Hana Yori Dango (Manga)

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Hana Yori Dango
Original title 花 よ り 男子
transcription Hana Yori Dango
genre Shōjo , romance, drama, comedy
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Yōko Kamio
publishing company Shueisha
magazine Margaret
First publication October 23, 1992 - June 2008
expenditure 37
Anime television series
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Year (s) 1996-1997
Studio Toei animation
length 25 minutes
Episodes 51
Director Shigeyasu Yamauchi
music Michiru Oshima
First broadcast September 8, 1996 on TV Asahi
synchronization
Actual films
► Hana Yori Dango (1995) (1995)
► Meteor Garden (2001) (2001)
► Hana Yori Dango (2005) (2005)
► Hana Yori Dango Final (2008)
► Boys Over Flowers (2009)
► Meteor Garden (2018) (2018)

Hana Yori Dango ( Japanese 花 よ り 男子 ) is a Japanese manga series by the Japanese illustrator Yōko Kamio . The series is to be assigned to the Shōjo genre and has been adapted in the form of several animes , television series and films. From 2015, the sequel Hana Nochi Hare: HanaDan Next Season appeared as a manga in Japan .

content

Thanks to a scholarship, Tsukushi Makino, a 16-year-old girl from a poor family, is switching to the elite school Eitoku Gakuen, which is particularly popular with the rich high society, after the summer holidays . She already feels out of place on the first day, surrounded by rich, snobbish youngsters. After the first encounter with the F4 , a boy clique consisting of the four richest, most powerful and most popular boys, violent arguments begin between the two parties. Nevertheless, Tsukushi falls in love with the gentle Hanazawa Rui, who ignores her. The boss of the clique, Dōmyōji Tsukasa, falls in love with Tsukushi and begins to woo her.

The manga is set in modern Tokyo . Various cities in Japan, Paris , New York and Canada are sidelites to the plot. All characters are young people between 16 and 18.

Series title

The title Hana Yori Dango is a play on words with the Japanese proverb Hana yori dango . In the series name, however, the characters for dumplings ( Dango , だ ん ご) have been replaced by those for boy (男子). In English and internationally, the series and its adaptations were best known as Boys over Flowers or Boys Before Flowers .

Publications

Hana Yori Dango was first published from October 1992 to June 2008 in the Japanese youth magazine Margaret , which appears biweekly and is aimed at teenage girls. There the manga was published continuously from October 1992 to October 2002 and later published by the Shueisha publishing house in 36 anthologies. The manga was also reissued in a deluxe version, which has larger pages and colorful art images.

The manga series, like the anime series, have been available in England, the USA and Canada from Viz Media under the title Boys over Flowers since summer 2003 . A French version was published by Glénat , a Spanish by Planeta DeAgostini Comics , an Italian by Planet Manga and a Chinese by Tong Li Publishing .

Actual films

The manga was implemented twice as a movie:

The second film was the conclusion of a dorama series that previously ran on Japanese television. Hana Yori Dango was initially shown with nine episodes in the first season from October 21, 2005 to December 16, 2005 in Japan. This was followed in the second season by eleven more episodes from January 5, 2007 to March 16, 2007.

As early as 2001, the first Taiwanese television series on the manga came out under the title Meteor Garden , which was followed by a second season. From these TV series a boy group emerged that was called F4 and is now called JVKV . In 2009 another adaptation of the manga appeared in Korea, which was called Boys Over Flowers . In 2018, a new television adaptation entitled Meteor Garden was released in China .

Anime series and film

Based on the manga, an anime series with 51 episodes was produced in Japan , to which a film was later released. The anime was created at Toei Animation studio , directed by Shigeyasu Yamauchi . The scripts were written by Yumi Kageyama , Reiko Yoshida and Aya Masui . The character design comes from Yoshihiko Umakoshi and the artistic directors were Shinzo Yuki, Tomoko Ide and Yuki Yukie. The 51 episodes were shown by TV Asahi in Japan from September 8, 1996 to August 31, 1997 . Dubbed versions were shown on Italian and Filipino television. Crunchyroll released the anime in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

In 1997, the anime series team produced a 25-minute long film that retells the plot of the manga in a different form. In the story, staged as a musical , Makino travels to New York to become famous there. The film was released on March 8, 1997 in Japan.

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū )
Rui Hanazawa Kōji Yamamoto
Tsukushi Makino Maki Mochida
Tsukasa Dōmyōji Naoki Miyashita

music

The music of the anime was composed by Michiru Oshima . The opening credits are Futsū no Nichiyōbi ni by Tomohiko Kikuta and the songs Kenka no Ato de by Tomohiko Kikuta and Todoku ka na by Cayoko were used for the two end credits. In the film, the songs Wish , Love so sweet and One Love by Arashi appear.

theatre

In 2019, an adaptation of the manga was brought to the stage as Takarazuka Revue . The play was performed at the Akasaka ACT Theater in June and July of that year.

reception

The anthologies of the manga achieved high placements in the manga sales charts in Japan. As early as 2005, when the series was still running, it was number 2 of the best-selling shōjo manga in Japan. Meanwhile, with over 60 million volumes sold, Hana Yori Dango is the best-selling manga series in its division and the franchise with all adaptations in all media was ranked 19th among the most successful franchises in Japan with an estimated 2.2 billion sales in 2018.

In his review of the manga, Jason Thompson compares the story to Cinderella , staged here with rich Japanese high school students and a proud, assertive heroine. Even if some of the side stories are a bit unrealistic, the manga reads well and doesn't offer a cheesy love story, but a character-driven narrative about social differences and human relationships. The German magazine Animania describes the drawing style as taking some getting used to - at first it looks “a bit conservative”, but then develops “first class”. The story with its "wild characters" is stunning and "spares neither humor nor romance".

Awards

literature

  • Kukhee Choo: Girls Return Home: Portrayal of Femininity in Popular Japanese Girls' Manga and Anime Texts during the 1990s in Hana yori Dango and Fruits Basket . In: Women: A Cultural Review . tape 19 , no. 3 , November 2008, ISSN  0957-4042 , p. 275-296 , doi : 10.1080 / 09574040802137243 ( tandfonline.com ).
  • University of Tasmania, Hitomi Yoshida: The Localization of the Hana Yori Dango Text: Plural Modernities in East Asia . In: New Voices . tape 4 , January 2011, p. 78-99 , doi : 10.21159 / nv.04.04 ( org.au ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy: The Anime Encyclopedia. Revised & Expanded Edition . Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley 2006, ISBN 978-1-933330-10-5 , pp. 73 f .
  2. ↑ Boys Over Flowers Manga Gets Musical by Takarazuka Revue's Flower Troupe. In: Anime News Network. January 11, 2019, accessed April 20, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Japanese Comic Ranking, July 1-7. In: Anime News Network. July 16, 2008, accessed April 20, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Oricon Rank's Top 10 Shōjo Manga. In: Anime News Network. November 7, 2005, accessed April 20, 2020 .
  5. ↑ 歴 代 発 行部 数 ラ ン キ ン グ | 漫画 全 巻 ド ッ ト コ ム. Retrieved December 27, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Top-Selling Media Franchises in Japan: 2018. In: Anime News Network. December 19, 2018, accessed April 20, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Jason Thompson: Manga. The Complete Guide . Del Rey, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-345-48590-8 , pp. 37 .
  8. ↑ AnimaniA 06/2003, p. 33.