Thursday, October 7, 2010

Hanazakari no Kimitachi e : Ikemen Paradise (花ざかりの君たちへ イケメン♂パラダイス)


This dorama based on the comic by Hisaya Nakajo, published in English as Hana-Kimi.

Ashiya Mizuki ( Horikita Maki ) a Japanese girl in United States who idolize a young high jumping athlete, Sano Izumi ( Oguri Shun ). Sano get injured one day 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, Sano goes to an all-boys school, so Mizuki disguises herself as a boy in order to meet with him again.

In her new school, Osaka Gakuen, Mizuki must choose which Dormitory she wants to get in. First Dorm is lead by Tennoji Megumi ( Ishigaki Yuma ) who lead martial arts club. Second Dorm is lead by Nanba Minami ( Mizushima Hiro ) and the Third Dorm is lead by Himejima Masao aka Oscar ( Kyo Nobuo )who lead theatre club. Mizuki choose the Second Dorm automatically because she wanted the same dorm with Sano.

Mizuki's trough many things during her school days in Osaka Gakuen. Trying to hide her identity, summer part-time with her "boyfriends", weird competitions which held by their headmistress, and be loved by Nakatsu Shuichi ( Ikuta Toma ) even he knows her as a boy.



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.

Theme song : Ikenai Taiyou by Orange Range ; PEACH by Otsuka Ai

PS : 
watching this dorama is as we are in the Ikemen Paradise, just like the title. Many name in the casts are well-known actors.
we can see Ikuta Toma and Oguri Shun became "maido girl" in this dorama...*but for me they're kowai as a girl...gomen Toma and Shun (i like you just as man) 
Toma as Nakatsu Shuici was rea~lly hillarious, his gesture always made me laugh.....
Second Dormitory :
  • Maki Horikita (堀北 真希 Horikita Maki) as (芦屋 瑞稀 Ashiya Mizuki)
  • Shun Oguri (小栗 旬 Oguri Shun) as (佐野 泉 Sano Izumi)
  • Toma Ikuta (生田 斗真 Ikuta Toma) as (中津 秀一 Nakatsu Shūichi)
  • Hiro Mizushima (水嶋 ヒロ Mizushima Hiro) as (難波 南 Nanba Minami)
  • Yūsuke Yamamoto (山本 裕典 Yamamoto Yūsuke) as (萱島 大樹 Kayashima Taiki)
  • Masaki Okada (岡田 将生 Okada Masaki) as (関目 京悟 Sekime Kyōgo)
  • Ryō Kimura (木村 了 Kimura Ryō) as (中央 千里 Nakao Senri)
  • Junpei Mizobata (溝端 淳平 Mizobata Junpei) as (嵯峨 和真 Saga Kazuma)
  • Shunji Igarashi (五十嵐 隼士 Igarashi Shunji) as (野江 伸二 Noe Shinji)
  • Hiromi Sakimoto (崎本 大海 Sakimoto Hiromi) as (京橋 新 Kyōbashi Arata)
  • Shōta Chiyo (千代 将太 Chiyo Shōta) as (淀屋橋 太壱 Yodoyabashi Taichi)
  • Ryō Tajima (田島 亮 Tajima Ryō) as J(嵐山 譲 Arashiyama jō)
  • Enoku Shimegi (標 永久 Shimegi Enoku) as (淡輪 恭一 Tannowa Kyōichi)
First Dormitory : 
  • Yūma Ishigaki (石垣 佑磨 Ishigaki Yūma) as (天王寺 恵 Tennōji Megumi)
  • Mitsuomi Takahashi (高橋 光臣 Takahashi Mitsuomi) as (大国町 光臣 Daikokuchō Mitsuomi)
  • Kouhei Takeda (武田 航平 Takeda Kōhei) as (北花田 航平 Kitahanada Kōhei)
  • Ryōhei Suzuki (鈴木 亮平 Suzuki Ryōhei) as (明石 総一郎 Akashi Sōichirō)
  • Yūichi Sato (佐藤 雄一 Sato Yūichi) as (帝塚山 翔太 Tezukayama Shōta)
  • Sōsuke Nishiyama (西山 宗佑 Nishiyama Sōsuke) as (七道 宗磨 Shichidō Sōma)
Third Dormitory : 
  • Nobuo Kyō (姜 暢雄 Kyō Nobuo) as (姫島 正夫 Himejima Masao) aka Oscar (オスカー).
  • Keisuke Katō (加藤 慶祐 Katō Keisuke) as Hikaru Yao (八尾 光 Yao Hikaru)
  • Toshihiko Watanabe (渡辺 俊彦 Watanabe Toshihiko) as (今宮 昇 Imamiya Shō)
  • Yūta Takahashi (高橋 優太 Takahashi Yūta) as  (四条 春樹 Shijō Haruki)
  • Shōichi Matsuda (松田 祥一 Matsuda Shōichi) as (樟葉 淳之介 Kuzuha Junnosuke)
  • Naoki Miyata (宮田 直樹 Miyata Naoki) as  (西院 司 Saiin Tsukasa)
Tokyo High School :
  • Yū Shirota (城田 優 Shirota Yū) as (神楽坂 真言 Kagurazaka Makoto)
  • Syunsuke Daitō (大東 俊介 Daitō Syunsuke) as (佐野 森 Sano Shin)*casts list by Wikipedia*

"ore wa homo janai" by Nakatsu
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