Hanazakari no Kimitachi e (For You in Full Blossom)

Think about an all-boys high school that students are chosen not by grades but their appearances. And what happens if a girl who disguised herself as a boy enrolls in this very high school? “Hanazakari no Kimitachi e” will show you what happens.

“Hanazakari no Kimitachi e” [English title: For You in Full Blossom] is a Japanese drama which I didn’t intend to watch at first because it is classified as ‘high school romance comedy’. I never get on well with romance genre, I find most of them booooring. But this one is worth watching. It achieves what it intends to achieve; to entertain.

Let’s look at the plot: Ashiya Mizuki, disguises herself as a boy and enrolls in an all-boys high school as a transfer student from U.S. She has only one goal in doing so; to make Sano Izumi jump again. Sano is a high jump athlete ho saved Mizuki from a gang when he was on his way back from his camp in U.S. and gang members injured his leg as a punishment. After the incident Sano quits high jump and Mizuki holds herself responsible for it and she decides to get transferred his school. She will try hard to make Sano jump and smile again like it used to be, while protecting her secret being a girl in an all-boys school.

I think, I wouldn’t enjoy watching this drama, if there wasn’t Nakatsu in the story or if Toma Ikuta didn’t play Nakatsu soo well. He plays pretty well the transitions between various mood swings of Nakatsu; such an energetic character. Here’s Nakatsu:

On the other hand, Sano makes nothing but acting cool and sulking most of the episodes . I really can’t imagine this man smiling . Whenever Sano smiles (though pretty rarely) it looks somewhat weird. Maybe it’s because of the character, since Sano is pretty gloomy and depressingly cool and lonely guy, I think it cannot be helped.

Ashiya Mizuki is another character full of energy and very well played, too. Listening her talking like a boy is really fun.

Other character I find it fun to watch is Umeda, he is frightening in the first three episodes. But whenever ex-girlfriend pops up, his all frightening aura vanishes And the aura boy, he is another story. Room-mate of Nakatsu, he can see and speak to ghosts, can read aura of a person.