Years ago, extraterrestrials known as the Citizens of the Stars descended upon the planet of Tokinea and wreaked havoc on humanity. To fight back against them, the military developed the Majin project to create hybrids between humans and the Citizens of the Stars. With this combination of genes, they hope to exploit both the subservience of man and the powers of the alien.
Majin no.7, a young girl kept under lock and key in a military base, is released after the Citizens of the Stars launch an attack. Despite possessing a plethora of abilities capable of effortlessly eliminating the enemy, she is burdened with doubt on the battlefield. However, when a boy named Yuuri tells her that she must fight to earn her freedom, Majin no. 7 is inspired by his courage and defeats the remaining Citizens of the Stars. The two decide to embark on a journey together, determined to find their calling in a time when humanity knows no peace.
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Comentários
S_L_O_T_H
Fantastic! I can't believe one would be able to use microsoft paint so masterfully and then create an anime with it. Hanoka with its 'unique' style of animation and quirky characters makes it a bundle of fun to watch. The anime is compact in time and story with all of its cool fight scenes!!! This anime is god tier man... Like holy shit, even Kemono friends doesn't have anything on it. I hope you enjoy this as much as I do!!! You may be thinking that my ratings on the story,art, sound etc... is completely overestimated, but I disagree, I think that I've underestimated it with these ratings.If I could I would give it a 5 billion on each, totally worth it man, please watch this.
Hr0n
I'm not really sure what I expected from this show initially. I'm all for new techniques used in any kind of context, and given that this Anime series had been animated entirely in Flash format, I thought of it as perhaps something exciting, something catching. Also, the episodes were short...meaning I wouldn't have to endure THAT much if it proved to not be worth my time. :-J So, how did my opinion turn out? Story: 3/10 Rehash, rehash, rehash. Well, it's a war between humans and large ferocious aliens, and special superpowered units have been deployed to aid the humans in the war. Hanoka is one ofthese - a girl with impossible strength a'la Saikano, who is teamed up with a boy (and the entire series through, I thought this was a girl) to take on this alien threat. Throughout the show, we see the usual, predictable scenes such as "I'll fight to protect you", "he gave me a reason to live", and "raagh you fatally injured him and now my powers increased tenfold because of my emotional distress". The originality of the show is close to zero, and since it's so short it skips from point to point making every confrontation end almost anticlimactically. No, if it's a proper story you're looking for, then this isn't it.
Animation: 5/10
It's a valid attempt, but in the end, Flash is Flash, and it's painfully obvious that it's not one of the better choices for a TV show.
...that's really all I can figure to say. Maybe you understand what I mean.
Sound: 7/10
Here's one of the more decent points of the show, what with the sound effects, the voices and the music. It blends together neatly, the sound is crisp, and the music is really quite fitting to every aspect it's played. What racks down on this score the most, though, is the fact that - GOD - is Hanoka whiny...do not want those kind of voices. No, definitely not.
Character: 4/10
As I said...there's the rehashing. There are the heroes, the hero supporters, the neutrals, the evil masterminds and the evil masterminds' braindead soldier troops...and none of them really stands out in any way at all. Simply put, it's quite hard to feel attached to any single one of them, because they act so properly in their stereotypes and don't really go out to be very unique.
Enjoyment: 2/10
I was curious to see how they'd pull off a series in Flash, but it feels like that was the sole purpose of the show - get a Flash series out, never mind the story or the characters. No sir, didn't get much enjoyment out of this one...I just felt embarrassed watching it.
So that's what it boils down to. Note that my opinion isn't veto in any way :-P, but my recommendation is such - don't bother with this one. It just wasn't worth the time (*cough* *has more free time than a tombed mummy*) or the braincells sacrificed to delve into it.
galacticdude7
-Story- The story in Hanoka is a jumbled up mess and it is really incoherent. It is also a stereotypical story about a war between humans and aliens over a planet. There were a million moments in which the story followed cliches to the letter. There is minimal originality in this story. Also the ending has got to be the worst ending I have ever seen to an anime series. Terrible does not even begin to describe Hanoka. -Animation- Hanoka was the very first full fledge anime series to be animated completely in Flash. This is a terrible mistake. The flash makes the animation look unnatural, especially whenviewing the characters. The faces and heads do not look right at all, and the faces show no expression on them what so ever. I do applaud the makers for trying flash, but it appears that the technology has come no where close to where it needs to be to make it worth while.
