Honey and Clover Vol. 10

Honey and Clover Vol. 10. Love Triangles — who says you don’t learn math in Art School?

Takemoto, a sophomore art student in Tokyo, thinks his greatest worries in life are finding ways to eat more meat and getting to class on time. But with friends like his, life is never going to be that tame.

Hagu and Takemoto are the last of the gang to graduate, and after his bike odyssey Takemoto has a future in temple restoration. But Hagu’s recent injury might steal her ability to paint forever. Can love make up for such a painful loss?

Biographical Notes:

Chica Umino is the creator of Honey and Clover, which debuted in 2000 and received the Kodansha Manga Award in 2003. Honey and Clover was also nominated for the Tezuka Culture Prize and an award from the Japan Media Arts Festival.

In 2000, Umino’s most notable work, Honey and Clover, began serialization in Shueisha’s manga magazine, CUTiEcomic. The series’ first fourteen chapters were published in CUTiEcomic; serialization was later moved to Young YOU. With the demise of Young YOU in 2005, the series moved to the magazine Chorus, where it continued its run until the series ended in July 2006 with 64 chapters. Umino received the 27th Kodansha Manga Award for Honey and Clover in 2003, which was adapted into an anime series produced by J.C. Staff.

Umino’s most recent work is March Comes in Like a Lion (3月のライオン, Sangatsu no Raion) lit. “Lion in March” or “March’s Lion”, which began serialization in Hakusensha’s seinen manga magazine, Young Animal. In 2009, she provided the character designs for original anime series, Eden of the East, by director Kenji Kamiyama.

Umino has also illustrated “Tobira wo Akete” and the Glass Heart series, including “Boukensha-tachi”, “Netsu no Shiro” and “Love Way.”

More details on Chica Umino:

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More works by Chica Umino