Line #91 Characters/HoneyAndClover


1	The characters of the manga and anime series ''Manga/HoneyAndClover'':
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7	!Yuuta Takemoto
8	!!Voiced by: Creator/HiroshiKamiya (JP), Creator/KenjiNojima (JP, [[TheOtherDarrin Season 2, last episode]]), Creator/YuriLowenthal (EN)
9	[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yuuta_5285.jpg]]
10	* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: At the end of the first part of the series [[spoiler:he manages to tell Hagu he loves her, even if he knows it's unrequited]].
11	* BettyAndVeronica: He's the Betty to Morita's Veronica.
12	* BigBrotherInstinct: Towards [[spoiler: Hagu. Since he realizes that she'll never love him any other way.]]
13	* CannotSpitItOut: For the first half of the series, until he completes his CharacterDevelopment.
14	* CharacterDevelopment: After his JourneyToFindOneself, he shows he's not an ExtremeDoormat anymore by resisting Morita's antics.
15	* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: As his graduation gets close, he starts being more and more anxious as he has no idea what he really wants to do with his life, since he spent most of it helping his ill mother. He finds his purpose after his JourneyToFindOneself.
16	* DidNotGetTheGirl: He realizes he ''won't'' get the girl at the end of the first part. During the second part he has to come to terms with it.
17	* DoggedNiceGuy: Not only towards Hagu, but towards ''everyone''. Especially notable at the beginning.
18	* ExtremeDoormat: At the beginning, which makes him a perfect victim for Moriya's antics.
19	* HopelessSuitor: Hagu never sees him as anything more than a good friend.
20	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: After [[spoiler:Hagu's accident, Takemoto considers devoting his life to her even if she doesn't love him. In the end, he realizes this would still be selfish and that he has to move on with his life]].
21	%% * TheHero
22	* JourneyToFindOneself: Overcome by his fears about the future, he runs away from his own house on a bicycle and just keeps going, hoping he'll realize "something" along the way. Other characters {{Lampshade}} this, even mentioning the trope by name.
23	* LoveAtFirstSight: He falls in love with Hagu as soon as he sees her for the first time.
24	* NaiveNewcomer: The youngest of the three main guys and the latest to join their shared house.
25	* NiceGuy: He's ''extremely'' nice to everybody, to the point of sometimes being an ExtremeDoormat.
26	* RaceForYourLove: [[spoiler: He races on a bicycle against Morita in a car!]]
27	* UnluckyEverydude: Especially during the first part, when he still hasn't found anything he's ''really'' good at.
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29	!Shinobu Morita
30	!! Voiced by: Creator/YujiUeda (JP), Creator/SamRiegel (EN)
31	[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shinobu_5049.jpg]]
32	* TheAce: While other characters are busy with graduating and/or their jobs, he ''wins an Oscar award''.
33	* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: To [[spoiler:his older brother Kaoru, and to Takemoto.]]
34	* AngerBornOfWorry: Morita snaps at Yamada for worrying him and Mayama when she went out with Nomiya and failed to contact anyone for the rest of the night.
35	* ArtistsAreAttractive: Despite chasing her into a terror initially, Morita's excellent artistic skills eventually manage to catch Hagu's attention.
36	* BettyAndVeronica: Veronica to Takemoto's Betty.
37	* BirdsOfAFeather: While Morita has a bad habit of overwhelming Hagu with his personality, Morita and Hagu come to have a sort of understanding of each other: They're both socially awkward and somewhat immature, and due to them both knowing what it's like to constantly have a stream of ideas, they end up serving as motivation and inspiration to each other to work hard on their pieces.
38	* BrilliantButLazy: Morita is considered to be an eccentric but highly talented artist by his peers and teachers, which makes his flippant personality and constant failure to turn in his final assignments to graduate all the more infuriating to his advisor. From the start of the series, Morita has repeated his senior year ''three times''. [[spoiler: It eventually is revealed that part of this is because he's keenly aware that his supposed talent has made others, and particularly his brother, resentful of him, so Morita feels an obligation to help his brother out even at the cost of his schoolwork.]]
39	* CannotSpitItOut: He falls in love with Hagu just like Takemoto. He takes quite a while to realize it and even more to state it.
40	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He just doesn't care about social customs. This sometimes makes him a bit of a jerk, but he's usually very likeable.
41	* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler:Morita may have gotten Hagu's affections, but Hagu ultimately decides to stay with Shuuji because she knows he can take care of her after her accident.]]
42	%% * DoggedNiceGuy
43	* TheGadfly: He loves to steal things from under peoples noses, pull pranks, tell tall tales, and other various means of stirring trouble or getting people riled up.