-Characters-
The characters in Hanoka were highly stereotypical and they were bland. The characters had no originality to them at all. The main male character was gender neutral, and I thought that he was a girl until I found out he was a boy from a third party source. The characters have no depth to them.
-Overall-
Hanoka is a terrible waste of your precious free time. Spend it in a better way, like stabbing yourself with a dull spoon.
LIQfilms
Hanoka is a series that proudly proclaims that it was the first TV anime series ever made solely using flash animation. And it's a mess! For starters, the animation is incredibly inconsistent and looks really jarring and awkward most of the time with action sequences that lack any kind of flow and having character designs that look off model most of the time. Now, considering the year this show came out in and if it were an independent project produced by one guy I would give it a pass. It was made during the Newgrounds era when many talented animators were beginning to emerge inthe case of Egoraptor and the Eddsworld series. Eddsworld, in particular, was around two years into it's run when this show came out and the flash animation there, which was produced by one guy, is still a ton better and more consistent than this piece of aids. You could argue that it was the best the staff were capable of at the time with flash so therefore this holds no water but it still doesn't make the show any less visually unappealing or better. How the hell this got approved for television is way beyond me, even more so when it aired in 2006, a year that is considered to be one of the greatest years in anime as a whole which makes this piece of trash feel even more trite.
Even if the animation were good it still wouldn't have made any difference since the script is bad. While it is MUCH more consistent in its writing than the previous shows I have reviewed thus far and actually does make coherent sense it's still nothing to write home about. The narrative is as cliche as they come revolving around a war between humans and ferocious alien monsters. In order to battle against these creatures, humans have developed super-humans to fight against these aliens and the series focuses on one of these super-humans called Hanako. The rest of the show is a series of different missions and the such involving Hanoka and her partner and that's pretty much it. The plot never develops and explores any deeper themes, the characters don't go through any arcs and the story remains stagnant throughout. It spews out some of the most generic liners too ranging from "I'll do anything to protect you" to "He is my world". This is something you have seen before on a much better level somewhere else and I always cringe at the delivery of lines of this nature.
Each episode is only about three minutes in length which works terribly against the show's narrative since it is not given nearly enough time to properly flesh out characters and the setting. The aliens are generic in design and are even less memorable than the Gastrea in Black Bullet and the fights feel disjointed and boring leading up to an AWFUL conclusion. They do hint at the theme of discrimination between the people like Hanoka and the regular humans but it comes across as forced and forgettable as there is no time invested in this idea and comes across as victimising just for the sake of victimising. Hanoka herself is such a bland and boring character that I would have forgotten who she even was if the title of the series didn't share her name.
The thing about this show is that it's just so boring. It's nowhere near as bad as Dark Cat mind you but it's also nowhere near the absurd levels of Genocyber. The show is as interesting as watching a guy cut his own fingernails. There is nothing to care for nor get too angry about either. Hanoka is just a 'thing'. It's bad, sure, but doesn't leave you with anything by the time you're done watching it. Should I praise it for being able to end without me wanting to kill myself or critique it for being so lazy and forgettable? It's hard to pinpoint what the aim of this anime was and just what the hell it was trying to achieve but when you get down to it, it's a pile of trash.
(Part of LIQfilms 12 Days of Christmas - Day 4)
Paraturtle
Story: Honestly? The story isn't terrible. It's very basic, simple, and not even attempting to bring anything new to the table, but there's a vague understanding of general pacing, structure, foreshadowing, and other basic traits of writing. In fact, in the right hands, this narrative has the potential to become something very likable. Patricians will consider it drawl regardless of the form it takes, but that doesn't denounce the fact that this definitely has a ladder it could climb. That said, in regards to what keeps this from being all that great, the problem is the lifeless leads. There isn't enough time to really spend creating anycharacter for them, and for the most part, things do come together to create believable characters, but it's still not enough to save it. For instance, most short 3-5 minute anime's forsake any form of characterization and just stick to comedy. Others that try and be serious (see: Pupa) fail because there isn't enough time to build anything believable. That said, this story definitely tries, and in some regards, succeeds.
