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“Hayato's return reunites estranged childhood friends and ignites town-wide delinquent chaos through fierce loyalty and love of fighting.”
Clover
クローバー
7.99
867 rank · 12,787 readers · 352 favorites
Shounen
Delinquents
Action
Comedy
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Synopsis
Hayato's return reunites estranged childhood friends and ignites town-wide delinquent chaos through fierce loyalty and love of fighting.
Misaki Hayato returns to his hometown and enrolls in the same high school as his two childhood friends. A lot has changed in the years he has been gone, his former best friends are seemingly distant from each other and leading relatively normal high school lives. Hayato's sudden arrival soon changes that and sends shockwaves through the entire town's delinquent population with his willingness to do anything for his friends and his love for a good fight.
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7.2
/10
What 5 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7
mode 7
σ 0.98
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 0.98 · scores cluster tight
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 1.20
Running avg · Apr 2016 → Sep 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “Plot: 7.33/10 - Pretty straightforward, reader is able to understand when and what arc the manga is heading and when what or what not to expect. In other words it does a good job of keeping you...”
- 7 “I didn't really know what to expect from the manga, and especially its main character. The story itself is your typical shounen story with the villains that escalate in power with a modern...”
- 7 “Clover is one of the longest-running high-school furyos in the genre. As I've been interested in this one for a while, it was only natural that I should read Clover. Unfortunately, it arrived a...”
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Medium · 40%
Long · 60%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 401 × 43 ch × vol
- Total read 53h 28m approx
- Published Apr 2007 – Oct 2015
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M9540 catalog