Review of Hanebado!

I'll try and make this first part short and simple, then expand on it after, there will be a list of things I liked/ disliked towards the bottom Should you watch it? I'd say yes but keep in mind that there are things you probably wont like Short version? The art and the feeling of the badminton looked great, but the way the story moved and specific characters acted felt so wrong and unnecessary. What happened in the anime was fine but because of discrepancies and things that were over the top it turned out a lot worse than it needed to be. Now to expandon it all.

Hanebado mainly revolves two girls, one who works very hard to get where she is and another who seems to have been born with immense talent, there are lots of support and side characters that go along with them that each play a great role the make the series feel more fulfilling. The first one, Aragaki the captain of the team struggles with her own problems early own revolving around her skill due to a loss, this lead to a good change. However the main problem that causes this anime to falter in my opinion revolves around the other girl, Ayano.

This part will contain info/spoilers about her, nothing will be ruined from reading this however... Ayano was brought up with badminton because of her mom being a famous player, she had fun and tried to make her mom proud by being the best player she can be as many children might do, however due to a loss the mother was disappointed and vanished from Ayano's life. One might imagine sadness or weakness and feelings of the sort to brew because of this but it became something terrible instead, Ayano became a hateful character with an extreme edgy vibe constantly going, this could have been fine if toned down and other feeling mixed it but this is not the case. The story moved in a fashion that I felt was normal/good for a sports anime like this but because of Ayano along with a few other problems directly revolving around her.

Things I liked:

>I actually quite enjoyed majority of the cast, some of them might not of been as fleshed out as I would've liked but it's only 1 season

> The art looked really nice and pleasing, the girls were made to look cute/sexy as well but not in an overbearing way that is shoved in your face

>Disregarding the clash between certain characters, I think the direction the story went was good

>During the final two episodes Aragaki got a different art/style to really emphasize the situation, it felt appropriate and looked good

Things I didn't like:

>Ayano was hateful and edgy to a dumb degree, a tone down of this and a mix of other emotions would've felt much better

> A character acted one way and then suddenly changed to the opposite, this would've been fine if there was some show for it at least

> Ayano also got a art/style change but it made her look older and more like her mother, it felt weird

>I think for the purpose of the anime what the mother did was fine but it felt like it was portrayed in a bad way, there was also little follow up for the amount of tension brought up with her