花ざかりの君たちへ [Hanazakari no Kimitachi e]

Series · 27

books · 1997-2013

By Hisaya Nakajo, Gerard Jones

Books in series

Hana-Kimi

For You in Full Blossom, Vol. 1

1997

THE PRETTIEST BOY IN SCHOOL...ISN'T A BOY! Japanese-American track-and-field star Mizuki has gotten herself a 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... Plus a bonus story, "The Cage of Summer"!

Hana-kimi 2

For You in Full Blossom

1997

Mizuki, a girl who pretends to be a boy at an all-boys school, finds it hard to keep her secret with such distractions as a snoopy reporter, a cross-dressing contest, a persistent photographer, and visits by friends who know the truth.

Hana-Kimi

For You in Full Blossom, Vol. 3

1998

MEN AT WORK Izumi, his friend Nakatsu and our crossdressing heroine Mizuki are hired to work at a beach chalet run by the family of weird school nurse Dr. Umeda! But when Kagurazaka—Izumi's high-jump rival—shows up with his two younger sisters in tow, the job gets personal! Kagurazaka's attractive sister Tamami has a crush on Izumi too, and she sees Izumi's classmate Mizuki as a way to find out about the object of her affections. And then someone realizes that Mizuki's actually a girl...

Hana-Kimi

For You in Full Blossom, Vol. 4

1998

CLOTHES MAKE THE MAN All-male Osaka High School is holding its annual war of the dorms, and for the students, there's no escape! Unfortunately, even though she'd be happy to just compete in the 500-meter relay, Mizuki is forced to enter the Cross-Dressing Pageant...and pretend to be a boy pretending to be a girl! Worse still, a rival dorm targets Mizuki as a threat to their athletic supremacy! Can dorm chief Minami Nanba make winners out of his class while dealing with his own secret traumas? Plus a bonus story, "The Thirsty Moon"!

Hana-Kimi

For You in Full Blossom, Vol. 5

1998

DRAG RACE It's the final day of the Osaka High School Festival, and two big competitions are still up in the air: the relay race and the cross-dressing pageant! You'd think Mizuki, an actual XX-chromosome girl disguised as a boy at an all-guy high school, would be a better cross-dresser than her classmates, but things are never so easy—and what if winning the contest blows her cover? That might be a relief for her classmate Nakatsu, who doesn't know that Mizuki's a girl, just that he's in love with her. But when a real girl falls in love with Nakatsu, his love life gets even more complicated...

Hana-Kimi

For You in Full Blossom, Vol. 6

1998

PRIVATE EYES When a sports reporter comes looking for a scoop on Izumi Sano, Japan's most promising young high-jumper, Mizuki's own secrets are brought into the light! Can she hide the fact that she, Sano's roommate, is actually a cross-dressing girl? Meanwhile, Mizuki's classmate Nakatsu, unaware of Mizuki's female-ness, struggles to choose between his girlfriend and "the love that dare not speak its name." But a wrench is about to be thrown into these relationships from two thousand miles away. Julia, Mizuki's best friend from America, is coming to Japan to go to school!

Hana-Kimi

For You in Full Blossom, Vol. 7

1999

AMERICAN GIRL Julia is Mizuki's girlfriend?! As the shocking lie tears Osaka High School apart, Mizuki's classmates make their moves on the blonde, blue-eyed transfer student. Then the whole class leaves on a school trip to Hokkaido, complete with an overnight stay at the hot springs! With their "chaperone" Dr. Umeda busy getting to knowing the locals, it isn't long before people start taking off their clothes (to bathe, all right?). But how long can Mizuki's gender stay secret inside the boy's bath?

Hana-Kimi

For You in Full Blossom, Vol. 8

1999

MALE MODELS Tired of Sano and Mizuki taking their relationship so slow, Julia confronts Sano to get him moving faster. But Sano has more things to worry about...his younger brother, Shin, has run away from home! Then, when a photo of Minami, Nakatsu and Sano appears in a girls' fashion magazine, the men of Hana-Kimi find themselves stalked...and propositioned!

Hana-Kimi

For You in Full Blossom, Vol. 9

1999

HIGH FASHION Framed by a teacher?! Falsely accused of using a cheat sheet during an exam, Nakatsu must confess to a crime he didn't commit or be kicked off the soccer team forever! As the power-mad teacher Kitahama extends his iron rule over the entire student body, can anyone save the students of Osaka High? Then, suave photographer Akira Hara sets his sights on another model...Mizuki!

