Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo: Reo x Mai Diaries

Synopsis:

Characters:

• Kawamura, Reo (Main) - Voice Actors: Anzu, Hana
• Sawaguchi, Mai (Main) - Voice Actors: Izumi, Ayaka

Staff:

• Fuguriya (Original Creator)
• Peko (Original Character Design)

Reviews:

• User JunkWatcher (Score: 6/10):
  I’m not entirely sure why this show is registered here on MAL, since it’s not really an anime or even animation to begin with. This is more of a fully voice-acted visual novel without anything interactive that you watch someone else play, if that makes any sense. The story is a sequel to the visual novel “Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo: Anata to Koibito Tsunagi”, better known for the highly recommended hentai adaptation of the same name. I recommend playing the novel or at least watching the OVA first before starting this, so that you understand how the relationship of the main characters work. The story followsthe characters Reo Kawamura, a very tsundere, second year high school student, and Mai Sawaguchi, a classmate of Reo and a teaser. Yeah, that isn’t a whole lot, but that is really all I can say about them, based on this show.nWe follow them during their daily life as a couple with a plot that consists mostly of the two girls talking about mobile phones and them going out to buy one for Reo, since she hasn’t had one since she was three and therefore barely knows anything about them.nConversations are mostly about the wondrous things a phone can do, followed by an oblivious response from Reo, a teasing response from Mai, followed by Reo becoming embarrassed or angry, ending in Mai hugging Reo because she finds Reo so incredibly cute, making Reo even more embarrassed and angry.nSeriously, the girls bicker so much that I started wondering why exactly they love each other. This is never really explained in the OVA either, but the difference is that they just started a relationship there and were still new and inexperienced with lesbianism. The focus of that show was more showing off THAT they were in love instead of why and it does an excellent job at that.nThis ONA would have been the perfect opportunity to expand on their relationship and go into more detail about what they like about each other, but alas, conversations about mobile phones and a cute, embarrassed Reo it is.nSo, yeah, don't expect a deep and complicated story with lots of character development. This is really nothing more than a pretty bland, though cute, continuation of a story about two girls in love.nnAnimation is literally non-existent. Like I said, this is more of a visual novel than an animated show and really only consists of a background with the characters in the foreground, who occasionally switch poses and facial expressions. Luckily, the backgrounds and character models are quite detailed and colorful and overall very nice to look at.nnVoice-acting is pretty good too, at least for what I can tell as a non-Japanese person, though the facial expressions don’t always seem to match up. This is rather common for a visual novel, since they only have a limited amount of expressions, but still, on more than one occasion I just thought they could have used a more fitting picture.nnMusic is really nothing…
• User chiringu (Score: 7/10):
  I'm quite surprised that this is rated as well rated as it is on MAL. Ahem, this ONA series tells a story about a couple, Reo and Mai, and their regular time together. The story is pretty linear, and of course, there's no filler (it's an ONA about a visual novel and only 6 to 10-ish minutes each episode). The linearity of the story made me enjoy the series a lot more than if it wasn't. As for characters, Reo's a little generically shy/tsundere, but Mai's teasing of Reo is great especially in the later episodes. Some major bad thingsabout the series however: microphone peaking quite a bit (Reo mostly), the volume mastery is par at best (too quiet at times and too loud at others--the VA's faults), and the animation/art is just basic visual novel assets (of course, imagination helps).nnStory: 7-ishnArt: 6-ishnSound: 6-ishnCharacter: 7-ishnnHm... I did like the series personally (despite having an easier time finding the hentai than the ONA series, seriously). I managed to find it on youtube after searching in Japanese, so I ended up just relying on my existing knowledge of Japanese (the language was pretty simple, imo). nnAh, almost forgot to say: I loved the intro/outro song way too much.nnOverall (while rounding up): 7

Forum Topics:

• Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo: Reo x Mai Diaries Episode 1 Discussion
• Official youtube channel
• Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo: Reo x Mai Diaries Episode 10 Discussion
• Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo: Reo x Mai Diaries Episode 9 Discussion
• Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo: Reo x Mai Diaries Episode 8 Discussion
• Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo: Reo x Mai Diaries Episode 7 Discussion
• Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo: Reo x Mai Diaries Episode 6 Discussion
• Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo: Reo x Mai Diaries Episode 5 Discussion
• Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo: Reo x Mai Diaries Episode 4 Discussion
• Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo: Reo x Mai Diaries Episode 3 Discussion
• Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo: Reo x Mai Diaries Episode 2 Discussion

External Links:

• Official Site
• AniDB

Related Anime/Manga:

• Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo: Anata to Koibito Tsunagi (anime - Other)
• Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo: Risa x Miya Gekijou (anime - Other)