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Boys Over Flowers (TV)

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©1996 Yoko Kamio / Shueisha, Toei Animation


[ adapted from Boys Over Flowers (manga) ]

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Alternative title:
Boys Before Flowers
Hana Yori Dango (Japanese)
Meteor Garden
Mille emozioni tra le pagine del destino per Marie-Yvonne (Italian)
Mille note di poesia per Yvonne (Italian)
No me lo digas con flores (Spanish)
花より男子 (Japanese)
꽃보다 남자 (Korean)
Genres: comedy, drama, romance
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: Makino Tsukushi: a girl who comes from a poor family just wants to get through her 2 last years at Eitoku Gakuen, quietly. But once she makes herself known by standing up for her friend to the F4, the 4 most popular, powerful and rich boys at the school. She gets the red card: F4's way of a "Declaration of War". But when she doesnt let herself be beaten by them and is starting to fall for one of the F4; Hanazawa Rui. She starts to see that there is more than meets the eye...
User Ratings: 646 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 78 votes (sub:51, dub:22, others:5
3 Spanish subtitled
1 Tagalog dubbed
1 Korean dubbed
)
 Excellent: 145 votes (sub:111, dub:25, raw:2, ?:2, others:5
5 Spanish subtitled
)
 Very good: 186 votes (sub:136, dub:46, raw:3, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Good: 119 votes (sub:85, dub:24, raw:4, ?:1, others:5
2 Spanish subtitled
1 +
1 Indonesian dubbed
1 Spanish edited dub
)
 Decent: 54 votes (sub:41, dub:11, edit.dub:1, raw:1)
 So-so: 29 votes (sub:22, dub:3, ?:2, others:2
2 Tagalog dubbed
)
 Not really good: 13 votes (sub:11, dub:2)
 Weak: 13 votes (sub:10, dub:3)
 Bad: 6 votes (sub:3, dub:3)
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: 2 votes (sub:2)
Seen in part or in whole by 1675 users, rank: #585 (of 5564)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.707 (Very good−), std. dev.: 1.7257, rank: #854 (of 5554)
Weighted mean: 7.623 (Very good−), rank: #840 (of 5554) (seen all: 8.05 / seen some: 6.54 / won't finish: 4.59)
Bayesian estimate: 7.622 (Very good−), rank: #626 (of 4226)
Running time: 24 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 51
Episode titles: We have 51
Vintage: 1996-09-08 to 1997-08-31
Opening Theme:
"Futsuu no Nichiyoubi ni (An Ordinary Sunday)" by Tomohiko Kikuta
Ending Theme:
#1: "Kenka no Ato de" by Tomohiko Kikuta
#2: "Todoku ka na" by CaYOKO
Official website:
Toei Animation Series Site (Japanese)
Links: We have 3
Trivia: We have 3
Review:
Boys Over Flowers DVD 1 (Dec 11, 2003)
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DVD (Region 1)
    Boys Over Flowers - Please Believe Me! (DVD 4) 2004-03-09 (from $17.64)
    Boys Over Flowers - Be Still My Beating Heart (DVD 5) 2004-05-04
    Boys Over Flowers - Crime & Punishment of a Kiss (DVD 6) 2004-07-06
    Boys Over Flowers (DVD 7) 2004-09-07 (from $13.99)
    Boys Over Flowers (DVD 8) 2004-11-09 (from $32.95)
    Boys Over Flowers - Lovers on the Run?! (DVD 9) 2005-01-11 (from $8.95)
    Boys Over Flowers - Love Triangle From Hell (DVD 10) 2005-03-08 (from $21.99)
    Boys Over Flowers - Open Up Your Heart (DVD 11) 2005-05-03
    Boys Over Flowers - Neverending (DVD 12) 2005-07-05
    Boys Over Flowers (Hana Yori Dango) (DVD 2) 2003-11-04
    Boys Over Flowers (Hana Yori Dango) - Love Beyond the Horizon (DVD 3) 2004-01-06 (from $15.99)
    Boys Over Flowers (Hana Yori Dango)- Declaration of War! (DVD 1) 2003-09-09

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Series Director: Shigeyasu Yamauchi
Script:
Aya Matsui
Motoki Yoshimura
Reiko Yoshida
Yumi Kageyama
Episode Director:
Akinori Yabe
Atsutoshi Umezawa
Ryo Tachiba
Shigeyasu Yamauchi
Takao Iwai
Yasuo Yamayoshi
Yoshihiro Oka
Music: Michiru Oshima
Original Manga: Yoko Kamio
Character Design: Yoshihiko Umakoshi
Art Director:
Shinzo Yuki
Yuki Yukie
Animation Director:
Chuji Nakajima
Hiroyuki Kawano
Mitsuru Aoyama
Tomoko Ito
Toshie Kawamura
Yasuhiro Namatame
Yoshihiko Umakoshi
Producer:
Hiromi Seki
Takashi Horiuchi (Asatsu)
Tetsu Rotake (ABC)
Yasuo Kameyama (Asatsu)

