Hanazakari no Kimitachi e

Hanazakari no Kimitachi e: Ikemen Paradise (花ざかりの君たちへ イケメン♂パラダイス), also known as Ike-para, is a Japanese drama produced by Fuji Television and first aired on July 3, 2007. It is based on the comic by Hisaya Nakajo, published in English as Hana-Kimi. Filming locations include the Ryutsu Keizai University.

A TV Special has already aired with the regular cast reprising their roles. The story starts off half a year after Mizuki's secret of being a girl has revealed. It is near Valentine's Day, and Sano and Nakatsu are talking about the last week of Summer vacation. This is when the story gets back to the last week of Summer holidays, which is between episode 7 and 8. The shooting started on March 19, 2008. A conference was held on September 18, 2008 announcing the completion of the special, subtitled Sotsugyoshiki & 7 to 1/2 wa Special (卒業式&7と1/2話スペシャル).

Plot summary
The drama is based on the popular comic of the same name by Nakajo Hisaya. Horikita plays the protagonist Ashiya Mizuki, a Japanese girl in the United States who one day sees the young athlete Sano Izumi compete in high jumping on television. She begins to idolize him. Sano gets injured one day in America while trying to help Mizuki escape from some gangsters. He stops high jumping ever since. Mizuki blames herself for the incident and decides to go to Japan and help Sano find his love for high jumping. However, Izumi goes to an all-boys school, so Mizuki disguises herself as a boy in order to meet with him again.

For the Hana Kimi Special, Nakatsu and Sano reminiscence about when Sano fell in love with Mizuki. This takes us back to the weeks between Episode 7 and 8, where Mizuki's friend, Julia, from America comes to Osaka Gakuen to take Mizuki back to America. While Julia is in Japan, she decides to act as Mizuki's girlfriend.

Second Dormitory



 * Maki Horikita (堀北 真希) as Mizuki Ashiya (芦屋 瑞稀)
 * Shun Oguri (小栗 旬) as Izumi Sano (佐野 泉)
 * Toma Ikuta (生田 斗真) as Shuichi Nakatsu (中津 秀一)
 * Hiro Mizushima (水嶋 ヒロ) as Minami Nanba (難波 南)
 * Yūsuke Yamamoto (山本 裕典) as Taiki Kayashima (萱島 大樹)
 * Masaki Okada (岡田 将生) as Kyogo Sekime (関目 京悟)
 * Ryō Kimura (木村 了) as Senri Nakao (中央 千里)
 * Junpei Mizobata (溝端 淳平) as Kazuma Saga (嵯峨 和真)
 * Shunji Igarashi (五十嵐 隼士) as Shinji Noe (野江 伸二)
 * Hiromi Sakimoto (崎本 大海) as Arata Kyobashi (京橋 新)
 * Shōta Chiyo (千代 将太) as Taichi Yodoyabashi (淀屋橋 太壱)
 * Ryō Tajima (田島 亮) as Jo Arashiyama (嵐山 譲)
 * Enoku Shimegi (標 永久) as Kyoichi Tannowa (淡輪 恭一)
 * Hikaru Okada (岡田 光) as Riku Takaida (高井田 睦)
 * Jun Ikeda (池田 純) as Itsuki Kamishinjo (上新庄樹)
 * Kōta Suzuki (鈴木 康太) as Kanata Uenoshiba (上野芝 奏太)
 * Keisuke Shibasaki (柴崎 佳佑) as Manato Minase (水無瀬 学人)

First Dormitory

 * Yūma Ishigaki (石垣 佑磨) as Megumi Tennōji (天王寺 恵)
 * Mitsuomi Takahashi (高橋 光臣) as Mitsuomi Daikokucho (大国町 光臣)
 * Kōhei Takeda (武田 航平) as Kohei Kitahanada (北花田 航平)
 * Ryōhei Suzuki (鈴木 亮平) as Soichiro Akashi (明石 総一郎)
 * Yūichi Sato (佐藤 雄一) as Shota Tezukayama (帝塚山 翔太)
 * Sōsuke Nishiyama (西山 宗佑) as Soma Shichido (七道 宗磨)
 * Ryō Hayakawa (早川 諒) as Sakyo Gotenyama (御殿山 左京)
 * Tatsuya Hagiwara (萩原 達也) as Hiroto Ishikiri (石切 寛人)
 * Kōji Matsushita (松下 幸司) as Ren Shojaku (正雀 漣)

