Honey and Clover

First off, I wanna say that solar did a really cool last-two-minutes-of-the-episode thingy. Wow! That's neat-o! But anyway, to the main anime stuff.

I think what's most intriguing was Honey and Clover's "light angst" sort of scenario. I think it's not traditional from the typical comedy-to-angst story, where the angst level changes in the anime; rather, I think the angst level changes very little from the first episode to the last. This is probably due to the fact that they would insert a random comedic and facial expression moment despite the angsty setting growing around the characters. In a way, this angst is very very dangerous; no longer does the viewer say "oh, here comes the angst *rolls eyes* this is stupid", but the angst actually comes up unexpectedly and goes away just as suddenly, and you never realized that you were pitying the characters until afterwards. Slick they are, slick indeed.
I'm still not an absolute fan of their drawings, but it was dealable. I like how the characters were arranged in Honey and Clover, though. They started out with only a few chars, then added more on over time. The characters that were added on were never truly major or became one of the "group", but they still played a very influential part throughout the story and each had their own depth. The main characters also had their own meanings. While in the first couple of episodes we are given the "surface" views of them, the characters become more and more pronounced as episodes go on. Music... there were some good, some not so interesting. Additionally, its not like "intro was good, ED was bad, OST was good/bad" but rather, some of the insert songs/OP/ED were ok, and some of the OST was ok. Eeh, that just probably confused more people. whaaaaaatever.

Dogs are so whacked up in Honey and Clover... >.> they always have that "I'm so cutely stupid please kill me" look...