Review of Hanebado!

Plot is mediocre at best. Heavy on drama and anxiety. Just Ayano's mother alone is enough to make me dislike the anime. I don't have much tolerance for terrible parenting and I certainly don't enjoy watching characters traumatized for no good reason. It would be better if it just focused on the sports/slice of life aspect but the whole mind-broken little heroine girl concept just drags down the whole feel of the anime. Rather than emotion and character depth, the whole show just feels like a long dragged out pity party. It's watchable, but just barely. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone even if they were boredand had too much free time on their hands. The artwork and music is good and there are some good aspects. However the over-dramatic trauma and pity significantly outweighs the good aspects.