44	* GeniusDitz: He's TheAce in everything that has to do with art, and... not very good at anything else.
45	* HeldBackInSchool: At the start of the story, he's 24 years old and in his ''sixth'' year of art school, still unable to graduate since he constantly skips class to work at various odd jobs.
46	* HiddenDepths: Morita comes off as a flighty goofball who only makes trouble for others, but he can make surprisingly perceptive comments regarding his friend's situations, and he gets ''genuinely'' concerned when Yamada leaves a festival drunk with a guy she barely knows and he gives her a talking-to about it next he sees her.
47	%% * IdiotHero
48	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Morita backs down (mostly) gracefully when [[spoiler: Hagu tells him she's decided to stay with Shuuji to work on recovering her hand function, as opposed to going with Morita himself. His response is to give Shuuji a huge box of cash and telling him to use it and make sure she gets to paint again]].
49	* LastGirlWins: {{Subverted}}. Hagu does indeed fall in love with "last guy" Morita, but [[spoiler:in the end she chooses her art career over both her suitors, in spite of her feelings for him]].
50	* TheLancer: He and Takemoto have an OddFriendship, despite being total opposites.
51	* LovingBully: Morita quickly develops an attraction to Hagu, but at first is only able to express it by chasing her around and turning her into a living art project, which bewilders and terrifies her.
52	* OlderThanTheyLook: Morita's often outlandishly immature personality makes him seem a lot younger than he really is, but he's actually 3-4 years older than the rest of his friends due to his failure to graduate when he was supposed to.
53	* {{Manchild}}: He is wild and unpredictable, often pulling childish stunts like stealing his friends' food and belongings, or pulling crazy pranks without a second thought to how it affects others. His crush on Hagu also manifests in childish ways, like whiplashing between tormenting her and giving her thoughtful gifts, yet being incapable of actually discussing it with her.
54	* MoneyFetish: He bluntly states he loves money, and has a habit of disappearing for days on end to do mysterious odd-jobs and then suddenly returning with large wads of cash in his possession that he doesn't share with anyone (except once to buy a present for Hagu). [[spoiler: It later is revealed that he was obtaining the money for the sake of his brother's plan to buy back their father's company, which had been sold without their father's knowing out of their uncle's envy]].
55	* MysteriousPast: Behind his Cloudcuckoolander attitude he hides a pretty dark history, which gets unveiled only towards the end of the story.
56	%% * RaceForYourLove
57	* RidiculousProcrastinator: He manages to be ''three years'' behind in college despite his skill because he just can't help but miss deadlines.
58	* StarCrossedLovers: In a sense, this is what becomes of his [[spoiler: relationship with Hagu. They ''do'' have feelings for each other, but ultimately decide leading separate lives and cheering each other on in their artistic endeavors is what's best for them. Mostly, it's a result of Morita not really being suitable to take care of Hagu's needs in her hand recovery, and her wanting to continue watching him create]].
59	* TroubledButCute: Morita ''would'' like to be as carefree as he tries to appear, but he can't bring himself to stop [[spoiler:helping his brother, who's obsessed with getting revenge on their father's enemies]].
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61	!Hagumi "Hagu" Hanamoto
62	!! Voiced by: Creator/HarukaKudou (JP), Heather Halley (EN)
63	[[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hagu_3864.jpg]]
64	* ACupAngst: Mostly when she's around Ayumi, who is said to have a perfect figure.
65	%% * AlliterativeName
66	* BirdsOfAFeather: While Hagu is often overwhelmed by Morita's wild personality, when it comes to art they understand each other, and find motivation and inspiration to work hard and show each other their pieces.
67	* BreakTheCutie: During the first part she manages to make some friends and starts to very slowly overcome her social anxieties... then [[spoiler:she suffers a horrifying accident involving a glass panel that leaves her dominant hand almost completely numb.]]
68	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: As a genius artist, it's not surprising that she's often lost in her inner world.
69	* CountryMouse: She used to live alone with her grandmother in a small village.
70	* CryIntoChest: Happens a lot with her and her protector figure, Shuuji. Due to her height, she usually doesn't reach his chest.
71	* CutesyDwarf: She's not a teenager anymore, but she looks like she's not even a teenager ''yet''.
72	* DudeMagnet: By the end of the series, three men have fell in love with her.
73	* FriendlessBackground: Before she moved to the Art college. Partly due to IntelligenceEqualsIsolation, intelligence in this case being her unbelievable artistic skill.
