History Manga / HappyHappyClover

* AdultFear: Seeing Clover almost drown twice especially since Rambler yells out her name in Volume 2 after the flood arrives in the hole that she dug herself in to rescue him.

* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler: Mallow and Shallot are seen with their own group of bunny children in the conclusion of volume 5 which is the final story to the series.]]

* BearsAreBadNews: When a young girl is heading straight to Crescent Forest in volume 4. She gets scared by Blackberry's mother and doesn't even attempt to attack her. She and the little girl both get scared and run away.

* BunniesForCuteness: The entire purpose of the manga, this isn't the first time Tatsuyama Sayuri made a manga that featured a cute rabbit.

* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Despite Clover apologizing to the Bulbul brothers for accusing them of being thieves and the animals later finding the real thief. Clover still gets scolded by her mother and Professor Hoot and punishes her by doing chorus which her friends later help with.

* ManChild: Inverted, while Rambler is mostly smart,brave, and very serious. Clover mentions that he acts "immature" which Rambler reacts in confusion which cuts to various moments where Rambler is acting childish compared to his usual self.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Mallow and Clover's relationship looks a bit romantic at times especially in the anime adaptation.

* ShooOutTheClowns: Clover's friends (Mallow,Kale,Shallot, and Hickory) aren't present with Clover once they hear the news of a forest fire heading straight to their home.

* TokenHuman: The Lake God seen in the manga while not a human. Is the only character that has a humanish appearance since the other animals aren't fond of humans.

** The first is the story "Mallow's Heart Flutters"[[spoiler: Shallot has an accidental love confession with Mallow]] in bed after not being found at school one day.

* AWildRapperAppears: The Bulbul brothers would always rap when ever they talk to the other characters. Clover even Lampshades this in there debut in Volume 2.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To TatsuyamaSayuri's previous animal themed manga series "Pukupuku Natural Circular Notice".

* CerebusSyndrome: Volume 5 (the final volume) [[ToneShift starts shifting]] from [[SweetDreamsFuel its normally cute, fun, and silly stories]] to a more serious and dramatic situation with the characters, especially the last couple of stories.

[[https://kissanime.to/Anime/Happy-Happy-Clover/Episode-001?id=118145 The anime with English subs can be found here.]]

''Happy Happy Clover'' (はぴはぴクローバー Hapi Hapi Kurōbā) (2005-2008) is a {{Shoujo}} manga series by Creator/TatsuyamaSayuri [[SliceOfLife that focuses on a day to day life of a female rabbit named Clover and her friends Mallow, Kale, and Shallot]]. It takes place at a forest called [[WoodlandCreatures "Crescent Forest" where the main story takes place along with other animals that live there]]. Clover's dream is to travel with Rambler The Rambling Rabbit, but he thinks she's too young to go traveling with him. Clover's main goal is to try to impress Rambler so she can go out traveling with him someday. The manga was serialized on Ciao Magazine the same magazine that Sayuri's previous manga series "Pukupuku Natural Circular Notice" was shown.

[[AnimatedAdaptation The manga later got an animated adaptation in 2007 of the same name]] by Creator/GroupTAC. Which adapts the first three volumes. The anime was broadcasted on TV Aichi, Tokyo Mix, and Kids Station from July,6, 2007 - September 29,2007 with a total of 13 episodes. In 2009, Creator/VizMedia translated all 5 of the volumes and was sold in the United States and Canada. During the manga run, it's gotten one [[http://i.imgur.com/N3Fqpny.jpg Nintendo DS game that was released between 2007 and 2008]]. This is also one of Creator/TatsuyamaSayuri's more well-known works next "Pukupuku Natural Circular Notice" which previously won the Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga in 2002.

In Spring 2016, French company Nobi Nobi began translating the manga where it's called "Happy Clover".

* GratuitousEnglish: The Bulbul brothers (A duo of rap singing hawks) would sometimes drop in random English words like "Baby" and "Yo Yo" when ever they start talking or singing. Especially in the anime, when it there rap number would sometimes end with Professor Hoot finishing up there rap by also saying "Yo".

