Hanazakari no Kimitachi e • Hana-Kimi - Episode 3 discussion

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[Wow, short turnover.](https://i.imgur.com/dbXlCMg.jpeg) Mizuki's barely been there. [This applies to Nakatsu too.](https://i.imgur.com/rLzPfHt.jpeg) [He's really down for Mizuki.](https://i.imgur.com/jiJWzPn.jpeg)

Seems Nakatsu’s really struggling with his sexuality. Bro should just embrace being Ashiyasexual! There ain’t nothing wrong with that lol.

It looks like Ashiya’s gonna have to deal with a number of admirers. Keen to see how all this plays out.

On an unrelated note, did anyone else have subs cut out suddenly? Like that phone convo with Julia was totally unsubbed for me. Not sure if it’s a “me” thing or a CR thing.

God, it's hilarious watching [Nakatsu go from questioning his sexuality at the start of the episode](https://i.imgur.com/CmluwBJ.png) to him going ["Fuck it, I'll be gay if it means making Mizuki happy!"](https://i.imgur.com/27bzQfI.png) xD

Fantasising Mizuki being nude in the showers. Nakatsu's got a pretty dirty mind. Seeing him question his sexuality will never fail to be hilarious. I wonder how he'll react should he find out the truth about her.

Best part of the show is Nakatsu's gay awakening and putting himself out there in Mizuki's budding Reverse-Harem.

Nakatsu is down BAD for Mizuki. Like, imagining her in the shower and thinking he's having sexual feelings about another dude level of down bad!

Well, at least our budding love triangle has sleeping in late and through class in common...even if it gets them in trouble with the teacher.

Mizuki may be pretending to be a boy, but she still has to deal with that time of the month...luckily, she has a nurse in her corner!

Rika is back and she's a lot less friendly to Mizuki this go-around, feeling like Mizuki is who is holding Sano back from getting back into the high-jump. I mean, she's technically not wrong about the whole "following Sano" thing but Mizuki has grown to care enough about Sano to want to respect HIS feelings instead of her own desire for him to get back into the sport she fell in love with him through. Not that it would have saved her from a slap from Rika had Sano not intervened.

Rika may not have expressed it well, but she genuinely cared about Sano in her own way, and Mizuki could see that...so she found Sano's harshness towards her uncalled for, even though he did it FOR Mizuki. Man, everyones' feelings are all getting tumbled around, especially since Sano knows Mizuki is a girl.

It's nice to know that Mizuki is still in tough with her brother and Julia...even if her big bro gifting her a dress could have ended REALLY badly if she hadn't covered for it. Though I guess now she has a dress she can wear if she ever needs it. And Julia is there for her via facetime.

Nanba and Umeda are nephew and uncle? And apparently Umeda has a...very complicated relationship with his sister/Namba's mom.

Sano might not be talking to her, but that's not going to make Mizuki give up! She's too much of a go-getter to quit now! Even if all her efforts start getting kind of desperate.

Wow, Nakatsu has resolved that he's fine with being gay if it means protecting Mizuki's happiness, even confronting Sano over it. He cares about Mizuki THAT much! Even if only Sano knows she's actually a girl so the whole context of this fight between the boys is kind of wild.

Sano doesn't care for the school womanizer, Nanba, getting chummy with Mizuki but he ALSO doesn't care for Nihonbashi taking candid pics without permission. Luckily if there's one thing that can bring Sano and Nakatsu together, it's punishing people doing things they shouldn't to Mizuki.

Mizuki is probably safe around Nanba so long as he isn't aware of her true gender, but that Sano got so worked up shows how important Mizuki is to him. Enough to where he's even ready to overcome his fear, fear of his hesitation that nearly lead to Rika getting hit by Truck-kun, to get back into the high jump. Though Mizuki is oblivious as to how much of an effect SHE had on his decision.

Bifauxnen Sunday continues 💃🏾🙌🏾

>I like women!

Happy pride 🏳️‍🌈

There’s our gay sensei 💃🏾🙌🏾

*Aaaaaaaaand* there it is.

Sister, coworker—in what world does slapping a person who politely clapped back at you make ***anything*** better let alone help your case?

Nakatsu thinking aloud like that oh girl you know his seiyuu was being silly in the booth 😭 Oh shit that’s right, he shares a seiyuu with Denji (*Chainsaw Man*).

The title card in the bowl was clever, I like it.

Please stop with the creepy journalist/photographers ✋🏾

Kabedon, but kabedon’t please not now 😭

And the misunderstandings continue.

>I don’t care if he’s a guy. If it would mean he never has to cry like that again, I’ll become gay or whatever!

Bi, pan, poly, multi, and omni-attracted people (me included): Oh okay 🥲🏳️‍🌈

Break his glasses. Someone break this boy’s glasses. I say that as a glasses-wearer. Break that boy’s glasses.

