Hana Yori Dango

Hana Yori Dango (花より男子< /span>, lit. Boys are better than flowers^?) is a manga series written and illustrated by Yōko Kamio. It was published in Shūeisha's Margaret magazine from October 1992 to June 2008. It was awarded the 41st Shōgakukan Prize.

The title Hana Yori Dango is a pun on the Japanese proverb "花より団子" (the dango is better than the flowers), which means that basic needs such as food (the dango is a type of sweet) should be put before the sensory needs, such as seeing a pretty flower.

Overview

In 1995, the film Hana Yori Dango, starring Yuki Uchida and Shosuke Tanihara, was released in Japan. In 2001, the Taiwanese television series Meteor Garden (2001) premiered, then a special Meteor Rain (2001), followed in 2002 by the second and final season of this version Meteor Garden 2 (2002), starring Barbie Xsu and Jerry Yan. It was broadcast on GTV.

From 2005 to 2007, the series Hana Yori Dango (2005), Hana Yori Dango: Returns (2007) and the 2008 film Hana Yori Dango: The Final Act (2008) were broadcast in Japan on TBS television.), starring Mao Inoue and Jun Matsumoto. Two additional specials were broadcast to the television series.

One of the most successful franchises that launched South Korean actors Lee Min Ho and Koo Hye Sun to fame was Boys Over Flowers (2009), a television series broadcast in South Korea on KBS2. Two Boys Before Flowers specials were broadcast that same year: F4 After Story (2009) and Boys Before Flowers: F4 Talk Show Special.

In the same year, the Chinese television network Hunan TV launched a television series Let's Go Watch Meteor Shower (2009) and the second season Let's Watch The Meteor Shower Again (2010). It starred Hans Zhang and Zheng Shuang.

The Hana Yori Dango craze finally hit the US in 2013 with the Boys Before Friends (2013) version, produced by TBC and Willkinn Media and aired on Viki, though not finished. It starred Claude Racine in the first episode and Dawn Morrow in the following episodes, in the role of Domyoji was Joseph Almani.

Plot

The story centers on Makino Tsukushi, a fifteen-year-old working-class girl who is naturally a fighter, forced to face all kinds of obstacles and feelings. Makino's parents are poor, but for the sake of Makino and her education, she enters Eitoku, an elite institution where the children of the country's wealthiest families study. When she gets there she realizes that she has entered a totally different world than the one she knew, one where you are measured by how much money you have. Her desire is to go unnoticed for the two years she has left to study there, but her aspirations will be frustrated the day she faces "F4", a group of four boys who dominate the school, even submitting the teachers, since they are the four richest boys.

Lee Min Ho, Boys Over Flowers (2009).