%% * SlidingScaleOfAnimalCast: Type 3

%% * ThoseTwoGirls: Cinnamon and Twirl.
%% * ThoseTwoGuys: Clover and Mallow.
* TwelveEpisodeAnime: 13 episodes were made for the animated adaptation in 2007.

* ADayInTheLimelight: There are a few times in the manga where it shifts to a different animals point of view with Clover becoming a secondary character for that story.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: While Rambler is mostly very clam and smart. He lost his forest and family due to a forest fire caused by a humans. Which he only tells to Clover in later volumes.

* ChristmasEpisode: One story in volume 3, has Clover,Mallow,Kale, and Shallot learning about Santa Claus by reading a book from Professor Hoot's home. Professor Hoot tells them to not read it since they aren't old enough yet. Clover and friends get amazed by Santa Claus and she later tells about this to Kale's baby brothers including writing letters to him. Kale later visits Clover's place and tells her how the entire concept of Santa is stupid and starts tearing up the Santa letters to pieces. They do find a way to deliver the presents to Kale's place on Christmas Eve without getting noticed since they think Santa doesn't visit Crescent Forest. In the end, Clover and friends wake up to see Christmas gifts and not knowing where they came from.

* CerebusSyndrome: Volume 5 (The final volume) [[ToneShift starts shifting]] from [[SweetDreamsFuel it's normally cute,fun, and silly stories]] to a more serious and dramatic situation with the characters especially the last couple of stories.

* CatapultNightmare: Clover wakes up after having a nightmare of her friends,parents, and the majority of citizens in Crescent Forest shunning her and kicking her out of the forest for lying and framing the Bulbul brothers for being thieves. Which could explain how Hickory gotten to Clover's room when she woke up hinting that he heard the noises she made as she was asleep.

* CarnivoreConfusion: Professor Hoot is the teacher of Crescent Forest which includes various woodland creatures including bunnies. Surprisingly he gets along with Clover & Friends and is the one who warns them about humans despite owls being natural predators to bunnies.

* BlushSticker[=/=]ThroughAFaceFullOfFur: It's permanent in the anime, but in the original manga series Clover's blushing cheeks is usually seen in colorized artwork and would pop up and disappear at random in the manga.

* ExpressiveEars: Common with the various animals mainly the bunnies except for Mallow and her mother due to being Lop Eared Bunnies.

* ExpressiveEars: Common with the various animals mainly the bunnies except for Mallow and her mother due to being Lop Eared Bunnies.
* EnigmaticEmpoweringEntity: The fountain goddess seen twice in the series who appears to grant wishes to the forest animals. It only works on Clover and Hickory, while she previously saved her from drowning.
* TheHeart: Mallow

* FreakyFridayFlip: Happens in volume 5 where Clover switches bodies with Hickory. She learns that being a flying squirrel isn't all that easy while Hickory can do work much faster which scares Clover's parents.

* FeatherFingers: Professor Hoot appears to have these.

* GoodParents: While Clover's parents are very stern with her. They really care about her along with her safety.

* GentleGiant: Despite being the biggest animals in the series. Blackberry and his mother are very kind and nice with the other animals as long as you don't wake them up during there hibernation.
* GhibliHills: The entire setting including the landscapes looks beautiful and pretty colorful.
* GenderBender: One story in volume 5 has Clover and Hickory switch bodies for the day. This results in Hickory becoming Clover and Clover becoming Hickory. This results with Clover who is in Hickory's body to be given eyelashes while Clover's body doesn't contain any eyelashes and is given Hickory's eyes.
* GirlOfTheWeek: Luna a female bunny who lives far away from Crescent Forest appears to have a crush on Kale but doesn't out right state this. But judging by Kale's reaction when she leaves and the post-story comic he actually starts falling in love with her.
* FragileFlower: Mallow is the most sensitive character in the series. She later grows out of this a little in later stories.
* GenderEqualEnsemble: Two females (Clover and Mallow) and two males (Kale and Shallot)
* GenkiGirl: Clover is very energetic is runs very fast!

