Of Love & Food, Honey & Clover: A Teaser
December 25th, 2009
While I’m still not done done with my Honey & Clover rewatch (Gonna ‘restart’ it after I’m done with Midori no Hibi, since that’s the one with a deadline) and also not done deciphering this interview with Umino Chika in Manga Kitchen, I’m afraid you’re gonna have to bear with this little teaser:
usagijen: I just read this “Manga Kitchen” book/mook/whatever
usagijen: which features various manga series wherein “food” is a motif of some sort
usagijen: or that food, in some ways, had a significance in that series
usagijen: thought it’d be soo relevant to scrumptious!
usagijen: and it so happens that H&C is featured in that book, the very first one too.
usagijen: ever wondered why the opening of H&C is the way it is?
Seleria: nope
usagijen: apparently, food was like one of the main motifs in the show. there’s no one episode where you don’t see the characters eating something
usagijen: then in the interview with umino chika, she likened love to food.
Seleria: uhuh
usagijen: you eat it, becomes part of your system… gives off different flavors. can be sweet, bitter, sour, etc
Seleria: if you have too much you’ll get fat?
usagijen: that too
Seleria: and if you don’t, you die?
usagijen: hahahaha
usagijen: but hey that could be too!
usagijen: thought of other analogies as well
usagijen: depending on whether you ‘let go’ and move on from a bitter experience, you end up letting it out of your system completely (excretion lolol), or it becomes a poison that’ll make you rot
usagijen: now I’m making things up haha. but it could still be possible 
usagijen: it was also said that for takemoto, food was there when he fell in love (first encounter with love), coz he had these croquettes morita gave him that time (he asked hagu if she wants to eat it with them).
usagijen: then it was also through food that he saw the ‘end’ of the said love… the honey&clover sandwich
Seleria: lol
Seleria: you’re reading a lot into this
usagijen: nonono. these came from chika umino herself (except the food-love analogy bits that I added)
usagijen: so it’s.. official! 
Seleria: ahahaha
Seleria: ok
usagijen: which explains why the opening is the way it is
Seleria: so that’s why there was scary food there 
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usagijen: oh, something was also mentioned about the weird foods that hagu and yamada were into
usagijen: something about… the perception of women re: food or what.
usagijen: like, girls can see food as ‘cute’ (moe? lol)
usagijen: but guys can’t understand it
usagijen: how food can be cute
usagijen: somewhat like guns are for men, according to umino chika-sensei haha
Seleria: huh
Seleria: food is cute
Seleria: …….
usagijen: food can make us feel moe. for guys, not quite so
Seleria: maybe i am a guy
Seleria: )
Seleria: im pondering on
Seleria: what makes food cute
Seleria: coz i cant see it
usagijen: lol
Seleria: but i love pudding
Seleria: )
Merry Christmas everyone! Till I come up with a coherent post out of this ‘Food Motif in H&C’ topic, ja~!
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