Hanamaru Yohchien
Japanese Title: Hanamaru Yohchien
English Title: Hanamaru Kindergarten
Length: 12 episodes
AniDB Listing: Link
AnimeNewsNetwork: Link
Production Studio: Gainax (really???)
MEYDAY Rating: Good once
Sexual Rating: E for they don't show anything on screen BUT
Violence Rating: E for it's about a kindergarten guys come on
Genre(s): Humor, slice-of-life
Setting(s): Elementary School
Theme(s): Slice-of-life
Target Audience: Oh god. Jyosei, believe it or not.
Production Vintage: 2010
First Viewed Vintage: May 2011
Number of Rewatches: 0
Review:
By the time I got my claws into Hanamaru Yohchien, I'd seen over 100 anime series. I thought I'd seen it all.
I was wrong.
The first episode starts out with a 5-year-old asking a man in his mid-20s if he's hitting on her because he's stopped to ask her if she's lost. The next episode introduces the mother, who got knocked up with said kid while in high school. It's not much longer before we learn that it was her high-school art teacher who knocked her up. And then, the kid falls in love with the mid-20s man, who happens to be her kindergarten teacher, and the story from there revolves around this 5-year-old trying to woo a grown man with her understanding of her parents' fucked up romance and no one seems to mind.
It's ... good. Worth watching. Completely fucked up. Mind-bendingly fucked-up. The most amazingly weird combination of child-like innocence and very real adult themes. I liked it. It made my skin crawl. It made me laugh. It to this day makes me chuckle and say "what the fuck."
Because really. What the fuck.
I really, really wouldn't recommend this as an introduction to anime for anyone. It's not that it's bad or shocking or anything like half the stuff I've seen, but it's just ... I don't know, man. It's fucked up. And awesome. And very Japanese, in many ways.
Haha, this makes no sense. Check it out. Just be ready for some serious wtf moments.
List of all series I've watched can be found here.