"Asobi Asobase" is an anime that began airing in July 2018, and is based on the original work by Suzukawa Rin. It is published in Young Animal, published by Hakusensha, and is currently a popular serialized work. On the surface, it is a yuri-like slice-of-life story featuring very cute beautiful girls, but once you open it up, it is full of surreal gags, dirty jokes, awful facial expressions, and black humor, making it a very controversial work in a good way. Today, we will introduce the main character of Asobi Asobase, Honda Hanako.
A brief introduction to the contents of Asobi Asobase
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The story revolves around the "Playboy Research Club," a group of three beautiful middle school girls, each with their own unique characteristics. The three girls look like beautiful girls, but inside they are all different kinds of "idiots," and contrary to their cute appearances they engage in hardcore gags, facial expressions, dirty jokes, and black humor. As they are a club that studies games, there are a few games that appear in the story, but the main focus is on the three girls messing around over things that don't really make sense. Anyway, don't be fooled by the pictures, because the contents are a very high-level gag comedy (lol)
Honda Hanako CV: Kino Hina
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One of the main characters, a middle school girl. She is also the godmother of the Playboy Research Club. When she's quiet, she appears to be a normal, cute girl, but inside she's actually quite devious. Although she has a strong admiration for people who live fulfilling lives, she also hates them with all her heart, to the point where she mutters some pretty taboo things to herself about people who live fulfilling lives that would never be broadcast.
Hanako's personality
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As mentioned above, despite her cute appearance, she has a very dark personality. He has a rather unfortunate personality, as he often keeps quiet about things he notices that he should point out, making fun of them and laughing at them in his mind, holding grudges over past events, and using abusive language is a given.
Excessive view of love
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On the other hand, she has a very pure admiration for love, and whenever something happens, she laments that she wants a boyfriend, and wants to hold hands and go to Disney Sea, so she also has a girlish side to her. However, even though it's just a fantasy, if she had a boyfriend she would think about marriage and children, and she has a somewhat heavy outlook on love. She also tends to fall in love easily, and is the only character in Asoken who is interested in such love affairs.
Actually Rich
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It is not clearly stated what her family does, but they have a luxurious-looking house with a large garden, and even employ a butler-like person, so it seems that they are quite wealthy. He shows his wealth in many ways, such as when he plays around and submerges Louis' Vuitton case in the pool (worth about 500,000 to 600,000 yen) and wears custom-made clothes made by up-and-coming designers (though they're really lame). However, he also has a frugal side, and is mysteriously stingy, as seen in his begging on the ground for 10,000 yen for club fees and asking to sell rare cards for the retail price of 134 yen.
Actually, she's smart too
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Hanako is labeled as an idiot by those around her and viewers because of her usual remarks and eccentric behavior, but she's actually smart! When asked about her English test score, she said casually, "I guess it was normal? 92 points due to careless mistakes," as if it was the most natural thing to do. On top of that, she averaged 98.2 points in the yearly tests, placing her second in the class. However, she saw this as a golden opportunity to make a popular person bow down to her, so she studied hard and aimed to get first place. However, the person who took first place was the person she hated most, a popular person, who she had been studying with her boyfriend.
Actually, she's also good at sports
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She joined the soft tennis club just to be able to have a fulfilling life, but her talent blossomed there, and her advisor said she could compete at the national level, showing her great abilities and raising high expectations. However, when he finds out that all the other club members are successful and that he cannot join them, he quits the club after just one minute in the main story and three pages in the original. After that, he masters Kendama in a week, and although he doesn't have much strength, he shows good athletic ability everywhere.
One of the best facial expressions in the series
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Facial expressions are one of the highlights of this work, and each character shows off some pretty great facial expressions. However, Hanako is probably the biggest contributor to this. I'd like to introduce some of Hanako's facial expressions, which can almost be called art!
The face when envying people with a happy life
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When you envy people with a happy life, your face will usually look like this. There are stages to this melting, and this is probably the most melted state. In the story, it is affectionately called Dali's clock.
The face you make when you hate people with happy real lives
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When you feel murderous or hateful towards people with happy real lives, you tend to look like this. What's more, your voice may also turn husky, and you're in the realm of mental health issues. From Hanako's point of view
Shocked face
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When you see something completely unexpected, you make this unnecessarily realistic face. When you see Kasumi's big breasts, or when you see a bad guy who's beyond his limit, you usually make a realistic face like this. By the way, Hanako herself is unfortunately flat chested and is very harsh towards big breasts.
Sly smile
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When she is plotting something evil, she can't help but laugh and makes a funny face. Hanako is a character who often makes these nasty smiles.
Funny faces
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If you see this after seeing the four above, who is it? It feels like that (lol). Her face is supposed to be normal, but maybe because she makes funny faces more often than not, I've been brainwashed to the point that even when she makes a cute face, I end up believing that it's the funniest one.
Summary of Honda Hanako!
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A sly fool who admires and hates people who are happy in real life. In a word, that's the kind of character she is. In fact, Hanako is cute when she's quiet, and she's smart, good at sports, and comes from a wealthy family - she's a character full of the elements of a happy person in real life... Well, there are a lot of people who are smart but a little strange, and Hanako is probably one of those types. Let's look forward to seeing her show off all kinds of different facial expressions and gags in the future! So that was an introduction to Honda Hanako, one of the main characters of Asobi Asobase.
