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Boys Over Flowers (TV)

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©1996 Yoko Kamio / Shueisha, Toei Animation


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)
花より男子 (Japanese)
꽃보다 남자 (Korean)
Genres: comedy, drama, romance
Objectionable content: Significant
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: 706 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 81 votes (sub:52, dub:24, others:5
3 Spanish subtitled
1 Korean dubbed
1 Tagalog dubbed
)
 Excellent: 151 votes (sub:115, dub:27, ?:2, raw:2, others:5
5 Spanish subtitled
)
 Very good: 203 votes (sub:151, dub:47, raw:3, ?:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Good: 129 votes (sub:91, dub:27, raw:4, ?:1, others:6
2 Spanish subtitled
2 Indonesian dubbed
1 Spanish edited dub
1 +
)
 Decent: 69 votes (sub:53, dub:13, edit.dub:1, raw:1, ?:1)
 So-so: 33 votes (sub:23, dub:6, ?:2, others:2
2 Tagalog dubbed
)
 Not really good: 14 votes (sub:12, dub:2)
 Weak: 13 votes (sub:10, dub:3)
 Bad: 9 votes (sub:6, dub:3)
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: 3 votes (sub:2, dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 1870 users, rank: #646 (of 9535)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.633 (Very good−), std. dev.: 1.7636, rank: #1397 (of 9642)
Weighted mean: 7.549 (Very good−), rank: #1494 (of 9642) (seen all: 7.97 / seen some: 6.54 / won't finish: 4.28)
Bayesian estimate: 7.548 (Very good−), rank: #1203 (of 7243)
Running time: 24 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 51
Episode titles: We have 51
Vintage:
1996-09-08 to 1997-08-31
2004-07-08 to 2004-08-27 (Italy)
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:
Links: We have 3
Trivia: We have 3
Review:
Boys Over Flowers DVD 1 (Dec 11, 2003)
News: Show:
Japan's Favorite TV Anime (Oct 12, 2006)
TV Asahi Top 100 Anime (Sep 23, 2005)
ACen License Round-Up (May 28, 2003)
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DVD (Region 1)
    Boys Over Flowers - Declaration of War! (DVD 1) 2003-09-09 (from $3.49)
    Boys Over Flowers - Cinderella For a Night (DVD 2) 2003-11-04 (from $3.90)
    Boys Over Flowers - Love Beyond the Horizon (DVD 3) 2004-01-06 (from $7.02)
    Boys Over Flowers - Please Believe Me! (DVD 4) 2004-03-09 (from $3.20)
    Boys Over Flowers - Be Still My Beating Heart (DVD 5) 2004-05-04 (from $5.85)
    Boys Over Flowers - Crime & Punishment of a Kiss (DVD 6) 2004-07-06 (from $2.79)
    Boys Over Flowers - Sleepless Night! (DVD 7) 2004-09-07 (from $19.09)
    Boys Over Flowers - Do You Want a Friend? (DVD 8) 2004-11-09 (from $4.04)
    Boys Over Flowers - Lovers on the Run?! (DVD 9) 2005-01-11 (from $11.00)
    Boys Over Flowers - Love Triangle From Hell (DVD 10) 2005-03-08 (from $3.58)
    Boys Over Flowers - Open Up Your Heart (DVD 11) 2005-05-03 (from $9.71)
    Boys Over Flowers - Neverending (DVD 12) 2005-07-05 (from $11.46)
    Hana Yori Dango - Complete TV Series & Movie Collection (DVD) 2016-10-25 (from $69.95)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Series Director: Shigeyasu Yamauchi
Script:
Aya Matsui (ep 14)
Genki Yoshimura (9 episodes
eps 8, 19, 23, 25, 28, 33, 38, 42, 47
)

Reiko Yoshida (9 episodes
eps 5, 12, 18, 21, 24, 26, 29, 34, 38
)

Yumi Kageyama (32 episodes
eps 1-4, 6-7, 9-11, 13, 15-17, 20, 22, 27, 30-32, 35-37, 39-41, 43-46, 49-51
)