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Text overlays 🙌🏾

I hope for more blatant multi-attraction representation in future anime adaptations! We’re an option too! 🏳️‍🌈

Yamashina—I can hope she recognizes “Wow, that was horrible of me to try slapping you just because I was mad. I’m so sorry”, but we shall see. I hope this was the wakeup call she needed.

Nakatsu struggles are real😭😭.  Wonder how he reacts when he finds out.. 


I ship Sano x Mizuki tho - he already knows her secret and wants to protect her. He just isnt aware of his feelings yet [I feel like].

Apparently today is Headpat Ashiya Day? Though I also noticed that you get a POV headpat in the OP from Sano.

"If it would mean he never has to cry like that again, I'll become gay or whatever!" is definitely a great line.

for anyone who's curious & victim to the crunchyroll enshittification, here was the convo between ashiya & julia (my own rough translation)-

J: i'm glad it all arrived okay!

A: yep, thank you julia

J: so, have you gotten to meet your idol yet? <3

A: yeah, i met him

J: great! i'm glad to hear that\~

A: i guess :(

J: what's wrong? is there a problem?

A: no, i'm fine, it's just i'm still unfamiliar with things here and i'm tired, but it's not a problem

J: well, then okay- good luck mizuki! you chose this path, and mizuki being mizuki is the best :D

A: yeah, i know :)

J: even apart, i'm still your best friend, so if anything comes up talk to me!

A: thank you

J: okay, talk later! i love you\~

A: mhm, love you too :) talk later! she's right.. worrying like this isn't like me. and anyway, i definitely don't want things to stay like this between sano and me. thank you, julia.

Fellas, is it gay to not want your fellow homies to cry?

We all noticed that sneak Mizuki outburst Sano (even if she didn't lol), you can't fool us.

Poor sexuality bewildered Nakatsu. Though by the end of the episode he had already settled on gay being fine so maybe we're past the bewilderment.

Would have been nice if Crunchyroll had subbed that phone call with Julia. Good to see them posted here.

I'm glad we're already moving past Sano and his issues with high jumping. And it wasn't even about the sport directly but from successfully preventing Rika from getting isekaied? Still would have been a traumatic experience and not everyone can just shrug those off, I wonder if the real story is he has a bit of PTSD and it drove him away from his sport. It would explain why nobody understands why he quit since the reason isn't apparent.

Nakatsu isn't beating the allegations, ain't he?

What a great episode, I love this show lmao

They shouldn't hold each other like that in public though, that's dangerous, someone might see them (and get the wrong idea, or maybe the right one technically lol)!

Izumi seems to be making the moves on Mizuki through his "I pretend I dont know youre a girl" privilege

Ouch the period stuff at the begining hits home

Man, this show is great. I always appreciate when anime / manga touch on monthly periods and the [pain women go through](https://imgur.com/a/5QXon0b#J58MJlw). At least the [doctor was there to help her](https://imgur.com/a/5QXon0b#GE3miAC).

Re falling in love with the series once again ❤️

Poor Nakatsu, he is just really going through it, like this is just a legitimate crisis for him, and I'm just laughing at him.


Oh Sano,


Like, was it wise to like purposely antagonize him, for like no real reason. Like he already told you off once, and like you want to poke the bear that's already in a mood? Is he going to do that a lot? He does deserve to get chewed on.

Nakatsu at the beginning of the episode: "No I'm not gay although I'm fantasizing about a naked guy in the shower"

Nakatsu near the end of the episode: "If that will make Mizuki stop crying, I'll be gay!"

The character development is amazing XD

Nakatsu is either having a Zap Brannigan crisis or becoming a disaster bisexual. Either way he’s hilarious.

I havent seen anyone else mention this so can I just say I completely agree with Sano yelling at Rika and understand him being upset with Mizuki for getting mad at him for yelling at Rika because "she is just worried about him". Her behavior was unhinged, controlling and violent. She deserved to get yelled at for that. She told Mizuki to stay away from Sano "because she feels like hes following him around?" That's none of her business. I get that she feels responsibility for him quitting the high jump but its not her place to force him to get back into it or to dictate who he can spend time with or to physically hit someone because she doesnt like them spending time with Sano and defending him in their own way. She is way over bearing and annoying imo.

P.s. the "womanizer" player guy is soooo hot

You don't have to become gay for Mizuki, Nakatsu! Bi is fine too...

Ugh I love the early 2000's reverse harem vibes. Its been a hot minute 😭 I cant wait for Sano to reveal that he knows about her

I like the Nakatsu and Mizuki parts of this but Sano's portions are just not working for me. If he thinks Mizuki is a girl why would he not bring it up with her or someone? Feels like a strange choice to just not mention it to anyone and then wonder why he's the only one bothered by it - bro, what makes you think anyone else even knows?

And him suddenly deciding to tell her about why he quit high jump and that he wants to give it another shot felt rather abrupt and came out of nowhere. Very disjointed that part was. But at least we're moving past the won't jump again bit and hopefully that childhood friend stuff too - her lashing out at Mizuki felt off to me as well.

