I’ll admit that I was a bit surprised how much I liked the first episode of Hanamaru Kindergarten. It fell far outside of what Gainax is known for – more reminiscent of a J.C. Staff show then a Gainax show. For the second episode, Gainax was able to keep the warm, slice-of-life, cuteness feel but they also slipped in some awesome stuff that reminded the viewer that they’re watching a Gainax show. Look below to see what I mean.
It appears that Gainax might go the route of Sora no Otoshimono and do different ending songs for each episode. For episode 2, we got, presumably, Hiiragi’s closing song. I love the Gainax feel to the animation.
And of course the episode was full of cuteness.
Next episode seems to involve a love triangle:
The Null Set 
I love Hii-chan’s real eyes. Just too cute
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haha It looks cute 🙂 Have to find time to check it out 🙂
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I was really surprised by my love of the first episode too. I didn’t read the post–haven’t watched it yet, but I love the first picture. Glad to know it’s still good. ^_^
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I wasn’t expecting much from this series, but I like it so far too – the end of episode 2 with the ‘shishou’ scene cracked me up, and while I didn’t laugh as much as at Potemayo (for me, the gold standard of chibi/cute/funny) it was still a fun episode to watch. I agree it felt much more like JC Staff than Gainax…but I guess if they can do Puchi Puri Yuushi, then they can do this too…
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@suguru: The one thing that Hanamaru Kindergarten has over Potemayo is there’s no creepy side characters to get in the way of the cute feel of the show. 🙂
@Janette: Another person who doesn’t like to be spoiled 🙂
@Kitsune: Please do, I’d love to hear what you think.
@RP: I know and you can’t blame the boy for being enchanted by them.
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Nice =) also great sites’ look =)
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