24 minSeason 1 • Episode 12
LatestA game of Miniature Garden Tag abruptly begins at the outdoor school. Will Hanako, Hibari, Botan, Hibiki, and Ren of "Team Four Leaf Clover" be able to find the wooden statues they carved and safely make it to the end of the game?!
The story centers around class 1-7 of Tennomifune Academy, where all the students with "bad karma" or misfortune seem to have been gathered. Hibari, a student in this class, meets the unlucky Hanako and the perennially unhealthy Botan on her first day of school, and together they try to find a way to turn their school life into a happy one.
Writing
Misfortune gags that never get old
Production
Pastel aesthetic masking existential dread
Acting
Hanako's voice actor commits to unhinged optimism
Haruka Shiraishi
Ruri "Hibari" Hibarigaoka (voice)
Hibiku Yamamura
Hibiki Hagyuu (voice)
Kiyono Yasuno
Botan Kumegawa (voice)
Mayu Yoshioka
Ren "Len" Ekoda (voice)
Yumiri Hanamori
Anne "Hanako" Hanakoizumi (voice)
Chitose Morinaga
Timothy / Tsubaki Sayama (voice)
Yumi Hara
Kodaira-sensei (voice)
Yuko Gibu
Sakura Hanakoizumi / Hibiki's mother / Housekeeper (voice)
Ami Koshimizu
Saginomiya-sensei (voice)
Satomi Arai
Umebaba-san (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'unlucky cute girl' trope peaked in 2010s moe anime, but Anne Happy♪ weaponizes it into pure narrative engine rather than just character quirk.
Hanako's voice actor Yumiri Hanamori later played major roles in Demon Slayer and Wonder Egg Priority—a dramatic pivot from this pure chaos energy.
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