{"id":382,"date":"2006-03-09T23:33:19","date_gmt":"2006-03-10T07:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=382"},"modified":"2006-03-09T23:33:19","modified_gmt":"2006-03-10T07:33:19","slug":"hantsuki-episode-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=382","title":{"rendered":"HanTsuki – episode 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Only one day of school life\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

When Natsume came on the screen, I was overcome by a severe case of “Gartenitis\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, a condition with the symptom of “not caring a damn about any of the characters in this God-forsaken anime\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. When he left the screen, I saw a return to some of the tone that I liked about the first episode of HanTsuki<\/i>.<\/p>\n

That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not to say that it all made sense.
\n
\nNatsume apologises to Yuuichi; he can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember anything he did, but he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sorry. Yuuichi chooses to say nothing to an authority figure, proving that doctors can get away with anything. Yuuichi and Rika get along quite well, with Rika first asking Yuuichi to take photos of her, and then take her to his school.<\/p>\n

The first scenes were blatant attempts to get the audience to feel for poor Natsume\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plight, with him reverting to being rude to Yuuichi and then roaring off the roof top. I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care less about the bastard, and he mercifully disappeared after this scene.
\nYuuichi had a small adventure with Akiko, who truly is the most unprofessional nurse in the history of nursedom. So many protocols are breached I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t begin to count. This rates a mention because Akiko picks up a woman who dresses a bit tartily, and the camera inexplicably focuses on her cleavage.
\nIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like director Matsushita Yukihiro doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even know what he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s aiming for here.<\/p>\n

The school scenes didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make much sense because, for the sake of “comedy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, we have on offer a “life training\u00e2\u20ac\u009d teacher armed with a bokken. He goes into single combat with Zebra Mask, proof that students can beat up their teachers if they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re wearing masks (and teachers can beat up their students for the crime of standing in a hall).
\nI won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t pretend I understood any of these school antics.<\/p>\n

Rika knows of the worsening of her situation, and that is where this episode gets its strength. Her newfound fear of death is accepted with something akin not to happiness, but a sort of relief that she has discovered something that may well have been worth living for. Her sudden niceness<\/i> to Yuuichi was a most welcome decision, and the direction in the final scene of this episode was actually noteworthy.<\/p>\n

Two episodes left. Their quality will be solely dependent on their focus.<\/p>\n

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