Hanazakari no Kimitachi e • Hana-Kimi - Episode 2 discussion

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Okay so maybe some gaydars are working actually functioning, because two people did figure it out. Makes sense that those two would be the most physically close to Ashiya (literally). It makes the issues a bit different from what i thought it would be. *But we still have Nakatsu to make up for it.*

Shoichi is such a cutie ☺️

So we ended one shoujo with “school journalism” drama, we start a shoujo with it.

📢Embrace your inner Scarlet, Mizuki, punch the 𝒷𝒾𝓉𝒸𝒽📢

Bi/pan/poly/omni-attraction awakening, let’s go, happy pride 🏳️‍🌈💃🏾

I thought it would be a confession.

I can’t see “jump” without remembering Haikyuu. 飛べ FLY HIGH

It is nice we avoided an isekai situation.

Is our sensei 🏳️‍🌈?

He is! He ***is!***

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Shout out to the CR sub teams for the text overlays. I very much appreciate them.

So now it’s only a matter of time until the secret’s out if we have two down. But I’m wondering if/when Rika will find out. I want her and Ashiya to be friends, but she does look to be a love rival, if temporarily. Shoichi’s awakening makes me hope, even if/when he learje Ashiya’s gender, I can add him to my list of bi/pan/poly/omni-attracted characters.

Mizuki isn’t as good at hiding this whole “female” thing as she thought lol. Like the “man hating” dog being all over her is kind of a clue. The real dense ones just end up questioning their sexuality, but those who pay attention like the doc or Izumi can tell.

[Yeah, I had a feeling Sano figured it out by touching Mizuki's sideboob.](https://i.imgur.com/oMn4XAQ.jpeg)

She can bind her chest as much as she wants, but that mass has got to go somewhere!

[Watching Nakatsu question his sexuality is pretty damn hilarious.](https://i.imgur.com/qS0E7VB.jpeg) Dude thinks he's going crazy. xD

[We got kabedon scene!](https://i.imgur.com/8qNE2da.jpeg) It looks like Sano isn't 100% sure tho. Maybe he's just waiting for the right moment to bring it up.

[Is Mizuki even trying to hide she's a girl?](https://i.imgur.com/7EthqiQ.jpeg) Come on, man. At least close your shower curtain!

Considering how she's so bad at this. I wouldn't be surprised if the entire main cast finds out her secret before the season ends.

Oh no, ~~Denji~~ Nakatsu catching the feels.

Ah yes, Sano and Umeda figuring out Mizuki's a girl thanks to uh (checks notes) the power of bridal carry and ~~vibes~~ doctor's intuition plus the whole gay thing.

Speaking of Umeda, Fukuyama Jun is really fabulous in this role.

“Also, I’m gay.” bro really needed to clarify LMAO

also so far, i’m loving this by alot for some reason, and I like how Sano known her identity early on, rather than later. and rest in peace to the author, this is their first anime adaptation iirc, so I hope it goes well!

What's a girl to do when she's visiting her Japanese grandma and sees a boy REALLY pull off a high-jump? Why, join track, and then dress as a boy to go to the same high school as him! And then get caught by the school nurse as a girl!

Mizuki is slowly learning to act like a "bro" to make sure nobody asks to many questions about what Nakatsu did!

Dang, it's already the second episode and Sano figured out her secret! I guess he felt her boob when he princess carried her?

Man, Nihonbashi! Do you understand the concept of privacy at all? Putting the picture of MizukixSano on-top of each other for everyone at school to see. He's lucky Sano just intimidated him...but he's less lucky with Mizuki. Girl can throw a punch! She's right at home at an all-boys school!

Nakatsu is starting to think less than pure thoughts about Mizuki, while Mizuki's true feelings for Sano are showing the moment she sees him talking with another girl and can't help but spy on him. Said girl is Rika, who is trying to convince Sano to get back into high-jumping, even though he doesn't seem interested even with having overcome his injury.

Mizuki isn't going to get Isekai'd today! Not when Sano can pull off the classic kabedon! And having their bodies pressed against each other just further drives home for Mizuki how much she wants to be closer to Sano.

Welp, looks like Mizuki has realized she's in love faster than she was expecting, and while Rika isn't just some girl Sano knew in middle school (she's his childhood friend), she also doesn't seem romantically interested in him now! Though she actually totally was when she was managing his track and field team.

Nakatsu really obsessing over an indirect kiss with another "guy." Boy is down bad! Poor Sekime.

It's not that Sano has given up on the high-jump, on some level he still wants to do it, and now Mizuki can proudly declare that she's not just into him for his high-jumping but wants to get know him better as a person! And she even manages to convince Umeda, the gay doctor who doesn't care a bit for women, to keep her secret so she can stay!

Note to Mizuki: close the shower curtains when you're trying to hide your gender! That is definitely not a mans' backside, no matter how much you might be convinced otherwise.

Yoasobi pulling double-duty on the ED! With a bunch of cute visuals of Mizuki in a dress!

You can kinda tell that the source material is from the '90s, but what seals it is that no one has a smartphone.

Izumi finding out Mizuki's a girl in the most bizarre way ever. Nakatsu's internal conflict also started lol, just like in Vampire Dormitory. I love this trope.


Can we just adress how adorable Yuichiro the dog is? Especiall on the scene where he was leaning on Mizuki's leg, he was looking super cute!


I'm fascinated to see how direct and outspoken Mizuki is, she says what she thinks without worrying too much which is refreshing to see nowadays with other MCs in anime but c'mon girl you could close the curtain! Still, i like how these kind of scenes are awkward but don't get dragged out in following scenes. It feels more realistic despite the plot and all.


