Hanazakari no Kimitachi e
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| Hanazakari no Kimitachi e Ikemen Paradise 花ざかりの君たちへ イケメン♂パラダイス |
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From left to right: Toma Ikuta, Maki Horikita, and Shun Oguri.
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| Also known as | Ikemen Paradise |
| Genre | Comedy, Romance, Romantic comedy, Drama |
| Written by | Muto Shogo Yamaura Masahiro (Ep. 8 & 10) |
| Directed by | Matsuda Hidetomo Tsuzuki Junichi Sato Genta |
| Starring | Maki Horikita Shun Oguri Toma Ikuta |
| Opening theme | Ikenai Taiyō by Orange Range |
| Ending theme | Peach by Ai Otsuka |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language(s) | Japanese |
| No. of episodes | 12 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 54 minute episodes |
| Release | |
| Original network | Fuji Television |
| Original release | July 3 – September 18, 2007 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Hanazakarino Kimitachihe Hanazakari no kimitachi e (2011) To the Beautiful You |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Hanazakari no Kimitachi e: Ikemen Paradise (花ざかりの君たちへ イケメン♂パラダイス Hanazakari no Kimitachi e: Ikemen Paradaisu?), also known as Ike-para, is a Japanese drama produced by Fuji Television and first aired on July 3, 2007. It is based on the comic by Hisaya Nakajo, published in English as Hana-Kimi. Filming locations include the Ryutsu Keizai University.
A TV Special has already aired with the regular cast reprising their roles. 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. This is when the story gets back to the last week of Summer holidays, which is between episode 7 and 8. The shooting started on March 19, 2008.[1] A conference was held on September 18, 2008 announcing the completion of the special, subtitled Sotsugyoshiki & 7 to 1/2 wa Special (卒業式&7と1/2話スペシャル?).[2]
A remake of this drama with an entirely different cast was aired on Fuji Television during the 2011 summer season.[3]
Contents
Plot summary
The drama is based on the popular comic of the same name by Nakajo Hisaya. Horikita plays the protagonist Ashiya Mizuki, a Japanese girl in the United States who one day sees the young athlete Sano Izumi compete in the high jump on television. She begins to idolize him. Sano gets injured one day in America while trying to help Mizuki escape from some gangsters. He stops high jumping ever since. Mizuki blames herself for the incident and decides to go to Japan and help Sano find his love for high jumping.
Izumi goes to an all-boys school, so Mizuki disguises herself as a boy to meet with him again. Sano found out about Mizuki when her brother came to Japan. Sano hides the fact that he knows Mizuki's gender so that she doesn't go back to America. Sano, who gets closer to Mizuki, tries to high jump again. In the middle of the story Mizuki, falls in love with Sano. Nakatsu falls for Mizuki. Nakatsu was searching for shampoo when he opened Mizuki and Sano's bathroom and saw Mizuki in the shower — that's when he found out about Mizuki. Nakatsu and Sano try to not let Mizuki go back to America.
When Mizuki rushes to Sano's competition to bring his lucky charm, she bumps to Hibari; Mizuki drops her wallet and was found out by Hibari. Hibari showed the passport inside the wallet to the three dorm heads; she was unable to let the dorm heads see what is inside because Nakatsu interrupted. She was only able to tell that there is a girl in the school. The search began and Mizuki felt nervous, but Nakatsu and Sano had plans to cover her. The dorm heads saw a girl changing in the office and called Mizuki. They now know that Mizuki was a girl. Sano and Nakatsu also confesses that they knew about her gender before the dorm head learned. The dorm heads let Mizuki stay until graduation, but she collapsed when she fell from the stairs where her classmates were setting the maid cafe. The classmates opens her clothes and figured out she was a girl. Mizuki decides she will go back to America. Sano and the school nurse brought her to the airport where Sano gave Mizuki a goodbye kiss.
For the Hana Kimi special, Nakatsu and Sano reminiscence about when Sano fell in love with Mizuki. This takes us back to the weeks between episodes 7 and 8, where Mizuki's friend, Julia, from America comes to Osaka Gakuen to take Mizuki back to America. While Julia is in Japan, she decides to act as Mizuki's girlfriend to see if Sano really cares for her.
