History Manga / Hanayamata

* {{Engrish}}: DiscussedTrope. Having listened to something in a popular record store with Yaya, Hana wonders why Japanese songs have parts in English, when Japanese is so beautiful. Yaya can't provide an immediate answer.

* CherryBlossoms: Naru's first encounter with Hannah occured amidst a cloud of cherry blossoms. Not surprising though, as it's the start of springtime when this happens, and all the cherry trees in the area are in full bloom.

* {{Engrish}}: Briefly DiscussedTrope. Having listened to something in a popular record store with Yaya, Hana wonders why Japanese songs have parts in English, when Japanese is so beautiful. Yaya can't provide an immediate answer.
* EyeCatch: Used to present personal information on the main characters that [[Main/AllThereInTheManual aren't readily apparent in the series itself]], like Naru apparently loving to draw, or Yaya's utterly unreadable handwriting.

** Served with whimpers, when contemplating the disaster of their first event performance without any music. The spot itself is rather static.

** At the beginning of episode 2, a strong gloomy aura that has to be cleared some for the actual scene to become visible accompanies Yaya's HiddenEyes moment.

** The very first scene of the anime is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterboxing_(filming) windowboxed]], the "box" showing blurred close-up of actual picture. The effect is not used elsewhere, the scene is different from manga and appears to be powered-up eyecandy that makes use of the time needed to narrate the kickoff InnerMonologue of Naru.

** Sally-sensei during the seventh episode, where she imagines herself and the rest of the Yosakoi club in an 80's ''shoujo'' manga style.

** Hana's recruitment posters for Yosakoi club are adorned with simplistic flowers here and there.

** Just coerced by Naru's cuteness to join the Yosakoi club ([[{{Tsundere}} "In name only!"]]), Yaya writes her name on the club application like an autograph, with a flower scribble at the end of final stroke.

* InvisibleParents: Averted this time around -- we actually meet both Naru's mother and father (though her mother's face is always hidden), Yaya's father (who was making her help out in their restaurant), and Tami's father (who looks and suspiciously ''sounds'' like Tokiomi from LightNovel/FateZero). Finally, there's also Hannah's parents in episode 10.

* NewspaperThinDisguise: The "peeking through a hole" variation. Part of comical overreaction of Naru's father to sudden change in Naru's behavior, narrated after newborn Yosakoi club has its first outing (anime episode 6).

* SchoolClubStories: Arguably its supporting plot is how Hannah gets enough people to form a Yosakoi club.

college, who's more worried about still being eligible for marriage rather than the grunt work required for being a teacher.

** Episode 11. [[spoiler:Hannah goes back with her mom back to the US without warning, meaning that not only is the Yosakoi club bereft of its founder and president, their participation at the Hanairo Festival is put into doubt.]]

%% Character page material * TheAce: Naru's friend Yaya is great at academics, incredibly popular, and is also musically talented. Her only failing seems to be the fact that her handwriting seems to be indecipherable.

%% Character page material * TokenMiniMoe: Hannah, being the shortest and youngest-looking member of the main-character quintet, and is even treated as if she's much younger than she really is.
TwelveEpisodeAnime: 1-cour anime adaptation culminates in [[spoiler:Hanairo festival performance]].

%% Character page material * ZettaiRyouiki: Courtesy of the thigh-highs worn by Yaya.

%% Character page material * {{Tsundere}}: Yaya. Not only does she start spouting the stock tsundere phrases once her jealousy goes on overdrive, she actually gets ''called'' this by Hannah.
* TwelveEpisodeAnime: 1-cour anime adaptation culminates in [[spoiler:Hanairo festival performance]].

* Foreshadowing: The policeman yells at some plot-irrelevant kids recklessly climbing bridge railing in the background. Later he's chasing Hana for similar reasons.

%% Character page material * SecondYearProtagonist: Naru, Yaya, and Hannah are all in their second year of middle school.
%% Character page material * SenseiChan: Sally, the English teacher of Naru's class, hits most of the check boxes for this, what with being a new graduate barely out of college, who's more worried about still being eligible for marriage rather than the grunt work required for being a teacher.

