Students, romance, friendship, they are all a very usual mix in dramas, but I never get tired of them. This time it’s Hachimitsu to Clover (Honey and Clover), which I finished watching sometime in the middle of 2008. This drama is full of familiar faces, at least for me, which probably boosted my overall rating a little, the average Kanto rating is just 8.9.
Well, this drama is full of good actors. To namedrop some, we have Narimiya Hiroki (Innocent Love, Bloody Monday, Stand Up!!), Ikuta Toma (Voice, Maou, Hanazakari no Kimitachi e), Narumi Riko (Ruri no Shima, Ichi Rittoru no Namida) and Kashiwabara Takashi (Celeb to Binbo Taro). All of these are great actors, but among them, Narimiya Hiroki is my favorite.
Hachimitsu to Clover is the story about Hanamoto Hagumi, a very shy girl who went all the way from Nagano to Tokyo to become a part of a school’s Oil Painting Department. She has always been a quiet girl and she basically only knows how to paint, but that’s something she’s very good at. At the day she arrives to Tokyo for her first time, she’s introduced to four other students who will be taking care of her. And since it’s also a comedy, you can expect it to be funny right from the start, I don’t want to spoil anyhing, but the introduction is awesome.
- Title: ハチミツとクローバー
- Title (romaji): Hachimitsu to Clover
- Also known as: Honey and Clover
- Format: Renzoku
- Genre: Romance, friendship
- Episodes: 11
- Viewership ratings: 8.9 (Kanto)
- Broadcast network: Fuji TV
- Broadcast period: 2008-Jan-08 to 2008-Mar-18
- Air time: Tuesday 21:00
- Theme song: Canvas by Hirai Ken
- Related TV shows: Honey and Clover
I think that this drama is a good watch, many of you are probably fans of both Ikuta Toma and Narimiya Hiroki, and possibly some of the other actors in this drama as well. Oh and Hamada Gaku (Proposal Daisakusen) is one of the guest actors, he’s just incredibly fun to watch.
It’s definitely worth watching, so give it a try!
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XD! I didn’t know they were coming out with a drama. I finished the anime a few years back, and wanted to watch the movie but never got to doing so. I’ll be sure to check this out if they have in on mysoju.com :P
Hehe okay! Well, you should support the fansubbers by using D-Addicts. Just like Joe here is saying, streaming sites are what’s making them quit subbing.
Mysoju…not good. websites like that are making a lot of fansubbers quit.
Sounds good, I’ll stick it on the list
I actually didn’t like it much as a whole, but it had some good parts. The anime and manga are so much better!
I see, I haven’t seen the anime and haven’t read manga either. But it’s hard to beat the original story =)
Definitely worth a watch. Watched this a long time ago, so I don’t remember a whole lot, but I remember my impression of it was mostly positive.
Another proof that ‘comics’ seldom can should become live action. I found the movie and later the serie horribly, compared to the anime. The anime is so full of color an character, where the live action is just dark and plain.
Well, on the other side, the story is good enough for an average good drama. So it’s worth to watch it, especially for fans of H&C. And at least, the ending is more mainstream-compatibel ;)
Maybe it’s especially worthy if you’re not a fan of the anime/manga, since you don’t know what you’re missing out on ^^
I don’t watch a lot of anime, nor do I read a lot of manga, and in the end I would probably like the drama more anyways.
it will be quite a while till I get to this drama but your blog is a great resource for J Dramas :D
Haha yeah, we have all spammed you with recommendations, so you have a few to watch now :P
I remember watching the anime a long time ago and then caught the drama when it was released, it’s very good. I liked it a lot!
I loved the movie with Sakurai Sho… the drama was sorta slow for me in the beginning, but I began to enjoy it somewhere in the middle. I think Ikuta Toma made it a little more enjoyable for me, haha.
What I really enjoyed the anime though, you should watch it sometime!
Well no one can beat you in writing posts. I really love your posts every time.
I really like this drama for the fact that it isn’t the usual high school type. It’s more mature than the lot of them but it isn’t boring or less fun to watch.
That’s true. It does have some “high school humor” in it, but it’s still a very mature drama :) I don’t know of any other dramas like it, do you?
Really? I had no idea D:~ I only found out about MySoju because my friend wanted me to watch Bloody Monday really badly, and I didn’t want to bittorent it at the time (since I wouldn’t know if I would like it or not :X~)
I’ll start trying to download the dramas from D-Addicts :D.
Thanks for the tip.