* HitStop: In the Anime, when Mallow crashes into a rock. It cuts to the leaf that she was riding to fly up into the air in slow motion and the scene goes silent until it cuts to Mallow waking up in her bed.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Luna wears a vest

* MoeStare: Mallow and Clover are seen making this face most of the time. [[http://i.imgur.com/vK9nIZn.jpg Including this cute illustration from the manga.]]
* MiddleChildSyndrome: In one flashback story in volume 4 which focuses on Kale. Shows Kale a bit younger and decides to hug his mother until his father tells him "No more hugging on mommy's tummy" and she reveals to her son that she is going to have a babies. Kale gets excited but a but worried since his parents tells him that he's going to be a bug brother. Kale feels that once the baby bunnies are born he won't get enough attention until he finally sees his newborn brothers near the end of the story.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Mallow really feels guilty for Clover after she notices her crying in front of her mother,Professor Hoot, and Clover's mother. She is even seen crying silently into her bed for the rest of the day.
** Same goes for Clover after her outburst with Kale's baby brothers for breaking a necklace she and Mallow made. She starts feeling very guilty for her actions when she read the apology letter that the bunnies written on the necklace that they fixed and starts crying until she thinks of a an idea to make her apology gift for the bunnies.
* MotorMouth: Clover in the anime adaptation.

* NonMammalianHair: Luna is the only animal in the series that is seen with actual hair.

* {{One Shot Character}}: Luna and Hickory's twin brother in Volume 4

* ObliviousToLove: Mr. Mole's daughter and Forsynthia developed a short lived crush with Kale in one story. But Kale is unaware of this and this trips returns again in Volume 4 when a bunny named Thistle starts developing a crush in him. He doesn't know about this but appears to start loving her when he describes about her when His friends arrive.
* ThePrankster: Twirl The Squirrel loves playing pranks around the other animals.
* ProjectileKiss: Although Clover doesn't actually do this. She does make a kissing gesture to the audience in Volume 3 when she learns the reader is still reading about her adventures which makes her happy.

* RascallyRabbit: While Kale is the strongest of the bunch. He's also prone to being very mischievous and sometimes leave some rude comments.

* RelationShipUpgrade: While Shallot and Mallow are both great friends. [[spoiler: In the final volume, after Mallow learns that Shallot likes her. In the conclusion, Mallow and Shallot are married and have kids of their own.]]
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Every animal that shows up in the manga, especially Hickory!
* {{Santa Claus}}: The main focus on the Christmas story in the manga and is even seen during a story that the bunnies are reading.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To TatsuyamaSayuri's previous animal themed manga series "Pukupuku Natural Circular Notice"

* SleepCute: One of the first scenes featuring Clover is her sleeping in bed when he mother tells her to wake up so she won't be late for school.
* ShellShockSilence: In the anime where Clover and friends go down a hill by riding a big leaf. It's mostly upbeat however when Mallow decides to ride down the hill by herself. The music slowly starts getting quiter until Mallow starts talking in her mind about being like Clover until she finally crashes on a big rock. The scene then goes silent while we see her leaf flying up in the air in slow motuon . The next scene show her waking up from her POV and we her Clover's mom and Professor Hoot scolding Clover about the hills.
* ShooOutTheClowns: Clover's friends (Mallow,Kale,Shallot, and Hickory) aren't present with Clover once they hear the news of a forest fire heading straight to there home.
* ScareEmStraight: In the fifth volume, Clover's nightmare serves as this in order for her to confess that she actually lied to her mother and teacher about the Bulbul brothers being thieves.
* SurpriseCreepy: The first monster that Clover,Mallow,Kale, and Shallot have to fight in Volume 1 and the final story in Volume 5 where a very dangerous forest fire is heading straight to Crescent Forest.
* SickeninglySweethearts: This is what Clover's mother and father cut most of the time much to the confusion of Clover herself.

* TearsOfRemorse: When Mallow sees her mother and Professor Hoot scolding Clover for making causing Mallow to injure her foot after riding down a cliff that contained rocks in front of her mother and Clover's mother. She quickly defends Clover and tells the adults that it was her fault and starts crying hysterically into her mother's chest. Mallow is later seen crying silently into her bed until Cinnamon visits her room after hearing about the incident.
* TenderTears: Mallow can be seen doing this in some stories.

