Hana-Kimi (TV series)

This article is about the 2007 Japanese TV series. For the manga, see Hana-Kimi. For the Taiwanese TV series, see Hanazakarino Kimitachihe. For the 2011 Japanese TV series, see Hanazakari no Kimitachi e (2011 TV series). For the Korean TV series, see To the Beautiful You.

Hana-Kimi (Japanese: 花ざかりの君たちへ〜イケメン♂パラダイス〜, Hepburn: Hanazakari no Kimitachi e: Ikemen Paradaisu; lit. 'For You in Full Blossom: Ikemen Paradise', stylized as HANA-KIMI),^[2][1][3] also known by the abbreviation IkePara, is a teen romantic-comedy Japanese television drama planned by Hiroyuki Gotō for Fuji TV and Kyodo TV, based on the shōjo manga series of the same title by Hisaya Nakajo. Filming locations include Ryutsu Keizai University. It premiered on Fuji TV on July 3, 2007, and concluded with its twelfth episode on September 18 the same year.

Hana-Kimi
Title card of the series
Japanese name
Kanji	花ざかりの君たちへ〜イケメン♂パラダイス〜
Literal meaning	For You in Full Blossom: Ikemen Paradise
Transcriptions Revised Hepburn Hanazakari no Kimitachi e: Ikemen Paradaisu
Genre	Teen drama, romantic comedy[1]
Based on	Hana-Kimi by Hisaya Nakajo
Written by	Shogo Muto [ja]
Directed by	Hidetomo Matsuda (ep. 1–2, 5, 8–9, 12, SP) Junichi Tsuzuki (ep. 3, 6, 11) Genta Satō (ep. 4, 7, 10)
Starring	Maki Horikita Shun Oguri Toma Ikuta
Theme music composer	Orange Range (OP) Ai Otsuka (ED)
Opening theme	"Ikenai Taiyō" by Orange Range
Ending theme	"Peach" by Ai Otsuka
Composers	Shin Kono Yu Takami
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13
Production
Producer	Aya Moriyasu
Running time	54 minutes 135 minutes (SP)
Production companies	Fuji Television Kyodo Television
Original release
Network	FNS (Fuji TV)
Release	July 3, 2007 (2007-07-03) – October 12, 2008 (2008-10-12)
Related
Hanazakarino Kimitachihe (Taiwanese) Hanazakari no kimitachi e (2011) To the Beautiful You (Korean)

In addition, a television special with the regular cast reprising their roles was subsequently produced, and was broadcast on October 12, 2008.

A remake of this drama with an entirely different cast was broadcast on Fuji TV during the 2011 summer season.^[4]

