Himawari!
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| Himawari! | |
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| ひまわりっ! (Himawari!) |
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| Genre | Adventure, Comedy, Slice of Life |
| TV anime | |
| Directed by | Shigenori Kageyama |
| Studio | GENCO |
| Network | Chiba Television |
| Original run | 8 April 2006 – |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
Himawari! (ひまわりっ!?) is an anime series.
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[edit] Story
Kasumi Kogen, which translates to "the Village of Mist", is a town located somewhere in rural Japan. In this town, there is a training school, the Shinobi Gakuen, which trains kunoichi, or woman ninjas. The school gathers competent students from all over Japan to train them to become kunoichi. The people of this town are alumni of the school, and they run and jump, appear and disappear, as if the whole town were a big ninja house.
In this strange town, there came a girl and a man. The girl is Himawari, who wants to be a ninja and respect “Ichikawa Raiso” as her master, and she came here to enter Shinobi Gakuen. The man is a new assigned teacher, Marikoji Hayato. He was deceived into paying money and came here to repay his debts. They encounter in this Village of Mist. Whether their encounter is by chance or inevitable is unknown, and forbidden love could occur at any time between a teacher and his student. Other students like Azami, Skimi, Himeji, Yusu wait and see their situation secretly.
Himawari! is the story of Himawari and her journey to become a Kunoichi, and her 'vow' to protect her master.
Himawari Hinata recently transferred to Shinobi Gakuen to train to become the best kunoichi she can be. She wanted to be a ninja ever since she was saved by one when she was little. On her first day, she meets Hayato Madenokoji (a new transfer teacher) who saves her life. Hayato does not possess any ninja skills or traits, he is teaching the ninjas about normal society to pay off his debt. However, Himawari notices that Hayato bares the same mark on his neck as the ninja who saved her when she was young.
[edit] Characters
Hinata Himawari
The female lead of the story. She was rescued by a ninja with an odd mark on his neck. Ever since then, she had sworn to become a ninja. As the story begins, she had been restrained and flown on a military jet before being rescued. She's also recognized as a girl who had been sent by her grandmother to the ninja training school.
She meets Marikoji Hayato, the male lead, after a foul-up of her training (hanggliding on a kite) caused her to crash and hang from the gate pole. From then on she calls him "Hayato-dono" (Master Hayato). Her one and only dream is to become a great "Kunoichi" (female ninja) despite her classmates finding her annoying and unskilled.
Marikoji Hayato
A single, 24 year old man who took the job as a teacher in order to settle the two million yen loan his troubled friend conned him out of. Hayato wanted to quit his job when he found that the whole village is not normal, but Himawari's rescue from being run over by a train had changed his mind.
Hayato is one of several anime male leads (i.e. Rock of Black Lagoon) who doesn't fit in with the surroundings but manages to find a way to survive. For Hayato; it's his luck, his ducking ability when confronted with someone more skilled than him, and some of his students taking a shine to him. On top of that, Hayato has a good aim (as shown when he was throwing darts in a bar) and ridiculously keen eyesight.
Azami
Azami is a collector of (sometimes useless) information. She's strong-minded and high-spirited. But she wouldn't make a good spy since she likes to carry a conversation. In fact, her classmates thought that she might be a spy from the boys' ninja training school.
Shikimi
Grey-haired kunoichi-in-training who wears glasses. She uses plants as medicine, is in the supposedly forbidden "relationship" with a young male ninja named Nanafushi, and is (along with ?) one of the more serious kunoichi-in-training. Her ninja teleportation is slow, warping the scene as she does, which is different from the other ninja. And sometimes, she lets her hair down.
Yusura
Yusura is a cute young kunoichi-in-training who can communicate with animals. She's also very informative; seeming to know all about romance and is the first one to state that it's forbidden for a ninja to fall in love.
Momota
Yusura's pet animal whose attacks consist of farting. A long time ago, it had been rescued by Yusura when it was injured. So it gets jealous when it sees her with anyone else; mainly Yonesawa.
Himeji
This dark-skinned, weird-speaking kunoichi-in-training is an expert in weaponry; carrying and using guns without restraint. She also uses a large sword. Himeji is half-American/half-Japanese. And she does not like cold temperatures.
Tsukiyohime
This stylishly clothed lass with the creepy demeanor and elf ears is another kunoichi-in-training who doesn't appear very often. When she does, she's always eating miso soup. She would either give advice, show them what's concurrently going on through her miso soup, give someone the miso soup to eat, or all of the above.
Nanafushi
Shikimi rescues him from the bottom of a cliff. A small time had been spent between the two; but a relationship had never been formed since it's forbidden by ninja code. Nanafushi still helps her out from time to time...
The Boss, Wabisuke, & Sabisuke
"The Boss" is a green-haired woman who rescued two kids; thereby becoming her assistant. The kids being Wabisuke and Sabisuke. She believes that Hayato is a descendant of someone who killed her ancestors. And after a while of bungled attempts at his life and suffering from being at the wrong place at the wrong time, they find out that Hayato's neither related or her enemy.
Yonesawa
A surprisingly friendly kappa. He's a friend to Yusura, and he likes to eat cucumbers.
[edit] Theme music
- Opening
- "Taiyou no kakera" by Ryoko Shiraishi
- Ending
- "Guruguru~Himawari ver.~" by eufonius
[edit] External links
- (Japanese) Official site
