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Japanese manga series

ヒナまつり
Hinamatsuri
The encompass of the first volume of Hinamatsuri
Genre	Comedy,^[one] slice-of-life ^[two]
Manga
Written by	Masao Ōtake
Published by	Enterbrain (publishing)
English publisher	^NA Ane Peace Books
Magazine	Harta
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	June 15, 2010 – July fifteen, 2022
Volumes	19
Anime television series
Directed by	Kei Oikawa
Produced past	Mitsuhiro Ogata Noritomo Isogai Shintarō Yoshitake Kazufumi Kikushima Hiroyasu Taniguchi Toyokazu Nakahigashi
Written by	Keiichirō Ōchi
Music by	Yasuhiro Misawa
Studio	Experience
Licensed by	Crunchyroll Funimation
Original network	AT-X, Tokyo MX, KBS Kyoto, TVA, Sun Television set, TVQ, BS11
Original run	April vi, 2022 – June 22, 2022
Episodes	12

Hinamatsuri (Japanese: ヒナまつり) ^[a] is a Japanese seinen manga serial written and illustrated by Masao Ōtake. It has been serialized in Enterbrain's magazine Harta , formerly known as Fellows!, from 2010 to 2022, and has nineteen tankōbon volumes every bit of August 12 2022.^[3] The series is licensed by One Peace Books. An anime television set serial adaptation by Experience aired from Apr to June 2022. The story follows yakuza member Yoshifumi Nitta, who ends up taking care of a mysterious girl with telekinetic powers named Hina who inexplicably appeared in his apartment.

Plot [ edit ]

Yoshifumi Nitta, a mid-level Yakuza of the Ashikawa-gumi, finds his normal life thrown into chaos when a girl from the future literally drops on his head without warning. Knowing nothing more than her name, Hina, and the fact that she has incredible psychokinetic powers, Yoshifumi reluctantly becomes her de facto male parent. However, Hina'south arrival sets off a chain reaction of events that affects everyone in the urban center, especially later on more girls from the future go far to bring her dorsum or terminate her.

Characters [ edit ]

Chief characters [ edit ]

Hina Nitta ( 新田ヒナ , Nitta Hina ): Voiced by: Takako Tanaka ^[4] (Japanese); Brina Palencia ^[5] (English); Hina is the titular heroine, possessing superhuman abilities such as telekinesis. Originally hailing from the future, she went dorsum in time in a pod and landed on Nitta's caput. Due to Hina threatening to break his furniture, Nitta reluctantly lets her stay. As he takes care of her, Nitta begins to experience more than and more like a parent. Over the course of the plot, Nitta and Hina'due south relationship grow to the extent that they consider each other to exist father and daughter - Nitta would welcome her into the Nitta family equally his daughter, in forepart of his female parent and sis.; Nitta enrols Hina in school at her request, but she does not usually have it seriously, oft sleeping in class. At home, she usually lazes around and plays video games. She is very item about nutrient, despite demonstrably defective a refined palate; her favourite food is salmon roe. Although Nitta cares for her, Hina tin badger him to the extent that she gets kicked out of the apartment (temporarily). Nitta often compares her to the diligent Anzu, a young man esper, and imagines being her begetter instead.
Yoshifumi Nitta ( 新田義史 , Nitta Yoshifumi ): Voiced by: Yoshiki Nakajima ^[4] (Japanese); Jarrod Greene^[5] (English); Yoshifumi Nitta, mostly referred to past his surname Nitta, is the series protagonist. He is a member of the Ashikawa-gumi yakuza, afterwards to become its lieutenant (kashira). One day, a portal opens from the future and drops Hina in a pod on his head; she threatens to suspension his piece of furniture if he doesn't let her stay.; Nitta caused cooking and housekeeping skills to accept care of his mother and younger sister after his father died, and his hobby is collecting rare porcelain vases and urns (which Hina often destroys). Initially, Nitta presents Hina to his family unit as Hina Adachi, the daughter of an imprisoned boyfriend yakuza he is fostering. However, he decides to acknowledge her as his girl after realising only how much their relationship has grown.

