A carefree young man with a sinister side, Yahiro has known both Kei and Akira since they were children. He holds the distinction of having beaten Kei once during their childhood in a game of tag which Kei lost because Yahiro had locked the door to the roof to prevent Kei from winning. Yahiro attends Kokusengakuen, another high school, and is the heir to the Saiga Financial Group, a group that is even higher in status than the Takishima group. When he was young, Yahiro had no friends, for the most part because his attitude prevented him from making anyone smile or laugh and made them cry instead. He chose not to become friends with anyone until he met Sakura.   ~!He has a crush on Akira since childhood and is very protective of her, willing to use whatever means necessary to protect her, even if she hates him for it. It is this protective nature that made him drive away Akira's only friend, Sayo, after he overheard her saying how Sayo never liked Akira and was only her friend because of Akira was rich and she enjoyed all the privileges and status that came with the friendship. Akira had believed that Yahiro had been jealous of her relationship with the "poor" kid she was playing with and never forgave Yahiro for ending her friendship with Sayo. His hatred of "poor" people comes largely from this incident, where he believes the poor exploit the rich. He eventually gives up his feelings for Akira, telling Tadashi that if he ever makes Akira cry, he will never forgive him.   Yahiro dates Megumi for a while, but on New Years, when she admits her feelings for him, he turns her down. Megumi is aware that this is because he likes Akira. Even when not dating her, Yahiro encouaged Megumi to sing, and helped her. He even tells her that he enjoys her singing. In the last chapter of the manga, he sees that Megumi was going to ask him on a date, but chickened out, and so he asked her out.!~

Hikari Hanazono has always been second to Kei Takishima. When they were six years old, their pro-wrestling loving fathers introduced them to each other. Assuming that she was the best in wrestling, young Hikari challenged Kei to a wrestling match only to be thoroughly defeated by him. 
Ever since that fateful incident, Hikari swore to beat Kei in school grades, sporting events - anything. To do this, she has enrolled in the same school as Kei since elementary. Now she attends Hakusenkan, an ultra elite school, that costs her carpenter father a lot of money. 
Hikari and Kei are the top two students in the school, with Kei holding firmly to that number one position. While Hikari considers Kei to be a rival and important friend, she is completely unaware that Kei loves her. The story primarily focuses on Hikari and her constant attempts to defeat her one and only rival, Kei, and how she finds love in their rivalry.

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He is also the vocalist and lyricist of the Japanese rock band [GRANRODEO](https://anilist.co/staff/103917/).

**Non anime roles:**
- [Panpanman](https://anilist.co/character/344471/PanPanMan) - YanOta: The Delinquent and the Otaku (Drama CD)

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Luis Navarro Arredondo is a Mexican voice actor. He is known for being the Latin American Spanish voice of Barry Allen / Flash in The Flash and Dick Grayson / Robin in Titans.

Non-Anime Roles: 
- Cal Kestis (Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order)
- Aasim (The Walking Dead: The Final Season)

Clint Bickham is an American voice actor and ADR script writer working with Funimation Entertainment/OkraTron 5000 and ADV Films/Seraphim Digital.

Her whole life, Hikari Hanazono has been consumed with the desire to win against her school rival, Kei Takishima--at anything. He always comes out on top no matter what he does, and Hikari is determined to do whatever it takes to beat this guy...somehow!
 
At age 6 Hikari lost to Kei in an impromptu wrestling match. Now, at 15, Hikari joins "Special A," a group of the top seven students at a private academy, for the opportunity to trounce the guy who made her suffer her first defeat.
 
(Source: Viz Media)
 

Included one-shots: 
Volume 1: Mikansei Chorus 
Volume 11: Shoku no Miyako (Food Paradise) 
Included specials: 
- Vol.8 Special Short; The Hana to Yume 2006-09 
The short is about what Kei was like as a child, and when he and Hikari first met. 
- Vol.9 Special Short; The Hana to Yume 2007-01 
The short is about when Yuhiro meets Sakura. 
- Vol.16 Special Chapter; The Hana to Yume 2008-05 
The chapter is about Hikari and Kei's middle school days.

Yahiro Saiga