74	* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She's a pure and nice young girl, both in appearance and personality.
75	* TheIngenue: She hasn't had much of a social life, so she's often rather innocent in her behavior.
76	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Early on shows this attitude towards [[spoiler: Morita, who she eventually proves to have developed feelings for. When he suddenly leaves for the United States without warning, her wish is more that he do all the things he wants to do there before coming back, rather than wanting him to come back right away. In the end this sets precedence for the final volume where they don't start a relationship and instead promise to always support each other in their work]].
77	* LethalChef: When Hagu and Ayumi start cooking, other characters start finding excuses to be somewhere else.
78	* ManChild: {{Subverted}}. At the beginning it may seem Hagu is one of these, as she is 18 years old and not only [[OlderThanTheyLook looks like a child]], but tends to be very [[TheIngenue innocent]] and childish in her behavior as well. As time goes on, though, other character realize she's actually pretty mature in her own way and is probably the one in the main cast who's best at tackling her problems head on.
79	* OlderThanTheyLook: Most people mistake her for a middle-school student or even an elementary student. She's actually 18 years old when she's first introduced, and even when the other characters know how old she is, they're still shocked when she mentions that she had her coming-of-age ceremony after turning 20.
80	* OneTrackMindedArtist: Being shy and raised in a sheltered environment, Hagu learned art by drawing sketches of her porch everyday up until her grandmother's death.
81	* SenseiChan: When she teaches a summer art class to elementary students, despite looking barely older than them.
82	* StarCrossedLovers: In a sense, this is what becomes of her [[spoiler: relationship with Morita. They ''do'' have feelings for each other, but ultimately decide leading separate lives and cheering each other on in their artistic endeavors is what's best for them. Mostly, it's a result of Morita not really being suitable to take care of Hagu's needs in her hand recovery, and her wanting to continue watching him create]].
83	* TrainStationGoodbye: Non-romantic version at the very end with [[spoiler:Takemoto: it's not romantic love, but she loves him very much and does her best to show him]].
84	* WifeHusbandry: [[spoiler:One possible interpretation towards Hagu staying with Shuuji, who she knows she can depend on, rather than with Morita, who she is in love with.]]
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86	!Takumi Mayama
87	!! Voiced by: Creator/TomokazuSugita (JP), Creator/CamClarke (EN)
88	[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mayama_5502.jpg]]
89	* TheCameo: In Umino's later work, ''Manga/MarchComesInLikeALion''. Along with Nomiya, he participates in a work team shogi tournament, eventually addressing what some of the characters have been up to after their series ended.
90	* DoggedNiceGuy: Pretty notable in that he's the most confident and well adjusted of the main cast... except when the woman he loves is involved.
91	* HopelessSuitor: For a ''long'' time, he's this to Rika. [[spoiler:In the end, she eventually starts returning his love.]]
92	* NiceGuy: He's a pretty good guy towards everyone, without taking it to [[ExtremeDoormat Takemoto's extremes]].
93	* OfficeRomance: He fell for Rika while working with her. [[spoiler:It eventually becomes a full romance, since they keep working together after she reciprocates]].
94	* OneSteveLimit: Averted. While they're both referred to by their surnames to tell them apart, he shares the given name 'Takumi' with his coworker Nomiya. Fittingly the two of them are frequently compared to each other.
95	* RejectionAffection: After the first rejection he tries to get over her and fails, so he decides to just keep trying.
96	* RomancingTheWidow: One of the biggest problems with his unrequited love for Rika is that she's still not over her deceased husband.
97	* SecondLove: [[spoiler:He eventually manages to become this to Rika]].
98	* TheSmartGuy: The main characters consider him this (despite his StalkerWithACrush moments).
99	%% * SmokingIsCool
100	* StalkerWithACrush: He ''tries'' to deny it, but he can't do it for long. It's always PlayedForLaughs, as he never does anything really bad.
101	--> '''Mayama:''' I'm not a stalker! I just somehow always pass by her apartment while going home, so I stop to buy a soda from the vending machine there and I sit on the bench for a couple of minutes, looking at her window and wondering what she's doing... Wait, that's what stalkers ''do''!
102	* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: On the train to Hokkaido with Rika. He plays the ChasteHero role and goes for sleeping in a chair, though. [[spoiler:On the return journey, things get a little different]].
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104	!Ayumi Yamada
105	!! Voiced by: Creator/MikakoTakahashi (JP), Creator/JulieAnnTaylor (EN)
106	[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ayumi_9083.jpg]]
107	* BeautifulDreamer: Nomiya watches her sleep twice. Luckily, fantasy unicorns are there to protect the maiden's chastity with threats of violence.