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Hana-Kimi

For You in Full Blossom, Vol. 10

1999

STRIKE A POSE Award-winning fashion photographer Akiha Hara wants Izumi, Nakatsu and Mizuki for his new photo shoot! But the handsome, bisexual Akiha may have a more than professional interest in his models. And has he figured out that Mizuki is a girl? Caught in the treacherous, seductive world of high fashion, can our heroes escape...if they even want to?

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Hana-Kimi

For You in Full Blossom, Vol. 11

2000

"GIRLS" AND GHOSTS Mizuki and her friends go to the country, where they meet and try to help a ghost pining for his lost love. Then, for the big Christmas dance party, Mizuki and Nakao are recruited to help make up for a shortage of girls—by dressing up as girls! This turnabout for Mizuki, however, proves to be the least of the complications that flare up when the whole ploy proves too successful!

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Hana-Kimi

For You in Full Blossom, Vol. 12

2000

SHALL WE DANCE? The Christmas dance party begins, and Mizuki looks for a chance to give Sano a present. Later, Mizuki flies home for New Year's and an unexpected reunion with Gilbert, her first love. Though time has passed and her romantic hopes are now focused on Sano, Mizuki discovers that this old flame hasn't been completely snuffed out in her heart!

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Hana-Kimi

For You in Full Blossom, Vol. 13

2000

DIVA BY DESIGN Mizuki is broke, so she lands a part-time job with Akiha, the photographer. Among her first-day experiences: spilling tea on male diva supermodel "Alex." This sparks a mutual animosity that is not assuaged when Mizuki discovers the model's most closely guarded secret! Meanwhile, at Mizuki's school, food is disappearing, with the culprits leaving flowers in place of what they've heisted!

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Hana-Kimi

For You in Full Blossom, Vol. 14

2001

CLOSER QUARTERS Plumbing problems erupt in Dorm 1, forcing the residents to move into Dorms 2 and 3. Mizuki must now deal with two male roommates, one of whom introduces her to a dorm custom she could never have imagined! Dr. Umeda reflects on his past after hearing from an old friend, while Mizuki and Sano find their mutual attraction pulling them ever closer to the brink!

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Hana-Kimi

For You in Full Blossom, Vol. 15

2001

A KISS IS JUST A KISS? Unable to forget her near-kiss experience, Mizuki finds herself drawing ever closer to Sano, and not in a "roommates" way, either. The tension builds when Nakatsu asks Sano point-blank: Do you like Mizuki? Can Nakatsu and Sano's friendship survive the answer? Meanwhile, Sano's old high-jump rival returns, along with a surprising new challenger!

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Hana-Kimi

For You in Full Blossom, Vol. 16

2001

BROTHERS Sano's little brother Shin returns! Shin has become a rising star of the high jump, and he's determined to prove himself by beating his older brother. But that's not the only blood on the track...the one coaching Shin is their father! Can Mizuki just sit back and watch as Sano fights the father he turned away from...and the brother who never forgave him for doing so?

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Hana-Kimi

For You in Full Blossom, Vol. 17

2002

ONE TRACK MIND As the giant track meet approaches, Mizuki and Sano face an assortment of foes: Sano's old high-jump rival Kagurazuka and Sano's own little brother Shin! But Shin's trainer is the one man Sano hates the most: his own father. Can Mizuki mend the rift in Sano's family? But while Sano focuses on winning, one person is focused only on Mizuki: Nakatsu, the other boy who loves her...

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Hana-Kimi

For You in Full Blossom, Vol. 18

2002

PSYCHIC CAFETERIA SHOWDOWN! Under his father's disapproving eyes, Sano faces his own brother in a high-jump competition! Then, a schoolwide treasure hunt turns into a grudge match between Kayashima and his self-proclaimed rival, Modoru the onmyôji, a traditional Japanese occultist. Will psychic powers or black magic prevail? But Modoru has something else on his side: the power of cuteness!

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Hana-Kimi

For You in Full Blossom, Vol. 19

2002

RAISE THE BAR This is what it's all been building up to...Shin, Izumi and Kagurazuka compete against one another in the high jump! Then, Sekime gets his own moment in the spotlight when his classmates see him with a strange girl. But if we're talking "strange," she doesn't even compare to the woman who comes onto campus and sweeps an embarrassed Nakatsu off his feet...Nakatsu's mother!

