Hatsukoi Limited

Hatsukoi limited follows the lives of a group of teenagers from a few schools that are connected in some way or another. It covers the early part of their love lives and deals solely with the issue of love. So for those who enjoy school romance you will probably enjoy this series. The story i gave a 10 because it was clique but at the same time original at some points. While it's about a typical school romance it involves many characters that shape the story differently from a usual school romance. We get to see all sorts of love which is why i really enjoyedthe series. From unrequitted to mutual to family. All are touched upon. The story can be said to be quite light hearted as it involves a lot of humour, but it is not too slapstick and it does have its serious moments which make the story entetaining. I think what i enjoyed most was the realism in the story in that it's not always a happy ending but it still gives us the feeling that it is in its own way because of the way the characters feel or get out of the experiences. I also found it interesting how the story intertwines the characters such that there is always some relation to another character and we go like "what a development! so complex!". The art was appropriate for the series. The characters were drawn out vividly and colourful which suits the light heartednes of the story. The humour came out quite nicely as well as it's not like those blank face drawings you get in the more humourous animes and the scenery is done up quite nicely as well so 9 for art. The sound i gave an 8 because in relation to other animes i have seen it cannot match up to the wide selection that they give. But nonetheless, there were several endings used in different episodes that helped to bring out the mood at the end of the episode. Personally i felt the ending song was a more appropriate for this anime than the starting. So all in all an 8, because i think that it has potential for more. The characters were fantastic. I would give this anime a high9 which rounds off to 10. Considering the length of the anime, i think that the characters were given decent coverage and there is depth to most of the main characters. the only one who has little depth would be enomoto's sister whose love life was not covered. The story is really character-driven in that we get to see the story from many different angles depending on whose love life it is focussed on in each episode. Of course the main characters is still Ayumi but we get to see different points of view on love based on the different characters. This is what makes the story so colourful. Which is why i have to give both story and characters 10 as they go hand in hand. The characters have very real and different personalities which are explored in this story and help to make it intersting. I'd say that almost all the characters are main characters because they get an equal coverage and hence it adds to the realism as it's not some anime where the main character always wins in the end. Overall, i think the anime was great in balancing the comedy and romance in the story. It can be said to be somewhat of a romantic comedy though there is no one focus. The episode length was actually quite adequate for this anime because of its ending which i will not spoil. For an anime of 12 episode, i must commend it for being one of the best i have seen in terms of character development and plot development. You will surely enjoy this series unless you are into more psychological or drama genres.

Hatsukoi Limited. A hidden gem amongst all of the shows in its genre. This is one of those shows that I feel doesn't get as much recognition as it deserves. Hatsukoi Limited, as you may be able to guess from its name, is a story about love. It's not just about love though, it's about many qualms an adolescent will face as they climb up the ladder to adulthood, their first love being one of the steps on the ladder. For many, we look to our first love fondly--those sweet elementary and junior high days spent with who we thought was "the one", and forothers, we look at our first loves and remember the pain of rejection and heartbreak. Hatsukoi Limited capitalizes on each of these joys and flaws. A story about how ten teenager's lives change as love meddles in their affairs for the very first time. A story about their hearts as they undulate like the tides; a timeless story about maturity and growth. There are many types of love in this world: filial, platonic, unconditional, and romantic (which splits into mutual and unrequited). Hatsukoi Limited touches on all these types of love. No words can truly do the complex feelings portrayed in this anime justice; the flood of raw emotions that is unleashed simply cannot be adequately expressed. The cast is so diverse, so dynamically human that it is hard not to like. The message the show gives its viewers ring with a sharp, down to earth tone that is hopeful yet poignant. The cast of this series is one of the most believable set of characters I've ever seen. A beautifully told simple love story, combined with realistic characters makes for the perfect love story. Where some may argue the ending didn't do a show of this caliber justice, I applaud the producers and writers for such an ending, for I feel the exact opposite. Hatsukoi Limited is a show that will make you laugh, cry, and reflect on your past and current loves through the struggles that these characters face. I can't think of many romance shows that do this. If that doesn't warrant you to watch this show, I don't know what will.