Penned and drawn by Sou Hamayumiba, ''Hanayamata'' (ハナヤマタ) is a manga serialized in ''Magazine/MangaTimeKirara Forward'' since June 2011, with five volumes released by July 2014. A 12-episode anime adaptation by Madhouse premiered during the Summer2014Anime season.

* BlankWhiteEyes: Used extensively to picture surprise reactions, first brought on by Naru's bewilderness over "Fairy"'s offer to ''dance'' together. But adults and more composed Tami and Machi are exempted from this.

* FlowerMotifs: The main characters each have a flower associated to them, though this was made much more obvious by the anime's promotional material. Naru for example is a cherry blossom (see the image used for this page), Hannah's is a bluestar, Yaya's is a red rose, Tami's is a lily, and Machi's is a sunflower.

* DaydreamSurprise: Naru sees Hana take on some [[TheGreys alien features and manner of speaking]] to transit the action from their reunion scene to a wild chase around school.

* SpitTake: Done by Yaya, when Hannah turns up outside the window she and Naru were standing beside. Said window happens to be ''on the second floor'', so the reaction is merited.

* WellDoneSonGuy: Everything Tami did up to doing Yosakoi, from ballet to piano lessons to tea ceremony and flower arranging, was to make her father proud of her by acting like the perfect ojou-san.

%% Character page material * BigOlEyebrows: Naru's got a thick and obvious set for a girl her age.

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: It's hard to believe that Hannah is "merely" incredibly athletic, given what she's been shown to accomplish during the first episode[=/=]introductory chapter alone: vertically jump more than four times her height (on platform geta sandals at that!), balance ''perfectly'' on precarious surfaces, or quietly appear in unexpected places. It's for these reasons (and the fact that she's apparently very pretty) that Naru mistook her for a fairy when they first met.

* CrashIntoHello: After the first run-in with Naru is over, Hana is fleeing from a police officer (who is unhappy with her parkour antics). She makes a blind jump off a high-elevation ground. But down below stands Yaya in front of an arm gate, waiting for the train to pass. The train also [[DiscretionShot blocks the sight]] of the actual landing for the audience and likely would block the sounds of warnings for Yaya. Apologetic Hana has barely enough time to make sure the exasperated messy heap of a girl in front of her is not seriously hurt before the officer catches up again to chase her off.
%% Character page material * CuteLittleFangs: Hannah has an obvious pair of canines.
%% Character page material * DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Naru in a nutshell. The main plot definitely centers around Naru taking her first steps out of her comfort zone.

%% Character page material * FriendlessBackground: Implied by Hannah, particularly during her revelation of her love for American superhero comics.
%% Character page material * TheGenericGirl: How Naru feels. She doesn't like it. Due to the art style used by the series though this comes off as a bit of an InformedAttribute.
%% Character page material * GenkiGirl: Hannah. In fact she's ''so'' cheerful and enthusiastic that it actually ''[[DeconstructedTrope alienates]]'' her from many of her schoolmates.
%% Character page material * HairDecorations: The main cast is invariably wearing ''something'' on their hair, most of them hairclips -- see Naru's flower hairclip in the series image above.

%% Character page material * OccidentalOtaku: It turns out that Hannah is a ''yosakoi'' dance nut, and one of the main reasons she came to Japan was to learn more about it.

%% Character page material * OlderThanTheyLook: Hannah happens to be around the same age as Naru, yet she's much shorter than her.

%% Character page material * ProperTightsWithASkirt: Of the ensemble of girls, Hana is the only one who wears tights with her school uniform. She's also the shorty.

%% Character page material * SixthRanger: Machi ''finally'' joins the Yosakoi club in episode 10.

%% Character page material * BlitheSpirit: Hannah, with a dash of ManicPixieDreamGirl thrown in.

%% Character page material * CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Excluding blue-eyed blonde foreigner Hana, everyone in Yosakoi club has eye color matching the hair.