Cast
| Group | Cast | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Second Dormitory | Maki Horikita | Ashiya Mizuki |
| Shun Oguri | Sano Izumi | |
| Toma Ikuta | Nakatsu Shūichi | |
| Hiro Mizushima | Nanba Minami | |
| Yūsuke Yamamoto | Kayashima Taiki | |
| Masaki Okada | Sekime Kyōgo | |
| Ryō Kimura | Nakao Senri | |
| Junpei Mizobata | Saga Kazuma | |
| Shunji Igarashi | Noe Shinji | |
| Hiromi Sakimoto | Kyōbashi Arata | |
| Shōta Chiyo | Yodoyabashi Taichi | |
| Ryō Tajima | Arashiyama jō | |
| Enoku Shimegi | Tannowa Kyōichi | |
| Hikaru Okada | Takaida Riku | |
| Jun Ikeda | Kamishinjō Itsuki | |
| Kōta Suzuki | Uenoshiba Kanata | |
| Keisuke Shibasaki | Minase Manato | |
| Matsushima Shota | Katsura Masashi | |
| Mamiya Shotaro | Awaji Keisuke | |
| Kurihara Goro | Hanaten Kota | |
| First Dormitory | Yuma Ishigaki | Tennōji Megumi |
| Mitsuomi Takahashi | Daikokuchō Mitsuomi | |
| Kouhei Takeda | Kitahanada Kōhei | |
| Ryōhei Suzuki | Akashi Sōichirō | |
| Yūichi Sato | Tezukayama Shōta | |
| Sōsuke Nishiyama | Shichidō Sōma | |
| Ryō Hayakawa | Gotenyama Sakyō | |
| Tatsuya Hagiwara | Ishikiri Hiroto | |
| Kōji Matsushita | Shōjaku Ren | |
| Maeda Goki | Kitahanada Takeshi | |
| Horii Arata | Kumatori Jin | |
| Yamamoto Ryosuke | Kiyoshikojin Akira | |
| Ando Ryu | Mukonoso Andrew | |
| Asaka Koudai | Takatsuki Subaru | |
| Kanai Sonde | Obitoke Kazuki | |
| Kotani Shotaro | Moriguchi Hiroto | |
| Okayama Tomoki | Kadoma Shotaro | |
| Third Dormitory | Nobuo Kyo | Himejima Masao/Oscar |
| Keisuke Katō | Yao Hikaru | |
| Toshihiko Watanabe | Imamiya Shō | |
| Yūta Takahashi | Shijō Haruki | |
| Shōichi Matsuda | Kuzuha Junnosuke | |
| Naoki Miyata | Saiin Tsukasa | |
| Yasuhisa Furuhara | Ōgimachi Taiyō | |
| Naoya Ojima | Kaizuka Kōhei | |
| Yuya Nakata | Katabiranotsuji Ken | |
| Yū Kawakami | Kōrien Genji | |
| Miyajima Kusuto | Yaenosato Nobuhiro | |
| Takami Ozora | Kyobate Sansui | |
| Katoono Taikou | Kawachimori Hisashi | |
| Kasai Shige | Mozu Yasushi | |
| Kawahara Kazuma | Narayama Sakon | |
| Okazaki Kazuhiro | Izumigaoka Hideharu | |
| Kettaro | Minamikata Shin | |
| Tōkyō High School | Yū Shirota | Makoto Kagurazaka |
| Shunsuke Daito | Shin Sano | |
St. Blossom's High School
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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 Saruwatari | |
| 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
| Episode | Broadcast Date | Episode Title | Viewership |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 3, 2007 | Getting into the Forbidden Boys' Dormitory | 15.9% |
| 2 | July 10, 2007 | Wrong Kiss | 16.8% |
| 3 | July 17, 2007 | Bizarre Big Brother | 16.5% |
| 4 | July 24, 2007 | Dangerous Three-Person Room | 16.6% |
| 5 | July 31, 2007 | Hopeless Coast Story | 15.3% |
| 6 | August 7, 2007 | The Beginning of Stormy Love | 14.7% |
| 7 | August 14, 2007 | Suddenly in Bed | 14.7% |
| 8 | August 21, 2007 | I Like Mizuki | 17.5% |
| 9 | August 28, 2007 | Exposed! | 18.2% |
| 10 | September 4, 2007 | Depend On Me | 17.8% |
| 11 | September 11, 2007 | I'll Jump for You | 19.5% |
| Last | September 18, 2007 | We'll Protect You | 21.0% |
Average viewership as 17.33%. Highest viewership recorded was on September 18, 2007 at 22:11 at 23.1%. (In Kantō region).[1]
Differences
There are many differences from the manga and drama. Though the concept and characters are the same, the story is described differently. For example, Sano got injured from saving his friend, while in the drama he got injured from saving Mizuki. Genders are also different in the drama as well. Akiha is supposed to be a guy, however the character is portrayed as a woman in the drama. In the manga Sano found out Mizuki's true gender when he accidentally "felt her up", but in the drama Sano finds out Mizuki's a girl when he overhears Mizuki talking to her brother. Nakatsu also found out about Mizuki's gender a lot earlier, while in the manga he finds out Mizuki's true gender along with everyone else.
Music
Soundtrack
- Peach [Performed by: Otsuka Ai]
- Ikenai Taiyou [Performed by: Orange Range]
- IKEMEN Boogie
- Men of Paradise
- St.BLOSSOM
- Go to School!
- HA.NA.ZA Carnival
- Save Me
- Early Summer
- IKE-MEN 2007
- I can't tell you why
- Boyz be ambitious!
- Beautiful Enough
- Into a Nap
- Be Silent
- OSAKA♂Boyz
- IKEMEN Boogie Nights
- I am Lady
- I can't tell you why (reprise)
- Emergency
- Sand Time
- Is This Spiritual
- Trap Happy
- 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 Ha~Ha 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 Checkers
International broadcasts
Philippines
- Airing date: March 24, 2008 to April 25, 2008
- Broadcast network: GMA Network[4]
- Theme song: PEACH by Ai Otsuka
Hong Kong
- Airing date: May 4, 2008 to July 27, 2008
- Broadcast network: TVB Jade
China
Indonesia
- Airing date: June 18, 2011 to July 15, 2011
- Broadcast network: Indosiar
Malaysia
- Airing date: October, 2008 to January, 2009
- Broadcast network: 8TV
See also
- Hanazakari no Kimitachi e (2011 TV series), the 2011 Japanese remake.
References
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- ↑ Japanese TV series Hana-Kimi premieres today, March 24 Philippine Entertainment Portal
- ↑ 创新娱乐 首选星空 -- 亚洲风剧场 Retrieved January 25, 2009. In Chinese. Page subject to change as broadcasting of newer drama series begins.
