Hanae Wada

About Hanae Wada

Hanae Wada, known to everyone as Granny, is the retired school lunch cook whose unlikely friendship with Hiroto Ikuta sets Hirayasumi in motion. Blunt, stubborn and fond of him, she shared dinner with him twice a week and left him her single-story Asagaya house. Rikako Aikawa voices her in the January 2027 anime.

Appearance

Hanae is a small elderly woman with short grey hair and glasses, usually in a cardigan over a light dress. In the series key visual she sits on the porch of her old house with a cup in her hands, watching the younger generation charge around the garden.

Personality

Hanae is blunt and stubborn, a pensioner who says what she thinks and apologises for none of it. She is also, on her own terms, deeply kind. Her fondness for Hiroto, a young man with no direction that she could see, was her own decision, and the house she left him came with feelings he is still working through.

Background & Story

Hanae worked as a school lunch cook before retiring to her single-story house in Asagaya on her pension. She struck up a friendship with Hiroto Ikuta, a young part-timer from the neighbourhood, and the two shared dinner twice a week. She left the house to him, and her presence runs through the whole series, in the building, the neighbourhood's memory and Hiroto's habits. Rikako Aikawa voices her in the January 2027 anime.

Key Relationships

• Hiroto Ikuta: The young neighbour she befriended and chose, in every way that matters. She shared dinner with him twice a week and left him her house.
• Natsumi Kobayashi: Hiroto's cousin, who now lives in Hanae's house. The two are connected through the home and through Hiroto's stories of her.

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