Supporting characters [ edit ]

Anzu ( アンズ ) / Anzu Hayashi ( 林あんず , Hayashi Anzu ): Voiced past: Rie Murakawa ^[iv] (Japanese); Amanda Lee (English) ^[six]; Anzu is another superhuman with telekinetic powers like Hina. She is initially sent to kill Hina, but loses to her in a contest of forcefulness and abandons the mission. Unable to return to the future because the device necessary to do and then was inadvertently damaged, she is taken in by Yassan, a homeless man. He invites her to join a homeless camp in Tokyo, where she learns the value of difficult work and money.; When the camp is evicted from the park where they were staying, Anzu is adopted by a couple who run a Chinese restaurant, the Hayashis. She starts to adapt to a normal childhood; though retaining her values from her time with the camp. Anzu's careful and dutiful nature (a far cry from who she was when she first arrived in the present) oft makes Nitta wish she were his daughter, instead of Hina.; Somewhen, Anzu's parents decide to close down their restaurant, prompting Anzu to start upward her own mobile ramen stand, which Nitta and Sabu frequent. When Hitomi visits the stall with her employees, i of them recognises her as his adopted younger sister. After in the serial, Anzu bans Nitta from visiting the stall after a misunderstanding involving Sabu, although she later unbans him after Sabu apologizes.
Hitomi Mishima ( 三嶋瞳 , Mishima Hitomi ): Voiced by: Kaede Hondo ^[iv] (Japanese); Tabitha Ray^[5] (English); Hitomi is Hina's classmate in middle school, who has trouble saying no to helping people. When Hina asks her to tag along whilst she investigates what Nitta is getting upward to, she'southward left all alone at Little Vocal. Mistaken for a bartender, Hitomi proves superb at tending bar, leading Utako to blackmail her into working at Fiddling Song. Through a series of coincidences, she is taken for an developed, and starts working at more and more jobs whilst trying (and failing) to be a normal student. She also accumulates connections to influential businesspeople, politicians, and yakuza. Hitomi climbs the ranks so fast at one company, that she ends up President - hiring her father nether her adult guise when he is laid off from his job. Later on, she resigns from her chore to escape the corporate world and moves to Florida, but somehow ends up CEO at an even bigger company.; Hitomi, at to the lowest degree in the beginning, is a milquetoast; generally bending over backwards for anything that is asked of her. However, equally the series progresses and she acquires influence, Hitomi becomes more than willing and able to utilize her connections against those who earn her scorn. When the bandage learns about the bad future they demand to avert, for instance, Nitta is shown not caring at all - not even when Hitomi returns to Japan specifically to seek his help in regards to that. As a result, she manipulates things then that all of Nitta'due south businesses go under, and, as a terminal blast in the coffin, well-nigh alienates Anzu from him, causing him to give in and start calling her "my liege".
Utako Sakura ( 桜詩子 , Sakura Utako ): Voiced by: Yōko Hikasa ^[7] (Japanese); Mallorie Rodak^[vi] (English); The owner and original bartender of the bar Little Song. She blackmails Hitomi into working for her afterward Hitomi becomes highly skilled at bartending, but is soon made redundant in her own bar as her customers come to adopt Hitomi'southward drinks. Nitta was romantically interested in Utako, but she rejects him considering she believes him to exist a divorced unmarried father, and Nitta later loses interest in her due to her self-centred personality. Despite this, she is shown to take some other side to her; protesting on behalf of and serving soup to the ward'south homeless on the verge of eviction, and arranging for Anzu to be taken in past the Hayashis.
