LivingTodayInThePresent

Blogbite 1. Hachimitsu to Clover (translated as Honey and Clover) centers around college life for a group of friends. It was advertised to be a love story yet the journey was a sentimental and realistic place where the characters become something more than mere animation.

I found it both complex and poetic and I fell in love with it when I saw the line from one of the songs used in its soundtrack:

“Send the lost promises to the stars, my memories won’t fade away.”

Honey & Clover is very different from all romance anime–there are so many things left unsaid and it feels somewhat restrained that the viewer is all but bouncing off the walls to even just see one lousy romantic scene… but it’s not there. There are “moments” beautiful and painful but it’s so contained it leaves you wanting more, though it also leaves you oddly satisfied because of the beautiful dialogue and the gut-wrenching songs. Episode 8-10 were some of my favorites and the lines go straight to your gut,

“The sunset I see as I stand next to you is so beautiful that it aches my heart.”

And that line was never said, as Takemoto Yuuta simply gazes at Hanamoto Hagumi who is tenderly touching a brooch given by Morita Shinobu. A more thorough review of Honey & Clover is available at http://otakushrine.wordpress.com.

Blogbite 2. 96 hours left and time is running out. Will it be another chance or another lapse? Time will tell and the seconds are getting shorter.

Blogbite 3. I haven’t been getting any decent sleep these last few weeks. Mentally, I’m cool and emotionally, I’m still slightly unglued. I’m back to my perky self but my appetite has been waxing and waning and my sleep has been sporadic. I found myself waking up at 2AM for no apparent reason but because I’m usually too exhausted to think, I end up drifting back to sleep. Oh well, at least there’s still good anime.