That said, the fact that the time is so short, the characters are borderline middle-school fanfiction tier, and unoriginal premise, the story itself is not all that memorable.
Which leads me to the memorable part of this anime...
Art:
Hot damn, is the animation weak. There are a lot of decent flash animations out there, and this is not one of them. The only reason I don't have this as a 1/10 is because there are some cool sequences. Outside of those 2 scenes, everything is a mess. It's good that it never becomes unfollowable, but it's still not very pretty to look at.
Sound:
I really liked the soundtrack. I somewhat wish this was a longer anime so that we could have some more excellent music tracks to harvest from this mess of a production. Only once did I feel the music was used poorly, but everywhere else sounded pretty excellent.
VA work is pretty good. If the characters were better, I think some of the performances could have moved me, but it's such a barren product that it's a pipe-dream to think anything like that could happen.
Character:
There's an attempt at characterization. That said, there is something to appreciate in Hanoka when it comes to how inept the writing is. It's like someone consumed so much media that they chose to regurgitate all the necessary bullet points when it comes to telling a story.
Nobody is really likable, but I didn't find myself liking anyone. My biggest issue is with how OP Hanoka is. Everything else was fine, but it wasn't ever mind-blowing.
Enjoyment:
I actually kind of enjoyed this. It was fun. A harmless production that, in the right hands, could be a lot better. The biggest issue here is the animation, but everything else is fairly simple and elementary (save the soundtrack. That was surprisingly impressive.)
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megafat
Hanoka might not have reached the infamy of other terrible anime such as Skelter+Heaven, Abunai Sisters, or Mars of Destruction, but that’s because this isn’t quite as bad as those other anime. It’s still not good, it’s just not as bad, which is the best compliment that I can give it. What little story there is takes place in an indeterminate year far off into the future on planet called Tokinea, where human beings only known as “Inhabitants of the Stars” are attacking Humans on a planet called Tokinea, accusing them of polluting the planet with their technology. Humans have created “Demon Gods”, powerful weapons usedto destroy the Inhabitants of the Stars. This series focus’ on “Demon God 7”, known as Hanoka, and the boy who she is teamed up with, as they struggle to fight against the Inhabitants of the Stars.
This premise for this series is pretty good, but it's unfortunately hampered by the execution of literally everything else, and the problems start pretty much immediately.
Each episode is roughly 5 minutes long at most, and the OP for each episode is 90 seconds long. More than one fifth of each episode is purely the opening. If it was 10 seconds, maybe 15 to 20, there wouldn't be much of a problem, and it would give the plot room to breath while filling out the same amount of time, and every time I have to skip it, it subconsciously feels like I'm skipping huge chunks of an episode.
And this brings it us to the series's biggest problem, the whole thing feels like the footnotes of a 12-episode series. There is clearly is the hint of a plot and characters, but the series is way too short to give either the proper depth they need to be even remotely fleshed out, let alone entertaining or interesting. On top of that, the series has a recap episode. The whole series is barely long enough for just one episode of a regular series, and it has a recap episode just over half way through the series. Just why?
The animation isn't much better, and is the highlight of the series. Released in 2006, Hanoka makes the big claim that it's the first anime to be fully animated in Adobe Flash, and it kinda shows. While I've seen uglier animation and art, but Hanoka is still now winning any awards for it's animation.
And it's not like flash wasn't being used at the time for animation, just look at a sites like 'Newgrounds', which started in 1995, 'Cool Math Games', which started in 1997, and 'Miniclip', which started in 2001, a whole 4 years before Hanoka's release. A lot of amatuer animators were doing producing animation than this supposedly professional studio, all while using an animation software known for being hard to work with.
I could have easily gone onto the internet and within a couple of minutes found both animated series and video games with better animation done by relative unknowns that were better quality than Hanoka. Here, let me give some examples:
-Broken Saints (2001 to 2003)
-Foamy The Squirrel (Started 2003)
-Alien Hominid Game Protoyped (2003)
-Salad Fingers (Started 2004)
-Charlie the Unicorn (2005)
-The Ultimate Showdown (2005)
The DVD actually comes with a couple of touch ups, such as a new and extended scenes as well as some re-recorded and new dialogue that add a tiny bit more plot to the whole thing. The DVD even comes with a prologue and an epilogue that changes the whole resolution to the show, so I guess if you're going to check this out, the DVD is probably the version to go with, but good luck finding it.
