Hachimitsu to Clover
Honey and Clover

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The first great work by the author of 3-gatsu no Lion, Honey and Clover is a triumph of slice of life and josei romance. If you are an artist yourself, or a fan of the mangaka's other stories, consider an investment in the entire series and purchase all ten volumes of "HoneyClo". It will be money and time well spent.

The romantic relationships in Honey and Clover are every bit as messy as real life. And the most common complaint about the series is that there are too many stories. Most of the characters just don't get enough time or pages to bring their stories ... to satisfactory conclusions. Ultimately the author focuses on our leads, Takemoto and Hagu, who meet at the art institute and become fast friends, supported by older students like Yamamoto and Mayama, and their big brother of a professor, Hanamoto Shuuji. By the end of our journey, most of our friends have found love, and the rest are confident that it is better to have loved and lost...

Like young people falling in love, our mangaka doesn't get everything right. There are awkward subplots, and one or two plots too many. Like life itself, most of the story lines don't have neat and tidy endings. There will be tears and maybe outright sobbing at the end of the tale, and complaints that we did not have enough time with our friends. But there is the anime, and the live action drama, and there is always this manga, worth returning to whenever we need a little reunion party with our dear Hagu, and Takemoto, and Yamada, Nomiya, Leader... I miss you all.

Originally was going to give this a 7

I actually enjoyed most of the series. It was fun. But the ending.... was dogshit.

its sad the author pulls the open ending garbage like there actually good author's making good decisions but sadly that is not the case.

Many of characters barely grow in this time span as well as the fact that the romance is kept open ended while keeping the pacing a snail.

Overall it could've been good fun show. But the ending ruined it. the journey saves it from going into the negative but the ending ruins any chance for it being actually worth watching

I knew from reviews that the romance was going to be lacking, and the main focus would be friendship. However, I felt that the friendship was even done poorly. The group of college students that are supposedly meant to be friends are so.. distant, so... uncaring in a way. They treat each other with little thought continuously and I fail to see any real connections between them. The one guy is in love with this girl and they're portrayed as being practically besties, but this one scene were the guy is confiding in her about his feelings and she just kinda... ignores him and changes ... the subject just rubbed me wrong. And this continued to happen in the three volumes that I read. I don't know how to describe it, it was like one character would have the spotlight for a chapter and just focus on them and it never felt like it ever focused on the connections between the characters. Sure, there was some heart felt moments but they weren't very impactful and felt overall weak.