The second season of the Hana-Kimi (Hanazakari no Kimitachi e) TV anime will begin airing on July 1 at 24:30 JST (effectively July 2 at 01:30 JST). A trailer was also released.
The trailer includes snippets of the newly announced theme songs, “FLASHBULB” (opening) and “Hanataba” (ending). Both are performed by Omoinotake.
Hana-Kimi is based on the Hakusensha-published manga by the late Hisaya Nakajo. Viz Media describes the synopsis as such:
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…
The manga ran in the shojo magazine Hana to Yume from 1996 to 2004 and is collected into 23 tankobon volumes and 12 aizoban volumes. The manga has inspired a Taiwanese live-action series (2006), two Japanese live-action series (2007 and 2011), and a Korean live-action series (2012).
The Hana-Kimi anime’s first season aired during the Winter 2026 anime season.
Production credits (reprising)
• Director: Natsuki Takemura
• Assistant director: Shigeru Ueda
• Series composer: Takao Yoshioka
• Character designer: Shiyi Su
• Animation production: Signal.MD
Cast
• Aya Yamane as Mizuki
• Taku Yashiro as Sano Izumi
• Kikunosuke Toya as Nakatsu Shuichi
Source: Hana-Kimi anime website
