Honey & Clover

PookaKitten · Post by **PookaKitten** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 8:19 am

I've found a gem of a shoujo title. It's slice of life with nothing supernatural in it whatsoever.

It's about a group of college students and their favorite teacher. They're all art or architecture students. The show revolves around their lives as they deal with unrequited love, confusion about what to do with their lives, when and if Morita will graduate and what in the heck is Morita thinking?

My favorite character is Takemoto Yuuta, who often narrates the episodes. He's the kind, sensitive type who tends to take care of his friends, particularily the eccentric Morita and the innocent and driven Hagu. Takemoto has been described as a shiba dog for his eager and caring ways.

My other favorite character is Hagu, a young artistic genious. She's shy and sheltered when you first meet her and you get to watch her open up to her friends, especially Takemoto. Hagu's driven by an intense vision, constantly creating and making herself ill with her high self expectations. Tiny and child like, Hagu can't be anything but cute.

Morita is often comic, often strange one that's incapable of being serious for more than 5 minutes. Watching him, you may not realize that the clown has a heart of gold, at least when he's not trying to dress Hagu up as a mouse.

Honey and Clover has a mixture of comedy and drama. It's everyday comedy and drama, such as Takemoto losing it when he hears a word vaguely resembling "rococco" or Takemoto's dislike of Christmas. In addition, there's lots of sap for those of us who are romantics. Some of my favorite warm and fuzzy moments include [ecs]Takemoto keeping Hagu company on her first night totally alone, and another time him waking up in the school after an all-nighter while working on an assignment, to find that Hagu covered him with a blanket and several of those little chemical hot pads.[/ecs]

The show's also got great music that fits it very well. I particularly like the first ending song, Waltz. In addition to that, many episodes include an insert song by either Spitz or Suga Shikao. Courtesy of H&C, Spitz has emerged as a favorite Japanese group of mine.

Samantha

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 4:19 am

Somwhere along the line I read the description for this series and thought
'Hm, that sounds interesting, I think I'll get it.' It wasn't till Animethon that
I got to watch the 1st few eps... while it's got some great characterization,
and the initial Hagu & Morita moments are to DIE for... I SWEAR! the 1st OP
animation's one SERIOUSLY messed LSD trip of watching them time-lapse
playing with food!

...I shall forever be mentally scarred by that experience

Regards

justin · Post by **justin** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 5:38 am

finally saw the end of the anime, this anime really rocks, i was really sad to see it over; is there more manga or was that it?

Eisenmann · Post by **Eisenmann** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 12:17 pm

saw the first two episode.
seems to be a great anime.

the opening is one of the funniest and strangest i ever saw

have to keep watching...

Moonshadow · Post by **Moonshadow** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 7:51 am

Reviving a dead thread here.

For those of you who like this series, a second season has been announced as well as a live action movie!

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=8624
The new season will air this summer. Yay for new H&C!!

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 5:45 am

Yay! 1st ep of the new season subbed... which is primarily recap of the 1st season.

Lovely opening piece, and thankfully not an LSD trip in stop-motion animation

Eagerly awaiting what (new) misadventures await our crew

Regards

PookaKitten · Post by **PookaKitten** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 1:27 pm

The only drawback to H&C2 is that it's only 13 episodes.

Still, the new OP is a little bit of a trip. I like it better than the 1st OP, but I think the new ED is not quite as good as the old one.

And new Spitz songs!!!

Sam

Satsume · Post by **Satsume** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:47 pm

I just finished watching Honey & Clover last night. The ending was really great for me, though I was sad to see it finish (eagerly awaiting H&CII's first episode to finish downloading!). I have to say the very last shot of the series gave me chills. I loved it. Takemoto, Hagu, and Morita's conflict, as well as Mayama and Yamada's, kept me glued to the series until the very end. I really liked Takemoto's development through the anime, too. Actually, the first episode gave me the impression that it was just going to be a silly school comedy, but I was wrong. Loveddd ittt. <3

Noir · Post by **Noir** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 4:28 am

I seen some eps I am not really into honey and Clover. the OP is really well
done.

naiomi · Post by **naiomi** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 5:55 am

I think I shall take a look at it. It seems interesting.