Review of Hanebado!

Youtube recommendation brought me to this with all the cool animation sequences of the matches. Weirdly I ended up reading the manga first then I think that influenced my feeling for the anime. Hanebado!'s manga isn't necessarily that much better, but I think it presented the ultimately similar tone of the story in a more balanced way than the anime did. The anime's biggest issue to me I feel like is just that, it feels very unbalanced. The show is a mixture of upbeat appearances from the color, the character design and the OP, the first tier animation, and then really unlikable characters throughout, plusmelodrama dial to 15 out of 10. All in a show about high school girls playing Badminton. I think the premise is certainly interesting and no worse than any other sports manga, just I think its quite a bit overdone in the melodrama department.

Without the influence of knowing the story beat of the manga and watching the anime on its own, I think I might not have ended up finishing it just because of how crazy the MC and I guess the main rival acts. But because I ultimately enjoyed the source material I wanted to see the series to its end. And the animation was still top tiered.