| Boys Over Flowers | |
 First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Tsukasa Domyoji (left), Tsukushi Makino (center), and Rui Hanazawa (right) | |
| 花より男子 (Hana yori Dango) | |
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| Genre | |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Yoko Kamio |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| English publisher | |
| Imprint | Margaret Comics |
| Magazine | Margaret |
| Demographic | Shōjo |
| Original run | October 1992 – January 2004 |
| Volumes | 37 |
| Live-action television and films | |
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| Anime television series | |
| Hana yori Dango | |
| Directed by | Shigeyasu Yamauchi |
| Produced by | Tetsu Odake Yasuo Kameyama Takashi Horiuchi Hiromi Seki |
| Written by | Yumi Kageyama |
| Music by | Michiru Ōshima |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | ANN (ABC) |
| Original run | September 8, 1996 – August 31, 1997 |
| Episodes | 51 |
| Anime film | |
| Hana yori Dango: The Movie | |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Licensed by | |
| Released | March 8, 1997 |
| Runtime | 30 minutes |
| Related | |
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Boys Over Flowers (花より男子, Hana yori Dango)[a] is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoko Kamio. The story takes place in the fictional Eitoku Academy, an elite school for children from rich families. It tells the story of Tsukushi Makino, a girl from a middle-class family, whose mother enrolls her in an elite high school to compete with the families from her husband's company. While at Eitoku, she encounters the F4, a gang of four boys who are children of Japan's wealthiest families and who bully anyone that gets in their way.
The series was serialized in Shueisha's Margaret magazine from October 1992 to January 2004, with its chapters collected in 37 tankōbon volumes between 1992 and 2008. In North America, the manga is licensed by Viz Media.
The manga has been adapted into various mediums. It was first adapted as an audio drama released on CD from July 1993 to July 1994. This was followed by a Japanese live-action feature film in 1995, then an animated television series, produced by Toei Animation, that was broadcast by ABC from 1996 to 1997. The first live-action television adaptation was one produced in Taiwan, titled Meteor Garden (2001). After Taiwan's Meteor Garden, a number of other live-action television adaptations have followed. A Japanese live-action series aired from 2005 to 2007 (and was followed by a 2008 film), a South Korean adaptation aired in 2009, a mainland Chinese adaptation, also titled Meteor Garden aired in 2018, and a Thai adaptation, F4 Thailand: Boys Over Flowers, was aired from 2021 to 2022.
In 1996, Boys Over Flowers won the 41st Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōjo category. By February 2015, the series had over 61 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time and the best-selling shōjo manga of all time. The series enjoys immense popularity in the Eastern Asia region.
- ^ Bridges, Rose (November 18, 2015). "Why Dangerous Anime Boys Are All The Rage". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on January 25, 2021. Retrieved August 16, 2019.
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