Review of Hanebado!

Hanebado was by far the most entertaining sporting anime of this season, and for my taste, its up there with Kuroko no Basket. This is because of the inclusion of all the necessity of a typical sporting anime, such as 'Drama', 'Social Conflict', "Redemption' and 'Intense Sporting Scenes'. What I enjoyed the most is the well-animated badminton games to represent how the athletes were feeling during the game, and showing some realism to how badminton was played. What amazes me is the amount of detail put into the movement of sweat and muscle cramping during the match. Other than that, the character animation was indeedwell drawn to meet my liking. Despite focuses more on the girl's side, the amount of detail into the action was equivalent to what you see in male sporting shows.

Regarding the story itself, it shows a lot of family issues and psychological games. In this case, Ayano suffers from a family problem and using this to her advantage throughout the latter half of the season. As a result of becoming villainous after her match with her childhood nemesis. In this show, family relationship played a huge factor, especially for Ayano's case. As for Nagisa, despite acting selfishly at the early parts of the season, she progressively becomes more mature throughout and was able to move on from her dark past. But as for the rest of the club members, many were to be their last match in high school tried their best to make most of it but all failed to do so. The amount of drama and conflicts were amazingly balanced in this amazing sports show and became my all time favourite.

Regarding the sounds/music, I didn't quite like the opening despite representing energetic feeling for a sporting anime. But the sound used during matches and confrontation was well adapted to scenes depicting the emotions of the characters & the atmosphere.

I truly recommend to those to check out my reaction video's on Youtube to see how I enjoyed this show and I do a short review after each episode. From there you will see more content than from this review. But hope this review convinces you all to give this fantastic all-girls badminton sporting anime.