Takamine-ke No Nirinka The Animation - 0...: Garden

To prevent this, Hana makes a desperate pact. She uses the flower’s root to “write a zero” into the timeline—a null loop. Episode 0 ends with her planting a black seed into her own left eye socket, whispering: “Let the garden remember nothing. Let the garden remember everything. Begin from zero.”

Date: April 16, 2026

Hana Takamine (great-grandmother of Itsuki). She is not a gardener but a botanical necromancer . The Imperial Army has tasked her with a secret project: “Project Nirinka.” The goal? To create a flower that, when smoked or steeped into tea, allows the drinker to speak with the dead for exactly 7 minutes. Garden Takamine-ke no Nirinka The Animation - 0...

Hana succeeds. She grows the first Nirinka. But the “two rings” are not petals—they are temporal loops. When you look into the flower’s second ring, you see not the past, but a potential future where you died horribly . Hana sees a vision: in 2026, her descendant Itsuki will be forced to cut down the garden with a cursed shovel, killing every spirit trapped within. To prevent this, Hana makes a desperate pact

Episode Zero , however, takes place 100 years earlier. Let the garden remember everything