Boys Over Flowers

Boys Over Flowers
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Tsukasa Domyoji (left), Tsukushi Makino (center), and Rui Hanazawa (right)
花より男子（だんご） (Hana yori Dango)
Genre	Reverse harem[1] Romantic comedy[2]
Manga
Written by	Yoko Kamio
Published by	Shueisha
English publisher	NA: Viz Media
Imprint	Margaret Comics
Magazine	Margaret
Demographic	Shōjo
Original run	October 1992 – January 2004
Volumes	37 (List of volumes)
Live-action television and films
Hana yori Dango (1995, Japan) Meteor Garden (2001, Taiwan) Meteor Rain (2001, Taiwan) Meteor Garden II (2002, Taiwan) Boys Over Flowers (2005, Japan) Boys Over Flowers 2 (2007, Japan) Hana yori Dango Final: The Movie (2008, Japan) Boys Over Flowers (2009, South Korea) Meteor Garden (2018, China) F4 Thailand: Boys Over Flowers (2021, Thailand)
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	NA: Discotek Media
Original network	ANN (ABC)
Original run	September 8, 1996 – August 31, 1997
Episodes	51 (List of episodes)
Anime film
Hana yori Dango: The Movie
Studio	Toei Animation
Licensed by	NA: Discotek Media
Released	March 8, 1997
Runtime	30 minutes
Related
Boys Over Flowers Season 2 (sequel)

Boys Over Flowers (花より男子（だんご）, 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.

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