HanaKana Summer

I spent the summer of 2011 watching every anime series where Hanazawa Kana had a main role that I had not already seen. This worked out to around 120 hours of anime I hadn't seen. My goal was to try to watch six hours of anime a night nonstop for 20 days until I got all caught up. I got burnt out after a while, so I ended up going into overtime as fall began.

HanaKana Summer is still in progress. You can get an idea of the remaining progress by looking at my MyAnimeList profile.

This may be considered the sequel to Audrey Hepburn ga Suki Festival, where I watched a different Audrey Hepburn movie every night for a week.

Bite-Sized Reviews

I told myself I was also going to tweet a review of each series, movie, or OVA once I finished watching it. Because most of them have vanished off the face of the planet (and my tweets are private), I am listing them here for your perusal:

Summer

• Kuragehime was pretty sweet. (Clara!) Bonus points for crossdressing. (Tequila!) 9/10
• Yutori-chan's fake ads for "magical attractive old lady" mahou shoujo toys are hilarious 6/10
• Mushiuta is "giantass bugs + Animorphs + Lady GaGa + Kenny G soundtrack." 6/10
• Megane na Shoujo: a 4-episode introduction to what is so great about girls who wear glasses. 8/10
• Infinite Stratos: pretty girls, robots, androgynous character voiced by HanaKana. What could possibly go wrong? 9/10
• Asu no Yoichi was pretty boring. Good voice talent though. 5/10
• Moshidora: At first you go "Huh, interesting idea. Baseball meets Peter Drucker's Management?" Then you cry a lot. 8/10
• Fractale is not only interesting reflection as we venture deeper into the world of cloud computing, but a nice love story. 8/10
• Kyouran Kazoku Nikki is completely random, nonsensical, adorable fun with awesome voice acting. 8/10
• Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Mono -Natsu no Sora- was beautiful. Lovely art, lovely story, lovely insert songs. 9/10
• Cencoroll: That was cool, but is there a canonical explanation of what the hell I just watched? 8/10
• King of Thorn is survival horror meets Sleeping Beauty. 8/10
• Druaga no Tou -Sword of Uruk- is boring as fuck. It would be 10000x better if it was a baseball anime like the OP suggests. 4/10
• If my college sexuality class had been anything like Hen Zemi, who knows how experienced I'd be? 9/10
• Zegapain starts off average, ramps up to being awesome, and then they kill it with the ending. Sort of. 8/10
• Otome Youkai Zakuro was so boring, I can't tell you what happened past the 4th episode. 4/10
• Darker than Black -Ryuusei no Gemini-: Story was okay; I wouldn’t rewatch it. Also, who knew all Russians spoke Japanese? 6/10
• .hack//Quantum is what happens when you play MMOs too much. 7/10

Overtime

• Potemayo is what happens when HanaKana voices a cute cat-like creature that can't speak Japanese. 8/10
• Ro-Kyu-Bu! = middle school girls' basketball team coach. Team members are all in love with him. Sorta creepy. Also, OP/ED kick ass. 8/10
• Morita-san wa Mukuchi. For fans of quiet HanaKana characters. Also, Tomatsu Haruka! 8/10
• Bungaku Shoujo is a lovely story about love and literature. And crying in a planetarium. 100 minutes well spent. 9/10

Gone Missing

I seem to have misplaced the tweet review for Steins;Gate. I think it was fairly cryptic as it's hard to say anything about the series without spoiling it. Let's just say this: the first three episodes are a total bore, it really picks up starting with the fourth and just keeps getting better. I gave it a 9/10.