* TheHermit: Clover and friends meets a male rabbit who judging by the over grown amounts of grass and the look of his house appears to hardly come out side. He tells Clover and friends that he has a crush on Shallot's sister.
* ThoseTwoGuys[=/=] ThoseTwoGirls: Cinnamon and Twirl and Clover and Mallow
* TokenHuman: The Lake God seen in the manga while not a human. Is the only character that has a humanish appearance since the other animals aren't fond of humans.

* TwelveEpisodeAnime: 13 episodes were made for the animated adaptation in 2007.
* LetsGetDangerous: [[spoiler: Clover starts risking her life in the finale of the series when the forest fire is starting to get much worser then they thought]]
* NowLetMeCarryYou: How Mallow feels about taking care of Clover in Volume 5 after suffering a bad stomach ach.
* SwissArmyTears: [[spoiler: How Rambler revives Clover from a fish back into her rabbit self.]]
* SlidingScaleOfAnimalCast: Type 3
* SweetPollyOliver: Thistle a female bunny decided to make herself look more like a male bunny since Kale was hoping that his pen pal was a female. He doesn't learn about this until a hawk shows up after he learns that Thistle was a stowaway.
* ATwinkleInTheSky: Happens when ever she kicks Cinnamon and Twirl.
* VagueAge: While Clover,Mallow,Kale and Shallot are young children. Rambler,Professor Hoot, and Hickory are adults. Despite Hickory being a babysitter and has been babysitting Clover since she was a baby. It's strange knowing that Hickory's an adult, the manga even mentions that he has a cute voice and is mostly quiet. But it's very easy to forget that due to his voice and his child like appearance.

* VerbalTic: Professor Hoot always ends his sentences with the word "hoot".

* WholeEpisodeFlashback: Happens 3 times in the manga which focused on Shallot,Hickory, and Kale.

* WhiteBunny: Clover (Except parts of her ears which are peach/orange colored) along with her mother are both white rabbits.
* WhamLine: The entire speech Shallot gives to Mallow in the Volume 5 story "Mallow's Heart Flutters" which also counts as a love confession while in bed.
* WhamShot: Two in "Mallow's Heart Flutters". First is when Shallot [[spoiler: accidentally reveals that Mallow has a crush on her]] after finding the healing herbs Mallow asked him earlier in the story. The first thing reaction you see from Mallow is her blushing then starts shaking after being touched by Shallot's words. The second is when Mallow gives him a big hug in bed which causes him to faint.

* AlphaBitch: Forsyntheia
* ADayInTheLimelight: There are a few times in the manga where it shifts to a different animals point of view with Clover becoming a secondary character for that story.
** Twice for Hickory the first is showing a flashback to how he first meet Clover and becoming a babysitter. While the second focuses on him spending the week away from Clover's home and spending time with his grandfather.
** Twice for Mallow and Shallot. The first is when Mallow injures her foot in Volume 1 and Shallot which is a flashback to how he meet Kale and Clover. Second is in Volume 5 which focuses on the two after Shallot bruises his hands after hearing a specific ingredient that she wanted since shes studying about medicine.
** Two for Kale, the first is how he becomes a big brother in Volume 4 after he learns that his mother is pregnant and is preparing for a new set of baby brothers and the second is in volume 5 where he learns abut his pen-pal.
* AccidentalMarriage: Clover and Hickory accidentally get married in one story in the later volumes by a group of flying squirrels who they think is a bride and groom.

** Volume 4 teaches about gender roles and sexism in a story where Clover decides to visit Mallow's place for her tea party which is mostly girls only. However she Kale laughs at her dress and remembers there race. Mallow and the either female animals throw a snowball at Kale after they hear him laughing at Clover and root for her.
* AdaptedOut: The human characters from the manga don't make an appearance despite getting mentioned a few times in the anime.

