Anne Hanakoizumi

**Anne Hanakoizumi** (花小泉 杏, *Hanakoizumi An*?), also commonly known as **Hanako** (はなこ?), is one of the main characters of the *Anne Happy♪* series. Her mother is Sakura Hanakoizumi. She has a very positive attitude despite having terrible luck.

## Bio

### Appearance

Anne is a young girl with an average frame and short, pale peach (orange in the manga) hair with a small bun tied on top with white ribbon. Her bangs are somewhat messy, with the middle overlapping. She has dark pink eyes.

She is usually seen wearing the girls Tennomifune Academy uniform.

### Personality

Against her terrible odds, Anne is bright and cheery. Her positivity and smile can be infectious and she's always determined to give everything her all until the last minute. She's sweet, cuddly, and she adores animals- even if they don't return the sentiment. She can be dense and headstrong at times, and she's pretty clumsy.

## Plot

Anne is first seeing hanging from a bridge from her shirt on the first day of school, clutching a dog that she attempted to help after it slipped. She was utterly helpless until Ruri Hibarigaoka came and tried to help Anne. But just as Anne had given Ruri the nickname '*Hibari*', she fell into the river- although unharmed, because it was deep.

Later, they end up in the same class. Where they find out it isn't actually one of the main classes at the school, but one studying *unfortunate* students and helping them uncover their special skills and talents to allow them to become successful in life. She also meets Botan, a very frail classmate and together the girls get to know each other while during their first task.

## Relationships

### Ruri Hibarigaoka

As thanks for helping her, Anne gave Ruri the nickname *Hibari* and often calls her that. In return Ruri nicknamed her *Hanako*. They became friends very quickly despite being so different after Anne promised not to tell anyone Ruri's secret. They are on good terms and appear to be very close, with Anne trusting Ruri entirely and wanting to make her smile.

### Botan Kumegawa

Botan and Anne became friends very quickly after Anne worriedly hurt Botan while shaking hands. Botan assured her it was alright and they quickly began to connect over their similarities.

## Etymology

* The name **Anne** means "apricot" (杏).
* Anne's surname **Hanakoizumi** means "flower, blossom" (花) (**hana**), "small" (小) (**ko**) and "spring, fountain" (泉) (**izumi**).

## Trivia

* Anne enrolled at the school only because it was close to her home.
	+ On her first day in school, she got the number 40, the last number in their class, meaning that she has the worst luck in her class.
		- This is also based on a pun with numbers in Japan as 4 can mean "death" (死, shi) and 9 can mean "suffering" (苦, ku) (0 on the piece of paper had an ink blotch making it look like a 9) .
* Despite the claim that all animals hate Anne, there was one animal that did not.
	+ This being the chick that hatched from their egg homework.
* Anne's type of misfortune is bad luck, but she is also shown to be *very lucky* that actually makes it "*Devils Luck*" at the same time.
* Anne has a bad luck with everything, everywhere, but especially with water .
* Anne likes strawberry milk and *café au lait*.

## References

1. ↑ Anne Happy♪ Manga - Volume 2 - Lucky 8
2. ↑ Anne Happy♪ Manga - Volume 3 - Lucky 15 - Page 17