main cast:
inoue mao - makino tsukushi
matsumoto jun - domyoji tsukasa
oguri shun - hanazawa rui
matsuda shota as nishikado sojiro
abe tsuyoshi as mimasaka Akira
there isnt much to say on the 2 series and 1 movieball of frustration that is hana yori dango.
it p*ssed me off. it basically consists of domyoji being an absolute d*ck constantly makino shout and scream every five minutes, hanazawa being bored of everything and looking totally unimpressed, makino getting on the wrong side of everyone then everyone gettin on the wrong side of makino, no-one getting their act together and it all ending in tears.
all the time
its one of those series that gets refered to in other things as the manga was so popular. there are also korean, taiwanese and chinese live action series adaptations (kgotboda namja, meteor garden, lui xing yu)
hana yori dango is pretty over the top, its frustrating and ridiculous but thats not to say it is bad, it just wound me up.
matsumoto jun seems to be a genius when it comes to making the viewer absolutely hate his characters and then just when he's wound you up so much you cant be bothered to watch anymore he starts showing some personality and then damn it before you realise you kinda dont want to admit it but oh f*ck when did that happen... you suddenly start rooting for him.
bear with it though, it takes half a series.
the real star of hana yori dango really is inoue mao. she was very funny and completely lovable.
makino is so strong and hardworking that her respectable determination keeps the story worth following.
inoue teamed up pretty well with matsumoto for this i think, both of their characters had such strong personalities that the show was never boring. infact it was an unbelievable farse in places.
i like the second series more than the first, and the film is just plain weird.
in the first series its really harsh to begin with. makino is the only poor girl in the whole school surrounded by snobs and the elite. makino, being the tough little monkey that she is, stands up for a bullied student and p*sses of F4 (led by domyoji); the elite group that rule over the school.
But for f*ck sake - he paid some goons to trap her in a room and assualt her. I am i missing something here? How could she ever love someone that did that? It's disgraceful. But then i realise, two series and a movie later that I too had forgotten about that.
...I'm not sure how that happened.
its obvious where its all going, F4 declare war on her but makino in turn declares war on them. eventually they all in turn fall for her strength and personality and she begins to turn them all into proper humans with feelings and the such.
domyoji develops feelings for makino after she punches him in a kind of 'no-one but my sister stands up to me' type way but makino likes hanazawa due to the countless times he has had to save her from various rediculous problematic situations (usually caused by domyoji)
it gets all tangled and proposterous but its easy viewing if you dont let it wind you up
if you want to put in for the long haul of both series and the movie then go for it, but if you think you might give up then dont watch it. i really believe it got better with the second series and i did actually start to like domyoji enough to want it all to work out. i really dont know how matsumoto jun did it to be honest.
domyoji is a d*ck.
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