Hisaya Nakajo’s Hana-Kimi manga series is getting a new live-action TV series and stage production to celebrate the franchise’s 30th anniversary. The Hana-Kimi live-action series will run for eight half-hour episodes starting December 5 at 2:30 p.m. JST on the NTV channel, with TVer and Hulu also streaming it.
The cast of the TV series includes:
- Hana Kawamura as Mizuki Ashiya
- The Rampage member Makoto Hasegawa as Izumi Sano
- The Rampage member Itsuki Fujiwara as Shūichi Nakatsu
- Ryūgūjō member Keigo Itō as Shinji Noe
- Ryūgūjō member Yūki Tomita as Kyōgo Sekime
- Lienel member Miro Takaoka as Taiki Kayashima
- Lienel member Riku Morita as Senri Nakao
- Genosuke as Megumi Tennōji
- Tagright member Daigo Kobayashi as Minami Nanba
- Tagright member Tomoki Nishiyama as Masao Himejima
- Gekidan Exile member Yūki Sakurai as Itsuki Kujō
- Hiroto Takahashi as Makoto Kagurazaka
Keisuke Shibata and NTV’s Shiori Ueno are directing the series. Fumie Koga, Yuka Arai, and Kazumi Ōki write the scripts with composition by Yōko Tamura. Kōji Endō is the music composer, and Shintarō Sugano is writing and directing the stage play.
The stage play will in Osaka on February 13-15, 2027, followed by Aichi on February 18-19 and Tokyo on March 13-22.
Both seasons of the latest Hana-Kimi anime are streaming now on Crunchyroll.
Hisaya Nakajo published the Hana-Kimi manga in Hakusensha’s Hana to Yume magazine from 1996 to 2004. A total of 23 volumes were released in Japan, with VIZ Media releasing the English edition of the manga. Nakajo passed away at the age of 50 in October 2023.
Viz Media describes the series as follows:
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…
