In all of my years of watching anime I have encountered a decent amount of shoujo anime. There were some good ones some completely average ones and maybe even some that were kind of bad. However never in my life have I watched a shoujo anime that has left me so infuriated that I could and would go on a rampage. That is until I watched Honey x Honey Drops.
To all of the other girls out there: THIS KIND OF ROMANCE IS COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE. If you think its okay to be treated like this by your partner you should probably seek therapy. Now that thats out of the way lets move on to the actual review shall we?
The premise of Honey x Honey Drops is rather simple actually. The story is set in Houjou Academy a school where rich kids take some kind of course known as the Kuge Course. The students in this class pick a student who is not taking the class as their honey. The honey has to obey all of their masters commands and in exchange the master pays for the honeys tuition in the school. Our heroine Yuzuru Hagino is chosen as the honey for Kai Renge a rich guy who finds any way possible to sexually harass poor Yuzuru.
Yeah you read that correctly. I just said Sexually harass.
The story for Honey x Honey Drops.... wait what kind of story could be crammed into two OVA episodes? A generic love story that is rather poorlyexecuted thats what kind. The animation done by Radix isnt too bad although its not all that great either. The voice acting could have been done better to be honest despite the fact that very talented voice actors like Misato Fukuen and Kenichi Suzumura are part of the cast. Finally neither the opening nor ending songs are very memorable.
Now with that out of the way lets talk about the biggest problem I have with Honey x Honey Drops: THE CHARACTERS. Kai is absolutely despicable and the things he does to Yuzuru is completely unacceptable. If he truly loved her why make her suffer so much? Yuzuru is an idiotic character too taking this abuse. I mean Kai has done so many awful things to Yuzuru yet she loves him anyway? What the heck is with that kind of logic? I was at least hoping for Chihaya to be a better love interest for Yuzuru than Kai but nope Hes even more despicable than Kai I assume thats the case in order to make Kai look less like a jerk but knowing what he has done it doesnt work that well. Oh and I also didnt care for any of the supporting characters.
So yeah Honey x Honey Drops is NOT a good anime. If you want to see what a shoujo anime should NOT be like be my guest. I warn you though there are better things you can do with an hour of your time.In all of my years of watching anime I have encountered a decent amount of shoujo anime. There were some good ones some completely average ones and maybe even some that were kind of bad. However never in my life have I watched a shoujo anime that has left me so infuriated that I could and would go on a rampage. That is until I watched Honey x Honey Drops.
To all of the other girls out there: THIS KIND OF ROMANCE IS COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE. If you think its okay to be treated like this by your partner you should probably seek therapy. Now that thats out of the way lets move on to the actual review shall we?
The premise of Honey x Honey Drops is rather simple actually. The story is set in Houjou Academy a school where rich kids take some kind of course known as the Kuge Course. The students in this class pick a student who is not taking the class as their honey. The honey has to obey all of their masters commands and in exchange the master pays for the honeys tuition in the school. Our heroine Yuzuru Hagino is chosen as the honey for Kai Renge a rich guy who finds any way possible to sexually harass poor Yuzuru.
Yeah you read that correctly. I just said Sexually harass.
The story for Honey x Honey Drops.... wait what kind of story could be crammed into two OVA episodes? A generic love story that is rather poorlyexecuted thats what kind. The animation done by Radix isnt too bad although its not all that great either. The voice acting could have been done better to be honest despite the fact that very talented voice actors like Misato Fukuen and Kenichi Suzumura are part of the cast. Finally neither the opening nor ending songs are very memorable.
Now with that out of the way lets talk about the biggest problem I have with Honey x Honey Drops: THE CHARACTERS. Kai is absolutely despicable and the things he does to Yuzuru is completely unacceptable. If he truly loved her why make her suffer so much? Yuzuru is an idiotic character too taking this abuse. I mean Kai has done so many awful things to Yuzuru yet she loves him anyway? What the heck is with that kind of logic? I was at least hoping for Chihaya to be a better love interest for Yuzuru than Kai but nope Hes even more despicable than Kai I assume thats the case in order to make Kai look less like a jerk but knowing what he has done it doesnt work that well. Oh and I also didnt care for any of the supporting characters.
So yeah Honey x Honey Drops is NOT a good anime. If you want to see what a shoujo anime should NOT be like be my guest. I warn you though there are better things you can do with an hour of your time.
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