So the team behind it knew that they had a bit of a flop on their hands, and they tried their best to make it better for the home version, but it didn't work out for them.
Unfortunately, due to Aruji Morino's (the creator of this series) failing health, the series didn't end up the way he wanted, and even he is unhappy with the final product. Maybe someone can pick this up and make a fully fledged series so it could see it's full potential, but I doubt that is ever going to happen.
Hanoka was a valiant effort into making something big with flash, but unfortunately it couldn't compete with it's competition, which was often free and better, and to add insult to injury, was done by people doing it as their hobby.
As it stands, I can't recommend this to anyone since it's not very good and not even entertaining in the so-bad-its-good way. Maybe it like watching and collecting niche and obscure anime that might even have something mildly noteworth about it, like the fact that this is the first fully animated anime is Adobe Flash, this one is entirely skippable.
WAIFSTON
IT WON'T BURN. This is your chance people, this thing won't burn. JUST push it a little futher, it won't burn. LOOK, it's not like a bloody "Bochi no Rock or whatever", which sank in just few month, no. THIS will work, unless you do not push it. It's a thing like a "Barefoot Gen", it's working emotionally which bloody hard to achieve. There's a feeling of sense of the society in here, just DON'T bloody abandon it. DON'T turn in into another Titanic, lol. The story so far: " Years ago, extraterrestrials known as the Citizens of the Stars descended upon the planet of Tokinea and wreaked havoc onhumanity. To fight back against them, the military developed the Majin project to create hybrids between humans and the Citizens of the Stars. With this combination of genes, they hope to exploit both the subservience of man and the powers of the alien.
Majin no.7, a young girl kept under lock and key in a military base, is released after the Citizens of the Stars launch an attack. Despite possessing a plethora of abilities capable of effortlessly eliminating the enemy, she is burdened with doubt on the battlefield. However, when a boy named Yuuri tells her that she must fight to earn her freedom, Majin no. 7 is inspired by his courage and defeats the remaining Citizens of the Stars. The two decide to embark on a journey together, determined to find their calling in a time when humanity knows no peace.
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Doomraider
On the basis of spending too many nights watching this series in between Zombeavers and Unfriended, this show was exactly as expected from the description on Google. A thrilling compilation of flash gifs obviously stolen from Deviantart, this show will definitely leave you with more questions than answers. Not surprising considering there are no answers to be found, unless you were on that bootleg PSP, PCP. Overall, the animation, plot, characters, and soundtrack were the perfect storm of nothingness that morphed together into a hurricane that would put Katrina and George Bush to shame. 6/10 - needs more of that same butt shot from that maingirl, whose name i don't care enough to remember. (But it's definitely NOT Hanoka)
XKizuha
Let me tell you the three mind blowing facts about Hanoka which no-one seems to know. 1)Although the anime is produced by RAMS, the entire Flash animation, Screenplay, directing is entirely done by literally one person, Mr Aruzi Morino. 2) The anime is only a small part of a bigger story created by the creator, Aruzi Morino. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOMXsjgUA7pxkEX3d8OmZbw 3) The anime actually has a DVD version, which inserts better character and setting development, new and altered scenes and a prologue and an epilogue, which ends with a happy ending.https://lostmediawiki.com/Hanoka:_The_DVD_Cut_(found_unaired/unsurfaced_version_of_flash_anime;_2008)
So, every people in a very niche anime community seems to destructively hates this anime as a 'worst anime ever made' in a similar line to Mars of Destruction and Skelter Heaven. To be honest, it's not bad as people says. The major problem of this anime is that, RAMS HAS ABUSED ONE PERSON'S PASSIONATE ANIME PROJECT AS A SHODDY METHOD TO PROMOTE THEIR INHOUSE VOICE-ACTORS.