Umeda started off as a bit antogonistic but now he's also supporting her! I can't wait to see the next episode!!

Some parts feel a bit outdated (as expected), but I really appreciate this is getting an adaption. The art style is a nice, I like the colors, but I think the faces look a bit stiff? But whatever, this is one of my favourite flavors of shoujo so I'm gonna enjoy it lots.

Nakatsu is absolutely adorable, I have to see more bro moments between him and the MC before the secret gets out.

>Also, I'm gay

One of the most casual coming out. Pretty funny how easily Dr. Umeda said it as well as Mizuki's reaction to it. Meanwhile, Nakatsu's feeling that doki-doki around her and had started to question his sexuality.

Nihonbashi's bound to start a rumour with that stunt. People are bound to start talking about Mizuki & Izumi swinging that way, especially with the two of them being roommates and spending an awful lot of time with each other. The only way to dispel it is for Mizuki to come clean, but that would result in an entirely new problem.

Having said that, not sure if her secret would stay hidden for so long seeing as how easily she got found out by Izumi & Dr. Umeda. Will Nakatsu be the next person to find out?

This anime asks, and will hopefully one day answer an important philosophical question: Can a girl be a twink? So far I think it's making a pretty good case for it.

There are a lot of things that are promising here. There are hot, mysterious, broody boys, multiple love triangles being set up, gay stuff... Lots of things that could turn out really well. That being said, it's a little weird how quickly we move on from things. Like have the sports clubs just given up on recruiting her? Was that whole setup just for one brief event between Ashiya and Izumi?

Nakatsu getting that classic Li Shang experience.

I nearly stood up and cheered when Mizuki just straight up punched the paparazzi kid. You don't get enough of jerks like that getting to feel the immediate consequences they sometimes deserve.

That wall press to dodge the car was like an advanced kabedon considering the full body press it involved.

Sano had a smartphone charging at the head of his bed in the very last scene when he looked at his watch so they may be updating this to present day.

Poor guy is going through the Rudeus gay crisis

I thought the doctor was going to give a technical answer like how there was a consent form to obtain medical records from her old doctor as part of transferring to the school, but she ticked the box without thinking.

Poor Nakatsu, falling for Izumi's female charms while thinking she's a boy. Our dude must be REALLY confused right now.

Nothing about this show made sense. Mizuki wanted to move to Japan because she was in love with Sano but it doesn't make sense why she'd pretend to be a boy to do so. She isn't trans or lesbian and Sano isn't known to be gay so if she wanted to attract him, wouldn't it make more sense if she presented herself as a woman? No actual reason is given why Mizuki wanted to pretend to be a boy. If she wanted to attend that school because it has an excellent athletics program, she could find one that has girls if shes such an exceptional athlete that she could break a track record at a boys school. This show is dimwitted.

Nakatsu's such a dork, he needs to be protected. It's also funny he's having gay panic because of Mizuki's femininity.

Since the doctor appears at the end of the OP with Nakatsu, Nanba and Sano, I thought there was going to be a route open but he shuts it down completely by confessing he's gay lol.

I can't help but love the sexuality confusion this genre is known for.
Nakatsu will have a very interesting time with Mitsuki around lol

Dr. Umeda is still my best guy though.

This second episode was everything I'd hoped for with Nakatsu!

I was pondering why this felt like a Ouran era anime vs something from current writing. Wow, 30 years to make an anime from the source material, wouldn't have known if I hadn't looked it up.

The I'm gay line was pretty funny.

You can tell that this is from the 90s, when despite them having smartphones, the characters are still living in the moment!

I haven’t seen Ouran, so the only comp to this I have is Vampire Dormitory and this is that but 10000x better. Love a good double header premiere. Just a shame the author didn’t get to see it adapted, rest in peace Nakajo Hisaya. She’s definitely smiling down at the job Signal MD have done thus far. You can tell it’s a 90s shoujo with some of the tropes and general aesthetic, but the amazing production quality and timelessness of the story translate well.

Love Ashiya so far and I can’t wait to see how she and Sano’s relationship develops. Admittedly, it is a LITTLE creepy that she basically stalked bro to his school and is living this lie to get close to him, but the manga is really highly rated so I’m looking forward to seeing how they develop her as a character. Seeing all the boys get flustered by how cute she is is so funny too.

Idk if you’d call Nakatsu gay or just attracted to the feminine qualities of Ashiya, which would be straight, but dude is fun as hell and the inevitable love triangle should be interesting. The doctor knowing the truth about her secret and not telling anyone is wildly irresponsible, BUT allows us to have this story so oh well lol. AND WE GOT JPOP LEADERS YOASOBI ON THE OP AND ED, BOTH BOPS!

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Hah. Those are all the stereotypical things to do in Japan.

So that's where she first saw him.

Huh. What's got everyone's attention?

Ah.

Huh. She saw him with another girl.

And now she's stalking them...

Accident?

He protected her?

He injured his leg?

And now she's been found out...

So, not his girlfriend.

Uh oh.

And so an unintentional kabedon.

Ok...

Right so that girl is his childhood friend. So we know she's got no chance.

So, she's talked to the doctor.

Good for him.

And now they've found out too...

Or not.

Smartphone on the nightstand kinda broke the illusion of being set in the 00s.

I like that they're explaining why something is happening. In a very short and simple way too. Not long-winded. 


Dog likes girls? Backstory. Why did Sano go into the shower? He thought there'd be a curtain.


Not the best reasons, but at least there's context.