Honey and Clover
Also known as Hachimitsu to Clover
ハチミツとクローバー
Takemoto Yuuta, Mayama Takumi, and Morita Shinobu are college students who share the small apartment. Even though they live in poverty, the three of them are able to obtain pleasure through small things in life. The story follows these characters' life stories as poor college students, as well as their love lives when a short but talented 18 year old girl called Hanamoto Hagumi appears.
TV anime, 24 episodes, Spring 2005, J.C.STAFF. Episode guide with the official trailer and links to licensed services. Studio J.C.STAFF. Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Slice of Life. Season: Spring 2005.
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Characters and voice cast
- Shinobu Morita (森田忍) - main character, voiced by Yuuji Ueda (うえだゆうじ); English dub: Sam Riegel
- Hagumi Hanamoto (花本はぐみ) - main character, voiced by Haruka Kudou (工藤晴香); English dub: Heather Halley
- Yuuta Takemoto (竹本祐太) - main character, voiced by Hiroshi Kamiya (神谷浩史); English dub: Yuri Lowenthal
- Takumi Mayama (真山巧) - main character, voiced by Tomokazu Sugita (杉田智和); English dub: Cam Clarke
- Ayumi Yamada (山田あゆみ) - main character, voiced by Mikako Takahashi (高橋美佳子); English dub: Julie Ann Taylor
- Rika Harada (原田理花) - supporting character, voiced by Sayaka Oohara (大原さやか); English dub: Lara Cody
- Shuuji Hanamoto (花本修司) - supporting character, voiced by Keiji Fujiwara (藤原啓治); English dub: Christopher Smith
- Takumi Nomiya (野宮匠) - supporting character, voiced by Kenji Hamada (浜田賢二); English dub: Tom Gibis
- Miwako Teshigawara (勅使河原美和子) - supporting character, voiced by Michiko Neya (根谷美智子); English dub: Stephanie Sheh
- Leader (リーダー) - supporting character, voiced by Takeshi Aono (青野武)
- Kaoru Morita (森田馨) - supporting character, voiced by Takuma Takewaka (竹若拓磨); English dub: Patrick Seitz
- Nurse (看護士) - supporting character, voiced by Youko Honda (本多陽子)
- Mitsuko Takemoto (竹本美津子) - supporting character, voiced by Emi Shinohara (篠原恵美)
- Kazuo Aida (合田稼頭男) - supporting character, voiced by Kenta Miyake (三宅健太); English dub: Keith Silverstein
- Shin (しん) - supporting character, voiced by Wataru Hatano (羽多野渉)
- Kazushi Yamazaki (山崎一志) - supporting character, voiced by Hiroshi Tsuchida (土田大); English dub: Keith Silverstein
- Rokutarou (六太郎) - supporting character, voiced by Daisuke Namikawa (浪川大輔)
- Shouda (庄田) - supporting character, voiced by Mugihito (麦人)
Staff
- Original Creator: Chica Umino (羽海野チカ)
- Director: Kenichi Kasai (カサヰケンイチ)
- Character Design: Hidekazu Shimamura (島村秀一)
- Director of Photography: Yutaka Kurosawa (黒澤豊)
- Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa (明田川仁)
- Music: Yuuzou Hayashi (林有三)
- Insert Song Performance: Spitz (スピッツ )
- Insert Song Performance: Shikao Suga (シカオ スガ)
- Script: Yousuke Kuroda (黒田洋介)
- Animation: Etsuko Sumimoto (住本悦子)
- Key Animation: Chikara Sakurai (櫻井親良)
- Key Animation: Kentarou Tokiwa (常盤健太郎)
- Key Animation: Mariko Iguchi (井口真理子)
- Key Animation: Etsuko Sumimoto (住本悦子)
Production: J.C.STAFF (animation), Nomad, Genco, Viz Media, Asmik Ace, Dentsu, Discotek, Fuji TV.
Rankings on AniList: #12 highest rated 2005, #7 most popular 2005, #5 highest rated spring 2005, #2 most popular spring 2005.
AniList members score Honey and Clover 76/100. On their lists: 2,578 watching, 15,907 completed, 35,406 planning to watch, 2,471 dropped; 948 favourites.
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- Honey and Clover II - TV, 2006
- Honey and Clover Specials - OVA, 2005
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Episodes
- Episode 1: The Day It All Began
- Episode 2: The two affections start to turn
- Episode 3: These were two unrequited loves
- Episode 4: The boy and girl are swayed
- Episode 5: I think of my mother in my hometown
- Episode 6: The past, the tears, the confession
- Episode 7: We Look for a Miracle
- Episode 8: Because I Can't Leave You Alone
- Episode 9: That brooch was so heavy
- Episode 10: We Fly Across the Sky
- Episode 11: Love pushes us around
- Episode 12: The sudden kiss, the unexpected parting
- Episode 13: All I wanted to hear was that little thing
- Episode 14: I touched her in my dream
- Episode 15: My cowardly self starts running
- Episode 16: The moon is calling her
- Episode 17: I don't even know how I feel
- Episode 18: He came back
- Episode 19: Time begins to move again
- Episode 20: I pray to the moon hovering in the night sky
- Episode 21: I've always been scared
- Episode 22: Like a flower getting wet in the rain
- Episode 23: And so, I begin to run
- Episode 24: We're a Continuously Spinning Ferris Wheel