
a review by Damiando33

a review by Damiando33
Hinamatsuri is full of comedy that inculcates within itself the lessons of life portraying how the life of one individual can be different from the lives of others and the routines of a person’s life can be altered when another person comes to the life of a person. Instead of taking everything in negative and pessimistic way, we should always look at the other picture even though reality is always bitter: portrayed from the character of Anzu that even though she is a child she has to go through so many things in order to just live through the day but she does not give up, rather does her best in whatever things she could do. She does not give up on living despite having harsh life and seeing the luxuries of others like Hitomi her only thought on buying the game was to make friends with her. She has been contrasted with Hina by Nitta on various accounts and has been regarded as the “ideal daughter” for a father. She is considerate about the lives she associates herself with first the homeless individuals and then the Chinese with whom she abodes.

The importance of society as a good and productive one is also portrayed in the anime through the involvement of the bartender and the customers when Nitta was going to abandon Hina but they showed him that he was the one doing the wrong because Hina is just a girl but Nitta did not plan to abandon Hina from the very start, he just wanted to give her a lesson that her destruction cannot go on for long. There were some changes in the character of Hina as well which were notified by the agent that came to earth to survey. She did not expect Hina and she turned out to be a very different person from the one she knew as she would just explode things and destroy stuff in anger but here on earth she was more controlled and calm. She also revealed her true powers when she saw others in danger though her friends had difficulty in believing her.
The ability to use the talent no matter how young the children are is also visualized in the anime through the character of Hitomi chan that even though she is so young her talent has been recognized and she has been allowed to be bartender even it is by coercion but it really cracks me sometimes when Hitomi chan is so pro at dealing with the customers that she excel even the owner of the bar. The owner sulks over her own worries to Hitomi chan. That part was the favourite among all of them. Skill does not require the age of the individual to be considered have been shown through the character of Hitomi as she is the desired candidate of various distinguished posts with whom she came in contact with because of her hard work and efficiency. Her mother doubted her at first but seeing how she end up making all the connections made her realize the adroitness of her daughter. She is also tolerant and understanding character as she, instead of being stubborn and feel bad about her co-workers, she decides to provide one of her co-worker with the thing she wanted in order to show that Hitomi desires a good relation with them rather than on bad terms with each other. Hitomi earns a lot of money working at a bar but she never shows it to her friend Anzu because Anzu is financially weak as compared to Hitomi. Hitomi is attentive to the needs of others and does not let Anzu dwell on the financial gap by praising and getting shocked each time Anzu displays her items whether it be money or things.
Nitta has the most unique behaviour that could be expected from a yakuza. The episode where the journalist interviewed and recorded his life as a result of the infamous incident of defeating the whole of the other party in order to make them famous ended up in failure. The journalist had to edit the whole interview in order to make Nitta the bad guy and it was so funny how his higher-ups and how Hina made fun of him later on. The higher-up yakuza even memorized his lines and recorded the show which also depicts that they knew how Nitta was and they did not believe in fake news and made-up interviews on TV devised to make their own channels famous exploiting the images of other people.
The very fact that Nitta was taking care of Hina made him distinguished. The group where he belongs also had the distinctiveness as the head of the group angered when he was told that Nitta did not consider Hina as his daughter which in turn showed the solicitous nature of the whole yakuza. Nitta’s sister was more of a yakuza than he was. He is on good terms with his family and a really good cook as his mother and sister always awaits his cooking whenever he returns home. The other members of the group are funny and full of life as well which is depicted from the character of Sabu when he recommends Anzu to do bidding when she was short of money to buy hot spring tickets for her caretakers. The way he faced away when he had to tackle with sulking Anzu who lost all her money and was later on confronted by Hitomi and given a solution was hilarious on the part of Sabu while it also shows the decisive personality of Hitomi.Overall the comic element in the anime along with dealing with serious issues makes this anime one of the best anime to be recommended as it makes you smile and laugh at various times in its own way by keeping the seriousness of the situation. It gives us some lessons of life to take care of the people in your circumvent and considering their feelings. Trying to be selfless is one of the messages of the anime.
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