Hyakko
2008Hyakko is a Japanese manga created by Haruaki Katō. It started serialization on Flex Comix's free web comic FlexComix Blood on January 16, 2007. An anime adaptation produced by Nippon Animation was first aired in October 2008 in Japan. An OVA was released on October 17, 2009.
Seasons & Episode
Ayumu, Tatsuki, Torako and Suzume are looking for a school club to join. They try out several sports clubs together, but Torako ruins every attempt as she pulls various pranks on Tatsuki.
While Torako and Suzume are having a conversation together in the morning, they encounter Nene on their way. Torako is informed by her that she was involuntarily decided to be a member of the class discipline committee. On the next day morning, she is assigned a duty of checking the student's dress code. Later Torako and her friends discover that Nene is actually quite keen on the female students. In the second part of the episode, Torako and Suzume discovers a grotesque robot made by Chie, who is a member of the robotics club. Later, Torako and her friends are invited to the robotics club room and they learn about Chie's dream of becoming a robotics engineer.
Torako and her friends go to the school cafeteria together. On the way, Torako teaches Ayumu about the 'Combo Card' which gives an extra portion of a meal. Torako pulls a prank on her by making her accidentally to order a noodle with extra large portion. Tatsuki is offended by Torako's mischievous behavior, while Suzume's extraordinary gluttony is revealed. In the second part of the episode, Torako and her friends are in an art class, where students learn to draw each other. Ayumu and Torako takes seductive poses on the floor, while Koma passionately snaps their photographs with her digital camera. Later, Koma sells some of her photographs to a student for profit.
A new character, Yanagi, is introduced. Just like Koma, he makes profits from selling photographs of the students. When Shishimaru looks at Yanagi's photograph of Ayumu by chance, he is instantly infatuated with the photograph. On his way, he encounters Ayumu and confesses his love to her. However, it is later revealed that Shishimaru has actually asked Ayumu to tell Torako about his love for her. In the second part of the episode, Torako and Ushio skip the class together and spends their time together in the downtown and develops a friendship with each other.
Torako, Suzume, and Ayumu visits Tatsuki's home without informing her in advance. Although Tatsuki is caught off-guard and is quite surprised their visit, she gladly invites them to her home. Meanwhile, Tatsuki's housemaid is relieved that Tatuski has made some good friends in the school as she had trouble making friends in the past. Tatsuki's friends are invited to the dinner and they are impressed by her housemaids' kindness.
Inori is in distress for not being able to make friends as she has trouble speaking out loud and her face covered by a long hair freaks out other students. Torako then decides to help her out by asking her friends to renovate her face, so it can give a better impression on the other students. Meanwhile, Torako goes around the classes and changes the classmates' and her homeroom teacher's hairstyles as she pleases. After the make-up is done, the classmates are amazed at Inori's new face. However, on the next day, Inori's appearance reverts back to her ordinary form, which disappoints her friends; she later explains that she is not good enough to do the make-up every morning.
Minato drops and loses her only coin in front of the vending machines. When She loses her hope of retrieving the coin and begins to cry, Torako and Ayumi happens to meet her. Torako buys her a can of drink, so that she would stop crying. After receiving a favor from Torako, Minato persistently tries to return the favor by constantly offering any helps, which eventually annoys her to the great extent. Torako devises various plans of keeping a reasonable distance from Minato, but all of her plans fail at the end. In the second part of the episode, Suzume walks around the school and receives foods and drinks from her friend as a goodwill. Later, Torako and Ayumi is amazed at the amount of gifts that Suzume collected around the school.
When a colleague has to rush home to care for a sick child, their home-room teacher declares a self-study hour, which moves to the gym to get an early start on the next period's PE class. Meanwhile, Yanagi and friends kibbutz from the balcony, with Yanagi hoping to get easily-marketed photos of the girls in their gym clothes. The time in the gym turns into a deadly game of dodge-ball, with most of the class laid out by brutal throws to the face. To bring peace, Torako suggests trial by champion --- Suzume vs. the teacher.
All of the girls learn about Torako's past with her two step-siblings once Torako argues with her sister out in the hallway. Torako finally gets Touma to talk to her.
Set prior to the events of the series, everyone gets ready for the first day of high school. Meanwhile, Torako and Suzume decide to run away from home.
Hyakko is a Japanese manga created by Haruaki Katō. It started serialization on Flex Comix's free web comic FlexComix Blood on January 16, 2007. An anime adaptation produced by Nippon Animation was first aired in October 2008 in Japan. An OVA was released on October 17, 2009.