Mao ( マオ ): Voiced by: Ari Ozawa ^[7] (Japanese); Ariel Graham^[5] (English); Another esper with telekinetic powers from the same arrangement as Hina and Anzu. After being sent to recover them both, she accidentally lands on a deserted island and is stuck at that place for months without human contact, creating wooden puppet versions of Hina and Anzu to keep from going insane. Eventually, she manages to build a raft and ends up in China, where she studies kung-fu while subtly using her powers to rising near the acme of the school. After a few years of preparation, she returns to Japan after being tasked to establish a co-operative of the school there, which leads to the establishment of a fettle instruction class called "Superhuman Fettle".
Yoshihiko Ashikawa ( 芦川良彦 , Ashikawa Yoshihiko ): Voiced past: Hidekatsu Shibata (Japanese); Neb Jenkins^[5] (English); The quondam head of Ashikawa-gumi. He somewhen retires from his position due his advanced age and poor health, simply maintains much of his influence. He dotes on Hina in a grandfatherly way, even using yakuza resource to assistance her in such situations equally running for student council president, and encourages Nitta to take a more agile interest in raising her.
Kiyoshi Baba ( 馬場清 , Baba Kiyoshi ): Voiced past: Tsuyoshi Koyama ^[vii] (Japanese); Tyler Walker (English) ^[5]; The second-in-control of Nitta's yakuza grouping. He views Nitta as a shameless brown-noser, but respects his recent accomplishments. He succeeded Yoshishiko as the new caput of the yakuza group.
Sabu ( サブ ): Voiced by: Kengo Kawanishi ^[7] (Japanese); Kyle Phillips^[5] (English); Nitta's underling in his yakuza group. He normally proves somewhat inept at whatever chore he is assigned, such as debt collection, forcing Nitta to handle matters personally.
Tatsuhiko Naitou ( 内藤達彦 , Naitō Tatsuhiko ): Voiced by: Tetsu Inada; Nitta's onetime mentor and the estranged male parent of Hitoshi. Known to be choleric, demanding, and violent, he gave Nitta the scar above his eye. He spent several years in prison and is released in the months after Nitta starts taking intendance of Hina.
Hitoshi Maeda ( 前田仁志 , Maeda Hitoshi ): A boy who attends the aforementioned middle school as Hina, and subsequently on develop feelings for her. Hina helps him work upwardly the courage to confront his absentee father, Naitou.
Mami Shinjou ( 新庄マミ , Shinjō Mami ): Voiced by: Eri Suzuki (Japanese); Lindsay Seidel (English); I of Hina's classmates, and one of the few people who becomes enlightened of Hina's powers. She is obsessed with the paranormal and every bit such tends to gravitate towards Hina and also tends to leap to weird conclusions and overall acts like a younger child than she is. She is also a loner in high schoolhouse.
Sayo Aizawa ( 相沢さよ , Aizawa Sayo ): Voiced by: Mikako Komatsu (Japanese); Jennifer Alyx (English); One of Hina's classmates. She helps in the investigation to discover Hitomi's cloak-and-dagger job. She tends to exist very serious, although she also plays around for fun. She is too noticeably smarter than her classmates, and her defining trait is her glasses.
Yassan ( ヤッさん ): Voiced past: Shinpachi Tsuji; Yassan is the homeless man who takes Anzu in subsequently she fails to return to her dwelling time. He teaches her the value of difficult work and money, and becomes a father figure to her. Subsequently the ward administration evicted them from the park they were staying in, he brokered a deal through Utako for the Hayashis to take her in as their daughter. Yassan meets Anzu again after the time-skip, getting a bowl of ramen from her cart.
Atsushi Yamamoto ( 山本アツシ , Yamamoto Atsushi ): Voiced by: Taku Yashiro (Japanese); Justin Cook (English); The lead guitarist and vocalist of the band Central Park. Initially struggling to gain popularity, the band gains afterwards coming into contact with Hina, who uses her powers to allow Atsushi to float during performances, a feeling he terms "Rocksion". After Hina ceases working with the ring, their popularity falls over again, leading Atsushi on a quest to gain magic powers and obtain "Rocksion". He later starts collaborating with Mao in the Superhuman Fettle project. In the previous timeline, his starts the project that led to the creation of the superhumans and is referred to every bit "Master", but is detained after the superhumans get out of control.

