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Flowering Heart (Korean: 플라워링 하트, Peullawoling hateu?) is a South Korean magical girl anime series created by Jong Il Choi and produced by Iconix Entertainment along with EBS and Mimi World.
It is directed by Lee Woo-jin (chief director) and Shinji Ishihira.
The show is animated by DR Movie and Busan DR, with production assistance by Bridge and Sunrise (now known as Bandai Namco Filmworks), making it a joint South Korean-Japanese co-production.
It first aired on YouTube on February 26, 2016 and it aired on EBS1 three days later on February 29 of the same year. It ended on May 24, 2016 with 26 episodes. It also aired on Tooniverse, EBS Kids and Disney Channel Korea.
Season 2 aired on EBS1 from May 29, 2017 to November 21 of the same year with 26 episodes. The show has 52 episodes in total.
Animations[]
Seasons[]
| Original Run | |
|---|---|
- May 21th, 2016 | |
| The first season of the Flowering Heart series which first premiered on February 26th, 2016 and ran for 26 episodes. It received a redub as well as an English dub. With the world of magic being slowly corrupted by Hopeless Energy, Prince Chess flees to the Human World to prevent the withering of the Heart Flower. Three fifth-graders of the Problem Solving Club, Ari, Suha, and Min, finds him as a strange-looking hamster form. They later team up to collect Hopeful Energy to save Flowering Kingdom. Unbeknownst to them, Prince Trump and Shuel, their enemies, are seeking Hopeless Energy. | |
- Nov 21st, 2017 | |
| The second season of the Flowering Heart series which first premiered on May 24th, 2017 and ran for 26 episodes. Continuing from where the previous season concluded, Shuel is now collecting Hopeful Energy alongside Ari, Suha, and Min and joins the Problem Solving Club. However, Trump, in order to help his mother, is actively collecting Hopeless Energy by using a pendulum that forcibly controls people with dark magic. Now, Ari and her friends must use light magic to reverse this recurring curse. | |
| The third season of the Flowering Heart series was planned since the series was originally a trilogy, according to an interview with a fan in September of 2016.[1] On November 29, 2017, the executive producer, Woo-Jin Lee, commented on Twitter that production on Season 3 didn't start due to the decrease of funds from Season 2. Initially, production on Season 3 was scheduled to begin in 2019 and release in 2020.[2] However, Woo-Jin Lee resigned in the first half of 2019, which resulted in disruption for future development. In 2021, Iconix themselves said that the production was eventually canceled.[3] |
Other[]
| Original Run | |
|---|---|
- Aug 24th, 2019 | |
| An OVA series consisting of 6 episodes with a 4-minute runtime that were uploaded to Flowering Heart's Youtube channel from August 9th to August 24th, 2019. Each episode focuses on what happened at the summer camp where Ari and her friends partook in. The OVA has strangely stopped uploading episodes after releasing the 6th one, which can be due to Woo-Jin Lee's resignation and ongoing/further Flowering Heart-related projects being canceled. |
Content[]
Characters[]
Main Characters[]
- Ari Jin: A cheerful 12-year-old who has a warm heart and loves fashion, beauty and art. Ari is full of energy and curiosity, but gets emotional quickly. Despite that, she sincerely wants to help others. She's represented by a pink azalea for her flower and a ruby for her gem.
- Suha Woo: An intelligent 12-year-old who is shy and loves studying, cooking and reading. Suha always keeps a clean image of herself and is gentle, but stays quiet. She's represented by a blue forget-me-not for her flower and a sapphire for her gem.
- Min Sunwoo: An active 12-year-old who is brave and loves exercising, events and adventure. Min is strong-willed, persistent and healthy. She's represented by a yellow dandelion for her flower and a topaz for her gem.
- Shuel: A beautiful 12-year-old from Flowering Kingdom. Shuel is selfish, a liar and self-centered, but grows out from it by learning to care for her friends. She's represented by a snow-flower for her flower and a diamond for gem.
Flowering Kingdom[]
- Chess: A 17-year-old from Flowering Kingdom who is the first prince to be exiled. Chess is playful and cheeky but also has a sense of duty with his main goal being to collect Hopeful Energy to restore the kingdom. He was originally a prince but transformed into a hamster-like form after falling into the human world.
- Trump: A 13-year-old from Flowering Kingdom who is the second prince heir to the throne. Trump pretends to be strong but has a pure heart and he lives in the human world under his mother's commands, secretly collecting Hopeless Energy. He is in the same school as Ari, gaining popularity due to his prince-like appearance.
- Mao: Trump's mischievous cat who guides him in his quest to collect Hopeless Energy. Mao is also mission-oriented and she always strives to please Queen Canaby, obeying her.
- Queen Canaby: The queen who dominates all Flowering Kingdom and puts the human world in danger. Despite her beautiful and righteous charm, she is cold, cruel and thinks negatively about Hopeful Energy thus growing her hatred on humanity.
Items[]
- Jewel Bag: Ari's bag which holds all the transformation items needed to collect Hopeful Energy.
- Romantic Lips: Ari's transformation item in which she uses to collect Hopeful Energy.
- Shining Pact: Suha's transformation item in which she uses to collect Hopeful Energy.
- Rainbow Shadow: Min's transformation item in which she uses to collect Hopeful Energy.
- Mystery Perfume: Shuel's transformation item in which she uses to collect Hopeless Energy and now, Hopeful Energy.
Alternative Titles[]
- Japan: フラワーリングハート (Flowering Heart)
- Hong Kong: 變身少女花啦啦 (Transform Into a Flower Girl!)
- China: 魔法指环少女 (Magic Ring Girl)
- Taiwan: 魔法花戒指的秘密 (The Secret of the Magic Flower Ring)
- Italy: Flowering Heart, la magia che sboccia nel cuore (Flowering Heart, The Magic that Blossoms in the Heart)
- Israel: לב הפרח הקסום (The Heart of the Magical Flower)
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Trivia[]
- Starting from Season 2, the logo changed from a heart-shape elongated left to right to a heart-shaped one with a line break between the words "Flowering" and "Heart", this is previously seen in the manhwas.
- Flowering Heart is the second series produced by Iconix Entertainment to be a joint Japanese-South Korean co-production, the first one being Tai Chi Chasers.
- The show was originally going to be called "Flooring Heart" (플로링 하트) but it was changed to Flowering Heart in 2016 in accordance with the National Institute of Korean Language's foreign language notation regulations.
- According to director Shinji Ishihira, the recording of the Japanese version of Season 1 was completed as of March 2016, but it wasn't released to the public.
- The voice actors of the English Dub of Season 1 also voiced characters from Pororo the Little Penguin (another show produced by Iconix), Spookiz: The Movie, Tayo the Little Bus and many more.
- Ari, Suha, Min and Shuel were originally voiced by Choi Da-in, Yang Se-na, Kim Chae-eun and Kim Esther but in the Season 1 redub and Season 2 they were voiced by Soyeon, Jung Hye-won, Kim Eun-ah and Yang Jeong-hwa who also voice their adult forms.
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