Have you ever been in… love? Well that’s the pop up question in this anime. It’s about love affairs that can be ended to love struck. ~Story~ [8] The stories between each of the characters are a bit specific, somewhat predictable and have the same issue. The issues bring a funny and interesting twist. We can call it a “love triangle or a misunderstanding love”. It's about middle-schoolers and high schoolers searching for their ideal prince and princess to be able to form their first love, and thinking optimistically to live a happy ever after but in the end they fall into some kind of other twist. Attitudes, appearances,and traits are the basis on picking their ideal one’s that make a well-formed twist for them to encounter. But the question is, does the searching and making love improves on each episode, well there’s a little improvement on fulfilling it and if there’s a little improvement maybe we will come up on thinking that there will be minor details about it, and the answer of it “yes there is”, and on the other hand there’s always been a shock when cupid caught their hearts that became somewhat predictable and it’s always been alike on every character. Overall it has a little improvement but many twist to make fun around them, but though the story is not finished and already on the halfway probably on its following episodes it will get serious. ~Art & Animation~ [7] The art is… well a bit ok for me, for the main characters to have a face that resembles a moon head figure. The art on the background is a bit faint and the characters are somewhat faded. The animation is a bit daring for an ecchi; panties, boobs and naughty scenes are shown. ~Sound~ [6.8] The OP and ED theme songs are a bit catchy and the voices of each character are an okay for me, nothing unusual to be thrilled on. ~Characters~ [8] A group of middle-schoolers and some high schoolers that has distinct standard on picking their ideal partner. All of the characters have different characteristics and different affairs to encounter. Well this is not a shock that this idea will come up to the story, but come on can be this story be too simple, maybe not, but they come up on improvising character traits, attitudes and daring poses that will help to hold up viewers on watching, for me it rather looks like a little fun to watch yet it’s kind of a bit boring and for the whole thing this is all thanks for relying on naughty and romance display. ~Enjoyment~ [7] Enjoyed some funny and daring scenes on watching, but it does not always gives such fun, and also by the help of the twist the story looks like a bit interesting so continuing it will not much harm yet it stills on the halfway of all its episodes, therefore, hopefully there will be more exciting scene to watch on its following episodes. ~Overall~ {8 + 7 + 6.8 + 8 + 7 = 36.8 / 5} [7.36 or 7.4] A kind of unusual love affair between characters, it is somewhat unique because of the unusual attitudes of characters, it’s naughty and comedy scenes somewhat helps just to be on but thinking about it, it’s not attractive enough. Maybe the great factor here is the twist behind it. Well, it’s better to give it a try if you have much spare time to give on such anime. Maybe experiencing somnambulism will made it a lot more fun. @-@ It might be updated when the series ends…

I mean if there was one thing I learnt from myanimelist is to prepare yourself to see what the worst comments said. And frankly I have to agree with most that was said, a lot of these parings were bad or ridiculous, even when going in with the low expectations. And I'll start by explaining all the love parings this show has. Though I might end up spoiling who gets together I won't actually spoil too much of the show so you can enjoy it yourselves if you want to. Overall I find this show bad but there were some parts to it that madeit worth watching. So this should actuality be a 4.6 show for me. Ayumi/Zatsu/Misao (the two boys are brothers) Aihara, I don't have much to say about this girl just that she spent an awfully long time to think of a reply to a confession. Besides her actually calling Misao a monster she's alright, don't hate her don't like her. Zatsu, I would not be surprised at all if the writer just created him so they have another guy, but wait, what can I do to make the girl like him?? I know a scene with princess carrying and just gives him a dream of helping people and that's practically his whole character. He is awfully bland. Only other thing I need to mention is that he is part of a conflict because he likes another girl called Misaki Misao is just simply a terrifying appearance with the purest heart that's why I like him but dude you need to stop acting like a stalker and following her even though you were worried about her, but at least his heart was in a good place unlike some other character. Ennomoto (Girl) and Kusadai (Guy) At first she was okay and I actually liked her..... before she started liking the guy and turned out to be a tsundere. Now that itself isn't bad but now imagine one of the worst tsundere ever possible that's her. it is full on annoying how she keeps going about looks and full on disses on the guy she likes even. It took the guy to be so annoyed with it all for her actually confess. I argue that most of the fights were her fault and I don't think she would have given chocolates to him at all if he didn't say to her "I wouldn't mind getting some chocolate from anyone". Even when receiving the Christmas gloves instead of saying thanks she goes " it looks good on me doesn't it" The guy on the other hand I really loved his joke about the movie with animals but all that went out the bag once he diberately put a girl to sleep using bad puns so that he could advise his friend to "abandon logic" like just no, There are several scenes where his pervert tendencies just goes overboard but I'm just gonna stop it there. He full on is just creepy for those who hate Mineta (MHA) I argue that he's just as bad if not worst. But I guess the writers realised this mistake and went oh no we need to give him a good quality, Thanks to that he went from absolute trash to can be decent person at times and I'm so happy they reduced his level of creepiness and after he became much more bearable, I could even like him maybe if he was like that at the very start. Now I don't really care how perveted he is but there is a line, a clear one that shouldn't be crossed. it's the Mineta line and if your character is as bad as him you are doing something very wrong. The relationship itself is actually one that has quite a lot of time dedicated to it so try to give it a chance for your own sake. As much as I didn't like the characters I could still enjoy their story even though there were bad and good bits to it. One scene I did like were when they were wearing each others presents in class. Watase and Takei its a pretty plain and simple story, one people consider to be the weaker of the show unfortunately. I can see why people didn't like it so much but I found it durable enough like the part where she becomes a manager. Why I don't enjoy it much is that the comedy wasn't used much but hey if you want big boobs it's here. As boring as the story might be I like it better then others just because the pair were actually decent people and didn't have as much drama as the others. It kept things simple and did a good job of it. If you feel like it try giving it a shot, okay if you don't like it though Girl who's self conscious about her big boobs and her first love dude who sees her for more then a pair of boobs all of this combined with swimming. it's a pretty sweet paring. Unfortunately I don't really know how to describe them as they're both pretty ordinary, forgive me for leaving this one out okay. Dobashi (Girl) and Terai (Boy) This is one of the best ones in my opinion, When you first see the characters it can sort of be assumed these two would get together. what I love though is that once someone found out what was happening these two were already dating. It has none of those messy love plots where they had to go through a lot of stuff to be together and it's a first for each of them to the dating world. When first meeting Dobashi it's shown she is very respected for her talent in sport however we can also see how the boys around her saying how none of them would want to date her as I guess she would wear the "pants" in a relationship (she was the one that suggested to date after all). She has a strong personality but is normally closed off, though makes an effort to open her heart more often. Terai on the other hand is bad at sports as has a pretty weak personality. I love him though and he is one of my favourite male characters. He is a bit of a nervous wreck and he feels actually developed as he tries his very best to summon the courage to be a proper boyfriend. His internal struggles are made quite clear and they have a very natural romance Misaki/Zaitsu/Yoshihiko Now here is the ridiculous part of the story if it isn't ridiculous enough yet. Misaki is the love interest of these two boys. Zaitsu who is her friends brother and they all known each other for a long being neighbours and Yoshihiko who is a fellow school classmate. Yet another love triangle but this ones worst cuz it is way bigger then any triangle, maybe try polygon. Was the writer testing how many possible people he could get involved in this relationship problem or what. I feel as if this would get too complicated ad I don't want to spoil to much of the show so i'll stop here but in other words this is the biggest conflict of the show and I don't think it's a good one in my opinion. I don't like how it started but I do like how straightforward it was resolved. Misaki and Yuuji Now wait a second this is the same person but with a different guy?? why don't you just include him on top. There are very simple reasons for one is it will make it even more complicated and I feel as if it will be easier to understand starting with this guy because there is so about this ship I want to talk about. Misaki gets confessed to a lot but turns them all down this is because she does not like anyone but beyond that she has never ever had a crush on anyone before so she doesn't get what it feels like. Yet one day this person who gave her a lollipop as a joke yes she falls for him. At least in the Valentine episode Misaki herself questions this love so the whole ridiculousness isn't just played of for laughs which is something I think I'm happy about. Sad thing is he has a huge sister complex and considers her his most important person. That sister is Arihara. (the one with the brother love triangle). But I think everyone can all agree that this paring was one with the least time given to it. I want to say more about this but I don't want to give to much information for those who actually want to watch so I'll put the rest below. SPOILERS JUST SKIP TO NEXT PARAGRAPH I do appreciate that she didn't have to choose between the two boys that liked her but that ending where they got together was pretty terrible and kinda rushed when Arihara barely shown any signs at all that he liked her. Or also the fact the was barely any time on these two it felt very rushed at least to me. And now I regret writing so much about a show I don't even like that much. If someone has actually read any of this or if it has actually provided any help at all then thank you at least it wasn't a total waste I guess.. Feel free to disagree to anything I say as long as it's respectful.