Third Dormitory

 * Nobuo Kyō (姜 暢雄) as Masao Himejima (姫島 正夫) aka Oscar (オスカー).
 * Keisuke Katō (加藤 慶祐) as Hikaru Yao (八尾 光)
 * Toshihiko Watanabe (渡辺 俊彦) as Sho Imamiya (今宮 昇)
 * Yūta Takahashi (高橋 優太) as Haruki Shijo (四条 春樹)
 * Shōichi Matsuda (松田 祥一) as Junnosuke Kuzuha (樟葉 淳之介)
 * Naoki Miyata (宮田 直樹) as Tsukasa Saiin (西院 司)
 * Yasuhisa Furuhara (古原 靖久) as Taiyo Ogimachi (扇町 太陽)
 * Naoya Ojima (尾嶋 直哉) as Kohei Kaizuka (貝塚 こうへい)
 * Yuya Nakata (中田 祐矢) as Ken Katabiranotsuji (帷子ノ辻 健)
 * Yū Kawakami (川上 祐) as Genji Korien (香里園 源治)

Tōkyō High School

 * Yū Shirota (城田 優) as Makoto Kagurazaka (神楽坂 真言)
 * Syunsuke Daitō (大東 俊介) as Shin Sano (佐野 森)

St. Blossom's High School
Hibari Hanayashiki and Hibari 4
 * Mayuko Iwasa (岩佐 真悠子) as Hibari Hanayashiki (花屋敷 ひばり)
 * Mirei Kiritani (桐谷 美玲) as Kanna Amagasaki (尼崎 カンナ)
 * Airi Taira (平 愛梨) as Erica Abeno (阿倍野 エリカ)
 * Madoka Matsuda (松田 まどか) as Jyuri Kishinosato (岸里 樹里)
 * Manami Kurose (黒瀬 真奈美) as Komari Imaike (今池こまり)

Teachers

 * Seiko Matsuda (松田 聖子) as Principal Tsubaki (椿 校長)
 * Takashi Ukaji (宇梶 剛士) as Head teacher Saruwatari (猿渡 教頭)
 * Susumu Kobayashi (小林 すすむ) as Yoshioka (吉岡)
 * Takaya Kamikawa (上川 隆也) as Hokuto Umeda (梅田 北斗)

Others

 * Mahiru Konno (紺野まひる) as Akiha Hara (原 秋葉)
 * Yoshinori Okada (岡田 義徳) as Shizuki Ashiya (芦屋 静稀)
 * Hajime Yamazaki (山崎 一) as Takumi Ashiya (芦屋 拓見)
 * Mariko Tsutsui (筒井 真理子) as Eiko Ashiya (芦屋 英子)
 * Yoko Moriguchi (森口 瑤子) as Io Nanba (難波 伊緒)
 * Natsuki Harada (原田 夏希) as Kanao Tanabe (田辺 可南子)
 * Tetta Sugimoto (杉本 哲太) as Takehiko Sano (佐野 岳彦)

Episode list
Average viewership as 17.33%. Highest viewership recorded was on September 18, 2007 at 22:11 at 23.1%. (In Kantō region).

Differences
There are many differences from the manga and drama. Though the concept and characters are the same, the story is described differently. For example Sano got injured from saving his friend, while in the drama he got injured from saving Mizuki. Genders are also different in the drama as well. Akiha is supposed to be a guy, however the character is portrayed as a woman in the drama. In the manga Sano found out Mizuki's true gender when he accidentally "felt her up", but in the drama Sano finds out Mizuki's a girl when he overhears Mizuki talking to her brother. Nakatsu also found out about Mizuki's gender a lot earlier, while in the manga he finds out Mizuki's true gender along with everyone else.

Soundtrack

 * 1) Peach [Performed by: Otsuka Ai]
 * 2) Ikenai Taiyou [Performed by: Orange Range]
 * 3) IKEMEN Boogie
 * 4) Men of Paradise
 * 5) St.BLOSSOM
 * 6) Go to School!
 * 7) HA.NA.ZA Carnival
 * 8) Save Me
 * 9) Early Summer
 * 10) IKE-MEN 2007
 * 11) I can't tell you why
 * 12) Boyz be ambitious!
 * 13) Beautiful Enough
 * 14) Into a Nap
 * 15) Be Silent
 * 16) OSAKA♂Boyz
 * 17) IKEMEN Boogie Nights
 * 18) I am Lady
 * 19) I can't tell you why (reprise)
 * 20) Emergency
 * 21) Sand Time
 * 22) Is This Spiritual
 * 23) Trap Happy
 * 24) PEACH (IKEMEN☆instrumental version)

Insert songs

 * My Love by Kawashima Ai
 * Boom boom boom by Go Hiromi (not present in the TVB broadcast of the series)
 * Paradise Ginga by Hikaru Genji
 * Tomaranai Ha~Ha by Yazawa Eikichi
 * Girlfriend by Avril Lavigne (Sakuranbo (さくらんぼ) by Otsuka Ai played alternatively in the TVB broadcast of the series)
 * Oh My Julia by Checkers

Philippines

 * Airing date: March 24, 2008 to April 25, 2008
 * Broadcast network: GMA Network
 * Theme song: PEACH by Ai Otsuka

Hong Kong

 * Airing date: May 4, 2008 to July 27, 2008
 * Broadcast network: TVB Jade

Greater China

 * Airing date: January 16, 2009 to January 26, 2009
 * Broadcast network: Xing Kong