Cast

Group	Cast	Role
Second Dormitory	Maki Horikita	Mizuki Ashiya (芦屋 瑞稀, Ashiya Mizuki)
	Shun Oguri	Izumi Sano (佐野 泉, Sano Izumi)
	Toma Ikuta	Shūichi Nakatsu (中津 秀一, Nakatsu Shūichi)
	Hiro Mizushima	Minami Nanba (難波 南, Nanba Minami)
	Yūsuke Yamamoto	Taiki Kayashima (萱島 大樹, Kayashima Taiki)
	Masaki Okada	Kyōgo Sekime (関目 京悟, Sekime Kyōgo)
	Ryō Kimura	Senri Nakao (中央 千里, Nakao Senri)
	Junpei Mizobata	Kazuma Saga (嵯峨 和真, Saga Kazuma)
	Shunji Igarashi	Shinji Noe (野江 伸二, Noe Shinji)
	Hiromi Sakimoto	Arata Kyōbashi (京橋 新, Kyōbashi Arata)
	Shōta Chiyo	Taichi Yodoyabashi (淀屋橋 太壱, Yodoyabashi Taichi)
	Ryō Tajima	Jō Arashiyama (嵐山 譲, Arashiyama Jō)
	Enoku Shimegi	Kyōichi Tannowa
	Hikaru Okada	Riku Takaida
	Jun Ikeda	Kamishinjō Itsuki
	Kōta Suzuki	Kanata Uenoshiba
	Keisuke Shibasaki	Manato Minase
	Shota Matsushima	Masashi Katsura
	Shotaro Mamiya	Keisuke Awaji
	Goro Kurihara	Kota Hanaten
First Dormitory	Yuma Ishigaki	Tennōji Megumi
	Mitsuomi Takahashi	Mitsuomi Daikokuchō
	Kouhei Takeda	Kōhei Kitahanada
	Ryohei Suzuki	Sōichirō Akashi
	Yūichi Sato	Shōta Tezukayama
	Sōsuke Nishiyama	Sōma Shichidō
	Ryō Hayakawa	Sakyō Gotenyama
	Tatsuya Hagiwara	Hiroto Ishikiri
	Kōji Matsushita	Ren Shōjaku
	Kohei Takeda	Kohei Kitahanada
	Arata Horii	Jin Kumatori
	Ryosuke Yamamoto	Akira Kiyoshikojin
	Ryu Ando	Andrew Mukonoso
	Kodai Asaka	Subaru Takatsuki
	Sonde Kanai	Kazuki Obitoke
	Shotaro Kotani	Hiroto Moriguchi
	Tomoki Okayama	Shotaro Kadoma
Third Dormitory	Nobuo Kyo	Masao Himejima/Oscar
	Keisuke Katō	Hikaru Yao
	Toshihiko Watanabe	Shō Imamiya
	Yūta Takahashi	Haruki Shijō
	Shōichi Matsuda	Junnosuke Kuzuha
	Naoki Miyata	Tsukasa Saiin
	Yasuhisa Furuhara	Taiyō Ōgimachi
	Naoya Ojima	Kōhei Kaizuka
	Yuya Nakata	Ken Katabiranotsuji
	Yū Kawakami	Genji Kōrien
	Kusuto Miyajima	Nobuhiro Yaenosato
	Takami Ozora	Sansui Kyobate
	Taiko Katono	Hisashi Kawachimori
	Shige Kasai	Yasushi Mozu
	Kazuma Kawahara	Sakon Narayama
	Kazuhiro Okazaki	Hideharu Izumigaoka
	Kettaro	Minamikata Shin
Tōkyō High School	Yū Shirota	Kagurazaka Makoto
	Shunsuke Daito	Sano Shin
St. Blossom's High School Hanayashiki Hibari and Hibari 4	Mayuko Iwasa	Hanayashiki Hibari
	Mirei Kiritani	Amagasaki Kanna
	Airi Taira	Abeno Erica
	Madoka Matsuda	Kishinosato Juri
	Manami Kurose	Imaike Komari
Teachers	Seiko Matsuda	Principal Tsubaki
	Takashi Ukaji	Head teacher Sawatari
	Susumu Kobayashi	Yoshioka
	Takaya Kamikawa	Umeda Hokuto
Others	Mahiru Konno	Hara Akiha
	Yoshinori Okada	Ashiya Shizuki
	Hajime Yamazaki	Ashiya Takumi
	Mariko Tsutsui	Ashiya Eiko
	Yoko Moriguchi	Nanba Io
	Natsuki Harada	Tanabe Kanao
	Tetta Sugimoto	Sano Takehiko

