Review of Hanebado!

I'm going to keep this short. Hanebado! is a melodramatic piece of garbage. Besides the very good art direction in some of the badminton scenes and pretty backdrops, Hanebado! is really bad. Bad characters, decent sound design, terrible secondary characters, and an extra terrible main character with an even more terrible mother. Of all the sports anime I've watched Hanebado! is the most infuriating to watch. It honestly doesn't even feel like a sports anime but rather a drama anime for edgy teens that just so happens to be about a group of people who play badminton. Connie is a bitch but then isn't? She claims she wants tobe a family with Ayano but treated her like dog shit she stepped in when they first met. Okay. Nagisa should have been the main character because Ayano is insufferable to watch. I get it, it's supposed to be like PTSD or something but it's just not fun to watch at all. She's a complete bitch to everyone around her for 75% of the show and somehow no one slaps her. Ayano's mother is worse though. what a bad parent that we are supposed to understand... some how? Just awful.

Riko and Erena are the only decent characters. Everyone else is either passable, awful, or has bad hair (Ebina).

Not a fun watch.

4/10