108	* BettyAndVeronica: She's the Betty to Rika's Veronica.
109	%% * TheBigGuy
110	%% * BrainyBrunette
111	* FerrisWheelDateMoment:
112	** Morita decides to be a ShipperOnDeck and pushes her into Mayama's car. After he just refused her. He ''does'' manage to give them a chance to talk about it, at least.
113	** Later, she [[spoiler:has one with Nomiya, which seems more significant]].
114	* HopelessSuitor: She's in love with Mayama, basically the only guy she knows who is ''not'' an HopelessSuitor for her.
115	%% * [[spoiler:IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy]]
116	* KickChick: She likes to kick people when they make her angry or in her {{Tsundere}} moments, but it's PlayedForLaughs.
117	* LethalChef: When she or Hagu start cooking, other characters start hiding.
118	* MaybeEverAfter: [[spoiler:In the end, with Nomiya: she seems to be slowly opening to him and getting over Mayama, but we see nothing definite.]]
119	* SecondLove: [[spoiler:In the end it's implied that Nomiya will be this for her.]]
120	%% * [[spoiler:ShipTease: With Nomiya.]]
121	* {{Tomboy}}: When it's not about romance she's confident, often takes charge and kicks the ass of whoever annoys her.
122	* UnrequitedLoveLastsForever: For the first part of the series she feels that moving on from Mayama would somehow demean her love. [[spoiler:Towards the end, she starts breaking out of this]].
123	* YamatoNadeshiko: When she's not studying she's usually helping her family run a liquor store. Offical art often depicts her in kimono.
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126	[[folder:Secondary Characters]]
127
128	!Shuuji Hanamoto
129	!! Voiced by: Creator/KeijiFujiwara (JP), Creator/ChristopherCoreySmith (EN, credited as "Chris Kent")
130	[[quoteright:284:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shuuji_4283.jpg]]
131	* AmicableExes: with Rika, in a platonic variant. Shuuji was inseparable friends with Rika and her husband Harada, but that changed after an accident killed Harada and crippled Rika. They still share a close bond, but the pain of the memories from before the accident makes it difficult for them to be around each other now.
132	* TheCaretaker: Of Rika in the past, and presently of Hagu.
133	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Harada and Rika meant the world to Shuuji, as thr former was a close friend so the accident that took Harada's life and left Rika crippled and depressed was ''very'' traumatizing for him, though he tries not to show it.
134	* DidNotGetTheGirl: In the backstory, it could be potentially interpreted that he was in love with [[spoiler:Rika, who was married to his best friend Harada.]]
135	%% * FirstGirlWins
136	* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Rika and Harada were both people Shuuji loved, but he recognized deep down that he was a ThirdWheel in their relationship and felt the only thing he could do was support their happiness.
137	* KissingCousins: [[spoiler: What his relationship with Hagu will be if she returns his feelings.]]
138	* LivingEmotionalCrutch: To Hagu, especially at the beginning of the story where she's extremely introverted and shy. Shuuji is one of the only people Hagu is completely comfortable to be around and being without him for long periods of time in unfamiliar situations can be difficult for her.
139	* MySisterIsOffLimits: Shuuji is ''extremely'' protective of his cousin Hagu and tries to ward off any attention she gets from her male peers, especially Morita and Takemoto who he recognizes are crushing on her. [[spoiler: Near the end of the series however, it's revealed that this is because he's ''actually'' in love with her too]].
140	* SenseiChan: Even if he isn't a perfect example, his students do take unusual liberties around him and act more like friends than students.
141	%% * SmokingIsCool
142	* ThirdOptionLoveInterest: In the very end, he [[spoiler:reveals that Takemoto and Morita weren't the only ones who had fallen in love with Hagu.]]
143	* WifeHusbandry: [[spoiler:One possible interpretation towards Hagu staying with Shuuji, who she knows she can depend on, rather than with Morita, who she is in love with. On Shuuji's part, he ''does'' have feelings for her, is roughly a decade older, and due to being cousins, Shuuji has been looking after Hagu since they were children]].
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145	!Rika Harada
146	!! Voiced by: Creator/SayakaOhara (JP), Lara Cody (EN)
147	[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rikah_3662.jpg]]
148	* AmicableExes: with Shuuji, in a platonic variant. Rika and her husband Harada were inseparable friends with Shuuji from their college days, but that changed after an accident killed Harada and crippled Rika. They still share a close bond, but the pain of the memories from before the accident makes it difficult for them to be around each other now.
