You’re My Honey – Honey x Honey Drops

Konnichiwa minasan! I have found a beautiful and sweet romance shoujo manga series lately. I have finished reading the whole manga series already and I like it very, very much. Hence, I would like to share this sweet romance manga series with you all. Oops, not forget to mention, this manga series also been adapted into OVA with 2 episodes and no doubt I have watched it too!! :P

The title of the manga series is called “Honey x Honey Drops” a.k.a. “Mitsu x Mitsu Drops’.  This manga series is created by the author named Kanan Minami. Yes, the same author for the manga series “Kyō, Koi wa Hajimemasu”. This manga series has 8 volumes, which is about 45 chapters.

The story is about a school-girl named Yuzuru, a fifteen year old girl who is attending her first year in Houjou Academy. At her summer job, she met a troublesome rich boy, Renge Kai, who is attending the same school as her. Kai is part of the Kugeka, a class opened only to the rich students of Houjou. At the end of the summer break she finds out that she has become Kai's "Honey". This nickname is given to all the students from the regular class chosen by the Kugeka to become their assistants, so that the rich boys can be successful without any problem. The up side to being a Honey is that all their school fees will be taken care of.

Title         : Honey x Honey Drops / Mitsu x Mitsu Drops
Genre      : Comedy, Romance, School-life, Shoujo, Sports
Author     : Kanan Minami
Volumes  : 8 or 45 chapters
Status      : Completed
Episodes  : 2 (OVA) (27 minutes each episode)
Story        :
Hagino Yuzuru is a common girl who takes a normal course of Houjou High School. When she works a part-time job during summer break, she makes trouble with Renge Kai of the Kuge course which many rich people take. After the summer break, she finds that she was chosen as Kai's "HONEY". The HONEY is a partner of a MASTER (usually, Honeys are used for companionship and to aid their Masters so that they can graduate and go on to run their respective family businesses, and usually are so close that they become lifetime partners), a Kugeka (in Japanese, Kugeka means "nobility") course student, to take care of him until he graduates from the school, and the HONEY is chosen from the normal course student. The HONEY is exempted from paying tuition fee. It is a fascinating condition for Yuzuru because her family is badly off. However, if she quits being HONEY, she will be expelled from the school. Getting involved with Renge Kai, one of the special students, could be a big mistake for Yuzuru.
Throughout the story, Renge-Kai starts showing different personalities to Hagino-Yuzuru. He makes special exceptions for her, which he's never done with his other Honeys but always under the guise of "punishment" for Yuzuru because she embarrassed him when she first met him at an expensive hotel, working as a waitress. Yet he's still considerate in his own way towards her, and feelings start to grow. At first, Yuzuru is tied to Kai as his Honey by force, with an earring of a lotus she can't remove, and the tuition fees that will be free. But as time goes on she starts to tie herself willingly to him, even when his family cuts the funding to her tuition, she still stands by him as his Honey. Renge becomes more fascinated with her, and willingly carries his Honey's bag, makes a matching outfit for basketball practice (for Drop tournament, which is basketball without rules, where the loser must give up their Honey). So when his family cuts the funding, he decides to go to a part time job with her, to get her double the money so she can continue to be in school.
Renge always says he trusts her, even when she lies to him a couple of times over things she's embarrassed over (like the part-time job). Even when she 'betrays' him, he still listens and helps and always reminds her that he NEVER wants another Honey. He would always listen to her side of the story, and likewise she would only listen to her Master, because she won't believe anything that doesn't come from him. Which is another reason why she doesn't leave, because if she doesn't hear explicitly from him that he no longer wants her to be his Honey, she will continue to be his no matter what, even if Renge's banking accountant Toi tells her otherwise or Renge's arranged fiancé Kayaka. Kayaka does not like Yuzuru to become Honey of Kai, thus she works together with Yurioka to get rid of her from his side. Thus, the story begins here……..

