History Manga / HoneyAndClover

* GenerationXerox: The subtle [[spoiler:Shuuji/Rika/Harada]] love triangle greatly resembles the Takemoto/Hagu/Morita love triangle. Their personalities are similar, and (technically) [[spoiler:both Harada and Morita get their respective girls, except Morita doesn't get to keep Hagu, in spite of their feelings for each other.]]

* WifeHusbandry: An interpretation of [[spoiler:Hagu and Shuu, as Hagu chooses Shuu over Morita (who she is in love with) because she feels Shuu can take care of her better (after she gets into an accident where she may not be able to paint again).]]

* LegalJailbait: Hagu.

* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding: Life goes on, but Yuta has to say goodbye to the object of his unrequited love, Hagu, and is left with bittersweet memories of his college days]].

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. This series NeedsMoreLove.

* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Lohmeyer senpai. End of any argument.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Taken to the extreme, [[spoiler:except in one case and oddly subverted in another.]]

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.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Taken to the extreme, except in one case.

* BoringReturnJourney: Takemoto's trip back from Hokkaido.

* {{Megane}}: Mayama.

* IGotARock: Shūji comes back to the art school early and gives the girls expensive gifts, while giving the boys "a stamp, a postcard, and a rock."

* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: When Takemoto [[spoiler:gets on his bike and leaves home to see how far he can go without looking back]], the others refused to help him because they believed he was trying to "find himself." They think this because apparently Professor Hanamoto tried to do the same thing. [[StopHelpingMe Seven times.]]

* InformedAbility: Hagu's art as depicted in the series is fine, but for someone who is supposedly extremely talented, it isn't anything special.
** Though that's probably due to the mangaka's own style and skill more than anything.

* InformedAbility: Hagu's art as depicted in the series is fine, but for someone who is supposedly extremely talented it isn't anything special.
** Though that's probably because of the mangaka's own style and skill more than anything.

* InformedAbility: Hagu's art as depicted in the series is fine, but for someone who is supposedly extremely talented it isn't anything special.

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'' "Is something that will disappear the same as something that never existed?" ''

''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.

''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.

* HairOfGold: Hagu.

* AdultChild: Hagu, who is 18 but acts about half her age--just the way she looks.

* {{Lolicon}}: Hagu's [[OlderThanTheyLook technically of age]], but still...

* 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.

* {{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.
** The entire second half of the second season.

* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding: Life goes on, but 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]].

* 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]].