%% Character page material * {{Meganekko}}: Machi, the student council president.
%% Character page material * NewTransferStudent: Hannah, who transfer into Naru's school at the end of the second chapter.

%% Character page material * YamatoNadeshiko: Tami fits this to a tee, being a well-mannered girl brought up in a traditional and affluent family, and to top it off, she wears a traditional kimono when out of school. Hannah even calls her as such.

Naru Sekiya is feeling listless. She's always felt too ordinary and boring, especially when compared to her best friend Yaya Sasame, but due to her innate meekness she's never been able to reach out to other people. She hoped that things would change once she entered middle school, but now she's already in her second year, and her situation remains unchanged. Will she be able to shine brightly like the heroines of the fairy tales she still loves reading about? She's not really sure anymore.

Then, one night as she's walking home from yet another mundane day at school, she encounters a beautiful fairy, dancing amidst a cloud of cherry blossoms and under the light of the evening moon. The fairy, surprised by Naru's attention, bolts, but Naru chases after her, a part of her desperate to join the fairy in going to whichever realm it was going, which was likely much more colorful than the world Naru was currently living in. On impulse she asks the fairy to take her as well.

This piques the interest of the fairy, but as soon as Naru is to find out, the "more colorful world" that she was promised wasn't exactly what she was expecting.

Penned and drawn by Sou Hamayumiba, '''Hanayamata''' (ハナヤマタ) has been serialized in ''Magazine/MangaTimeKirara Forward'' since June 2011, and currently has four volumes compiled. An anime adaptation for it by Madhouse is scheduled to air during the Summer2014Anime season, while a Playstation Vita game by Bandai-Namco entitled ''Hanayamata: Yosakoi Live'' has also been announced.

* TheAce: Naru's friend Yaya is great at academics, incredibly popular, and is also musically talented. Her only failing seems to be the fact that her handwriting seems to be indecipherable.

* BigOlEyebrows: Naru's got a thick and obvious set for a girl her age.
* BlitheSpirit: Hannah, with a dash of ManicPixieDreamGirl thrown in.

* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Excluding blue-eyed blonde foreigner Hana, everyone in Yosakoi club has eye color matching the hair.
* CuteLittleFangs: Hannah has an obvious pair of canines.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Naru in a nutshell. The main plot definitely centers around Naru taking her first steps out of her comfort zone.

* FriendlessBackground: Implied by Hannah, particularly during her revelation of her love for American superhero comics.
* TheGenericGirl: How Naru feels. She doesn't like it. Due to the art style used by the series though this comes off as a bit of an InformedAttribute.
* GenkiGirl: Hannah. In fact she's ''so'' cheerful and enthusiastic that it actually ''[[DeconstructedTrope alienates]]'' her from many of her schoolmates.
* HairDecorations: The main cast is invariably wearing ''something'' on their hair, most of them hairclips -- see Naru's flower hairclip in the series image above.

* {{Meganekko}}: Machi, the student council president.
* NewTransferStudent: Hannah, who transfer into Naru's school at the end of the second chapter.
* OccidentalOtaku: It turns out that Hannah is a ''yosakoi'' dance nut, and one of the main reasons she came to Japan was to learn more about it.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Hannah happens to be around the same age as Naru, yet she's much shorter than her.

* ProperTightsWithASkirt: Of the ensemble of girls, Hana is the only one who wears tights with her school uniform. She's also the shorty.

* SecondYearProtagonist: Naru, Yaya, and Hannah are all in their second year of middle school.
* SenseiChan: Sally, the English teacher of Naru's class, hits most of the check boxes for this, what with being a new graduate barely out of college, who's more worried about still being eligible for marriage rather than the grunt work required for being a teacher.

* SixthRanger: Machi ''finally'' joins the Yosakoi club in episode 10.

* TokenMiniMoe: Hannah, being the shortest and youngest-looking member of the main-character quintet, and is even treated as if she's much younger than she really is.
* {{Tsundere}}: Yaya. Not only does she start spouting the stock tsundere phrases once her jealousy goes on overdrive, she actually gets ''called'' this by Hannah.

