Flowering Heart (series)

**Flowering Heart** (Korean: 플라워링 하트, Peullawoling hateu, ***Flowering Heart***?) 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.

## 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)

## External Links

* Flowering Heart @ EBS
* Flowering Heart on YouTube

## 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.

## References

1. ↑ https://gall.dcinside.com/board/view/?id=korea\_ani&no=53683
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/neosoldier/status/1116617996481417218?s=19
3. ↑ https://gall.dcinside.com/board/view/?id=korea\_ani&no=81225&page=1