Short Summary:

Ohana Matsumae isn’t like other girls. Her thoughts seem to be a bit quirky and she wants to break out of her boring life and experience something dramatic. Her wish is granted faster than she expected when her mother decides to run off with her boyfriend and send Ohana to her grandmother. Because Ohanas mother and grandmother aren’t on good terms with each other the latter and Ohana have never met. Before she leaves for the samll mountain village in which her grandmother runs an hot spring inn Ohana meets her best friend Ko to say goodbye. Unexpectedly Ko confesses her love for Ohana but leaves directly afterwards. The bewildered girl doesn’t know how to react.

Without another word to Ko she leaves and waits excited for her personal fairy tail to enfold. And indeed, the Taisho era inn looks beautiful, like out of a movie. But that’s about everything that’s fairy tale like for Ohana. The girl she has to share a room with tells her to die the first time they meet and Ohana’s grandmother sees in her a worthless child of the daughter she detests. Ohana has to work for a roof above her head and as there’s no other place to go to she faces whatever struggles may lie ahead.

My opinion:

Hanasuka Iroha is quite a suprise. As usual I dived into the show without any knowledge of the story or anything. Then we meet Ohana as this quirky heroine who’s got her head in the clouds. Her grandmother treats her and the other girls at the inn like crap. I’m sure we’ll get to know that woman’s motives but in my opinion there’s no excuse for slapping her employees. I can see myself watching this show if I’m able to warm towards Ohana.

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Wow, this is my first blog entry after almost three years. You might guess Dog Days is so amazing I must write about it xD It’s not actually like that. I simply feel like blogging here again, I don’t want this site to die for good.
So, welcome to the anime spring season 2011 with Dog Days. The show is about Shin-kun, a boy from England who lives in Japan and loves to do a very acrobatic type of athletics. His goal is to become champion in a big contest taking place September this year. But for now its spring and he plans to spend spring break with practice.
On the last day before the holidays he gets summoned to another world, where two neighbouring countries are at war: Cats vs dogs xD They do have a human form (with cats’ or dogs’ ears and tails) but when they are defeated in battle they turn into their animal form (at least the head…see screenshot no. 9). The princess of the Biscotti kongdom asks Shin to be their hero. At first he’s afraid he can’t do anything to help in an epic battle until the princess explaines the rules:
The battle is more of a Takeshi’s castle style with parcours and commentators but no real fighting like…killing each other what you’d expect when you hear the word “war”. Shin sees a chance to use this as training for his body and agrees. So a new hero is born.
While this episode starts as what looks like an epic fantasy tale suddenly twists into a strange but funny athletic battle to the end. I was startled and amused. It’s not a show to take too serious and that’s exactly the reason why I might like it ^^

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