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Boys Over Flowers (TV)

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©1996 Yoko Kamio / Shueisha, Toei Animation


[ adapted from Boys Over Flowers (manga) ]

Related anime:
    Hana Yori Dango (movie) (alternate retelling)

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, slice of life
Themes: School
Age rating: Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence) 
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: 453 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 52 votes (sub:36, dub:14, Spa.sub:1, Kor.dub:1)
 Excellent: 97 votes (sub:73, dub:16, Spa.sub:4, raw:2, ?:2)
 Very good: 136 votes (sub:109, dub:23, raw:3, Spa.sub:1)
 Good: 81 votes (sub:61, dub:13, raw:4, ?:1, Spa.sub:1, Spa.edit.dub:1)
 Decent: 41 votes (sub:32, dub:7, raw:1, edit.dub:1)
 So-so: 19 votes (sub:14, dub:2, ?:2, Tag.dub:1)
 Not really good: 9 votes (sub:7, dub:2)
 Weak: 11 votes (sub:9, dub:2)
 Bad: 5 votes (sub:3, dub:2)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: 2 votes (sub:2)
Seen in part or in whole by 1160 users, rank: #472
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.6828 (Very good-.31), std. dev.: 1.7638, rank: #729
Weighted mean: 7.5867 (Very good-.41), rank: #674
Bayesian estimate: 7.58534 (Very good-.41), rank: #494
Running time: 24 minutes
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:
Links: We have 3
Trivia: We have 2
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Related reviews:
    Boys Over Flowers DVD 1

Related releases:
    Boys Over Flowers - Please Believe Me! (1 DVD 4) 2004-03-09 (from $17.99)
    Boys Over Flowers - Be Still My Beating Heart (1 DVD 5) 2004-05-04 (from $14.27)
    Boys Over Flowers - Crime & Punishment of a Kiss (1 DVD 6) 2004-07-06 (from $17.99)
    Boys Over Flowers (1 DVD 7) 2004-09-07 (from $17.99)
    Boys Over Flowers (1 DVD 8) 2004-11-09 (from $17.99)
    Boys Over Flowers - Lovers on the Run?! (1 DVD 9) 2005-01-11 (from $17.99)
    Boys Over Flowers - Love Triangle From Hell (1 DVD 10) 2005-03-08 (from $17.99)
    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) - (1 DVD 2) 2003-11-04 (from $17.99)
    Boys Over Flowers (Hana Yori Dango) - Love Beyond the Horizon (1 DVD 3) 2004-01-06 (from $14.27)
    Boys Over Flowers (Hana Yori Dango)- Declaration of War! (1 DVD 1) 2003-09-09 (from $17.99)

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 Lyrics: Arisu Satô (OP)

Theme Song Music: Tsukasa (OP, ED)

Theme Song Performance: Tomohiko Kikuta (OP, ED)

 

Kouji Yamamoto as Rui Hanazawa

Maki Mochida as Tsukushi Makino

Naoki Miyashita as Tsukasa Doumyouji

Ietomi Yoji as Kazuya Aoike

Keiko Imamura as Shizuka Toudou

Rumi Shishido as Sakurako

Yuuta Mochizuki as Akira Mimasaka

Chiho Ohkawa as Tsubaki Doumyouji

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 Watabe as Chieko Makino 

Rumi Watanabe as Chieko Makino

Sahori Kajikawa as Erika Ayuhara

Takayuki Inoue as Susumu Makino

Yoko Koyanagi as Urara Aoi

Yoshihiko Akaida as Soujiro Nishikado

Yoshiko Shimizu as Yuriko Asai

Yusuke Oguri as
Male student B (ep 1)
Thomas

Japanese companies 

Broadcaster: Asahi Broadcasting (ABC)

Production: Toei Animation

English staff 
English cast 

Script: Ian Farthing

Executive producer: Seiji Horibuchi

Producer: Akiko Yagi

Assistant Engineer: John Duncan

Dialogue Editing:
Cisco McLaren
Jennifer Balabanov
Marc Matsumoto
Timur Kalyuzhnyy

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 

Dubbing Director: Guido Rutta

Script:
Cristina Robustelli
Nicola Bartolini Carrassi

Executive producer: Nicola Bartolini Carrassi

Dialogue: Nicola Bartolini Carrassi

Mixing: Moreno Grossi Pometti

Publisher: 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: Italia Teen Television (from 8 july 2004)

Dialogues: CITI

Distributor: DENEB Film

Dubbing: DENEB Film

Tagalog staff 
(none)
Tagalog cast 

Benjie Dorango as Tsukasa Doumyouji

Blair Arellano as Jiro

Jeremiah Joseph Reyes as Rui Hanazawa

Tagalog companies 

Broadcaster: ABS-CBN

Dubbing: ABS-CBN

 
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