Characters

• Tsukushi Makino (, excited. Makino Tsukushi): she is a pretty rebellious girl but with a very great sense of honesty. He hates the superficiality of all people out of society, so having to go to an elite school doesn't make him any grace. He likes one of the F4, Rui members, although he knows it may be an impossible love. As time passes, some of her colleagues are knowing and understanding her, while others will never understand her, only despising her economic status. Over time she falls in love with Tsukasa, but she doesn't recognize it until she's about to lose it. Tsukushi Makino, in personal relationships, is of the most timid and imposes much on her the impulsive reactions of the boys; she needs to go very slowly in consolidating a relationship. She even though at first she detested and refused the F4, eventually became her best friends and understood each one and they also took care of her, showing her at the graduation party, where everyone decides that she is the one they wanted to take and dance a dance piece with her.
• Tsukasa Domyoji (assemble petitions) Domyoji Tsukasa): His family is the richest and most powerful in all Japan. He is brusque, somewhat violent, and irritating, and at the same time very capricious, and with somewhat masochistic tendencies, but he is like a small child, since he has always had everything in this life, but in turn, he is a good person in the background, being very kind, especially with Tsukushi, of which he is deeply in love. During history, the change and warmth of Tsukushi in Tsukasa's personality is seen. Achieving to make it ripen a bit, appreciate the things and the people he has close. He is a very handsome boy, his main physical characteristic being his curly hair, which is often the subject of Tsukushi's mockery. As time goes by, you will realize your actions and your own mistakes, making you value many things you didn't care about before. On the sleeve, after overcoming all the obstacles to finally being with Tsukushi, he finds out that his father is sick, and decides to go to America. To take care of his family's business, leaving Tsukushi (whom he proposed marriage and did not accept) waiting for him for 4 years.
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  Vic Chou is Hua Ze Lei, plays Rui's character.
  Rui Hanazawa (continued) Hanazawa Rui): He is an introverted and passive boy, all contrary to his best friend Tsukasa. He hardly speaks and usually has no interest in communicating with the world; he expresses himself only by touching the violin on the fire escape or in a rose garden in the Eitoku. He's got some bad genius and he can become ironic. He says that he is not interested in the problems of others, but as he is more familiar with Tsukushi, he ends up falling in love with her, which will bring him problems with Tsukasa on several occasions. His great love, before Tsukushi, was his childhood friend Shizuka Toudou, who is a little older than him. In the sleeve, it is the containment of Tsukushi, he constantly saves her when he gets into trouble, she describes it as her oasis, the atmosphere of him captivates her and that is what at first falls in love, although he has only head for Shizuka and therefore goes after her to France when she decides to give up her last name and become a lawyer. He soon returns, with a fairly large personality change with what Tsukushi is surprised. Tsukushi and Rui try to have a relationship, but after a failed appointment and the problems that Tsukasa causes them, Rui tells Tsukushi not to love her and it all ends, making Tsukushi decide to give her a final point to her feelings for him. After this, little by little you see how the personality of him constantly changes (always laughing at paved, sleeping a lot and seeing a lot of T.V.). It comes a while, when Tsukushi goes to America. In search of Tsukasa, Rui goes after Tsukushi and that is where he confesses his feelings (in a very careless way), the way he affected him when he found out that she was in a girlfriend with Tsukasa and the way they became "only friends" and clears him that it happened with Shizuka in France and Canada. After his return to Japan, Makino clarifies that he who really wants is Tsukasa and he tells him that he doesn't care: when confessing he didn't expect a relationship since she was with his best friend, and he would settle for just seeing her smile and be next to her, so he constantly contains her on different occasions and protects her, reaching the point of hitting Tsukasa (thing that he had never done since he was a very quiet guy). In the last tom of the sleeve (No37), he seeks his role in life and in the end discovers that his role is to always take care of Tsukasa and Tsukushi.
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  Rainie Yang interprets Yuki (person) of the first Taiwanese version.
  Soujirou Nishikado (engineering. Nishikado Sojiro): is known as the "Playboy" par excellence of the F4, a womanizer who opens her heart to very few people. He loves nightlife and always being surrounded by good company. The fact that Tsukasa is a virgin causes headache, so much that he makes constant jokes on the subject, as with Rui. She is in love with her childhood friend; however, she lives a loving story with Yuki, the best friend of Tsukushi. His family has been dedicated to the art of tea for generations. He and Mimasaka help in the relationship of Tsukushi and Tsukasa, they tend to several traps for them to be together, they always do imitations of them two together and some bets, when Tsukushi accepts the fiancée with Tsukasa, they get really happy as they think that with her Tsukasa will stop taking advantage of them, ultimately, it will change. He had only one love of his life and that's when he meets Yuki who opens up and tells him about this and how he lost it and when he wondered it would have happened if it had been anything else. And it is Yuki who accidentally helps him to meet with Sara, her old love and to close that open cycle they had left. And that's how he realized he lost his chance, but they were friends.
