880https://i.ur.com/npOxHVK.jpg All of my reviews contain spoilers for the reviewed material. This is your only warning. Its a clich to begin any piece of writing on a short anime with defense of the form but to indulge in that clich a bit sometimes a premise dictates that an animes episodes only really need to be somewhere on the order of 60120 seconds. So it is with Honobono Log a series with a not quite a cours worth of 2minute scenes that consequently doesnt even total a full half hour in length. I didnt know going into Honobono Log that it was adapted from a picture book but it makes complete sense looking at the show on the whole. The episodes present extremely brief vignettes tiny windows into the lives of couples and families for us to peer at single specific scenes from their time together. Animation is limited backgrounds even moreso the vast majority of the shows lean runtime takes place against a solid yellow backdrop. But this isnt so much a flaw as it is a strength in disguise by cutting down on extraneous elements both spatial and temporal Honobono Log leaves us with what really matters these brief flashes of some emotion or another between two or more people who truly care about each other. 880https://i.ur.com/BJoVDW5.jpeg An exhaustive list of these situations would completely spoil the point of the show but they include aquarium dates father/child disputes over gumdrops and brief goodnights over the phone. In each case the emphasis is less on the intensity of the emotion displayed and more on its casualness. None of these scenes involve anything along the nature of a romantic confession or really any identifiable romcom tropes as such at all. Hands intertwine boyfriends reluctantly run an errand fidgety girls are hugged a mother comforts a daughter whose crush has gotten with someone else. 880https://i.ur.com/DltYncd.jpeg Whats truly being drawn attention to here is the brevitybut also the importanceof these actions themselves through naturalistic understated voice acting and simple unflashy animation that nonetheless takes joy in its movements. Any single one of these moments could crystallize into a memory for someone involved in it and the show can in fact be taken as a memory catalogue of sorts not for any one person but for humanity on the whole. One could find flaws in thisfor something that clearly reaches for universal experience all of the couples are straight for one thingbut these minor criticisms are easily dismissed as flaws of absence. Points to be improved on as opposed to things wrong per se. No what we have here are ten tiny miracles. Little wisps of personable warmth and nostalgia whenever you need them. Notes Disclaimers Usage of Anilists review feature does not constitute endorsement for Anilist as a platform the Anilist community or any individual member thereof or any of Anilists policies or rules. All views expressed are solely my own opinions and conclusions and should not be taken to reflect the opinions of any other persons groups or organizations. All text is owned by me. Do not duplicate without permission. All images are owned by their original copyright holders. This review has been reformatted and reedited to comply with Anilists site guidelines.