Japanese Drama - Hanazakari no Kimitachi e

Hanazakari no Kimitachi e

Rating: 9.0/10

The Cast

Horikita Maki as Ashiya Mizuki
Oguri Shun as Sano Izumi
Ikuta Toma as Nakatsu Shuichi
Konno Mahiru as Hara Akiha
Kamikawa Takaya as Umeda Hokuto
Matsuda Seiko as Tsubaki, the School Principal
Ukaji Takashi as Sawatari
Kobayashi Susumu as Yoshioka
Okada Yoshinori as Ashiya Shizuki
Daito Shunsuke as Sano Shin
Shirota Yu as Kagurazaka Makoto
Moriguchi Yoko as Nanba Io
Harada Natsuki as Tanabe Kanako
Yamazaki Hajime as Ashiya Takumi
Tsutsui Mariko as Ashiya Eiko
Inagaki Goro as Kitahama Noburo
Sugimoto Tetta as Sano Takehiko

About the Drama

Based on a popular comic, this hilarious comedy follows the chaos, troubles and friendship at a boys’ boarding school after a girl-disguising-a-boy joins.

Ashiya Mizuki has just come back to Japan from California where she was raised. Mizuki's primary goal is find Sano Izumi. Many years ago, while training in the US, Sano saved Mizuki from a group of thugs. Even though she manages to escape, the bad guys caught up with Sano and one of them inflicts a nasty slash on his ankle and since then he was unable to jump properly again. Mizuki blames herself for the incident and vows to make him jump again.

Hence she enters the same high school,  Sakurazaki Academy, disguised as a boy! With a short hair, flattened chest and lowered voice, she starts sharing the same room with Sano.

When she arrives at Sakurazaki Academy, she meets Nakatsu Shoichi, a soccer player who is Sano’s good friend, Sekime Kyogo, the captain of the track team, Kashiyama Taiki, who has an ability to see a person’s aura, the beautiful Nakao Senri and Noe Shinji, the president of the manga-anime society. They are all her second year schoolmates.

There are three dorms on campus. The first dorm houses the sporty type, who is led by dorm leader, Tennoji Megumi, the captain of the karate team.

The third dorm houses the arty type who is led by the dorm leader, Oscar M Himejima (Himejima Masao), president of the drama club, while the second dorm has a mixed bunch led by dorm leader, Namba Minami, the school’s playboy.

Mizuki joins the second dorm which Sano and Nakatsu belong, and somehow becomes Sano’s roommate. Meanwhile, Mizuki finds out that the ball game competition that has been a long tradition between Sakurazaki Academy and Tokyo Academy, which Sano’s rival and fellow high jump athlete Kagurazaka Makoto attends, will be cancelled this year. Enlisting the help of Nakatsu, Namba and the others, she runs about to try to make the competition take place.

Comments

Definately a hilarious comedy...nonsensical but funny...I laughed from start till end and Ashiya Mizuki never fails to amaze me. She is so pretty, and lady like, how can these boys not know that she is a girl?! OMG

The Taiwanese version Hua Yang Shao Nian Shao Nu (花樣少年少女) is acted by Ella a popular singer from the S.H.E. group. I have not watched it yet. But a lot of my friends told me that it really nice. I have to watch first before I can compare but the Japanese version as I can say now is really a drama worth your time to watch if you like comedy. A lot of ridiculas parts, especialy the gender detection part....LOL...

I can not imagine that the school doctor who discovered Ashiya's real gender, instead of asking her to leave the school, is actually supportive of her as long as it is to get Sano back into the track and field team.

Ikuta Toma extreme acting makes the show so enjoyable in fact every one of them are so funny...