Characters Description:

Yuzuru Hagino (萩乃 柚留, Hagino Yuzuru)

An ordinary student in Hojo High School. Since she carelessly offended Kai during her summer job, she becomes Kai's Honey during this semester. At first Yuzuru doesn't like Kai because he always finds ways to sexually harass Yuzuru (which makes her feel empty since she feels nothing but a play-thing), but later she finds out Kai harasses her because he likes her, and she realizes that she doesn't mind it as much as she did before. Yuzuru's parents are very greedy and rapacious; they are very poor as well. Yuzuru performs badly in both her studies and sports, and constantly refers to herself as "such a measly Honey" or "a Honey like me" (because she's afraid of displeasing him, and not being the best she can be for him). She needs to be reassured occasionally that she's not at fault and that even though she doesn't do things the way other Honeys do, Kai still loves her and wants HER, not any other Honey. She detests Kai at first but finally falls in love with him later on.

Kai Renge (煉夏 可威, Renge Kai)

A student in Houjou High School. He is Yuzuru's master and was born into a very rich family—"The Renge Family" (Lotus Clan). At first, Kai thinks Yuzuru is only a toy for him to play tricks with (and sexually harass), however soon he falls in love with her. Kai does well at all sports (especially tennis and basketball). He also is despicably honest, even though the rest at his high school isn't, when it comes to the Drops Tournament (though, he does let himself go a bit that way, because he cannot risk to lose Yuzuru). He doesn't want Yuzuru to cheat, because it's the only chance he has to have fun and play ball with his classmates (since the Kugeka have really no club activities, and they never play basketball in PE). His academic results are also superb. Kai is over-protective of Yuzuru, but loves her dearly.

Nayuta Sakuragi (桜樹 那由太, Sakuragi Nayuta)

A student in Houjou High School, and Kai's best friend since his youth. Sakuragi is Kuki's Master. He is well-adept at sports. Nayuta always calls Yuzuru as "Yuzu-yuzu". He's very playful and loves games. He shows extreme loyalty to his friends, especially the ones he's known for a very long time, and takes any affront to them as an affront to himself.

Nayuta (R) & Genjo (L)

Genjo Kuki (久喜 絃青, Kuki Genjō)

Sakuragi's honey; an intelligent man. Kuki is a very competent Honey and at time to time, gives Yuzuru helpful advice. Kuki is amazingly loyal to Sakuragi and vows that he will do anything for his master. He has been Nayuta Sakuragi's honey since he was in kindergarten, was responsible for getting him to take a nap and not have Nayuta worry about his parents. In that part, that's when Nayuta finally calms down because he played with Genjou's hair. So he would tug it a couple times, and it made Genjou really happy to be of service, and to be able to comfort Nayuta in such a simple way, with his hair. He never cuts his long hair as he does not want to cut away the hair that his master (Nayuta) has once touched. And so thus, he is bad at tying his hair, so usually Nayuta ends up tying his hair for him. Whenever Nayuta ties his hair, it's because it's the one thing he can do to help his honey, because it's the one thing Genjou's bad at. He also has a hair band that Nayuta gave to him a long time ago, and protects it.

Chihaya Yurioka (百合丘 千駿, Yurioka Chihaya)

A student in Hojo High School, who always seems to be dressed in a kimono and with a fan in hand. Chihaya lives in a traditional Japanese home. He seems to be unsupporting of Kai and kind to his Honey but in truth, he is actually very respectful of Kai and hates his Honey, especially the ones who he thinks are awkward or stupid. Throughout the series, he causes a lot of trouble between Yuzuru and Kai.

Well, I like this manga series very much due to the art is very beautiful and the story is nice too as it is very interesting and sometimes very funny. FYI, this manga series has some adult contains. :P

I want to mention that I like the guy, Kai Renge very much is this story as he is such a cool and sexy guy. Since the creator of the story is Kanan Minami, he looks a bit similar to Kyota in the manga series of “Kyō, Koi wa Hajimemasu”. Since Kyota is my most favourite manga king, no doubt that I fall for Kai Renge in such manga series too. He is too awesome and makes me wish to have a guy like him!!! :P

Anyway, let us take a peek of some previews of the “Honey x Honey Drops” of the OVA and manga series here.

I wish there is an anime series for “Honey x Honey Drops” instead of OVA. As I think with the anime series, it will be more interesting to watch.

Well, if you are interested to read or watch this manga series, please click on the following links in order to join the world of “Honey”. I wish you would enjoy as much as I do!!!

Honey x Honey Drops Manga Series
Honey x Honey Drops OVA

Enjoy reading and/watching!!! ^.^