Hanasaku Iroha movie premieres this fall!

It turns out that the upcoming anime is actually a special feature film!

The current June issue of Gangan Joker magazine has formally confirmed that the Hanasaku Iroha: Home Sweet Home anime is an original feature film that will hit Japanese theaters later this year. Studio P.A. Works’ 26-episode original slice-of-life anime drama TV series aired from April through September 2011.

Hanasaku Iroha gets new anime greenlit for 2012!

The production committee of the Hanasaku Iroha television anime series had announced in October that it was producing a "new visual work" of Hanasaku Iroha next year, but it did not specify if the new work was animated or not.

There was speculation over if it would be a movie, but now we know it is another season!

The Hanasaku Iroha television anime series aired from April to September of this year, and Crunchyroll streamed the anime in several countries as it aired in Japan. The story centers around Ohana Matsumae, a 16-year-old Tokyo native who suddenly ends up working at a provincial hot spring inn after her mother flees town to avoid debts.

source: ANN

New Hanasaku Iroha Work in 2012 Confirmed

The Hokkoku Shimbun paper confirmed on Monday that the production committee of the Hanasaku Iroha television anime series announced that it is producing a "new visual work" of Hanasaku Iroha next year.

The production committee did not specify if the new work will be released on television, on video, or in theaters, or even if the work will be animated. This would be interesting for this series that unexpectedly got succesful.

The story centers around Ohana Matsumae, a 16-year-old Tokyo native who suddenly ends up working at a provincial hot spring inn after her mother flees town to avoid debts.