* YamatoNadeshiko: Tami fits this to a tee, being a well-mannered girl brought up in a traditional and affluent family, and to top it off, she wears a traditional kimono when out of school. Hannah even calls her as such.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Courtesy of the thigh-highs worn by Yaya.

* TwelveEpisodeAnime: 1-cour anime adaptation culminates in [[spoiler:Hanairo festival performance]].

* [[WellDoneSonGuy "Well Done, Daughter" Guy]]: Everything Tami did up to doing Yosakoi, from ballet to piano lessons to tea ceremony and flower arranging, was to make her father proud of her by acting like the perfect ojou-san.

* FreezeFrameBonus: The list of official clubs of Naru's school apparently includes a '''[[Franchise/LoveLiveSchoolIdolProject school idol club]]''', a '''[[Anime/GirlsUndPanzer tank club]]''', and a '''romance club'''.

* HairDecorations: The main cast is invariably wearing ''something'' on their hair, most of them hairclips -- see Naru's flower hairclip in the series image above.
* HotSpringsEpisode: Girls take a dip at the inn they travel for a training camp to, in episode 10.
* InstantExpert: Notably averted. The series goes to great lengths to show how ''none'' of the girls master Yosakoi dancing easily (see Machi's constant frustration during the entirety of episode 10), even Hannah herself. By the end of the show, they're still not even close to being experts, but are competent enough to perform without making noticeable mistakes, but only due to investing hours and hours of practice to their routine.
* InvisibleParents: Averted this time around -- we actually meet both Naru's mother and father (though her mother's face is always hidden), Yaya's father (who was making her help out in their restaurant), and Tami's father (who looks and suspiciously ''sounds'' like Tokiomi from LightNovel/FateZero). Finally, there's also Hannah's parents in episode 10.

* InstantExpert: Notably averted. The show goes to great lengths to show how ''none'' of the girls master Yosakoi dancing easily, even Hannah herself. By the end of the show, they're still not even close to being experts, but are competent enough to perform without making noticeable mistakes, but only due to investing hours and hours of practice to their routine.

* FlowerMotifs: The main characters each have a flower associated to them, though this was made much more obvious by the anime's promotional material. Naru for example is a cherry blossom (see the image used for this page), Hannah's is a morning glory, Yaya's is a red rose, Tami's is a lily, and Machi's is a sunflower.

* FlowerMotifs: The main characters each have a flower associated to them, though this was made much more obvious by the anime's promotional material. Naru for example is a cherry blossom (see the image used for this page), Yaya's is a red rose, Tami's is a lily, and Machi's is a sunflower.

* PhenotypeStereotype: Hannah N. Fountainstand, the so-called fairy that Naru meets, is from America, so ''obviously'' she gets to be blonde and blue-eyed. In a bit of a subversion though, Hannah is actually much shorter than Naru, and not stacked at all.

* InvisibleParents: Averted this time around -- we actually see both Naru's mother and father (though her mother's face is always hidden), Yaya's father (who was making her help out in their restaurant), and Tami's father (who looks and suspiciously ''sounds'' like Tokiomi from LightNovel/FateZero).

* WhamEpisode: Episode 8. Naru experienced an ''extremely'' badly-timed (and trauma-filled) flashback during the Yosakoi' club's turn to perform, throws everyone off-rhythm, and more or less ruins their presentation in front of an audience of dozens of people.

%% Needs context (see ZeroContextExample) * ShrinkingViolet: Naru.

* OccidentalOtaku: It turns out that Hannah is a ''yosakoi'' dance nut, and one of the main reasons she came to Japan was to learn more about it.

* ShrinkingViolet: Naru.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: Initially thought to be a case of OnlyFiveFaces, but some watchers noticed early on just how similar Machi looked to Sally-sensei. Turns out they were sisters, and indeed Tami points out the obvious surname the two of them share.