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Hana-Kimi

For You in Full Blossom, Vol. 20

2003

CHASING DREAMS Nakatsu's mom is in town, and she has plans for her son: she wants him to go home after graduation to take care of the family business! Will Nakatsu give up his dreams of becoming a star soccer player? Meanwhile, another student at Osaka High School prepares to put his heart on the line. Nakao confesses his love to upperclassman Minami...but can Minami really have feelings for a boy?

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Hana-Kimi

For You in Full Blossom, Vol. 21

2003

Nakao a déclaré son amour à Nanba, qui lui a clairement fait comprendre qu'il ne partageait pas ses sentiments. Anéanti, il encourage Mizuki à offrir ses chocolats de Saint Valentin à Sano... Mais alors que Mizuki est déjà au bord de la crise de nerfs à cette idée, voilà que Sano la gratifie d'une réaction tout à fait inattendue !!! Les choses vont-elles évoluer d'un seul coup, entre eux deux ?!

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Hana-Kimi

For You in Full Blossom, Vol. 22

2004

OUT OF THE CLOSET? When Mizuki is almost caught changing clothes, the school goes wild with rumors about a mysterious girl on campus! Can our heroine keep her secret, or will she be outed and separated from Sano? Meanwhile, the girls of Saint Blossom Girls' High School are caught up in the boys' romances...

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Hana-Kimi

For You in Full Blossom, Vol. 23

2004

GOODBYE, HIGH SCHOOL DAYS Mizuki's secret is exposed...and her days at Osaka High School are numbered. Can she keep the friends she made as a boy...and does she have a future with Sano after graduation? The flowers of youth are scattered to the winds in the bittersweet final volume of Hana-Kimi!

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Hana-Kimi 24

After School

2010

Ein Wiedersehen mit Mizuki und ihren Freunden von der Highschool! In verschiedenen Kurzgeschichten werden alle wichtigen Leserfragen endlich geklärt, z.B. ob doch jemand wusste, dass Mizuki den Jungen nur gespielt hat und ob Doktor Umeda die Miss-Wahl zur "Miss Rio Karneval" in seiner Studentenzeit gewonnen hat..

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Hana-Kimi (3-in-1 Edition), Vol. 1

2012

Mizuki Ashiya is no slouch when it comes to a challenge. She’s a star of track and field at her high school, after all. So when she falls for fellow athlete Izumi Sano, she figures out an ingenious plan to get close to him. Now she’s moved to Japan, enrolled in the all-male high school Sano goes to, and become his roommate! How? She’s disguised herself as a boy! Whatever happens next, things are about to get seriously complicated!

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Hana-Kimi (3-in-1 Edition), Vol. 3

2012

What happens when the hottest boy in school is a girl?!? Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences rated teen plus. Mizuki Ashiya has such a crush on a track star named Izumi Sano that she moves from the U.S. to Japan to enroll in the all-male high school he goes to! Pretending to be a boy, Mizuki becomes Sano’s roommate…but how can she keep such a big secret when she’s so close to the guy she wants? Intimate Relationship Mizuki’s big lie gets even messier when her male alter ego starts dating Julia, the transfer student from America. Plus, a certain devious teacher targets Mizuki’s friend Nakatsu and levies charges that could ultimately get him kicked out of school! As she struggles to keep her cover and her cool under pressure, things heat up more than ever for Mizuki and her classmates.

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Hana-Kimi (3-in-1 Edition), Vol. 4

2013

Authors

Hisaya Nakajo

Author · 30 books

中条比紗也 in Japanese. She also uses the names Peco Fujiya (for yaoi works) and Ryou Fumizuki for doujinshi with her circle, Daisanteikoku.

Gerard Jones

Author · 9 books

Gerard Jones is an award-winning American author and comic book writer. From 1987 to 2001, Jones wrote many comic books for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Viz Media, Malibu Comics and other publishers; including Green Lantern, Justice League, Prime, Ultraforce, El Diablo, Wonder Man, Martian Manhunter, Elongated Man, The Shadow, Pokémon, and Batman. Jones is author of the Eisner Award-winning Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book (2004); Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Superheroes and Make-Believe Violence (2002), and Honey I'm Home: Sitcoms Selling the American Dream (1993). Jones is co-author with Will Jacobs of The Beaver Papers (1983), The Comic Book Heroes (1985, 1996), and the comic book The Trouble with Girls (1987-1993). From 1983 to 1988, Jacobs and Jones were contributors to National Lampoon magazine. He and Jacobs began writing humorous fiction again in 2008 with the online series My Pal Splendid Man and Million Dollar Ideas