#Takane and Hana

[nanaosaki3940]

My Shoujo Manga Recommendation List

(These are the ones that I'm currently reading or just completed reading recently...)

1. The completed age-gap romance series:

Love So Life

Takane & Hana

Living No Matsunaga-san

Tsubaki-Chou Lonely Planet

2. On-going doki-doki series:

Museru Kurai no Ai o Ageru (Choking On Love)

Unmei no Hito ni Deau Hanashi (You are the One I Am Destined to Fall In Love)

Hikaeme ni Itte mo, Kore wa Ai (To Say the Least, This Is Love)

Na no ni, Chigira-kun ga Amasugiru (And Yet, You Are So Sweet)

Hananoi-kun to Koi no Yamai (A Condition Called Love)

Moekare wa Orenji-iro (My Boyfriend in Orange)

3. Yandere boyfriend series:

Hotaru no Yomeiri (Firefly Marriage)

Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii

[hotwaterandmilk]

Series: Takane to Hana Artist: Shiwasu Yuki Publication: Hana to Yume #1 (01/2016) Details: Hanayume All Star Calendar 2016 (May) Source: Scanned from my personal collection

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[hyperanxiousfangirl]

why didn't anyone tell me that Takana and Hana was such a bomb ass manga??? I love them so much

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[thenerdyunhealthybrit]

JDramas and their fascination with adults and minors(?)

TW: Grooming and Adult-Minor relationship

Jdramas are funny with the amount of dramas about an adult/minor relationship. Whether it’s teacher-student of not. I get that probably a huge chunk of them are adaptations of mangas.

But I can’t help but laugh at how many dramas are still going on that romanticise this as oppose to addressing the things. Maybe it has to do with how its perceived in Japan. Like take this example:

So I decided to watch Takane and Hana because I was curious by the plot synopsis and how it addresses the issue.

This is the plot from MDL:

“ After her older sister refuses to go to an arranged marriage meeting with Takane Saibara, the heir to a vast business fortune, high schooler Hana Nonomura agrees to be her stand-in to save face for the family. But what happens when Hana meets Takane is an unexpected pairing of utter opposites! “

Now. I don’t know what I was fully expecting. To be honest, I thought it would be, at least for a good chunk of the series about Hana, the high schooler having to pretend to be an adult and “deceive” the rich guy to avoid getting her father and family into trouble. I don’t know. I was expecting more of a comedy like she wants nothing to do with him but has to pretend she he believes she’s her sister.

What I got instead? The reveal happened within the first half of the first episode (unexpected). And in the original meeting they hated each other (expected). His response? Go to her school and shower her with flowers. 

There was then a bit where the sister whose vain, dumps her boyfriend and decides she wants to be in the arranged marriage with Takane and her family agrees since she’s the original one (an adult) and the “pretty” sister. So then I thought it was gonna develop into Hana feeling unwanted by her family and Takane and the sister in the arranged marriage agreement but Takane not wanting it but trapped. What we get is Takane refusing the sister and insisting the arrangement is with Hana. So it becomes this weird thing where you have an adult actively pursuing a high schooler (though they try to play the narrative at times that he’s just doing it to get him to “submit” to the lavish lifestyle she despises. The you have his friends, her friends and HER parents all being chill about the whole thing and encouraging this relationship.

It’s all very wtf and not what I fully expected.

I think from what people said about the Manga is that the relationship is more friendship and feelings (at least on Takane’s side) don’t develop until she’s older or near the end of the manga. And that cause the series is only 8 episodes and 25 mins each - the last arc is crammed severely. Whereas the TV series has them kissing in episode 1 or episode 2 (not a “real” in love kiss) and the series portrays them having feelings early on but both react differently to having feelings.

As a whole, I liked the start of it, it was fast paced, but I got bored around the midway point and the development was rushed. I don’t mind watching series about student-teacher relationships since they are problematic and it’s my first time watching an adult-minor relationship. But it did leave me icky how there was no real opposition to them because of this everyone was rooting for them. The series just wasn’t strong enough for me to forget my morals and enjoy the fictional drama cause I got bored easily.

At least with TWDrama, Lessons in Love - it addressed the themes, they had opposition. And even though the relationship was romanticised, they had moments where you could see the power imbalance between the teacher-student and the level of grooming when they first hook up (which stops on the student’s side because he felt uncomfortable and the teacher was clearly doing it at revenge at his mother). They had strong opposition from adults (and some students). It also turned into a revenge drama and thriller later on. And while it still had some issues, the teacher’s best friend who is the school nurse encouraging her to hook up with the student and of course the happy ending for the relationship. You can abandon your morals for the sake of a fictional drama because it was quite solid and it addressed other themes like social class, wealth, rich/poor, the influence of parents on a child’s education (and the influence of a rich parent on their child’s education.

[nebulasaurus]

I cannot believe I haven't read Takane to Hana before. I am ashamed of myself because I missed out on an unbelievably cute manga.

[engshoujosei]

Takane and Hana

18 volumes

Licensed by Viz Media

Hana is a high schooler who ends up replacing her big sister at a marriage interview. Little does she expect that the potential groom, a handsome 26-year-old businessman named Takane, immediately insults her and calls her a gold digger! Furious, Hana throws her wig in his face and leaves. Against all odds the two end up going on dates on a regular basis. Takane is a rich kid who's much more immature and inexperienced than his good looks and flashy manners suggest, so they find it easy to forget that their ages are ten years apart. But how will these two ever find love when they're so busy teasing each other?

Status in Country of Origin:

18 volumes (completed)

Tags:

Adapted to Live Action

Age Gap

Appearance Different from Personality

Arranged Marriage

Arrogant Male Lead

Bickering Love

Blushing Male Lead

Caring Male Lead

Different Social Status

Easily Embarrassed Male Lead

Height Difference

LGBT Character in Non-Yaoi/Yuri Manga

Love Interests Who Don't Get Along

Male Lead Falls in Love First

Role Reversal

Smart Female Lead

Stolen Kiss

Taking the Place of a Sibling

Teasing Female Lead

Tsundere Male Lead

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Hana Nonomura // Takane & Hana #sketch #art #anime #TakaneandHana

[offbeat-manga-ships]

TAKANE TO HANA / 高嶺と花 / TAKANE & HANA by Shiwasu Yuki / 師走ゆき • chapter 13

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[redsamuraiii]

Takane no Hana-san 2 (Ep 10)

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[bitterdrop]

yep renjaku & hana child❤️❤️🥰

just until 18.5 ...the accual chapter in jp is 28 🥰

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[blushingguy]

Takane no Hana wa Chirasaretai by Sakyo Aya