Episode list

No.	Title	Original release date
1	"Getting into the Forbidden Boys' Dormitory" Transliteration: "Kindan no danshi ryō totsunyū" (Japanese: 禁断の男子寮突入)	July 3, 2007 (2007-07-03)
Ashiya Mizuki arrives at Ohsaka High, a school that accepts students based on appearance rather than merit. Almost immediately she has several awkward and embarrassing encounters with classmate Sano Izumi. Sano, a high jump athlete, is the reason Mizuki disguised herself and entered an all-boys school. Mizuki is introduced to the school's three dormitories that compete in school-wide events: Dorm 1, captained by Tennouji Megumi, contains the martial arts department; Dorm 2, led by Nanba Minami, specializes in sports; and Dorm 3, headed by Oscar M. Himejima, hosts the performing arts. Mizuki joins Dorm 2 to be close to Sano, and even becomes his roommate, but learns that he quit high jumping because of a torn ligament. For the sake of winning a marathon competition between the dorms, some students injure Mizuki's foot, but she is determined to keep running. Sano hears of the incident and comes to watch, and when Mizuki collapses before the finish, he carries her to the nurse's office. The school's doctor Umeda discovers that she is a girl.
2	"Wrong Kiss" Transliteration: "Ikenai Kiss" (Japanese: イケナイkiss)	July 10, 2007 (2007-07-10)
Mizuki runs from Umeda's office without responding. Back at the dorms, the three dorm heads declare they will win fair and square in the next event, the Mr. Ohsaka contest, which will be a joint event with the girls of St. Blossoms, Ohsaka's sister academy. St. Blossoms' Hanayashiki Hibari, supported by the Hibari 4, is determined to win. During the decorating, Sano gets drunk and kisses Mizuki, which the members of dorm 2 inform her happens whenever he has even a small amount of alcohol. Meanwhile, Nakatsu Shūichi struggles with being inexplicably attracted to the "boy" Mizuki. Umeda informs Mizuki that Sano has decided to drop out of track and field. With Nakatsu trailing after her, Mizuki finds Sano arguing with rival Kagurazaka. Sano tells her later that he is afraid to return to the field; she says he should go at his own pace, as long as he doesn't give up. Mizuki confides to Umeda that in America, she was the reason Sano's leg was injured, so he decides not to expel her yet. Both Sano and Mizuki make appearances in the contest, with Mizuki in a dress. The dog Yuujiro is named King, and Mizuki is Queen.
3	"Bizarre Big Brother" Transliteration: "Ryōki-tekina aniki!" (Japanese: 猟奇的なアニキ！)	July 17, 2007 (2007-07-17)
Mizuki's brother comes to bring her back to America. He sets foot on campus in the middle of the dorm members' search for a panty thief who is terrorizing St. Blossoms and is mistaken for a suspicious person, which doesn't give him the best impression of Mizuki's classmates. Sano overhears them arguing and learns that Mizuki is a girl, as well as her involvement in his injury. When Mizuki tells Umeda about her troubles, the gay doctor decides to tease her uptight brother. Mizuki meets Umeda's ex, a photographer, and learns from her that Sano's younger brother is now a high jump star. After Mizuki's brother confronts Sano, Sano tries to chase Mizuki away. But she bounces back from his harsh words, which makes him think about her determination. He tells her brother that he couldn't take the pressure of being a record holder, but now he wants to show the same spirit Mizuki has. Nakatsu determines that he is not homo, but can't fight his feelings for Mizuki. The search for the panty thief uncovers a bra in Mizuki's luggage, endangering her secret, but Sano reveals that Yuujiro is the real thief.
4	"Dangerous Three-Person Room" Transliteration: "Abunai 3-ri heya" (Japanese: アブナイ3人部屋)	July 24, 2007 (2007-07-24)
The students learn that Dorm 1 will be temporarily closed for maintenance, and its members will move into Dorm 2 for a few days. Nakatsu takes the place of the third person in Mizuki and Sano's room, causing chaos for them. However, Mizuki is more concerned that Sano appears to be avoiding her. When she goes to Tōkyō High School to observe Sano's brother, Shin, she witnesses a confrontation between the two and learns that Shin is angry that his brother ran away. She asks Nakatsu what might make Sano happy, and Nakatsu convinces her that Sano needs a girlfriend, so Mizuki forces Sano to attend a joint party with St. Blossoms. Sano storms out of the party and blames Mizuki for dragging him there. She is discouraged and is considering returning home to America when Nakatsu pulls her out to the track field, where Sano has been training every night. Sano informs Shin and his rival Kagurazaka that he will compete again.
5	"Hopeless Coast Story" Transliteration: "Ikenai kaigan monogatari" (Japanese: イケナイ海岸物語)	July 31, 2007 (2007-07-31)
Minami and his dormmates taking Mizuki to the "home of the sea", instead of having fun, they had a couple of showdowns against kagurazaka and his schoolmates of Tokyo high includes the "Beach flag showdown","Gyoza eating showdown", "intro showdown","Sumo wrestling showdown","Balance showdown", and the last, "flirting showdown", Nakatsu's team is nearly lose when Minami supports them and replacing Mizuki during the showdown. winning nakatsu's team on the showdown, and kagurazaka's team had go home naked. this episode also have a short romance of Minami's former girlfriend kanako and Sano's time in a summer training camp, whom his teammates refuse to compete him.
6	"The Beginning of Stormy Love" Transliteration: "Dai haran no koi hajimaru" (Japanese: 大波乱の恋始まる)	August 7, 2007 (2007-08-07)
7	"Suddenly in Bed" Transliteration: "Totsuzen no Beddo-in" (Japanese: 突然のベッドイン)	August 14, 2007 (2007-08-14)
8	"I Like Mizuki" Transliteration: "Ore wa Mizuki ga Suki" (Japanese: オレは瑞稀が好き)	August 21, 2007 (2007-08-21)
9	"Exposed!" Transliteration: "Bareta!" (Japanese: バレた！)	August 28, 2007 (2007-08-28)
10	"Depend on Me!" Transliteration: "Ore ni shi toke yo!" (Japanese: オレにしとけよ！)	September 4, 2007 (2007-09-04)
11	"I'll Jump for You" Transliteration: "Omae no Tame ni Tobu" (Japanese: お前のために跳ぶ)	September 11, 2007 (2007-09-11)
12	"We'll Protect You!" Transliteration: "Oretachi ga Mamoru!" (Japanese: オレたちが守る！)	September 18, 2007 (2007-09-18)

