Spoiler-free review I tend to like weird anime. It usually means they are different, unique, something to change it up. Hinamatsuri started off weird enough to catch my interest, but then turned the dial up to 11 and dropped any sort of meaningful storyline/foundation that the first two episodes seemed to create.

The idea of the show sounds great. A girl with super powers mysteriously appears in the home of a Yakuza member, who now has to take care of her while preventing the destruction of his apartment, or even the entire city from her super-powered outbursts. Early on it's stated that Hina cannot bottle up her powers, she needs to use them every now and then or she will basically explode and destroy everything around her. Somewhat of a cliche "rule", but understandable. However, as the anime continues, it's almost as if the writers forgot about the powers completely, including this rule that they need to be used, and the super powered girls end up almost never using their powers at all during the rest of the show.

The show follows a few girls, who each got a handful of episodes mostly dedicated to them. The main character, Hina, is obnoxiously indifferent to others and has very tiring personal traits. She is taken care of by Nitta, a yakuza member who is actually a pretty stand-up, caring guy. His previously simple, enjoyable life living alone with no one else to really worry about is ruined when Hina shows up and becomes a constant thorn in his side. At first it was funny watching him deal with the constant problems she created for him. The show seemed to show that Hina was going to improve and grow as a person, no longer constantly being a problem for Nitta. Every now and then, the show would make it look like Hina finally realized how rude and annoying she was, and that she was going to have some character progression, yet she would return to her problematic self the very next episode.

Another one of the super-powered girls, Anzu, who had the second-most amount of screen time behind Hina, had such a weird story that It was almost awkward to watch. Without spoiling too much, she is basically homeless for most of the show and just lives with a bunch of old men in the woods who she grows very attached to, almost in a creepy way. I will however, say that the show did have some good character progression for Anzu throughout the show, but she seemed to almost be an irrelevant second story, mostly separate from everyone else.

The show also hopped to a third girl very often, this one without any superpowers (yet at this point the girls WITH superpowers almost never used them anyway). She's just a normal, teacher's pet type character, who gets dragged into working a bar at night, as well as some other increasingly weirder antics.

Overall, the show ended up all over the place, telling multiple stories that had very few connections between them, all while completely ignoring one of the biggest bullet-points of the show, the super-powered girls from another world. Some of the few strengths the show had was some funny comedic moments, yet most of them based on such ridiculous things happening that you couldn't help but laugh. The main character Nitta was enjoyable, but you just feel bad for him the entire show because he has to deal with Hina constantly fucking shit up for him. I wouldn't say absolutely don't watch the show, you might get some more enjoyment out of it than me, but If you want a consistent story that doesn't contradict itself, look elsewhere.