Hachimitsu to Clover

Yuuta Takemoto, a sophomore at an arts college, shares a cheap apartment with two seniors—the eccentric Shinobu Morita, who keeps failing to graduate due to his absenteeism, and the sensible Takumi Mayama, who acts as a proper senior to Takemoto, often looking out for him.

Takemoto had not given much thought to his future until one fine spring day, when he meets the endearing Hagumi Hanamoto and falls in love at first sight. Incredibly gifted in the arts, Hagumi enrolls in Takemoto's university and soon befriends the popular pottery student Ayumi Yamada. Ayumi is already well acquainted with the three flatmates and secretly harbors deep feelings for one of them.

Hachimitsu to Clover is a heartwarming tale of youth, love, soul-searching, and self-discovery, intricately woven through the complex relationships between five dear friends.

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Morita, Shinobu Main

Ueda, Yuuji Japanese

Takemoto, Yuuta Main

Kamiya, Hiroshi Japanese

Yamada, Ayumi Main

Takahashi, Mikako Japanese

Hanamoto, Hagumi Main

Kudou, Haruka Japanese

Mayama, Takumi Main

Sugita, Tomokazu Japanese

Nomiya, Takumi Supporting

Hamada, Kenji Japanese

Hanamoto, Shuuji Supporting

Fujiwara, Keiji Japanese

Harada, Rika Supporting

Ohara, Sayaka Japanese

Lohmeyer-senpai Supporting

Yamadera, Kouichi Japanese

Leader Supporting

Aono, Takeshi Japanese

Kasai, Kenichi Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Aketagawa, Jin Sound Director

Nagai, Tatsuyuki Episode Director

Tachibana, Hideki Episode Director, Storyboard, Key Animation, Animation Director

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Jun 24, 2025

caterground

Recommended

How far could you go, without turning to look back?

This anime is one of a kind. Honey and Clover is for people that don’t have everything figured out. The way it handles emotions and human relationships is remarkable. You could genuinely feel every emotion portrayed, and every conflict felt real.

The dialogue is exceptionally good paired with the music. Those end parts that have such a melancholic feel to them are just excellent. The op is great, the soundtracks are too.

Most of the characters are very well written, allowing the viewer to feel and empathize even with the ones we see less.

The biggest issue this anime ... has is pretty obvious from the first episode: Hagu. The fact that she looks like a child is a problem by itself, but it could be lessened or even overlooked if she didn’t also act like one. If we were told that Hagu was 7, the only thing that would change in this story would be that Takemoto would be in jail. Seriously, she absolutely acts like a kid. Maybe it would help if she didn’t have collectively, in all 24 episodes, less lines than any other character has in one episode. At this point other than growth stunt, they should have given her also a speech impediment just to complete the look, maybe also change her age to 3000 years old.

Genuinely, what were they thinking? This is rather disappointing, more so because this isn’t a gooner isekai anime, but it’s a josei, a very good one at that.

However, every other aspect is just so good that the only flaw almost cancels out. Definitely worth a watch.

The perfect word to describe Honey and Clover that often came to mind while watching, is: bittersweet. The whole show is comparable to that bittersweet feeling you get on a long car drive, watching the scenery pass by through the window.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Aug 20, 2018

Seelly

Mixed Feelings

Funny

Monologues.. a lot of them.
Sad piano music... a lot of that too.
They are very sad... and they like to show it.
Hagu is sad... the main character (don't recall his name) is sad cause she sad.
the idiot (also don't remember his names, i think he won an oscar?) is just an obnoxious idiot (pls go away).
the other chick is also sad (she makes a lot of plates) cause she likes guy that likes other sad woman with crutches (she wears heels...),
but he also sad cause other chick is sad.
professor says stuff... sometimes (i don't know what he teaches)
he also smokes (not the bicycles).
Bicycles
...

i wont even mention the first opening...

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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May 15, 2025

lastnameEver

Not Recommended

The show ends before it even begins. The messy-haired guy with glasses already leaves college before we have a chance to get to know him, Hagu’s cigarette-smoking guardian goes off on some trip to Africa, and Morita is hardly ever around – and yet immediately, the story thrusts itself into these sad feelings without even having laid the necessary groundwork for the viewer to become attached to these characters.

Silver-haired guy’s bicycle trip, and his eventual return capping off the first season, where he finally gets the better of Morita, is a satisfying moment. The scene at the very, very end where Takemoto opens up the ... good-luck charm Hagu gave him is inspired. In general I appreciate the maturity of the writing and its attempts at realism. All the characters are very likeable so long as they aren’t whining, but its subject matter is joyless, and watching it was an exercise in tedium.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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