Besides the characters, I mean, who are fantastic. They all manage to make mistakes and achieve meaningful everyday successes through nothing more than the power of their own character traits, and they all remain more or less sympathetic throughout, which is a real achievement, as far as I’m concerned. But I’m not going to go on at length about characters here. I’d like to take a look at those little stylistic accoutrements that render Aoi Hana more (delightfully) complex than perhaps it needs to be.
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What else is good about Aoi Hana?
Posted 15 April 2010And all the men and women merely players
Posted 3 September 2009It’d be a shame if I went through this season without writing something about Aoi Hana. So, here you go. Shame averted!
How about those sketchy, pastel, storybook-looking backgrounds? They began to stand out to me during the ninth episode, but seeing a traffic light illustrated in that manner toward the beginning of the tenth and most recent episode really brought the backgrounds to bear in my viewing experience.
