Na-Nare Hana-Nare, episode 1
Alternative names: Na Nare Hana Nare
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So, this show really was blessed by anime physics.
Not sure I’ve ever seen an anime about cheerleading. This should be kinda interesting. So far, this doesn’t seem too bad. Got a pretty cute cast. Obunai is apparently part ninja or something lol.
Oh this was stylish and I can already tell this is going to be a tearjerker.
We also got Brazilian [Carol](https://imgur.com/a/7yrGlrb) and she is almost as chaotic.
The most interesting part about this cheerleading anime is the parkour.
Best girl spotted, Anna with the Yuri any% speedrun, hell yeah!
u/abysswatcherbel is that accurate brazilian behavior or exaggerated for the show? Hugging as greeting is normal here too but kissing on the cheeks for the *first* meeting? Maybe I gotta move to Brazil lol.
On the other hand it’s been quite a while since I’ve come across a character as obnoxious as Suzuha. It’s one thing to do some flexing parkour running and being too cool to great others with a good morning. But when she did a backflip *over* another girl who minded her own business walking to school, I was like “bitch hello?”. If she miscalculated her skills and jumped just a few centimeters lower she would’ve legit kicked that girl in the head, like maybe just don’t fucking do that, involving other people into your parkour like that. When she was fucking jumping on top of traffic lights it’s was just too ridiculous. Overall came off as way too arrogant. Hopefully she tones that down later.
Besides that, nice premiere. Loved the colorful background art. And all the other characters besides Suzuha were pretty fun too.
Well this seems like a pretty likeable cast so far, they all seem pretty talented!
Didn’t feel too realistic but I loved watching the parkour, just looked so cool. Pat of me wishes they were going to that instead of cheering.
Interesting art style.
Very smooth animation, might be CG but if you want to do all this it’s not really feasible to do everything manually.
Uh oh.
Why’s she running across the roofs?
She’s doing parkour!
That’s a very long, very Western sounding name.
Well she’s already a TikTok sensation.
And she’s late.
Yup, she’s in the wheelchair and undergoing physical therapy to walk.
Speak of the devil, here she is.
Anna kissed her! In front of a nun no less!
And parkour girl is at it again.
What’s she doing waiting outside the school?
She’s following her?
Ah, we finally see what happened after that incident at the beginning.
All that and she landed perfectly fine.
Seems like we’ll be meeting a lot more girls next episode.
I love the art style. The colours really pop.
There’s really a lot to love with this first episode of Narenare. While it occupies an intensely stylistic niche much like P.A. Works’ other anime, Narenare feels like the team thought up the idea of cheerleading and went “just how far can we take this?”.
That of course, leading to intense color design that *hardly* resembles Naomi Nakano’s other works- including those airing this season (see: Wistoria and Sakuna). It really goes to extremes to separate itself from the pack, and because of that you can really explore a lot of different visual ideas than what you might usually get away with.
For example, the backgrounds. A lot of them are likely photographs that have been altered and added to for the series (a likely case considering the fondness P.A. Works holds for a lot of their surroundings in Nanto, Tomoya).
Another example is the sneaky usage of CGI in the cheer section at the start. The transition from the 2D closeup in the handstand flip to a CGI model is effectively seamless, and the ability to blend them together like that does come from how sharp the color design is.
Anyways, the story might be playing it a little fast and loose at times, but I think overall it works very well. It has its weaker points for sure, but there’s a lot of nuance that hangs in the balance of the extremes. Also, I just really love getting more Miku Itou as a lead in P.A. works anime. It’s been so long since I last heard her in The Aquatope on White Sand.
Well it’s cute girls doing cheer things. I’m on board.
The coloring is so vibrant and the OP is super energetic; really fitting for a cheerleading anime.
And is Suzuha even human? Wtf is that parkour.
Their leg strength must be insane! If I made a jump like that I would die lmao
2 out of 3 PA Works shows this season. 1 of 2 anime originals. [Last one airs tomorrow.](https://myanimelist.net/anime/57947)
I can see this show has decided to ignore the laws of physics.
Talk about a popular hair dye style
One of those shows where I just go in blind and pick up because of the name of the studio. PA Works always have great first impressions.
If we just focused on Suzuha’s insane parkour skills alone, the show might need to change its name to Assassin’s Creed: Takasaki. lol
So it seems to be an anime about cheerleading. Though the core cast all seem to come from different schools, so if they’re to assemble a cheerleading team, it wouldn’t be a high-school based team. Perhaps the cheerleading tournaments here are not bound by school teams.
Fun fact 1 : Anna’s VA Takeda Larissa Tago is half-Brazilian.
Fun fact 2: J-Pop enthusiasts might be interested to know the soundtrack, including the OP and ED, are written by Kitagawa Yujin from the duo pop band [Yuzu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzu_(band)). While the 6 main VAs are mostly Idolmaster VAs, so they have no problem assembling to perform as a makeshift idol unit PomPoms (also the name of the show’s cheerleading team) and sing the OP and ED songs.
What’s more impressive to me than all the parkouring was how she was able to keep track of her on foot! Girl got all that cheerleading stamina and endurance, and, somehow after being flung into the air she came out unscathed. The most dangerous human beings really are anime girls
Wonder what happened to Kanata back at the start. Injured? Traumatized? Hmm…