* AdaptationDyeJob: Clover's heart-shaped chest is usually peach colored. Sometimes it is colored dark pink or reddish in merchandises as well as in some concept art of her.
** Rambler's fur is actually blue, but would sometimes appear grey in the anime depending on the episode.
** [[http://i.imgur.com/qylpCfp.jpg Blackberry The Bear's fur was colored blue/black]] in some colored pictures of the characters seen in Japanese magazines promoting the series. But in the anime his fur is brown.
* AWildRapperAppears: The Bulbul brothers would always rap when ever they talk to the other characters. Clover even Lampshades this in there debut in Volume 2.
* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: From brown to pink bunnies to a blue flying squirrel. The series has quite a few unique colors for some of the animals characters mainly in the anime.
* ATwinkleInTheSky: Happens when ever she kicks Cinnamon and Twirl.
* {{Adorkable}}: Shallot is one of the smarter friends of Clover. However when he's near Mallow, he becomes very shy and a little nervous around her.
* AnimatedAdaptation: When the Manga series started gaining popularity around Japan. An animated version of the Manga got adapted in animated form in 2007.
* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler: Mallow and Shallot are seen with there own group of bunny children in the conclusion of volume 5 which is the final story to the series.]]
* BackForTheFinale: Thistle returns in the final story [[spoiler: where she and Kale get married.]]

* BabySittingEpisode: One story in volume 1, involves Clover taking care of Kale's baby brothers since Kale has to take care of his parents who got a huge cold. When Kale's baby brothers break a necklace that Mallow made for Clover. She runs out of her home and starts crying, however later on she returns home and learns from her mother that Kale took them home. Clover reacts by feeling guilty for how she treated them and heads to Kale's home where Clover and Kale decided to make an apology gift after Clover reads their letter they wrote her after they fixed Clover's necklace.
** Another story in the same volume stars Hickory in a flashback to when he first became Clover's babysitter.

* {{Bishonen}}: A rare non-human example, Rambler is the most attractive looking rabbit in the forest despite having a few bruises on both of his ears. Same goes for Luna who shows up in Volume 4.
** Mallow also imagines Rambler as a [[https://65.media.tumblr.com/66de554465d58c0be3876e70b6dedfbd/tumblr_njlxxaoRGQ1rvs136o1_500.jpg charming white rabbit]] before she even meets him after hearing Clover's describing him.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: A major theme in the story where Hickory and Clover switch bodies in Volume 5 (Mainly to Clover who wonders what it would be like inside Hickory's body).
* BishieSparkle: Mainly with Rambler and later Luna. This also shows up when Clover first encounters s young human who is nice to her unlike his father who is hunting her.
** This also shows up when Mallow imagines Rambler as a charming male rabbit.
** Luna, a one-shot character that showed up in volume 4 is the same as Rambler complete with hair and plays a violin.
** The human that Clover first encounters in Volume 1 not counting his father who almost catches her.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Occurs in certain stories such as the second appearance of the Bulbul brothers where ask the viewers of they remember them from a previous episode (In a previous story in the manga).
** There's also the FourthWallMailSlot in Volume 3 and the characters asking the readers questions about them in Volume 2.
* {{Bowdlerise}}: Professor Hoot would punish his students by peaking them on the head in the original manga with his beak. In the anime, he instead pulls there cheeks or bonk there heads with his hand/feathers mainly on Clover

* BearyFriendly: Blackberry and his mother.
* BearsAreBadNews: When a young girl is heading straight to Crescent Forest in volume 4. She gets scared by Blackberry's mother and doesn't even attempt to attack her. She and the little girl both get scared and run away.
* ComingOfAgeStory:
* CerebusSyndrome: Volume 5 (The final volume) [[ToneShift starts shifting]] from [[SweetDreamsFuel it's normally cute,fun, and silly stories]] to a more serious and dramatic situation with the characters especially the last couple of stories.
* CatSmile: Just about every bunny seen in the series same goes for squirrels such as Twirl and Hickory.
* CatapultNightmare: Clover wakes up after having a nightmare of her friends,parents, and the majority of citizens in Crescent Forest shunning her and kicking her out of the forest for lying and framing the Bulbul brothers for being thieves. Which could explain how Hickory gotten to Clover's room when she woke up hinting that he heard the noises she made as she was asleep.
* ChristmasEpisode: One story in volume 3, has Clover,Mallow,Kale, and Shallot learning about Santa Claus by reading a book from Professor Hoot's home. Professor Hoot tells them to not read it since they aren't old enough yet. Clover and friends get amazed by Santa Claus and she later tells about this to Kale's baby brothers including writing letters to him. Kale later visits Clover's place and tells her how the entire concept of Santa is stupid and starts tearing up the Santa letters to pieces. They do find a way to deliver the presents to Kale's place on Christmas Eve without getting noticed since they think Santa doesn't visit Crescent Forest. In the end, Clover and friends wake up to see Christmas gifts and not knowing where they came from.

