Hanazakari no Kimitachi e

Cast

Second dormitory students

Atsuko Maeda as Mizuki Ashiya

Aoi Nakamura as Izumi Sano

Shohei Miura as Shuichi Nakatsu

Renn Kiriyama as Minami Nanba

Tomo Yanagishita as Taiki Kayashima

Shintaro Yamada as Kyogo Sekime

Yukito Nishii as Senri Nakao

Katsuhiro Suzuki as Shinji Noe

Yuki Kashiwagi as Juri Kishinosato

Shota Matsushima as Masafumi Katsura

Shotaro Mamiya as Keisuke Awaji

Goro Kurihara as Kota Hanaten

Yuki Sato as Makoto Kagurazaka

First dormitory students

Shinnosuke Mitsushima as Megumi Tennoji

Goki Maeda as Kohei Kitahanada

Arata Horii as Jin Kumatori

Ryosuke Yamamoto as Kiyoshikojin Akira

Ryu Ando as Mukonoso Andrew

Koudai Asaka as Subaru Takatsuki

Sonde Kanai as Kazuki Obitoke

Shotaro Kotani as Hiroto Moriguchi

Tomoki Okayama as Shōtarō Kadoma

Third dormitory students

Hidenori Tokuyama as Oscar M. Himejima/Masao Himejima

Miyajima Kusuto as Nobuhiro Yaenosato

Takami Ozora as Sansui Kyobate

Taiko Katono as Hisashi Kawachimoru

Kasai Shige as Yasushi Mozu

Kawahara Kazuma as Sakon Narayama

Okazaki Kazuhiro as Hideharu Izumigaoka

Kettaro as Shin Minamikata

Others

Saito Takumi as Hokuto Umeda

Ikkei Watanabe as the chef

Mirai Yamamoto as Io Nanba

Tokyo Gakuen students

Yuki Satō as Makoto Kagurazaka

Kaname Endō as Otemachi Ryo

Masaaki Nagakura as Yutaka Takebashi

Naoki Ōkubo as Jun Tsukishima

Keisuke Kaminaga as Go Kasai

Junki Tozuka as Takeshi Kudanshita

Amane Okayama as Nobuyuki Ochiai

St. Blossom's Academy students

Mayuko Iwasa as Hibari Hanayashiki

Yuki Kashiwagi as Juri Kishinosato

Miori Ichikawa as Kanna Amagasaki

Mina Oba as Erika Abeno

Mariya Nagao as Yumemi Kanbe

Guest roles

Mana Ashida as Kaoru Sasakura (Episode 1, cameo)

Fuku Suzuki as Tomoi Sasakura (Episode 1, cameo)

Sayuri Iwata as Rika Yamashita (Episode 2)

Nobuo Kyo (姜 暢雄, Kyō Nobuo) as Masao Himejima (姫島 正夫, Himejima Masao)/Oscar (オスカー, Osuka)) (ep6, cameo)

Atomic bomb t-shirt controversy

Following the broadcast of Episode 5, Atsuko Maeda was seen wearing a T-shirt with the words "Little Boy" printed on the back and "Fool on the Hill Friends" printed on the front. As said episode aired the day after the anniversary of the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima, of which the bomb used was named "Little Boy", the series was criticized by viewers for its insensitivity.

Following this incident, the Hiroshima Prefectural Government received 130 complaints concerning this episode, and a public official called Fuji TV on the telephone to raise concerns about the T-shirt's insensitive nature. The City of Hiroshima also received 150 complaints via telephone and email by August 10.

In an interview with J-Cast News, the manufacturer of the t-shirt explained that this was meant to be a reference to several songs by The Beatles, namely Little Child and This Boy, as well as The Fool on the Hill. While they did state that they had no intention to make the connection with the bomb, they also apologized for the incident.