Hinamatsuri

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***Hinamatsuri*** (ヒナまつり) is a Japanese seinen manga series written and illustrated by Masao Ōtake. It has been serialized in Enterbrain's magazine *Harta*, formerly known as *Fellows!*, from 2010 to 2020, and has nineteen *tankōbon* volumes as of August 12, 2020. The series is licensed by One Peace Books. An anime television series adaptation by Feel aired from April to June 2018. 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. The author, Otake, is from Tetsuya Saruwatari 's assistant. It was the first serialization for the author, the first book-making work, and the first animation work.

*Hinamatsuri* was serialized in Kadokawa's magazine *Harta* from 2010 to 2020, and has nineteen *tankōbon* volumes. English manga publisher One Peace Books has licensed the series for publication in North America.

## Synopsis

While reveling in the successful clinching of a prized vase for his collection, Yoshifumi Nitta, a yakuza member, is rudely interrupted when a large, peculiar capsule suddenly materializes and falls on his head. He opens the capsule to reveal a young, blue-haired girl, who doesn't divulge anything about herself but her name—Hina—and the fact that she possesses immense powers. As if things couldn't get any worse, she loses control and unleashes an explosion if her powers remain unused. Faced with no other choice, Nitta finds himself becoming her caregiver.

To let her use her powers freely, Nitta asks Hina to help out with a construction deal, which goes smoothly. But while this is happening, a rival yakuza group covertly attacks his boss. To Nitta's shock, his colleagues later pin the blame on him! Tasked with attacking the rival group in retaliation, Nitta steels himself and arrives at their hideout. But suddenly, Hina unexpectedly steps in and helps him wipe out the entire group. As it turns out, Hina might just become a valuable asset to Nitta and his yakuza business, provided she does not use her powers on him first! And so the strange life of this unusual duo begins.

## Bibliographic information

*Hinamatsuri* is written and illustrated by Masao Ōtake. It was serialized in Enterbrain's magazine *Harta*, formerly known as *Fellows!*, from June 15, 2010 to July 15, 2020. Its chapters were collected in nineteen *tankōbon* volumes. English manga publisher One Peace Books has licensed the series for publication in North America

1. Released date July 15, 2011 - ISBN 978-4-04-727381-8
2. Released date November 15, 2011 - ISBN 978-4-04-727629-1
3. Released date March 3, 2012 - ISBN 978-4-04-727878-3
4. Released date December 15, 2012 - ISBN 978-4-04-728603-0
5. Released date July 13, 2013 - ISBN 978-4-04-729003-7
6. Released date March 3, 2014 - ISBN 978-4-04-729497-4
7. Released date September 13, 2014 - ISBN 978-4-04-729918-4
8. Released date March 3, 2015 - ISBN 978-4-04-730270-9
9. Released date September 14, 2015 - ISBN 978-4-04-730616-5
10. Released date March 3, 2016 - ISBN 978-4-04-730931-9
11. Released date September 15, 2016 - ISBN 978-4-04-734246-0
12. Released date March 3, 2017 - ISBN 978-4-04-734422-8
13. Released date September 15, 2017 - ISBN 978-4-04-734628-4
14. Released date March 15, 2018 - ISBN 978-4-04-734835-6
15. Released date September 15, 2018 - ISBN 978-4-04-735136-3
16. Released date March 1, 2019 - ISBN 978-4-04-735356-5
17. Released date September 14, 2019 - ISBN 978-4-04-735622-1
18. Released date April 15, 2020 - ISBN 978-4-04-736111-9
19. Released date August 12, 2020 - ISBN 978-4-04-736171-3

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Volumes 3, 6, 8, 10, and 12 were released at the same time as the Hinamatsuri, so the release date is different from the other Beam Comics label works released in the same month.

## Hina

### Aliases:

* Nitta Hina
* Masterpiece *(by Ikaruga)*

### Affiliation:

* Toyoshima Ward Watanabe Junior High School
* Teibe High School

### Allied:

* Mao *(friend)*
* Anzu *(friend)*
* Hitomi Mishima *(friend)*
* Atsushi Yamamoto *(friend)*

## 「Biographical Information」

### Relatives:

* Yoshifumi Nitta *(Brother)*
* Mika Nitta *(Sister)*

### Like:

Ikura (also known as Salmon Roe or Red Caviar)