• Akira Mimasaka (felt guilty, Mimasaka Akira): known as the second "Playboy" of the group, to the latter the Tachan of Don Juan. Soujirou's best friend is the most measured of the F4. Son of a yakuza family, he feels somewhat embarrassed by his condition. She loves older women. His role is not very relevant in history. In the sleeve, his role is not very relevant either, he only sees it with his best friend Soujirou, making his with the relationship of Tsukasa and Makino, although for this reason, he is dedicated a One-shot at the end of this "Luna Crescent" in which he is made known, and to know a little more the role he holds in the F4. As you know he stands out for being a womanizer and that these women are older or married, this is because his mother is very young (from 38 years old, capricious and constantly behaves in an old and indecent way) and also his two little sisters (gemelas) who love him so much that they do not leave him in peace and always say that they will marry him when they are great, as he is always very fond. His father has no presence in any chapter, he is only named 1 or 2 times, so it is noted that he is in charge of taking care of the 3 women in his house. With the F4, Akira plays the same role as taking care of all. Although in the sleeve this does not become very present, in the One-shot it is clearly seen as it happens from its point of view, in this the only one that realizes is Tsukushi comparing it to the situation of her and her family, here is where Akira thinks that the girl that he would need would be Makino, since she was the only one to make him feel like a full moon (since he would be like the "light" and the other F3s)
• Shizuka Toudou (knowledge): Toudou Shizuka): She is a splendid girl who lives her life as if she was a real princess as she was the only daughter of a powerful family and possessing a great beauty because of which she works as a model. Unlike the girls of her own elite, Shizuka is an exceptional, mature and kind woman. It's Rui's great love and she becomes Tsukushi's friend throughout history. Some chapters advanced, she renounces her last name to be a lawyer and goes to work in France, something that misses everyone. Rui goes after her, but apparently this doesn't work at all so they break when they meet in Canada. After this she is no longer seen until the One-shot "Three years" where she marries a lawyer.
• Yuki Matsuoka (▲): Matsuoka Yuuki): She's Tsukushi's intimate friend. He is a very fragile person although throughout history his character will become stronger. He likes to help Tsukushi a lot and will have a brief love story with Soujirou. He works at the Tsukushi Sweetie, he's also poor. She's a pretty girl.
• Kazuya Aoike (PHILIPPING CHEERING) He's an old childhood friend of Tsukushi. His father gets rich with a small company and that's why he gets to meet Tsukushi. He's a pretty happy boy and he doesn't care much what they say about him. He's madly in love with Tsukushi. Their economic situation is threatened just like Yuki's, when Tsukasa's mother wants to run Tsukushi on her son's side.
• Haruo Makino (Makino Haruo): He's Tsukushi's father. He's always unemployed. He's not a very important character but he's very funny and he cares about Tsukushi, just like the rest of the family. Their constant lack of employment causes many headaches and problems to Tsukushi as they have to move many times during history.
• Chieko Makino (Makino Chieko): She's Tsukushi's mother. She's bent on Tsukushi marrying a rich man. She's also a pretty funny character and although sometimes her husband irritates her because she stays out of work, but she loves him a lot.
• Susumu Makino (Makino Susumu): He's Tsukushi's brother. He's not a very little-known character in history, but he's quite interested since he loves his sister a lot and sometimes makes him stick and get angry with him.
• Kaede Domyoji (Disclaimer) Domjoyi Kaede): She is the mother of Tsukasa. It has a very strong character and keeps your child unprotected. He doesn't want Tsukasa and Tsukushi together. He has a chain of hotels in his name. She looks like a mature frivolous woman, but deep down she loves her two children a lot.
• Tsubaki Domyoji (Disclaimer): Domyoji Tsubaki): She's Tsukasa's older sister. It's the one that raised Tsukasa. She's a strong woman like her mother. She's married and lives in Los Angeles, although when her husband travels, she goes to Japan. She loves the relationship of Tsukasa and Tsukushi, and she always supports them, feels identified with her story, as she also fell in love with a person who was not in her own social status.
• Tama (laughing, Tama-senpai): She's the head of the maids at the Domyoji house. He's been with Tsukasa since he was very young. She's been working in that house since she was very young. She's a very loud screaming woman. She trains Tsukushi for a while when she tries to pay in some way Tsubaki's hospitality by letting her stay in her house. Tama manages to engage with Tsukushi as well as the other employees and help against Tsukasa's mother on several occasions. In the end when Tsukasa is going to leave, Tama tells her how she will live there until she dies, she will visit her from time to time.
• Sakurako Sanjou (PHONE RINGS):):):):):):):):):):):): Sanjou Sakurako): She's a supposed friend of Tsukushi. I was in love with Tsukasa since very small. It was very ugly before, but an operation was done on the face. He returned to school with the intention of avenging the F4 even though he did not get it at all.
• Shigeru Okahawara (oil Ok Okahawara Shigeru): She's Tsukasa's ex-promised and Tsukushi's intimate friend. She's a happy and kind girl. She's lovely, weird and childish. At first he presented a threat to Tsukushi as he had a relationship with Tsukasa similar to that of Tsukushi with him, but Domyoji did not doubt who he really wanted and ended up leaving and letting them continue with his relationship, making himself a good friend of both.
• Amon Kunisawa (Kunisawa Amon)
• Junpei Oribe (部γ): Oribe Junpei): is a Kohai of Tsukushi and saves her from being intimidated after she returns from her trip from Canada. It appears for the first time when he was a nerd child, with glasses and an indifferent attitude. He is actually a famous model for a well-known magazine, hiding his identity in school through his glasses.
• Thomas A handsome boy from Germany who reminds Tsukushi of Rui Hanazawa.
• Asai Yuriko (): margin ▪  ):の):。 She's a student at Eitoku University. She and her best friends, Minako Yamano and Erika Ayuhara, are part of the group known as the lilies. Minako and his friends intimidate Tsukushi Makino in high school.
• Minako Yamano (UDGES ENTE):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):): She's a student at Eitoku University. She and her best friends, Yuriko Asai and Erika Ayuhara, are part of the group known as the lilies. Minako and his friends intimidate Tsukushi Makino in high school.
• Erika Ayuhara (condemnation of wisdom Ayuhara Erika): She's a student at Eitoku University. She and her best friends, Yuriko Asai and Minako Yamano, are part of the group known as the lilies. Minako and his friends intimidate Tsukushi Makino in high school.
• Makiko Endo (chanting ・і. Endo Makiko): A friend of Tsukushi who defended at the beginning of the Tsukasa attack.
• Nishida: Secretary of Kaede Domyoji, the mother of Tsukasa.

