The official website for the Hana-Kimi TV anime has released a teaser trailer and confirmed that the anime will star Yamane Aya as Mizuki Ashiya, Yashiro Taku as Izumi Sano, and Toya Kikunosuke as Shuichi Nakatsu. Crunchyroll will stream the anime once it premieres in the West.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSPgWx5cNYo]
The anime is based on the Hana-Kimi (Blossom Boys/ For You in Full Blossom) manga by Nakajo Hisaya, who sadly passed away in October 2023. Nakajo (Sugar Princess, Missing Piece) started the manga in 1996 in Hakusensha’s Hana to Yume magazine and ended it in 2004. Hakusensha published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in April 1997 and the 23rd volume in November 2004.
The Hana-Kimi manga was adapted into a live-action TV series in Japan in 2007 and again in 2011. It also inspired a live-action TV series in South Korea and a live-action TV series in Taiwan.
Viz Media released all of the manga volumes in English under the title Hana-Kimi, and it describes the story below:
Japanese-American track-and-field star Mizuki has gotten herself to transfer to a high school in Japan…but not just any school! To be close to her idol, high jumper Izumi Sano, she’s going to an all-guys high school…and disguising herself as a boy! But as fate would have it, they’re more than classmates…they’re roommates! Now, Mizuki must keep her secret in the classroom, the locker room, and her own bedroom. And her classmates–and the school nurse–must cope with a new transfer student who may make them question their own orientation…