## 「Voice Actor」

### English VA:

Brina Palencia

The main character of this work. She is a girl who has been blown away from the future. She used a powerful psychokinesis, and in the place (organization) where she was in front of her, her power was used in a good way for adults. She is a "*masterpiece*" according to Ikaruga, and although her psychokinesis is strong, she has difficulty in controlling, and she is prone to runaway, and she usually releases moderate power to prevent runaway. She used to blow her out of the city when she went out of control, which is why she was kicked out. She followed her organization with a device in her throat called a "*collar*," but she accidentally broke during a runaway. She has few words and she is always expressionless. She is selfish and Zubora, and she often pushes herself into a predicament with free-spirited words and deeds that do not read Nitta's intentions in her life of always playing, eating or sleeping, but on the other hand, she shows a breathtaking dialogue. Sometimes. At first, if he didn't listen to Nitta, he would hurt or threaten him with his supernatural powers, but he didn't want to get angry with Nitta and ran away or was afraid of being kicked out. The relationship gradually became like a normal parent and child, such as trying to get in a good mood and being reluctant to come on the day of the visit.

Nitta is called "Nitta" by his surname, but he is externally known as Nitta's daughter, and was transferred to Toyoshima Ward Watanabe Junior High School 1st grade 3rd group as "Nitta Hina". However, her actual age of chick is unknown. She often sleeps at school and has poor test scores. Her school lunch is the majority of her school fun. She also often has her in the classroom with her eyes, goodbye, Takashi, and Kengo. She ran for student council president, but she was elected secretary without hearing that her first grader could only be a secretary (of course, she thinks Hina himself was defeated as student council president). However, due to her innate Zubora, she never attends the student organization, and in the end she ends up with Hitomi taking her place. She is generally seen favorably both inside and outside school, she is liked by Utako, and she is like her real granddaughter to the Ashikawa group leader (her father). It is loved. She also has amicable relationships since Apricot, who was a thug of the organization, was defeated by Hina.

In the 10th volume of the book, she went on to Teibe High School, where there are many dropouts and defects, and her appearance has grown and his emotional expression has become richer than at the beginning. From the beginning of school, the lunch box got cold and I was absent from school because it was bad, and even after I went to school, I slept during class almost all the time, cooked rice in the classroom during class, etc. The lunch box can be used as a trigger. She has grown to some extent mentally, and she has been able to work part-time at a coffee shop, which she started to buy a new computer, without any problems. She is more accustomed to her than in middle school, as she continues to make a lot of money by working part-time at a cabaret club, pretending to be her supernatural power as a magic trick.

I wasn't interested in changing the future, but in the future when "Rock-John" was successful, I knew that I lived with Nitta and was devoting myself to VRMMORPG, so I formed Neo Central Park and tried to make "Rock-John" successful. do. At Neo Central Park, she uses his supernatural powers to reproduce Shiro's movements and play the guitar.

She is a glutton and likes high-class foods, especially salmon roe , but in reality she does not have the taste to distinguish between high-class and low-class products. She is a considerable gamer and plays a wide range of games such as retro games, handheld game, home video game, and PC game. She spares no effort for games, such as working part-time to prepare the environment for PC games and using his supernatural powers to avoid sleeping during class at a school specializing in games.

While moving Nitta with a lot of power, the technique of human body operation (including humanoid dolls) is improving, starting with the simple operation of Nitta alone, the delicate operation of Nitta alone, From multi-person operation, technical operation including cooking and cleaning, to automatic remote operation considering personality due to unconsciousness, to technical operation to perform perfect performance by multiple music bands (including myself). It's growing. She is also showing tremendous talent that makes use of his psychokinesis, such as feats such as replanting his own hair, making dolls that look exactly like Nitta, and performing wonderfully that the audience recognizes in music band operations.

### Abilities

Hina can use telekinesis (*Psychokinesis*). She uses her ability frequently to help Nitta. Although she used it to threaten him at first, after she started attending middle school, it did not happen again. Her telekinesis is much stronger, other than the esper she meets in the series. The downside of being esper is that Hina can overload and begin to self-destruct, but she can take damage without nothing happen.

* the ability to move stuff and/or people just by thinking. Although it fundamentally only requires a thought to work, hand gestures can also help, especially if they make the user look focused.
* one of the most useful and straightforward, and in its more refined form, it allows the user to manipulate any object in a wide number of ways, not only the more intuitive lifting and moving around. Nevertheless, it is very rarely used up to its full potential, as almost every fight would become trivial if it ended with a telekinetic Neck Snap.