149	* BrokenBird: She never completely recovered from her accident, neither physically nor emotionally.
150	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Rika and her husband Harada got into a car accident that left burn scars on Rika's back and took Harada's life.
151	* DefrostingIceQueen: She ''very'' slowly starts defrosting to Mayama.
152	* HappilyMarried: She was this to Harada before his death.
153	* HerHeartWillGoOn: She works extremely hard to complete all of Harada's projects.
154	* ItsAllMyFault: She blames herself for Harada'a death for a long time.
155	* MilesToGoBeforeISleep: [[spoiler: She says she wishes to finish all the works her and Harada had promised to do before killing herself in order to join him.]]
156	* OfficeRomance: [[spoiler:At the very end, with Mayama]].
157	* SugarAndIcePersonality: She keeps her distance from everybody, but she's always nice.
158	* SurvivorGuilt: One of the things that keep her from moving on.
159	* TheMourningAfter: After Harada's death she refuses to be broken from this, until [[spoiler: Mayama's tireless efforts and passionate outbursts of love.]]
160	* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: On the way to Hokkaido with Mayama. Even though she doesn't care much, he goes for sleeping in the chair.
161	* BettyAndVeronica: Veronica to Yamada's Betty.
162
163	!Takumi Nomiya
164	!! Voiced by: Creator/KenjiHamada (JP), Tom Gibis (EN)
165	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nomiya_1637.jpg]]
166	%% * BrainyBrunette
167	* BrutalHonesty: He doesn't mince his words, and deals a pretty scathing in-depth lecture towards Yamada for trying to use him to make Mayama jealous.
168	* TheCameo: Brought in during an arc in ''Manga/MarchComesInLikeALion'' along with Mayama for a work team shogi tournament.
169	%% * CurtainsMatchTheWindow
170	* {{Foil}}: To Mayama, intentionally so down to them both wearing glasses and having the same given name, 'Takumi'. Coworkers point out their personalities have similar quirks and Nomiya admits seeing Mayama is like looking at his younger self. Nomiya has developed a more cynical outlook on relationships compared to the still somewhat idealistic Mayama, however. [[spoiler: Their similarities comes to a head when Nomiya ends up eventually becoming Yamada's SecondLove]].
171	* TheGadfly: His main strategy for courting [[spoiler: Yamada]] seems to be taunting her as much as he can.
172	* GrandRomanticGesture: Nomiya finds himself driving ''nine hours'' back to Tokyo from Tottori just to comfort [[spoiler: Yamanda]], and then proceeds to drive ''all the way back'' when it turns out she herself was heading to Tottori. The amount of effort he takes to see her becomes a sign to both himself and his coworkers that his feelings have become genuine.
173	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Initially he comes off as callous and blunt, with his only cares being doing what he can to get work done and get ahead. His early interactions with Yamada particularly feel uneasy. However he proves to actually be a pretty considerate person deep down, and never once takes advantage of her when he finds her at a low point.
174	* LadykillerInLove: In one of his first scenes, he's shown casually dumping a girl who asks him to choose between her and his work. After meeting Yamada, his priorities start to change.
175	%% * LoveEpiphany:
176	* MaybeEverAfter: At the end, [[spoiler:it seems Yamada is starting to return his love but it's neither confirmed nor denied]]. Later addressed in his cameo in Umino's later work, ''Manga/MarchComesInLikeALion'' [[spoiler: when Mayama casually refers to her as "[Nomiya's] wife"]].
177	* OneSteveLimit: As mentioned earlier, this is averted in that he and Mayama both have 'Takumi' as their given name.
178	%% * ShipTease: With [[spoiler:Yamada.]]
179	* {{Workaholic}}: Before meeting [[spoiler: Yamada]], his work seems to be his only real love.
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182
183	!Kaoru [[spoiler:Morita]]
184	!!Voiced by: Takuma Takewaka (JP), Creator/PatrickSeitz (EN)
185	[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kaorum_7237.jpg]]
186	* AloofBigBrother: To Shinobu. Although this is [[spoiler:subverted in some ways, like in terms of art skill.]]
187	* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Despite being fairly talented in other fields himself, having been remarked to have brilliant memory and great creativity, he always feels like [[spoiler:his brother Shinobu is this to him]].
188	%% * BigBrotherInstinct
189	* LaughingMad: Does this [[spoiler: during below said breakdown, before coming back to normal and regretting not seeing "the light".]]
190	* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: [[spoiler:After everything including buying back his father's company, Kaoru breaks down, unable to cope with the fact that he didn't see "the light" his father used to speak of.]]
191	[[/folder]]
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