Boys Over Flowers (Japanese : 花より男子 , Hepburn : Hana Yori Dango , lit. "Dango [Preferred] over Flowers") is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Yoko Kamio . The story is set in Tokyo , Japan . It centers on students at 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,[1] whose mother enrolled 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 young men who are children of Japan's wealthiest families, and who bully anyone that gets in their way.
Hana Yori Dango was serialized in Shueisha 's bi-weekly Japanese-language magazine Margaret magazine from October 1992 to September 2003. It was also serialized into 36 stand-alone volumes between 1992 and 2004, with an epilogue (issue #37) that came out in 2008. English translations of all 37 volumes were released between 2003-2009.[2] It has also been published by Glénat in France[3] and by Planeta DeAgostini in Spain.[4]
Hana Yori Dango won the 41st Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo manga.[5] With 61 million copies sold as of 2015, it is one of the best-selling manga series of all time and the best-selling shōjo manga of all time.[6] [7] Kamio began a sequel, titled Boys Over Flowers Season 2 , in Shueisha's Shōnen Jump+ online magazine on February 15, 2015.[8]
In July 2006, a short story based on the manga was published in issue 15 of Margaret magazine.[9] Another two-installment short story was published in January 2007.[9] Both short stories were done by Yoko Kamio .[9]
Volume list [ ]
No.
Original release date
Original ISBN
North America release date
North America ISBN
1 October 23, 1992[10] 4-08-848028-7 August 6, 2003[11] 1-56931-996-0
2 January 25, 1993[12] 4-08-848055-4 October 8, 2003[13] 1-56931-997-9
3 June 25, 1993[14] 4-08-848103-8 December 3, 2003[15] 1-56931-998-7
4 August 25, 1993[16] 4-08-848123-2 February 18, 2004[17] 1-59116-112-6
5 November 25, 1993[18] 4-08-848153-4 March 24, 2004[19] 1-59116-141-X
6 March 25, 1994[20] 4-08-848193-3 June 9, 2004[21] 1-59116-314-5
7 June 24, 1994[22] 4-08-848223-9 August 10, 2004[23] 1-59116-370-6
8 September 22, 1994[24] 4-08-848253-0 November 2, 2004[25] 1-59116-371-4
9 January 25, 1995[26] 4-08-848295-6 December 14, 2004[27] 1-59116-372-2
10 May 25, 1995[28] 4-08-848343-X February 8, 2005[29] 1-59116-629-2
11 August 25, 1995[30] 4-08-848383-9 April 12, 2005[31] 1-59116-747-7
12 November 24, 1995[32] 4-08-848423-1 June 5, 2005[33] 1-59116-801-5
13 March 25, 1996[34] 4-08-848475-4 August 16, 2005[35] 1-59116-865-1
14 September 25, 1996[36] 4-08-848549-1 October 11, 2005[37] 1-4215-0018-3
15 November 25, 1996[38] 4-08-848572-6 December 13, 2005[39] 1-4215-0136-8
16 February 25, 1997[40] 4-08-848611-0 February 14, 2006[41] 1-4215-0262-3
17 July 25, 1997[42] 4-08-848677-3 April 11, 2006[43] 1-4215-0392-1
18 October 24, 1997[44] 4-08-848716-8 June 13, 2006[45] 1-4215-0532-0
19 February 25, 1998[46] 4-08-848766-4 August 8, 2006[47] 1-4215-0533-9
20 May 25, 1998[48] 4-08-848805-9 October 10, 2006[49] 1-4215-0534-7
21 October 23, 1998[50] 4-08-848870-9 December 12, 2006[51] 1-4215-0535-5
22 February 25, 1999[52] 4-08-847023-0 February 13, 2007[53] 1-4215-0985-7
23 June 25, 1999[54] 4-08-847074-5 April 10, 2007[55] 1-4215-0986-5
24 October 25, 1999[56] 4-08-847126-1 June 12, 2007[57] 1-4215-0987-3
25 February 25, 2000[58] 4-08-847178-4 August 14, 2007[59] 1-4215-0988-1
26 June 23, 2000[60] 4-08-847232-2 October 9, 2007[61] 1-4215-0989-X
27 October 25, 2000[62] 4-08-847288-8 December 11, 2007[63] 1-4215-0990-3
28 March 23, 2001[64] 4-08-847349-3 February 12, 2008[65] 1-4215-1533-4
29 June 25, 2001[66] 4-08-847380-9 April 8, 2008[67] 1-4215-1716-7
30 October 25, 2001[68] 4-08-847428-7 June 10, 2008[69] 1-4215-1717-5
31 February 25, 2002[70] 4-08-847470-8 August 12, 2008[71] 1-4215-1718-3
32 June 25, 2002[72] 4-08-847514-3 October 14, 2008[73] 1-4215-1719-1
33 November 25, 2002[74] 4-08-847568-2 December 9, 2008[75] 1-4215-1720-5
34 March 25, 2003 [76] 4-08-847608-5 February 10, 2009[77] 1-4215-2248-9
35 July 25, 2003[78] 4-08-847646-8 April 14, 2009[79] 1-4215-2249-7
36 January 23, 2004[80] 4-08-847702-2 June 9, 2009[81] 1-4215-2250-0
37 June 25, 2008[82] 978-4-08-846305-6 October 13, 2009[83] 1-4215-3087-2
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