Boys Over Flowers (花より男子, Hana yori Dango)[a] is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoko Kamio.

The story takes place in the fictional Eitoku Academy, an elite school for children from rich families.

While at Eitoku, she encounters the F4, a gang of four boys who are children of Japan's wealthiest families and who bully anyone that gets in their way.

The series was serialized in Shueisha's Margaret magazine from October 1992 to January 2004, with its chapters collected in 37 tankōbon volumes between 1992 and 2008.

In 1996, Boys Over Flowers won the 41st Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōjo category.

Hence, Tsukushi Makino, who comes from a middle-class family, fulfills the literal meaning of her name, as she is initially considered to be the "weed" of the school.

Tsukushi, however, is repulsed by his hot-headed nature and bullying demeanor, falling instead for soft-spoken and sensitive Rui Hanazawa, Tsukasa's best friend since childhood.

The other two members of the F4 are Akira Mimasaka, the laid-back peacemaker of the group, and Sojirou Nishikado, an unrepentant playboy.

Sojirou is happy to be in casual relationships with many women, although we later discover that at one time he was in love with a childhood friend.

Written and illustrated by Yoko Kamio, Boys Over Flowers was serialized in Shueisha's bi-weekly magazine Margaret from October 1992 to January 2004.

[15] Kamio began a sequel, Boys Over Flowers Season 2, in Shueisha's Shōnen Jump+ online magazine on February 15, 2015.

It starred Takuya Kimura, in his voice-acting debut, as the voice of Rui Hanazawa, whom this adaptation focused on.

The anime was later released in Northern America on DVD by Viz Media in 2003, as Boys Over Flowers.

[24][25] In April 2023, Guinness World Records has officially certified Boys Over Flowers as having the most published copies of a shōjo manga series written by a single author.

[27] F4 (Flower Four) or JVKV was a Taiwanese boy band consisting of cast members of the 2001 Taiwanese version, Meteor Garden: Jerry Yan, Vanness Wu, Ken Chu, and Vic Chou.

[28] In 2007, due to copyright issues, the group changed its name to JVKV, using the initials of its members in descending order their ages.