Special

A television special with the regular cast reprising their roles was subsequently produced, and was broadcast on October 12, 2008.

The story starts off half a year after Mizuki's secret of being a girl has revealed. It is near Valentine's Day, and Sano and Nakatsu are talking about the last week of summer vacation. The story then flashes back to the last week of summer holidays, which is between episodes seven and eight.

The shooting started on March 19, 2008.^[5] A conference was held on September 18, 2008, announcing the completion of the special, subtitled Sotsugyōshiki and Nana to Hanbunwa Special (卒業式&7と1/2話スペシャル).^[6]

Differences

There are many differences between the manga and the television drama. Though the concept and characters are the same, the story is described differently. For example, in the comics Sano became injured from saving his friend, while in the drama he became injured from saving Mizuki. Genders are also different in the drama. Akiha is male in the comics, but portrayed as female in the drama. In the comes, Sano found out Mizuki's true gender when he accidentally "felt her up", but in the drama Sano finds out Mizuki is female when he overhears Mizuki talking to her brother. Nakatsu also finds out about Mizuki's gender a lot earlier in the drama, while in the comics he finds out Mizuki's true gender along with everyone else.

Music

Music from the original television soundtrack

1. Peach [Performed by: Ai Otsuka]
2. Ikenai Taiyō [Performed by: Orange Range]
3. IKEMEN Boogie
4. Men of Paradise
5. St. BLOSSOM
6. Go to School!
7. HA.NA.ZA Carnival
8. Save Me
9. Early Summer
10. IKE-MEN 2007
11. I can't tell you why
12. Boyz be ambitious!
13. Beautiful Enough
14. Into a Nap
15. Be Silent
16. OSAKA♂Boyz
17. IKEMEN Boogie Nights
18. I am Lady
19. I can't tell you why (reprise)
20. Emergency
21. Sand Time
22. Is This Spiritual
23. Trap Happy
24. PEACH (IKEMEN☆instrumental version)

Insert songs

• "My Love" by Kawashima Ai
• "Boom Boom Boom" by Go Hiromi (not present in the TVB broadcast of the series)
• "Paradise Ginga" by Hikaru Genji
• "Tomaranai Hāha" by Yazawa Eikichi
• "Girlfriend" by Avril Lavigne
• ("Sakuranbo" (さくらんぼ) by Otsuka Ai played alternatively in the TVB broadcast of the series)
• "Oh My Julia" by the Checkers

International broadcasts

Philippines

• Air date: March 24 to April 25, 2008
• Broadcast network: GMA Network^[7]
• Theme song: "Peach" by Ai Otsuka

Hong Kong

• Air date: May 4 to July 27, 2008 (original broadcast), June 6, 2009 to October 11, 2009 (rerun+ special)
• Broadcast network: TVB Jade

China

• Air date: January 16 to January 26, 2009
• Broadcast network: Xing Kong^[8]

Indonesia

• Air date: June 18 to July 15, 2011
• Broadcast network: Indosiar

Malaysia

• Air date: October 2008 to January 2009
• Broadcast network: 8TV

See also

• Hanazakari no Kimitachi e (2011 TV series), the 2011 Japanese remake