you really think so?
Honoka-chan continues to feel Suzuka’s shadow on her efforts to get closer to Yamato. After failing to seduce Yamato with a sexy swimsuit at the pool theme park, she finally confronts Suzuka. Mentar sees Honoka-chan as trying to get the go-ahead from Suzuka, thus showing some sort of consideration for Suzuka. I could not disagree more.
In Ep 10 in which Honoka-chan does not appear at all (Hmph!) reveals more of Suzuka’s backstory - she has to deal with a lot of guilt, lost chances and general confusion. Definitely a big boost to enabling me to empathisize with her more and really see her as a heroine in this story instead of simply as the object of Yamato’s affections. In Ep 11, poor Honoka-chan realizes how much effect Suzuka has on Yamato as well as the possibility that she cares enough about him to actually call out to him so publicly.
Honoka-chan’s attempt at covert psychological warfare fails to decisively change Yamato’s mind about joining the track team so he can stalk Suzuka. Pretty convenient that he had a fantastic trial timing and thus a standing invitation from Miyamoto to join. Otherwise this would probably be the end of the anime. Yuuka inadvertedly tells Honoka-chan about Yamato’s confession to and rejection by Suzuka and this dazes her with eye candy consequences. After fulfilling her dream of eatting croquette at Yamato’s side on her shrine’s steps, she determines that stalking him from the fence isn’t close enough and will follow his example by joining the track team to stalk him as a manager but it isn’t as stalkerlicious as she thought it’d be. When the selection trails arrive, she plays cheerleader to Yamato again but is left in the dust as he rushes off to Yokohama after Suzuka.
Warning: 70+ screencaps ahoy! Continue reading ‘Suzuka 07-09′
Honoka-chan’s attempts to get closer to Yamato goes nowhere despite being his personal cheerleader for much of his PE trials, trying to share an umbrella home with him and going karaoke with him. She doesn’t even appear in episode 6 - but it’s then that her best chance germinates when SUZAD (Suzuka Asahina Aerospace Defense Command), after some hesitation, orders SAM batteries to shoot down Starblazer Yamato-kun.
Hair antenna! I had been following this series via Random Curiosity, Sea Slugs and Asakomi. Finally decided to watch it after reading about ep 13. Was not sure I was going to blog it as Mentar’s very-insightful-as-usual posts made one feel a tad redundant but Honoka-chan is so lovely so here I am.
My initial reluctance was due to my not being a sports person or a fan of sports-based anime. They often end up revolving around the cliché of the hero finally unlocking her or his natural talent through finally being able to focus his or her mind plus lots of constipated grunting. Also my first big crush was a track girl in myhigh school class and since hardly anyone ever completely forgets the experience of their first crush, I was just a bit worried that the show would hit a little too close to home for comfort.
Well, my fears were all unfounded. The series is really a romance show with an intermittent sports theme. It is simply a breadth of fresh air, after all those harem series, to see an anime where the guy actually has to actively do something in order to win the heart of the girl he loves.
The first thing I found unusual was that the main character and narrator of the story is Yamato rather than the title character of Suzuka. I can’t say that these first few episodes endeared me to either of them very much but then I knew that their characters and the web of relationships would be well-developed later on, unlike some *coughShinn Asukacough* others. Without further ado, let’s have the Sakurai Honoka screencap fest!
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