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EP. REVIEW: Hanebado! [2018-07-17]

Frankly, she's as much of a victim of Uchika's damaging upbringing as Ayano

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Frankly, she's as much of a victim of Uchika's damaging upbringing as Ayano

I didn't get this impression at all, I actually felt the last episode was trying to frame Uchika as being a good "mother" to Connie.

And honestly, Connie's character writing is as inconsistent as Ayano's. Last time we saw Connie all she cared about was beating Ayano to prove her worth and win Uchika's approval over her. Now she suddenly comes back to say she wanted to be family with her all along...

Especially because of Connie's presence, with whom one would expect to be colder but not, Ayano was very cheerful and friendly towards her, which results in something weird and even forced.

I think the reviewer and many people here dont understand what a bad upbringing can do to people. As someone who had a bad upbringing I struggled and still somewhat do with things and Hanebado is a great job showing that. Looking at Hanebado, it is full of melodrama and actions of which most would find illogical. With the melodrama parts, it seems that every worth while story moment in the story has some emotional moment and that what it is like for emotionally stunted people. Every waking moment, often with other people, is a challenge to get you message across while still maintaining your ego. From outside looking in, a person can see conversations or actions of people like this as something that doesnt make sense in the context of the situation but often fail to consider, much less see, that those actions done to maintain stability in their own mind. You have seen people people yelling at clerk stands yell at the clerks stand just ordering a simple cup of coffee, someone yell at you, or someone else, about a mistake they themselves did, or noticed the ramblings of a certain president as examples of this. If you viewed Ayano's actions and what she says as being as carefully chosen so she wont break any further, it would make more sense. I know watching this show can make you dislike Ayano, even to the point of being bothered by it, but this is a story about a mentally fractured girl. As someone from that background, I find this show doing a good job portraying it, so good in fact that people who cant relate to a bad upbringing cant even empathize with Ayano. With that being said, it maybe becoming a bad story but this actually fits for many people in reality. I saw Ayano fits as a good character study for a bad upbringing but not a great number of people will not empathize, or maybe not understand Ayano but I at least wanted to say a few things about this show. I know said a few things but people's mental health is unimaginably complex and what I said only scratches the surface, I just chose to step in and say a few things but there is plenty more I would like to say with many many things I didn't cover but I will stop for now.

For me makes no sense if the anime is really trying to vilify Ayano

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For me makes no sense if the anime is really trying to vilify Ayano

I don't see it but if the anime is trying that then is failing, I like her more and more each episode, everytime she goes terminator mode is fun to watch and when she does that to the people that deserved to be treated like that feels good.

FackuIkari wrote:

Quote: For me makes no sense if the anime is really trying to vilify Ayano I don't see it but if the anime is trying that then is failing, I like her more and more each episode, everytime she goes terminator mode is fun to watch and when she does that to the people that deserved to be treated like that feels good.

Maybe I'm thinking this because I keep seeing some fools blaming Ayano...
But the anime is not innocent, because till now it didn't vilify the other characters. This is good actually... well, let's wait and see.

the people that blame ayano for being cold must be the same people who say that Shinji should have no problem getting into the EVA

Nobody has shown any interest in helping Ayano, actually, so other reason for the usual tropes not to work.

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Nobody has shown any interest in helping Ayano, actually, so other reason for the usual tropes not to work.

No one knows about the situation, just Elana a bit.
Nagisa and Coach well informed of too little to see the problem.

Actually, not even the audience knows a real actual thing about the relationship, let alone the supporting cast. We've seen one horrible abandonment. No details. Hell, these last couple episodes seem to be the first to show that there doesn't seem to be a dad in the picture either.

the show is constructed to give the absolute worst impression of a bad situation so it can make a big reveal eventually but it is really poisoning the water. The reactions in the thread show how little people will care about any explanation.