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''HoneyAndClover'' depicts the lives of the students of an art college in Tokyo. It centers mostly around three young men, Yuta, Takumi and Shinobu, who live in a run-down apartment complex and who have become very close friends.

One day one of the art professors introduces Hagumi (Hagu), his cousin's extremely talented daughter from the countryside. Hagumi looks very young for her age and is shy toward strangers, which doesn't prevent Yuta and Shinobu from falling in love with her immediately. Both boys are awkward in their ways of showing their affections though, which leads to a very delicate [[LoveTriangle love triangle]].

Takumi also finds himself in love, this time with an older woman, while another student, Ayumi, in turn is in love with him. This love triangle actually gets the most attention at first, emphasizing the hopelessness of both people's unreciprocated feelings and leading to much of the drama during the first series.

''HoneyAndClover'' started out as a {{josei}} manga series, serialized in various magazines from 2000 till its ending in 2006. It has been adapted into two anime series. A [[LiveActionAdaptation live action movie adaptation]] has been released in 2006 and two TV dramas (in Japan and then Taiwan) started airing in 2008. Yes, it's ''that'' popular.

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!!Tropes:

* AdultChild: Hagu, who is 18 but acts about half her age--just the way she looks.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Taken to the extreme, except in one case.
* ArtShift: It happens on occasion, usually when looking at one of Hagu's works or in one DVD-only episode, where the art style (and scenery) shifts to something out of a {{Shoujo}} manga. It's even [[LampshadeHanging pointed out]] in show with the following line: "You've turned into a shoujo manga character!"
* BittersweetEnding: Life goes on, but [[spoiler:Yuta has to say goodbye to the object of his unrequited love, Hagu, and is left with bittersweet memories of his days at the college]].
* BlankWhiteEyes: Happens a lot to Hagu. Not surprisingly, considering the idiocy she gets confronted with.
* BlueWithShock: Often appears with the BlankWhiteEyes whenever Morita does something. Or when Ayu cooks.
* BrokeEpisode: One of the DVD-only episodes, Chapter L, was one of these taken to extremes, flashing back to a period when everyone in the apartment was desperate for meat.
* BrokenBird: Rika Harada is one, physically as well as emotionally.
* CampGay: The Fujiwara Brothers ([[SuperMarioBrothers Mario and Luigi]]) who head Fujiwara Design Bureau.
* CannotSpitItOut
* CherryBlossoms: The traditional 'cherry blossom viewing party' is a RunningGag in the series' first season, especially with Morita using it as a means of earning money.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Shinobu Morita, although also Hagu arguably qualifies.
* CountryMouse: Hagumi.
* CutesyDwarf: Hagumi.
* GeniusDitz: While being a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} as stated above, Morita is also pretty much TheAce when it comes to anything involving art- to the point of winning an Academy Award at the end.
* GrowingUpSucks
* HimeCut: Yamada.
* HoYay: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Mayama's coworkers at Fujiwara Design after yelling for Takemoto to stop licking him as Leader wakes him up. Nomiya even says that 'a lot of those types end up in this business'. It doesn't help that Takemoto's spending nights sleeping in Mayama's room due to the [[PerpetualPoverty lack of an air conditioner]] making those hot summer nights less restful.
* InformedAbility: Hagu's art as depicted in the series is fine, but for someone who is supposedly extremely talented it isn't anything special.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy.
* {{Josei}}
* LeftHanging: The show ends without answering [[spoiler:whether Hagu's hand will be fine or what actually happens with the other relationships]].
** That can be seen as an example of RealityIsUnrealistic.
* LethalChef: Yamada, Hagu
* LiveActionAdaptation
* {{Lolicon}}: She's technically of age, but still...
* LoveHurts: In several varieties.
* LoveTriangle: Two of 'em. Three if you count a possible one in the backstory.
* MediumBlending: The first intro.
* MoodWhiplash
* {{Motifs}}: The Wheel (Ferris Wheel, Bicycle Wheel) is often used as a metaphor for love and relationships in the first season.
* PerpetualPoverty: This ''is'' college/art school, and the first time in the lives of the characters that they're living out on their own. Used for gags in the early part of the manga, before the main story finds its feet.
* RecapEpisode: The second season's first episode is basically a retelling of the events in the first season.
* SliceOfLife
* SmokingIsCool: Hanamoto-sensei and Mayama seem to perpetuate this stereotype, or try to.
* SparklingStreamOfTears
* {{Tearjerker}}: [[spoiler:When Takemoto opens Hagu's package on the train and discovers the [[TitleDrop honey and clover sandwiches]].]] That was the biggest one, but this show's full of them.
* TheOtherDarrin: Takamoto's original voice actor, Kamiya Hiroshi, was hospitalized and replaced by Nojima Kenji for episode 12 of the second season. Kamiya rerecorded the episode for the DVD version.
* ThunderShock: Used for humor, such as when Mayama and Takemoto first sampled some of the LethalChef cooking in Episode 7 of the first season.
* TrainStationGoodbye
* {{Wangst}}
* WeirdMoon: With moving pictures on its surface.
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