HANA-KIMI

Synopsis

Japanese-American track star Mizuki Ashiya transfers from a school in California to Japan, but not to just any old school. The school is Osaka High School—an all male high school! Mizuki Ashiya must disguise herself as a boy, all to get closer to her hero, Izumi Sano, a high-jump athlete who attends Osaka High. Now with short hair, flattened chest, and deeper voice, Mizuki becomes roommates with Izumi Sano, but trouble soon starts to brew. Izumi Sano discovers by accident that Mizuki is a girl and falls in love with her, but Mizuki is unaware of the fact. Complicating things, fellow classmate Shuichi Nakatsu starts to develop feelings for Mizuki, unaware that she is a girl!

First Air Date: 2007-07-03

Last Air Date: 2007-09-18

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 12

Created By: Hiroyuki Gotō

Networks: Fuji TV

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Top Cast

Maki Horikita as Mizuki Ashiya
Shun Oguri as Izumi Sano
Toma Ikuta as Shuichi Nakatsu
Mahiru Konno as Hara Akiha
Takaya Kamikawa as Umeda Hokuto
Seiko Matsuda as Tsubaki
Takashi Ukaji as Sawatari
Kobayashi Susumu as Yoshioka
Yoshinori Okada as Ashiya Shizuki
Shunsuke Daitoh as Sano Shin

Seasons

Specials (2007)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Episode 1 (2007-09-18)

No overview for this episode.
Ep. 2: Graduation Ceremony & Episode 7-and-1/2 Special (2008-10-12)

The special took place half a year after the series' end. With Osaka Gakuen getting ready for an upcoming Valentine's Day event, Sano and Nakatsu reflect on the final week of their last summer vacation, which falls into the timeline of the original series between episodes 7 and 8. The special also includes a graduation scene and addresses the relationship between Mizuki and Sano.