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Boys Over Flowers' Yoko Kamio, WIT Studio Make Love Through a Prism Anime for Netflix

Netflix Japan announced on Thursday that it is producing an original anime series from Boys Over Flowers creator Yōko Kamio titled Love Through a Prism (Prism Rondo). The series will debut on January 15.

Love Through a Prism is a coming-of-age love story set against the backdrop of London at the beginning of the 1900s. Aspiring painter and art student Lili Ichijoin makes a promise with her parents to become the top student at her art school within half a year, or she will return home. She begins a fierce rivalry with the freewheeling Kit Church, a rich heir and genius artist. 

Atsumi Tanezaki stars as Lili.

The cast includes:

• Hōchū Ōtsuka as Charles Brant
• Megumi Han as Dorothy Brown
• Yōhei Azakami as Joffrey O'Brien
• Shōgo Sakata as Peter Anthony
• Yūki Kaji as Shinnosuke Kobayakawa
• Akari Kitō as Sakura Kobayakawa
• Kōki Uchiyama as Kit Church
• Yūko Kaida as Take Ichijoin
• Junichi Suwabe as Richard Church
• Sumire Uesaka as Catherine Astor

Kamio is responsible for the original story and original character designs. She is also writing the scripts with Saki Fujii. Kazuto Nakazawa (Vassalord, B: The Beginning) is directing the series at Wit Studio. Yasuko Takahashi (B: The Beginning, Fena: Pirate Princess) serves as one of the chief animation directors and character designer. Naoki Chiba ("naotyu-") is composing the music for the series.

Other staff members include:

• 2nd Director: Tetsuya Takahashi
• 3rd Director: Saki Fujii
• Sub-Character Design/Chief Animation Director: Aiko Minowa
• Color Key Artist: Hanami Tanaka
• Art Director: Yūsuke Takeda (Bamboo)
• Compositing Director of Photography: Keisuke Nozawa
• Editing: Chika Ishii
• Sound Director: Tohru Kanegae
• Sound Effects: Hiromune Kurahashi
• Animation Producer: Keita Yoshinobu

Chilli Beans. performs the theme song "star flower."

Guinness World Records awardedKamio's Boys Over Flowers (Hana Yori Dango) manga as having the most published copies of a shōjo manga series written by a single author in 2023.

The manga was adapted into a 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 adaptation was announced in November 2017, but it has not yet been released. Hunan Television produced a Chinese live-action series adaptation in 2018. Thai television production company GMMTV produced a new live-action series that premiered in 2021.

The manga also inspired a stage musical adaptation ran in Japan from January to February 2016. The all-female Takarazuka Revue adapted the manga into a new musical that ran in 2019.

Sources: Comic Natalie, Netflix Japan's X/Twitter account