Honey and Clover Season 2 Finale

*SOBS*

I don’t remember crying this much over an anime, save maybe Ruruoni Kenshin’s final OVA. Warning! Spoilers ahead!

Honey and Clover’s Season 2 Chapter 12 was such a bitterwsweet, pull out your heart and leave it bleeding episode. But it was so beautiful. Honey and Clover is a wonderful coming of age anime, it’s not exactly romance but all the elements of love are there and in this final episode, everything’s coming to an end. And what a magnificent closure it was. Excuse me while I soak my head for a minute after crying so much.

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The Sweetest Honey is Love

I first heard about Honey and Clover from Animax, I wasn’t really intruigued by it until I found myself watching its first episodes on Youtube. I’m currently watching Honey and Clover right now and it’s actually got me hooked–I wasn’t expecting it to be that good.

Hachimitsu to Clover (translated as Honey and Clover) centers around college life for a group of friends. It was advertised to be a love story yet the journey was a sentimental and realistic place where the characters become something more than mere animation.

I actually found it both complex and poetic, and I fell in love with it when I saw the line from one of the songs used in its soundtrack:

“Send the lost promises to the stars, my memories won’t fade away.”

And in episode 9, another line I found memorable was one said during the narration:

“The October breeze was cold and the rays of the low afternoon sun were bright white. The world, as if stopped, was stained with a silver hue.”

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