The anime is based on Hisaya Nakajo’s romcom manga.
It was announced at the beginning of the year that Hisaya Nakajo’s popular romance manga Hana-Kimi: For You in Full Blossom will get a TV anime adaptation. The main cast of the anime was announced with a short teaser. Recently, the official website and social media accounts of the anime announced the additional cast and the production staff working on the project. Crunchyroll will stream the anime worldwide once it comes out.
Hana-Kimi anime new cast, staff, and other details
The additional cast that have joined the project are:
- Minami Nanba voiced by Yuichiro Umehara (Goblin Slayer in GOBLIN SLAYER, Jō Togame in Wind Breaker)
- Hokuto Umeda voiced by Jun Fukuyama (Koro-Sensei in Assassination Classroom, Ango Sakaguchi in Bungo Stray Dogs)
- Senri Nakao voiced by Reiji Kawashima (Fushi in To Your Eternity, Finn Ames in Mashle)
- Taiki Kayashima voiced by Koki Uchiyama (Kei Tsukishima in Haikyu!!, Tomura Shigaraki in My Hero Academia)
- Kyogo Sekime voiced by Wataru Komada (Ryo in Undead Unluck, Shun Oigawa in Ron Kamonohashi’s Forbidden Deductions)
- Shinji Noe voiced by Anan Furuya (Atsushi Nagato in Wind Breaker, Haruka Asahina in Overtake!)
- Wataru Nihonbashi voiced by Kotaro Nishiyama (Kōji Tatsuishi in My Happy Marriage, Takumi Momose in Wind Breaker)
- Julia Maxwell voiced by Yuko Natsuyoshi (Sylvia in Unnamed Memory, Chirinnu Iroha in Blue Miburo)
The previously announced main cast of the anime are:
- Mizuki Ashiya voiced by Aya Yamane
- Izumi Sano voiced by Taku Yashiro
- Shūichi Nakatsu voiced by Kikunosuke Toya
Natsuki Takemura directs the anime at Signal. MD with Shigeru Ueda as his assistant director. Takako Yoshioka handles series composition while Su Shiyi designs the characters. Masaru Yokoyama composes the music while Jin Aketagawa serves as the sound director.
The Hana-Kimi anime is based on Hisaya Nakajo’s manga series of the same name. The manga ran from 1996 to 2004 in Hakusensha’s Hana to Yume magazine. Unfortunately, the mangaka passed away in October 2023 due to a heart condition at only 50 years. The manga was previously adapted into a popular TV drama series. Viz Media publishes the manga in English and describes the story as:
Japanese-American track-and-field star Mizuki has gotten herself to transfer to a high school in Japan...but not just any school! To be close to her idol, high jumper Izumi Sano, she's going to an all-guys' high school...and disguising herself as a boy! But as fate would have it, they're more than classmates...they're roommates! Now, Mizuki must keep her secret in the classroom, the locker room, and her own bedroom. And her classmates--and the school nurse--must cope with a new transfer student who may make them question their own orientation...