Media [ edit ]

Manga [ edit ]

Hinamatsuri was serialized in Kadokawa's magazine Harta from 2010 to 2022, and has nineteen tankōbon volumes.^[3] English manga publisher One Peace Books has licensed the series for publication in N America.^[8]

Anime [ edit ]

A 12-episode anime television series adaptation by Feel aired from Apr 6 to June 22, 2022.^[9] ^[1] The serial is directed by Kei Oikawa with Keiichirō Ōchi writing the scripts and Japan Columbia producing the music.^[10] Rie Murakawa performed the opening theme song "Distance", while Yoshiki Nakajima performed the ending theme "Sake to Ikura to 893 to Musume" ( 鮭とイクラと893と娘 , transl. "Salted Salmon, Salmon Roe, 893, and the Girl" ) as his character Yoshifumi Nitta.^[9] The 2nd ending theme titled "Shashin Jō" ( 写真帖 , transl. "Photo Volume" ) by Yoko Ishida is used in episode 6, while episode 12 uses ii catastrophe themes: "Taisetsu na Hito" ( たいせつなひと , transl. "Someone Of import" ) past Haruka Chisuga and "Hajimete no Kimochi" ( 初めてのキモチ , transl. "First Time Feeling" ) by Ari Ozawa as her character Mao, respectively. Crunchyroll simulcast the anime, while Funimation streamed an English dub.^[11]

Episode listing [ edit ]

Reception [ edit ]

Hinamatsuri was nominated for the Seiun Honour in the Best Comic category in 2022.^[14] ^[15]

Notes [ edit ]

^ The championship means "Hina Festival", referring to the heroine. Hinamatsuri is also the proper name of the Japanese Dolls' Festival.
^ All English titles are taken from Crunchyroll.

References [ edit ]

^ ^a ^b "Hinamatsuri Super-Powered Yakuza One-act Manga Gets Goggle box Anime Next Spring". Anime News Network. September 12, 2017. Archived from the original on September 12, 2017. Retrieved September 12, 2017.
^ "Hinamatsuri Volume 1 Review • Anime United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland News". 20 October 2022. Archived from the original on ane April 2022. Retrieved ix May 2022.
^ ^a ^b "Hinamatsuri Manga Listed as Catastrophe Serialization on July 15 2022". Anime News Network . Archived from the original on 2022-09-xviii. Retrieved 2022-09-17 .
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Hinamatsuri Anime's 1st Promo Video Reveals Bandage, April Debut". Anime News Network. Dec 25, 2017. Archived from the original on Dec 26, 2017. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Pineda, Rafael Antonio (Apr 27, 2022). "Funimation Reveals Hinamatsuri Anime'south English Dub Bandage". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on April 27, 2022. Retrieved April 27, 2022.
^ ^a ^b "FUNimation - Cast & Coiffure: Hinamatsuri". 2022-05-07. Archived from the original on 2022-05-08. Retrieved 2022-05-07 .
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Hinamatsuri Anime Casts Yōko Hikasa, Ari Ozawa, Tsuyoshi Koyama, Kengo Kawanishi". Anime News Network. January 15, 2022. Archived from the original on January 15, 2022. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
^ Ressler, Karen (April 10, 2022). "I Peace Books Licenses Hinamatsuri, I Hear the Sunspot: Limit Manga, Reprise of the Spear Hero Novels". Anime News Network . Archived from the original on December seven, 2022. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
^ ^a ^b "Hinamatsuri TV Anime Reveals Theme Songs, April 6 Debut, New Video". Anime News Network. March 3, 2022. Archived from the original on March 3, 2022. Retrieved March 3, 2022.
^ "Hinamatsuri Idiot box Anime Reveals Visual, Staff". Anime News Network. November 17, 2017. Archived from the original on June 19, 2022. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
^ Ressler, Karen (April iv, 2022). "Crunchyroll, Funimation Add together Hinamatsuri Anime for Leap Season". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on April 5, 2022. Retrieved Apr 4, 2022.
^ "ストーりー" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on February 8, 2022. Retrieved April viii, 2022.
^ "放送情報" (in Japanese). Tokyo MX. Archived from the original on May fourteen, 2022. Retrieved May 14, 2022.
^ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (May 3, 2022). "Demon Slayer, Hozuki'south Coolheadedness, Promised Neverland, Hinamatsuri Manga Nominated for Seiun Sci-Fi Awards". Anime News Network . Archived from the original on December 12, 2022. Retrieved December 12, 2022.
^ Loo, Egan (July 21, 2022). "Hozuki's Coolheadedness, Haruna Ikezawa, Ultraman Z Win at 52nd Seiun Sci-Fi Awards". Anime News Network . Archived from the original on January 31, 2022. Retrieved December 12, 2022.

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