Assistant Director:
Hideki Hiroshima
Hirotoshi Rissen
Jyoji Shimura
Kazuhiro Fushimi
Naoyuki Itou
Satoru Soya
Takao Iwai
Color Scheme: Kunio Tsujita
Costume Design: Toshie Kawamura
Production Chief: Atsunori Kazama
Series Coordination: Yumi Kageyama
Theme Song Arrangement: Akira Nishimoto (OP, ED)
Theme Song Composition: Tsukasa (OP, ED)
Theme Song Lyrics: Arisu Satô (OP)
Theme Song Performance: Tomohiko Kikuta (OP, ED)
Kouji Yamamoto as Rui Hanazawa
Maki Mochida as Tsukushi Makino
Naoki Miyashita as Tsukasa Doumyouji

Chiho Ohkawa as Tsubaki Doumyouji
Keiko Imamura as Shizuka Toudou
Rumi Shishido as Sakurako
Yoji Ietomi as Kazuya Aoike
Yoshihiko Akaida as Soujiro Nishikado
Yuuta Mochizuki as Akira Mimasaka

Daisuke Kishio as Male student C (ep 1)
Emika Sato as Shigeru Okawahara
Fuuko Misaki as Makiko Endou
Hiroki Takahashi as Junpei Oribe
Hitoshi Honma as
Junpei's Brother
Nishida
Kanako Tobimatsu as Yuki Matsuoka
Masataka Nakai as Male student A (ep 1)
Mika Doi as Doumyouji Kaede
Mikako Sakurada as Sakurako Sanjo
Miyuki Nikaido as Shigeru's Mother
Nami Sato as Minako Yamano
Naoko Okada as Female student B (ep 1)
Naomi Matamura as Female student C (ep 1)
Nobuaki Suzuki as
Homeroom teacher (ep 1)
Yasukichi Makino
Norito Yashima as Principal
Rumi Watanabe as Chieko Makino
Sahori Kajikawa as Erika Ayuhara
Takayuki Inoue as Susumu Makino
Yoko Koyanagi as Urara Aoi
Yoshiko Shimizu as Yuriko Asai
Yusuke Oguri as
Male student B (ep 1)
Thomas
Japanese companies
English staff
English cast
Script: Ian Farthing
Executive producer: Seiji Horibuchi
Producer: Akiko Yagi

Dialogue Editing:
Cisco McLaren
Jennifer Balabanov
Marc Matsumoto
Timur Kalyuzhnyy
Engineering Assistant: John Duncan
Production Coordination: Geoffrey A. Rosen
Re-Recording Mixing:
Keith A. Goddard
Mark M. Pinder
Recording engineer: Aaron Nordean
Script Adaptation: Ian Farthing
Video Post-Production:
Heather Nevin
James McCartney
Leland Miller
Voice Direction: Teri Snelgrove
Kelly Sheridan as Tsukushi Makino
Michael Adamthwaite as Tsukasa Domyoji
Stephen Park as Rui Hanazawa

Brad Swaile as Kazuya Aoike
Jocelyne Loewen as Sakurako Sanjo
Nicole Oliver as Shizuka Todo
Rebecca Shoichet as Shigeru Okawahara
Willow Johnson as Tsubaki Domyoji

Alistair Abell as Akira Mimiasaka
Andrew Francis as Sojiro Nishikada
Bill Switzer as Junpei Oribe
Chiara Zanni as Yuriko Asai
Daniella Evangelista as Erika Ayuhara
Ellen Kennedy as Chieko Makino
Gabe Khouth as Susumu Makino
Gabe Kouth as Susumu Makino
Nicole Bouma as Makiko Endo
Richard Newman as Yasukichi Makino
Sylvia Zaradic as Urara Aoi
Tabitha St. Germain as Yuki Matsuoka
Trevor Devall as Thomas
Venus Terzo as Minako Yamano

Alexandra Carter
English companies
ADR Production: The Ocean Group
Licensed by: Viz Media
Translation: JN Productions
Italian staff
Italian cast
Marcella Silvestri as Marie Yvonne Tudor
Patrizio Prata as Thomas Dolber
Simone D'Andrea as Rupert Atkins

Elda Olivieri as Giselle La Roche

Luca Bottale as Nathan Montgomery
Nicola Bartolini Carrassi as Alexander Motters
Italian companies
Broadcaster:
Hiro (from July 2010)
Italia Teen Television (from 8 july 2004)
Dialogues: CITI
Distributor: DENEB Film
Dubbing: DENEB Film
Tagalog staff
Tagalog cast
(none)
Benjie Dorango as Tsukasa Doumyouji
Jeremiah Joseph Reyes as Rui Hanazawa
Kathyin Masilungan as Tsukushi Makino

Blair Arellano as Jiro
Noel Escondo as Kazuya Aoike
Pinky Rebucas as Sakurako Sanjo
Robert Brillantes as Akira Mimasaka
Yvette Tagura as Shizuka Toudou

Danny Mandia as Yasukichi Makino
Sherwin Revestir as
Makiko Endou
Yuki Matsuoka
Yvette Tagura as
Chieko Makino
Shigeru Okawahara

Marvi Medina
Ryan Ang
Tagalog companies
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