God bless the cheese. (warning one liners ahead)
My what small panties you have.
Plug into my USB drive-robo.
Oh shi-! It’s a prime taradox Hadou!
Way to be supportive Mr.Useless Butler Guy.
Lol Magicbabble.
Spell casting. With a 100% more panty flashing.
You know personally if it was me, and I’m just saying, I would be entertaing the girl, if you know what I mean. But maybe you don’t. I don’t know people tell me I’m a weird guy.
Cried here. Seriously.
Episode 7 is possibly the best Honey & Clover episode yet, right up there with the one’s focusing on Takemoto’s journey of self discovery. A lot of people watch H&C for the romance involved but not me. I like the stories about coming of age, growing up, realizing the truths of the world and the characters interactions with their often bizarre families. That’s why Takemoto is my favorite character. Myself having lost my father at a young age I found his journey to discover what his father meant to him and how to relate to his working mother (my mother’s also a nurse so I’m looking more like Takemoto all the time. I should bike up to Maine or something) the thing that made me love H&C as one of the best shows ever made. All those different issues and themes are tidily mixed up in an excellent story of revenge and betrayal in this episode.
First off is Tatsuo, the most sympathetic and complex side character I’ve ever seen. Wrapped up in his feelings of envy and inadequecy next to the always vibrant and Brilliant Tsukasa, along with knowing that he himself is going to die soon without accomplishing anything in his life, causes him to go on a mad journey to discover why some have everything and some have nothing in this world. He betrays his childhood friend Tsukasa just to see how he would react without his company. If he would except the money and stay and be human, or leave and stick by his ideals of working for himself. This all poignantly raps up with Tatsuo realizing Tsukasa was always beyond him and dying, only suceeding at passing his hatred to the next generation. As a side note the scenes of Tatsuo with his mother who can’t remember anything and the realization that he loved the woman who is now Tsukasa’s wife made him all the more human in my eyes and easily let’s one forgive what he did to the Morita family.
Here is where Kaoru comes in. He went against his father’s word to not hold grudges and spent his whole life working to get his revenge and buy his father’s company back, no matter the cost to him or his brother Morita. This is made all the more ironic by Kaoru feeling the exact same feelings that Tatsuo had of inadequacy next to Morita and envy of his father’s attention on Morita. Out of everybody Kaoru understands why Tatsuo did what he did the most, but still hates him the most out of everybody. It all ends ironically when Kaoru buys back the company and tells the owner for his children to come get revenge on him when their ready. Kaoru understands the full gravity of what he’s done and the pain he’s caused but doesn’t care. Here is where Kaoru and Tatsuo are different people, as where Tetsuo had no one Kaoru has Morita who truly cares for his brother and will work to put him back on the right path to salvation for himself.
Quite a half hour of television eh? This is why I love anime. You can wade through all the moe you want but every so often you get a jem like this that reminds why you started this foolish hobby in the first place. Of course the fate of Hagu at the end is just icing on the cake compared to everything else, and not worth me talking about as I’ve already seen the next episode, though I was surprised it was an accident that hurt Hagu, as I thought she was going to kill herself. The only thing I have left to say is that if you needed a reason to watch H&C go watch this right now. You won’t be sorry.
