{"id":237,"date":"2005-09-07T21:04:33","date_gmt":"2005-09-08T05:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=237"},"modified":"2005-09-07T21:04:33","modified_gmt":"2005-09-08T05:04:33","slug":"honey-and-clover-episode-twenty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"Honey and Clover – episode twenty"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I pray to the moon hovering in the night sky”<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t normally include personal experiences in my reviews, but this episode of Honey and Clover<\/i> almost made me fail a university test. Somehow, it was worth it.
\n
\nIt almost certainly was based on the strength of the impassioned Morita scenes alone. Nomiya has actually come around, and Mayama \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 oh, Mayama. Once more, Takemoto is a support character for Hagu, but this episode is packed as it is, so that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s okay.<\/p>\n

Herein Nomiya realises that he has little chance with Yamada \u00e2\u20ac\u201c he is older, so he can understand hopeless love better than she \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and Mayama realises that he doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really have that much against Nomiya, that the reason the two don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get along is because each is very close to the other.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Takemoto has been discussing the future with Hagu-chan, and her plans depress him. Morita decides to take action after Shuu has revealed his own history with university and it is realised that his attitude towards his niece is affected by that.<\/p>\n

I really do get the sense that Takemoto and Morita are brothers in a way, Morita being more unhinged and proactive, both of them caring deeply about the people around them but being too shy to really express this about themselves in a proper fashion. Since Morita came to understand that Takemoto cared about his departure, he seems to have gained courage. I really loved the scenes wherein Morita completely dropped his airy fa\u00c3\u00a7ade and became entirely serious and impassioned about what his friends are doing wrong.
\nHe wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even being judgemental; his actions were completely rational, and even admirable.<\/p>\n

I can personally identify with Shuu, because he gives his reason for becoming a teacher in this episode. Shuu perfectly understands art theory, but he can not produce art to save himself. When he realised the joy that he got from helping Rika and Harada(?) understand concepts, he decided that he should become a teacher.
\nI was always good at theory myself, and this is not exactly depressing. Still, the expectations that Shuu places upon Hagu-chan are, without him even realising it. By the end of the episode, Hagu-chan is in a heartbreaking mess.
\nDon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t blame Shuu; blame the industry.<\/p>\n

A wholly excellent episode, very little in the way of visual blarghs, although one does have to wonder why the screen had questions and thoughts written across it, ala Evangelion<\/i>.
\nStill, never mind; doomed and ambiguous romances have never been this good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I pray to the moon hovering in the night sky” I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t normally include personal experiences in my reviews, but this episode of Honey and Clover almost made me fail a university test. Somehow, it was worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-honey-and-clover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}