Hachimitsu to Kuroba (Honey and Clover)

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Title (romaji): Hachimitsu to Kuroba
Also known as: Honey and Clover
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Romance, friendship
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast period: 2008-Jan-08 to
Air time: Tuesday 21:00


Synopsis Honey and Clover follows the lives of five college students and their love triangles -- Tokyograph (http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-2019)


Additional synopsis From the manga:

Yūta Takemoto, Takumi Mayama and Shinobu Morita are three young men who live in the same apartment complex and are students at an art college in Tokyo.

One day, one of the art professors, Shūji Hanamoto, introduces his cousin's daughter, Hagumi Hanamoto, who has come to live with him and is a first year at the art school. Upon introduction, Takemoto and Morita fall in love with her. Morita expresses his love for Hagu in ways that scare her, especially calling Hagu 'mousey' and constantly photographing her, while Takemoto hides his feelings and tries to be a friend to Hagu. Hagu herself, though initially timid and afraid of company, gradually warms up to the three.

The group also includes another female: Ayumi Yamada. She is a master of pottery, and is well known by her name "Tetsujin" (Iron Lady). When not at school or hanging out with friends from the college, she helps run the family liquor store. She is very popular with all the guys, whether they are from the shopping district the liquor store is in or the other male pottery students, but Mayama is the only man she is in love with.

Unfortunately, although Mayama considers Yamada a friend, he does not return Yamada's love and is busy chasing an older woman, Rika Harada. Rika runs an architecture studio which she used to run with her husband, Harada before he died in a car accident which also left Rika disabled. Rika Harada and Shūji were very close friends and roommates in college. Mayama is sent by Shūji to help Rika, who has a hard time taking care of herself and running her business.

The story follows these five characters in their love triangles, graduating from college, finding jobs, and learning more about themselves.




Cast
Narumi Riko as Hanamoto Hagumi
Ikuta Toma as Takemoto Yuta
Narimiya Hiroki as Morita Shinobu
Mukai Osamu as Mayama Takumi
Harada Natsuki as Yamada Ayumi
Seto Asaka as Harada Rika
Murakami Jun as Hanamoto Shuji
Takizawa Saori as Teshigawara Miwako
Kashiwabara Takashi as Nomiya Takumi
Izumiya Shigeru as Yamada Daigoro
Matsushige Yutaka as Professor Shoda
Kimura Yuichi as Lohmeyer-senpai
Maekawa Yasuyuki

credits and special thanks to atskv9 for the new drama :victory:

Cool, you made it :woot: I'm eagerly awaiting this drama!

Pics of the cast (okay, it's mostly Toma)
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haha!! uhuh I csn see that the pictures are mostly toma :hehe: love his expression there!!

I can already tell that Toma is going to play this role really well :)

atskv9 wrote:I can already tell that Toma is going to play this role really well :)

kya~!! me too!! after all.. he's also into stage play ne?? no wonder he's such a great actor.. :dancing:

kisarazu wrote:

kya~!! me too!! after all.. he's also into stage play ne?? no wonder he's such a great actor.. :dancing:

yep he is. I think the one's he has acted are Azumi, Cat in Red Boots, and Gentlemen of Verona (most recent).

Anyways, we've got about a month to go before this starts :woot: I hope to see a bunch of promotions for it on Mezamashi and stuff.

yes.. only a month!! or more because we have to wait for the subs.. but knowing all the subber toma fanatics out there.. it will be subbed in no time :dancing:

kisarazu wrote:yes.. only a month!! or more because we have to wait for the subs.. but knowing all the subber toma fanatics out there.. it will be subbed in no time :dancing:

SARS and Love Song will be subbing it together so it should be really quick to get subs for this, which is gonna be awesome :mrgreen:

atskv9 wrote:
SARS and Love Song will be subbing it together so it should be really quick to get subs for this, which is gonna be awesome :mrgreen:

together?? wow!! yeah that will be ultra fast!! I'm getting all excited :dancing: joined forces from lovesong and sars!! that's sugoi..If only I'm fluent in japanese.. and english.. I'll be subbing toma's dramas :hehe:

Yaaaay! A CM for the drama was aired! :woot:

http://www.mediafire.com/?b0jzmx2v5uf
http://www.sendspace.com/file/prgh99
http://www.savefile.com/files/1257324
the trailer is in VOB format right now -- which isn't that user-friendly. hopefully someone will convert it soon to avi or wmv

screencaps of the trailer:
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atskv9 wrote:Yaaaay! A CM for the drama was aired! :woot:

posted here: http://community.livejournal.com/ikuta_toma/103106.html#cutid1
the trailer is in VOB format right now -- which isn't that user-friendly. hopefully someone will convert it soon to avi or wmv

screencaps of the trailer:
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wow a trailer!! but ther link you gave.. I can't see it there.. I think you need to be an LJ user to view that :shamefulcry:

kisarazu wrote:

wow a trailer!! but ther link you gave.. I can't see it there.. I think you need to be an LJ user to view that :shamefulcry:

I fixed it. There's Direct Download links now :victory: I'm still gonna convert the video and put it on my Veoh though so it's more user-friendly.

atskv9 wrote:
I fixed it. There's Direct Download links now :victory: I'm still gonna convert the video and put it on my Veoh though so it's more user-friendly.

thanks a bunch... :victory:

It's up on Veoh: http://www.veoh.com/videos/v1625830FEkDmDag

AVI converted:
http://www.mediafire.com/?4tdlzm4m35d
http://www.sendspace.com/file/r5i3r6

thank you very much! :dancing:

kisarazu wrote:thank you very much! :dancing:

my pleasure :mrgreen:

hope we can get some more people interested in this drama by doing that

atskv9 wrote:
my pleasure :mrgreen:

hope we can get some more people interested in this drama by doing that

yeah we are the only ones who keep posting here :mrgreen: but I have a feeling that this thread will be very much active as soon as the drama starts airing :dancing: