Honey and Clover

Yuuta Takemoto is a second-year student at an arts college, living in a run-down apartment with two older classmates: the unpredictable Shinobu Morita, who keeps putting off graduation by skipping out, and the dependable Takumi Mayama, a steady presence who often looks after Takemoto like a proper senior.

Takemoto’s quiet routine shifts in spring when he meets Hagumi Hanamoto and is struck by love at first sight. Exceptionally talented, Hagumi joins the same university and quickly becomes friends with Ayumi Yamada, a well-liked ceramics student who already knows the three roommates—and carries unspoken feelings for one of them. Set amid studios and uncertain plans, Honey and Clover follows five friends as their affection, ambitions, and growing pains intertwine into a gentle coming-of-age love polygon.