Three Leaves, Three Colors
Three Leaves, Three Colors is a Japanese four-panel manga series by Cherry Arai, serialized in Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara magazine since February 2003 and fourteen tankōbon volumes have been collected so far. An anime adaptation by Doga Kobo aired from April to June 2016.
Plot
The story revolves around the everyday life of three high-school girls who all have a kanji "葉" in their names, and have different features - hence the translation of the title, "three leaves, three colors".Characters
"Three leaves"
;Yōko Nishikawa;Futaba Odagiri
;Teru Hayama
Other characters
;Serina Nishiyama;Asako Kondō
;Shino Sonobe
;Mitsugu Yamaji
;Kō Hayama
;Yū Takezono
;Sakura Usuda
;Hajime Tsuji
;Sasame Tsuji
;Kōsei Nishikawa
Media
Manga
Sansha San'yō began as a Japanese manga series by Cherry Arai and was first published in Manga Time Kirara 's February 2003 issue. The manga was serialized at Manga Time Kirara, except between December 2003 to January 2007 when the manga was serialized at Manga Time Kirara Carat. The manga's chapters were compiled into fourteen tankōbon volumes.Anime
A 12-episode anime television adaptation by Doga Kobo aired from April 11 to June 27, 2016 It is directed by Yasuhiro Kimura and written by Hidoaki Koyasu. Jun Yamazaki provided the series' character designs. Later it was confirmed that Crunchyroll was added the series alongside Time Travel Girl and Omamori Himari on their catalog since December 21, 2016.The opening theme is Clover♣Kakumation クローバー♣かくめーしょん, and the ending theme is Gūchoki Parade, both performed by Mai Kanazawa, Ayaka Imamura, and Yū Wakui under the name Triple♣Feeling.
In episode 12, the song School High Touch! is used as an insert song, which is also performed by Triple♣Feeling.
Later, in 2018, character designer Jun Yamazaki shared a question he received on Wednesday regarding the possibility of a second season of the anime. He then stated that he showed the question to animation producer Shōta Umehara, who then told Yamazaki that while producing a second season would be difficult, they might be able to make something different.
Episode list
| No. | Official English title Original Japanese title | Original air date |