension, deceit, and eventually heartwarming moments ensue. Fast-forward a decade in real-time, take a decade off the age of the protagnist, and you&#8217;ve got <em>Hanasaku Iroha<\/em>. As the &#8220;turning-thirty&#8221; heroine of <em>Onsen<\/em> was meant to resonate with the early-afternoon housewife audience demographic, the middle teen protagonist of <em>Hanasaku<\/em> is designed to appeal to girls about to go through (or are going through) that transition between middle school and high school. Because of this, I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s not really going to be a <em>direct<\/em> ripoff of the drama, but I can&#8217;t imagine that there will be any storyline or literary twist that hasn&#8217;t been previously explored in 5 seasons of <em>Onsen he Ikou!<\/em>, or the 2008 reprisal, <em>Onsen he Go!<\/em>, or even <em>Asakusa Fukumaru Ryokan<\/em> or the multitudinous seasons of <em>Hotel<\/em>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The character design is ordinary at best, but not unappealing. Colors are not bright and oversaturated like kid&#8217;s shows, but not faded to the point of the muted pastel colors of the\u00c2\u00a0<em>Hourou Musuko<\/em> anime. Where this series shines artwork-wise is the very nice background art.\u00c2\u00a0 I give the character animation a B- and the BG artwork an A.\u00c2\u00a0 Writing gets a C after the first episode, and direction gets a B-.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see how this one runs out after a few more episodes.\u00c2\u00a0 So far, I&#8217;m not putting it in the &#8220;wonderful&#8221; basket, but it probably doesn&#8217;t help that I&#8217;m not in the target demographic.<\/p>\n<p>Currently running on Crunchyroll on the USDM.<\/p>\n<p>Give it a try if you&#8217;ve run out of things to watch and need a shoujo fix.<\/p>\n<p>Undecided<\/p>\n<p>Two out of Four fujoshi monkeys<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deja vu.\u00c2\u00a0 I get the feeling I&#8217;ve seen this all before&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 In the late 90&#8217;s, TBS started a long-running afternoon drama, Onsen he Ikou! about a woman in he waning years of her marriageability showing up at the onsen-yado run by her estranged mother. After her wedding plans fall apart, the heroine seeks to reinvent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3,7,12,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-1fM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}