Aniplex has confirmed that the Hana-Kimi (Hana Zakari no Kimi-tachi e/ 花ざかりの君たちへ) TV anime will premiere in Japan in January 2026, and it has revealed the anime’s main key visual. Crunchyroll will stream the anime as it airs in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, CIS and India.
Takemura Natsuki is directing the anime at Signal.MD and Ueda Shigeru is acting as the assistant director. The anime will star:
- Yamane Aya as Mizuki Ashiya
- Yashiro Taku as Izumi Sano
- Toya Kikunosuke as Shuichi Nakatsu
- Umehara Yuuichirou as Minami Nanba
- Fukuyama Jun as Hokuto Umeda
- Kawashima Reiji as Senri Nakao
- Uchiyama Kouki as Daiki Kayashima
- Komada Wataru as Kyogo Sekime
- Furuya Anan as Shinji Noe
- Nishiyama Koutarou as Wataru Nihonbashi
- Natsuyoshi Yuuko as Julia M
[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.
Viz Media released all of the individual manga volumes in English under the title Hana-Kimi, and it also released the manga in English in eight 3-in-1 edition books. Viz Media describes the manga’s 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…”
The 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.
