Boys Over Flowers (花より男子, Hana yori Dango?) is a Japanese shōjo manga series by Yoko Kamio. It was serialized in the bi-weekly anthology magazine Margaret, which is aimed at high-school-age girls. The manga series ran continuously from October 1992 to September 2003, and was collected into 36 tankōbon volumes. In 1996, it received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo. Recently, the series has started to be released in a deluxe edition (larger pages and with all the color artwork from the magazine reproduced). This manga is the best-selling shōjo manga in Japan of all time (54 million copies in 2005).

By 2003, the story had been adapted in Japan into an anime television series, a live-action television drama, an animated movie set in a parallel universe, and a live-action movie. It has also served as the basis for a live-action drama TV series from Taiwan called Meteor Garden, which has spawned off an idol-singer group, F4. Also, an all-new Japanese live-action drama series premiered on October 2005 on TBS. Season one of the live-action drama ended in December 2005, spanning 9 forty-minute episodes (with an hour-long final episode special).

By summer 2003, both the manga and anime TV series were available in English in North America from VIZ Media as Boys Over Flowers. As of August 2008, 31 volumes of the manga have been translated in English. In January 2007 TBS began airing season 2 of the live-action drama, which spanned 11 episodes and concluded in March.

In July 2006, a short story was released in issue 15 of Margaret magazine.

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