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Live-Action Boys Over Flowers Season 2 Reveals Theme Song, Additional Cast
posted on by Karen Ressler
The official website for the live-action series adaptation of Yōko Kamio's Boys Over Flowers Season 2 (Hana Nochi Hare ~HanaDan~ Next Season) manga announced on Thursday that the King & Prince idol group's debut song "Cinderella Girl" will be the series' theme song.
The website also announced additional cast last week. Riku Kashima will play Jin Konoe (pictured below), the student council vice president at Tenma's school.
Other cast members announced last week include:
- Ruruka Kinami as Arisa Konno
- Keiko Horiōchi as Miyoko Hase
- Tet Wada as Kazuma Hase
- Kōtarō Shiga as Kōzō Kobayashi
- Kasaki Takao as Rie Hase
- Ken'ichi Takitō as Iwao Kaguragi
- Momoko Kikuchi as Yukie Edogawa
Relatedly, this year's eighth issue of Shueisha's Margaret magazine announced on Tuesday that Kamio will draw a special chapter for the original Boys Over Flowers in the ninth issue on April 5. The chapter will have a "celebration" theme.
The previously announced cast members include, from left to right in the front row of the image above, include:
Front row:
- King & Prince's Shō Hirano as C5 leader Haruto Kaguragi
- Hana Sugisaki as the protagonist Oto Edogawa
- Taishi Nakagawa as Oto's fiancee Tenma Hase
Back Row:
- Jin Suzuki as C5 member Issha Narumiya
- Marie Iitoyo as Megumi Nishidome, a popular model who transfers to Eitoku Academy to get closer to Haruto
- Tatsuomi Hamada as C5 member Kaito Taira
- Mio Imada as C5 member Airi Mayu
- Keisuke Nakata as C5 member Sugimaru Eibi
The show will premiere in April on TBS and air Wednesdays at 10:00 p.m.
The story of the manga is set at Eitoku Academy two years after the legendary F4 group graduated and follows the next generation of characters. The drama, however, will change the story to take place 10 years after the F4 graduated.
The manga debuted in Japan on Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ app in February 2015, and Shueisha published the eighth compiled book volume on January 4. Viz Media is publishing the manga as a free simultaneous digital release.
The original Boys Over Flowers manga followed 16-year old Tsukushi Makino, a bright girl from a middle-class family who gets accepted into the ultra elite Eitoku Academy. She finds herself on the bad side of the school's F4, the four most elite male members at the school. The manga has more than 64 million copies in print.
The original Boys Over Flowers manga has already been adapted into Japanese anime, a 1995 Japanese live-action film, and a more well-known 2005 Japanese television drama, the latter of which spawned a sequel and a hit film. Taiwan also remade the manga into a live-action university drama titled Meteor Garden. Crunchyroll streamed a Korean live-action adaptation in 2011. A Filipino company announced in November that it would produce its own adaptation. A stage musical adaptation ran in Japan from January to February 2016.
Source: Comic Natalie (link 2)
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