Episode Director:
Akinori Yabe (9 episodes
eps 6, 12, 19, 25, 31, 36, 41, 44, 49
)

Atsutoshi Umezawa (5 episodes
eps 5, 10, 17, 24, 30
)

Ryo Tachiba (8 episodes
eps 4, 11, 18, 23, 28, 34, 39, 45
)

Shigeyasu Yamauchi (6 episodes
eps 1, 7, 16, 38, 43, 50
)

Takao Iwai (6 episodes
eps 13, 21, 27, 33, 40, 47
)

Yasuo Yamayoshi (10 episodes
eps 3, 9, 15, 20, 26, 32, 37, 42, 46, 51
)

Yoshihiro Oka (7 episodes
eps 2, 8, 14, 22, 29, 35, 48
)

Original Manga: Yōko Kamio
Character Design: Yoshihiko Umakoshi
Art Director:
Shinzō Yuki
Tomoko Ide (13 episodes
eps 3, 11, 15, 17, 20-30 even, 33, 36, 39
)

Yukie Yuki
Animation Director:
Chūji Nakajima (7 episodes
eps 2, 8, 15, 21, 31, 37, 47
)

Hiroyuki Kawano (8 episodes
eps 5, 10, 17, 22, 29, 36, 42, 48
)

Mitsuru Aoyama (9 episodes
eps 3, 9, 13, 19, 24, 30, 35, 40, 46
)

Noboru Koizumi (ep 27)
Tomoko Ito (8 episodes
eps 4, 11, 18, 23, 28, 34, 39, 45
)

Toshie Kawamura (7 episodes
eps 6, 12, 20, 26, 33, 41, 49
)

Yasuhiro Namatame (5 episodes
eps 7, 14, 38, 44, 50
)

Yoshihiko Umakoshi (OP, ED1; 6 episodes
eps 1, 16, 25, 32, 43, 51
)

Color Scheme: Kunio Tsujita
Costume Design: Toshie Kawamura
Key Animation: Yoshihiko Umakoshi (ED2; 7 episodes
eps 1, 7, 16, 25, 32, 43, 51
)

Production Chief: Atsunori Kazama
Series Coordination: Yumi Kageyama
Sound Effects: Takahisa Ishino
Theme Song Arrangement:
Akira Nishimoto (OP, ED)
Nittoku Inoue (ED2)
Theme Song Composition:
CaYOCO (ED2)
Tsukasa (OP, ED)
Theme Song Lyrics:
Arisu Satō (OP)
CaYOCO (ED2)
Reo Rinozuka (ED1)
Theme Song Performance:
CaYOCO (ED2)
Tomohiko Kikuta (OP, ED)
Kōji 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
Yōji 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 Satō 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
Backgrounds: Eei-Toei
Film Developing: Toei Chemical Industry
Finish Animation:
Eei-Toei
Peacock
In-Between Animation: Eei-Toei
English cast
English staff
Script: Ian Farthing
Executive producer: Seiji Horibuchi
Producer: Akiko Yagi

DVD Cover Design: David Hood (Discotek)
DVD Menu Design: David Hood (Discotek)
Engineering Assistant: John Duncan
Production Coordination: Geoffrey A. Rosen
Recording engineer:
Aaron Nordean
Ryan Olszewski
Script Adaptation: Ian Farthing
Subtitle Editing:
Elizabeth Ellis (Discotek)
Ian Wright (Discotek)
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
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

English companies
ADR Production: The Ocean Group
Distributor: Ventura Distribution
Internet Streaming: Crunchyroll
Licensed by:
Discotek Media (2015)
Viz Media (Expired)
Recording Studio: Westwood Studios
Translation: JN Productions
Spanish staff
Spanish companies
(none)
Internet Streaming: Crunchyroll (Latin America)
Spanish cast
(none)
Italian staff
Italian cast
Dubbing Director: Guido Rutta
Executive producer: Nicola Bartolini Carrassi

Synchronization: Adriano Scarpante
Theme Song Performance: Cristina D'Avena
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

Tagalog companies
Portuguese staff
Portuguese companies
(none)
Internet Streaming: Crunchyroll (Brazil)
Portuguese cast
(none)

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