## Ending Theme

### ED Title:

* Sake to Ikura to 893 to Musume (鮭とイクラと893と娘)
* Shashinchou (写真帖)
* Taisetsu na Hito (たいせつなひと)
* Hajimete no Kimochi (初めてのキモチ)

### ED Composer:

* Yoshifumi Nitta (Yoshiki Nakajima)
* Yoko Ishida (eps 6)
* Chisuga Haruka (eps 12)
* Mao (Ozawa Ari) (eps 12)

A 12-episode anime television series adaptation by Feel aired from April 6 to June 22, 2018. The series is directed by Kei Oikawa with Keiichirō Ōchi writing the scripts and Nippon Columbia producing the music. 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. The second ending theme titled "Shashin Jō" (写真帖, *transl. "Photo Book"*) by Yoko Ishida is used in episode 6, while episode 12 uses two ending themes: "*Taisetsu na Hito*" (たいせつなひと, *transl. "Someone Important"*) by 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.

### Production

The project started around 2016, and the director, screenwriter, key animator, production company, etc. said, "My youth romantic comedy is still wrong. Continued" and "There is a problem with this art club!" The staff who made it are gathered. The script is written by Ochi, who is composed of the series, and the storyboard is written by director Oikawa. Dubbing started in December 2017 and finished dubbing until the final episode by April 2018.

As for the scenario composition, the episode that the original author Otake wants to put in is listed, then the episode that the director Oikawa wants to put in, and then the series composition and the script Ochi created the scenario. As the episodes mentioned at that time, Otake said that Hina in episode 7 runs for the student organization election, Mami in episode 8 appears, Concridrum can in episode 9, and "Blood and" in episode 11. "A man hungry for violence and money," Oikawa mentioned in episode 9 of Mao's uninhabited island.

In order to leave an impact that makes viewers who do not know the title of "Hina Matsuri" think "I want to see the continuation", the scene at the beginning of the first episode starts from the story of Mao three years later, and this scene is It is structured to connect to the B part of the final episode. Also, in the anime, when the characters express pain, it is promised to say "Aita". This is one of the gag elements to be incorporated into the production of the work directed by Oikawa.

The opening theme song "Distance" was produced from the director Oikawa's request, "I want to blur the song because it's a good song for the Hina Matsuri." Also, in the opening video, the chick always had a salmon roe bowl. This is due to the fact that salmon roe always appears on the cover of the original. However, it was difficult to put salmon roe in every cut, so poetry was put in the other cuts as a substitute, and in the opening and ending, the poetry disappeared as the story progressed.

According to the director Oikawa, "I thought that the strike zone to make the best use of the original is narrow because it is a surreal and interesting original," and in order to reproduce the atmosphere of the original, the script and storyboard - It was produced under the policy of always being concerned with the interval and tempo in each section of directing, editing, dubbing, and dubbing. The original author, Otake, talked about the workmanship of the animation, saying that he thought "The quality is really high, but is it okay?" And, the drawing of "Achimuitehoi" by key animator Tetsuya Takeuchi is mentioned.

### Web Radio

**Welcome to** the radio program "Radio" Hina Matsuri "Little Song" by Kaede Hondo (role of Hitomi Mishima) and Yoko Hikasa (role of Shiko Sakura)! Was delivered at Otoizumi from April 9th ​​to July 2nd, 2018. Updated every Monday. On July 15th of the same year, it was distributed as a frame program in "Internet Radio Station <Otoizumi> 27 Hours Nico Live Broadcast" .

* *The Guests*
	+ The third: Takako Tanaka (role of Hina)
	+ The fifth: Yoshiki Nakajima (role of Yoshifumi Nitta)
	+ The 7th: Kengo Kawanishi (sub role)
	+ 9th: Ari Ozawa (role of Mao)
	+ The tenth: Masao Ohtake (original author)
	+ The eleventh: Rie Murakawa (role of apricot)
* *Corner*
	+ Utako's unconvinced course!
	+ Eye Cocktail Quiz
	+ Little Song Psychic Investigator!

## Reception

*Hinamatsuri* was nominated for the Seiun Award in the Best Comic category in 2021.

## Notes

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

## External Link

* Hina Matsuri Free Cartoon Details - Free Comic **ComicWalker**
* TV anime "Hina Matsuri" official website
* TV anime "Hina Matsuri" official (@hinamatsuri4649 ) --**Twitter** (November 2, 2017- [**UTC notation**])

## Trivia

* Every sweatshirt Hina wears is a word or phrase that describes a theme in the story or scene.
* Hina enjoys eating Ikura (also known as Salmon Roe or Red Caviar)
* Hina was created in a lab in the US.
* Hina, with instruction from Mao, creates a life size puppet of Nitta (the Nitta golem) to do the household work Nitta always did.
* She starts dating in high school.
* After High School, Hina goes to college to learn how to design computer games.
* Hina learns that Atsushi has all but given up on music as Central Park has broken up. She drafts Anzu and Mao into forming Central Park II to rekindle her old bandmate's passion for performing.