* CarnivoresAreMean: Cinnamon The Fox mostly tells various lies to scare the forest creatures. His sidekick Twirl The Squirrel loves playing pranks around the gang.
* CarnivoreConfusion: Professor Hoot is the teacher of Crescent Forest which includes various woodland creatures including bunnies. Surprisingly he gets along with Clover & Friends and is the one who warns them about humans despite owls being natural predators to bunnies.

* GiantFood: Clover (In Hickory's body) stumbles upon a giant berry and tries to eat the entire thing but since she's still in Hickory's body. She gets full quickly and has trouble flying/gliding.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: While Rambler is mostly very clam and smart. He lost his forest and family due to a forest fire caused by a humans. Which he only tells to Clover in later volumes.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Each of Clover's friends and some supporting character in the series get two or one story for each volume.
** Mallow in Volume 1 and Volume 5
** Kale in Volume 4
** Shallot in Volume 2 and Volume 5
** Hickory in Volume 1 and Volume 5
** Rambler in Volume 3
* {{Determinator}}: Clover never gives up...Ever!
* TearsOfRemorse: When Mallow sees her mother and Professor Hoot scolding Clover for making causing Mallow to injure her foot after riding down a cliff that contained rocks in front of her mother and Clover's mother. She quickly defends Clover and tells the adults that it was her fault and starts crying hysterically into her mother's chest. Mallow is later seen crying silently into her bed until Cinnamon visits her room after hearing about the incident.
* TheDrifter: Rambler would mostly visit Crescent Forest during special occasions. Since Rambler mainly travels and makes a stop at a faraway forest and leaves the next morning. This is shown off in the last story of volume 3, where it focuses on one of Rambler's adventures.

* WholeEpisodeFlashback: Happens 3 times in the manga which focused on Shallot,Hickory, and Kale

** One story in volume 5 teaches a lesson about the consequences of lying. In the story, Clover gets asked by Blackberry's mom about a thief. Clover tells her and his mother that it was the Bulbul brothers. However she later has a bad dream about her friends and family shunning her for lying and is kicked out of the forest. Clover gets woken up by Hickory and asks her whats wrong. Clover tells Hickory that she lied to Blackberry's mother,Professor Hoot and her mother about the Bulbul brothers being the cause of this. It is later revealed to be another animal outside of Crescent Forest. And despite Clover's apology, her mother and Professor Hoot still aren't happy for what she did and punished by doing chorus. Clover's friends and Hickory later help her out and have a picnic together.

* WhamLine: The entire speech Shallot gives to Mallow in Volume 5 which also counts as a love confession while in bed.

** The first is the story "Mallow's Heart Sours"[[spoiler: Shallot has an accidental love confession with Mallow]] in bed after not being found at school one day.

* TalkingInBed: The majority of the story "Mallow's Heart Sours" in Volume 5 mostly takes place inside Shallot's bedroom and is surprised to see Mallow taking care of him.

* WhamShot: Two in "Mallow's Heart Sours". First is when Shallot [[spoiler: accidentally reveals that Mallow has a crush on her]] after finding the ingredients Mallow needs. The first thing reaction you see from Mallow is her blushing then starts shaking after being touched by Shallot's words. The second is when Mallow gives him a big hug in bed which causes him to faint.

* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler: Shallot and Mallow are seen getting married during the epilogue of volume 5]]

* GirlOfTheWeeek: Thistle only showed up in one story in Volume 5 who appears to have a crush on Kale.

** Thistle a female bunny for Volume 5 who develops a crush on Kale.

* MotorMouth: Clover in the anime adaptation

* ProjectileKiss: Although Clover doesn't actually do this. She does make a kissing gesture to the audience in Volume 3 when she learns the reader is still reading about her adventures a which makes her happy.