Staff for the Hana-Kimi (Hana Zakari no Kimi-tachi e/ 花ざかりの君たちへ) TV anime have confirmed that the show has been green-lit for a second season.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJEmVR0kxQg]
The anime’s first season premiered in January 2026 and ended on March 22d, 2026. Takemura Natsuki directed the anime at Signal.MD, and Ueda Shigeru was the assistant director.
The anime starred:
- 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
- Hino Satoshi as Makoto Kagurazaka
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6dxo31LeKM]
The first season of the Hana-Kimi anime is available to stream on Crunchyroll under the same name. Crunchyroll describes the anime’s story below:
“Mizuki Ashiya is on a mission: disguise herself as a boy and enroll in a male boarding school to meet her idol, high jump star Izumi Sano. But after successfully infiltrating the school, she discovers he’s suddenly quit the sport! Now Mizuki must dodge suspicion, protect her cover, and somehow reach the boy she came all this way for—all while surviving the chaos of an all-boys dorm!”
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.