Sure. The Flash animation seems lazy with the motion tweens, the story, characters and settings are cliched Sci-Fi War story stuff, forced ecological messages and the climax is... just plain bad. Still, the flash animation itself is technically superior to the crude newsgrounds animation and the basic narrative structure of the film is fairly okay.
In terms of voice acting, it is a hit and miss. Sakura Nogawa as Hanoka does a pretty good job. However, Momoko Saito (who is primarily notable as a loli type voice actor) as Yuuri (a shota soldier) is just horrrendous. Even in the DVD interivew, whilst other voice actors had treated the anime seriously, Momoko Saito has totally misinterpret the anime's premises as a war time version of Captain Planet. Even saying that 'I think this anime is about ecology. LET'S USE ECO-BAGS!.
Overall, it's a mediocre anime if its sawn INDIVIDUALLY. Still, if you understand Morino's Lore, you might get a whole lot better idea of this anime and enjoy more.
elthreedotcomma
College animation enthusiast meets anime and ends up forgetting everything they were taught. This basically sums up the show. Hanoka is a failure in the true sense of the word. Everything it could have done right was done horrendously wrong. Even fanmade animations for horrendous PS1 games, whipped up in an hour or so, have something redeemable about them. Not this one though. The story is beyond incoherent - it's just utter nonsense. Nothing in the show is meant to make sense. Everything good about the narrative could probably be summed up in a singular sentence. And, even then, it would be the most random sentence everconstructed. The music and voice acting sound like they were made by the worst vocaloid in existence. It could have been acceptable had there been some improvement in just the sound mixing, but that's too much to ask apparently. Animation in the show was just as bad : each and every character is wobbling like the stereotypical NPC you see in a video game, and even the "fights" are lackluster.
The people behind this, if given a chance, could probably be great animators. However, this first avenue of artistic expression feels like nobody told them that it would be a bad idea to release your first draft as an official anime.
egghead465
tbh this is better then other stuff i have seen there a story even tho its so basic and predictable other then that its the first flash animation so that was a big mistake story basic main charterers the garbage cliche personality and dont get me started on the ending final thoughts i think its bad really bad only reason i give it a 2 is cuz at lest the story u can some what make since of tbh this is better then other stuff i have seen there a story even tho its so basic and predictable other then that its the firstflash animation so that was a big mistake
story basic
main charterers the garbage cliche personality
and dont get me started on the ending
final thoughts i think its bad really bad only reason i give it a 2 is cuz at lest the story u can some what make since of
booneisagoodboy
This anime lowkey reminds me of that one meme that's like: "Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars I could really use a wish right now wish right now" with twilight sparkle and that bird (I forgot the name). It is horrible. Look up the first episode and you will see. I was laughing my ass off during the intro because it look like something my 9 year old sister would make. Please send help and eye bleach, because it is terrible. Really. The Characters are fine, but very generic and have absolutely no personality, the sound and voice acting actuallyaren't as horrible as expected, but the art...
The story is bad too. It reminds me of anime star wars downgraded by 1000 percent, and I was bored quickly after I got over the bad animation and drawing. Never watch this.
KyleRiley
Hanoka is not good. It was made in flash by a single person but that doesn't forgive some of its errors. This aired on television. This should have just been uploaded on to some Japanese New Grounds website or something because the quality of this anime is bad in almost every aspect. I've watched the entire 12 episodes PLUS the "directors cut" versions of episodes 1, 2, and 4. The directors cut versions are slightly better (especially for episode 1) but they are still not good... at all. The story is the best part of this anime. It's not amazing but it's not the worst thing everand you can see that there's a decent idea behind it. It's just not executed very well, which I will get into later.
The voice acting is okay. Hanoka herself has a pretty good voice actors but everyone else is pretty mediocre or bad. The sound design is... okay for what what it is.
The animation is not good. This much is obvious. It's just bad. Ugly with bad animations. The explosions look okay. Everything else looks like crap especially the human characters.
