Boys Over Flowers
A middle-class girl challenges the elite F4 at an exclusive school.
As of February 2015, the circulation of the series had surpassed 61 million copies, which ranks it as the top-selling shōjo manga ever.[1]
Quick Facts
- Genre
- Reverse harem, Romantic comedy
Facts from the source article.
How it changed
Toei Animation produced a 51-episode anime television series broadcast in 1996.[2][3] This was the last Toei Animation television series to use cel animation.[2] The Taiwanese boy band F4 formed in 2001 from the cast of Meteor Garden.[4] Between July 1993 and July 1994, an audio drama version of the story was made available.[5]
Providing the voice for Rui Hanazawa in that audio drama was Takuya Kimura, marking his first voice-acting role.[5] A short film for theaters, which was a spin-off taking place in a different universe, came out in 1997.[2] Discotek Media issued a new version of the anime in 2016, calling it Hana yori Dango.[2] By July 2003, F4's initial two albums had sold 3.5 million copies throughout Asia, according to Forbes.[4]
What the maker and period sources say
That release has Japanese and English language options with English subtitles.[3] The Open Library record for Japanese Cinema in the Digital Age lists it as a 216-page book published by University of Hawaii Press in 2012.[6] The technical specifications for the disc include color, NTSC format, Dolby Digital audio, and a 4:3 full frame aspect ratio.[3]
References
- Wikipedia, "Boys Over Flowers" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Brown, "This Week's Issue 02/16/15", Viz Media, February 16, 2015; Mainichi Shimbun, February 10, 2015; Pineda, "Boys Over Flowers Earns Guinness World Record for Most Published Shōjo Manga", Anime News Network, April 19, 2023; Loveridge, "TV Asahi Announces Top 100 Manga Voted on By 150,000 Readers", Anime News Network, January 5, 2021 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Boys Over Flowers" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Phillips, "ACen License Round Up", Anime News Network; Loo, "Discotek Adds Hana Yori Dango, 07-Ghost, Beelzebub, Kyousougiga, Getter Robo: Armageddon, Z/X Ignition, Karate Master", Anime News Network, August 27, 2015; "Hana Yori Dango: Complete TV Series & Movie Collection", discotek, October 25, 2016 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- "Hana Yori Dango: Complete TV Series & Movie Collection", discotek, October 25, 2016. facts only, no text reused. discotekmedia.com
- Wikipedia, "Boys Over Flowers" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Kirkman, "Forbes.com: Big--But Not Here", Wayback Machine, July 7, 2003; F4嫌新称呼JVKV绕口 合体宣传用回本名 . May 2, 2007. Retrieved December 30, 2007. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Boys Over Flowers" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Shueisha; Ong, "HANA YORI DANGO' ADAPTATION THROUGH THE YEARS", almiraadventures.com, August 10, 2018; Wada-Marciano, "Japanese Cinema in the Digital Age", Univ. of Hawaii Press, May 31, 2012 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Open Library record, ISBN 9780824865887 ("Japanese Cinema in the Digital Age"). CC0 (metadata); book content not read. openlibrary.org
Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Boys Over Flowers (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.
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