Boys Over Flowers (Japanese: 花より男子(だんご), Hepburn: Hana Yori Dango), is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Yoko Kamio and set in Tokyo, Japan and 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 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 launched in October 1992 and ran until January 2004. Kamio released an epilogue issue in June 2008. The North American translation was launched in August 2003 and ran until October 2009.
The manga was adapted into various mediums, many before the book series finished. It was first released as a CD book from July 1993 to July 1994. This was followed by an anime series from 1996-1997, Hana Yori Dango (Boys Over Flowers). In addition, it was released in Japan as the live action feature film, Hana Yori Dango (1995). The first live-action television adaptation, Meteor Garden (Taiwan, 2001), was also released before the Manga was completed.
A number of television adaptations followed, influenced both by completion of the manga, as well as the series that proceeded each one. Hana Yori Dango released in Japan in 2005 and 2007 (followed by the 2008 theatrical release, Hana Yori Dango Final). The South Korean adaptation, Boys Over Flowers released in 2009, and was followed in 2018 by the Chinese remake Meteor Garden. A Thai adaptation called F4 Thailand: Boys Over Flowers will be released in Thailand in 2021.
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