My biggest issue with this anime is the terrible pacing. I get it. Every episode is "5 minutes" but that doesn't excuse this issue. First I'll start by saying that most episodes are actually under 4 minutes. Yes, MAL says every episode is 5 minutes but I believe there are only 3 episodes that are 5 minutes or more (with episode 12 being nearly 7 minutes). This is made even worse when you consider that every single episode starts with an OP that is 1 minute and 30 seconds long. That's about 33% of the runtime of the entire anime! And on top of that every episode starts by repeating 30 seconds of the previous episode before getting into the episode proper. This all combines to make a fast paced mess of an anime that has no time to breathe or make sense. Things happen rapidly and nonsensically throughout the anime making it very difficult to follow or take seriously at times.
Yes every episode is very short but the OP and recaps make the episodes even shorter and the premise of the anime is much too grand for under an hour of story telling.
Not good. 3/10
SgtSalamander
Hanoka is a weird little project that could really only exist as a product of its time, that time being 2006. It has the dubious honor of being the "first anime fully animated in Flash", which I'm sure sounded both impressive and future-proof at the time. The result is that Hanoka is a fleeting experience with a bizarre hook, predictable storytelling, and overall amateurish execution, but nonetheless is something I probably would have ate right up when I was a kid, considering my love for anime, Flash animation, and the culture of Flash animations, which was in its golden ageat the time. Beginning with the story, Hanoka is very formulaic and decidedly basic. Everything from the premise of an alien invasion, to a misunderstood heroine with mysterious powers, and an alien race that wants to save the Earth's environment from humans, it hits trope after trope after trope. This is all considering that the pacing is also lightning fast, blazing through each episode, which is compounded further by the fact that the intro takes up about half of every episode's total runtime of 5 minutes. All that, and the ending still feels like a naive cop-out that skirts around having to resolve any of the major conflicts it set up for itself earlier on.
The real elephant in the room, however, is the art. Getting right to the heart of the matter, this anime looks horrible. The animation is shaky, the details are inconsistent, the facial expressions are jarring, and the whole thing looks, well... like it was fully animated in Flash. All that really needs to be said is captured in that boast it puts front and center. I could wax poetic and go on and on about how everything is jumpy and sloppy and works with a disorienting sense of space throughout, but if you've ever seen Flash animation, you already know what I'm talking about. At the very least, the intro looked fairly good.
Speaking of the intro, this brings us from the worst part of the anime to the best- the sound. This accolade is relative to the rest of the show, and rests on the soundtrack alone, which is dramatic and fun, with an intro that is an absolute banger and has no place being the opener for hot garbage such as this. I suppose it makes some sense then why they dedicate half of every episode to it.
The characters are distinctly boilerplate, and there is little to say about them. I've definitely seen worse characters, but the cast of Hanoka feel as though they were ripped straight from one of those "How To Draw Manga" booklets they sold at Borders. This actually brings me to another point about Hanoka, which is why I award it a 3 instead of a 2- this anime, despite being quite so bad, still doesn't feel cynical. The folks over at studio RAMS, who never made anything else, had the intention of making something good, and were nonetheless passionate about their project. This wasn't about the exposure, this wasn't about some award, and it certainly wasn't about the money. Despite everything wrong with it, Hanoka still conjures nostalgia for a time when Flash was at its height, and everyone was trying their hand at making something cool, and even if it didn't turn out so good, you could tell they tried, and that alone is worth something. Overall, Hanoka is a real dumpster fire of an anime, but I still think it serves a purpose in anime history, beyond its status as an anime per se- a label it only barely clings to.
CPsyche3_
Mid at best. Hanoka is an incredibly funny anime to describe. It was originally an anime released in T.V. Shorts that was animated roughly in flash. I remember hearing about this anime from a video by Akidearest where she was talking about the "Worst Animated Anime." Hilariously enough, the anime wasn't that bad as I thought, I got some enjoyment out of it since I'm an English Teacher at heart, I don't care about an anime for the art I care about the writing; the writing in Hanoka didn't make sense, there wasn't a build-up it just kinda threw you in there. I didn't attempt to piecethis painful show together but from what I can understand or even remember (I watched this anime from an all-nighter on a Chromebook instead of my actual PC and it felt like a fever dream) Hanoka was an unnamed soldier, a cyber-soldier in a war that later met her only real love Yuuri during the war.
They go through this entire war against this alien race where the "Queen" of this race has died, there was some weird message about peace, a character dies and it kinda ends abruptly, I guess I'll have to watch the recap next.