Really couldn't get into this episode for all these reasons. I would be more interested if this focused on Nakatsu coming to terms with his feelings for Mizuki and eventually finding out that she's a girl and how that affects him. That would make for a more interesting story than whatever we're getting with boring as Sano.

Someone needs to introduce Nakatsu to bisexuality pls 😭

Nakatsu is best boi! His hilarious gay panic aside, the fact that he cares so much for Mizuki regardless of his confusing feelings for her is super heartwarming in that he cherishes his friendship with her big time, enough that he'd call out Sano for his wishy-washiness around her after giving Mizuki a much-needed shoulder to cry on. It works too, because Sano and Mizuki properly work out their issues shortly afterwards (tho Nanba helped out in that area too).

I'm sad this series isn't getting the buzz it deserves. This is one of *the* romance mangas of its time and is highly influential in the shoujo-scape. We need more people talking about it more!!

So, he doesn't realise she's a girl.

And so he's here to protect her.

What's in the box?

Ah... A dress.

Ok... Creepy guy...

Well, she's shooting her shot at least.

Ok...

So much for that...

Headpats!

Seems they're having a bit of a disagreement.

Where'd they go?

So, she's just gone to have coffee with that guy.

And so he no longer hates her.

She's blushing!

Yep he realises she's a girl.

Why does the all-boys school have a girls' bathroom though? I wonder if it'll be a future plot point, someone, maybe that asshole photographer, will see Mizuki going to girls' bathroom and reveal her being a girl?

Really enjoying this anime so far! Nakatsu is quickly becoming my favourite character I LOVE HIM! BUT I’m being bugged by something! Basically the one guy commenting on the fact that Ashiya isn’t being chased by the upperclassman on the sports teams anymore and the reason being ashiya is a second year now? But in the dub it’s because the teams don’t want a skinny kid to beat them???? Am I just being dumb on this? 😂😂

A bit late to watching this but this episode was quite intriguing!

Mizuki getting her period means we see her come out of the female bathroom. Surely she could get caught once a month in the future!

Good thing the on site doctor can help her out, and who knew the RA is actually his nephew, although he's not fond of good looking RA's mother (his sister). lol

Nakatsu questioning, no, rather leaning towards gay made me laugh. In episode 2, I thought back to Andy Bernard from The Office also questioning if he's gay or not. Now here, in Hana Kimi, Nakatsu is willing to be yaoi with Mizuki.

I feel bad for the childhood friend/classmate Rika. She obviously still cares for Izumi, but in this story, she's going to lose her love to his roommate who she doesn't know yet is a girl!

Speaking of, their dorm neighbors are quite obnoxious. I would have opened the package first before sharing anything. Good thing they bought the silly little lie when that dress came out!

I do feel that in this episode, Mizuki was being quite a pest!

At the end, Izumi chases for Mizuki thinking the RA womanizer (or manizer?...let's just call him a playboy) was getting on to Mizuki. Turns out it was just coffee. Again, another potential incriminating scene when these two have made up and she clings on to his arm to go to homeroom. What if someone (like that creepy photographer kid) sees them!?

Ngl I am team Nakatsu! I find their dynamic super endearing so far and I actually think it'd be interesting if he does fully come to terms with himself being gay, but if he still identifies as straight or even bi it doesn't matter to me because I love how much he cares for Mizuki! It's adorable honestly\^\^

That said, this episode was honestly the best one for me so far and I can't wait for next week!

ngl, Nakatsu questioning himself and said its fine to be gay, tbf valid LMAO

i mean, i would aswell if i see Ashiya cries like that

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This anime is so garbage. Its even worse than the salary man isekai anime and i say this despite not liking yaoi. Its probably the first anime im dropping this season. This reminds me alot of vampire dormitory.

Can't believe they're finally making an anime adaptation of this series after all these years! I remember binge reading the entire manga back in the days. I know there's been many live action adaptations, but none of them faithfully adapt the manga imo. I'm hoping they can adapt the major arcs plus the ending fingers crossed.

Thoughts so far: 3 episodes in and it's pretty faithful. The voices are what I imagined for the characters and the character designs are faithful. Animation could be a bit better, but hey we all know shojos don't normally get the top tier animation unless its a super popular series. Hana Kimi manga is pretty old to the point where mostly the only the OGs know of it. I can't believe they got THE Yoasabi for the OP and ED! I just wish they put more effort into the the opening animation 😭 Other than that, both songs are good and catchy no complaints there. The ending song animation is gorgeous and definitely gives me the Heisei era shojo vibes. Another thing they can improve on is capturing the comedic timing of the manga. Hopefully they do that in future episodes.

All in all, I'm just happy this is finally getting an adaptation. I really hope this catches on with new audience so that we can see the ending properly adapted. Yes, the tropes in this series are outdated given that it was created in the 90s, but it was the pioneer of gender bender shojo. Ouran High School Host Club is well known among shojo fans so if you loved that, please watch this classic OG Hana Kimi, which inspired many manga such as OHSHC. :D