Hana Yori Dango (Drama CD)

Hana Yori Dango is a series of three audio dramas, also called Drama CDs or CD books, based on the Boys Over Flowers manga. They were published by Shueisha from July 1993 to July 1994 on both CD and cassette.

All three audio dramas star: Takuya Kimura (SMAP) as Rui Hanazawa, Chisa Yokoyama as Tsukushi Makino, and Takumi Nishio as Tsukasa Domyoji.

Tsukushi Makino, a commoner, has a crush on the handsome and rich, Rui Hanazawa. Also, the other members of the F4, in particular Tsukasa Domyoji are becoming a problem. Tsukushi and Tsukasa accidentally kiss at their boat party. Meanwhile, Rui falls madly in love with his childhood friend, Shizuka Toudou.

Hana Yori Dango (Movie)

Based on the Japanese shojo manga series “Hana Yori Dango” by Yoko Kamio. The original Japanese title “Hana Yori Dango” or “Boys Over Flowers”, refers to a common Japanese proverb is Hana Yori Dango ('花より団子^?, literally 'dumplings instead of flowers'), which alludes to the preference for practical things instead of aesthetics with reference to the people who attend the Hanami (flower festival), but instead of enjoying the flowers, they focus more on the materialistic side of the event like getting food and buying souvenirs. In 1995 it was the first story of the series by Toei Company. It was released on VHS in 1997 and on DVD in 2001.

Cast

Hana Yori Dango OST

• Salut d'amour composed by Edward Elgar.
• Minuet of the "Quintetto per archi E major, Op.13-5" composed by Luigi Boccherini.
• Opening theme of Bad to the Bone.
• Baby's Growing Up by Yuki Uchida (19 August 1995).
• Overnight Sensation of TRF.

5th Japan Film Professional Awards

• Yuki Uchida winner as best actress.

References

• Hana Yori Dango in Wikipedia
• Hana Yori Dango in Internet Movie Database

Hana Yori Dango (Anime)

Hana Yori Dango (花より男子, Don't Tell Me With Flowers, Boys Are Better Than Flowers) is a Japanese anime series based on the shōjo manga of the same name that aired on TV Asahi on September 8. from 1996 to August 31, 1997, with a total of 51 episodes. It was directed by Shigeyasu Yamauchi and produced by Toei Animation, Asatsu-DK, and ABC TV.

The series was released on VHS and DVD in Japan. Viz Media licensed the North American license in 2003, to release the manga. Discotek Media licensed it in August 2015, and released the series in October 2015.

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List of Episodes in the anime

• 1 Declaration of War
• 2 The woman without class
• 3 I will not suffer!
• 4 The middle-class duo
• 5 He, Me and That Uncle
• 6 For one night, Cinderella
• 7 Love in one night of Atami
• 8 The New Semester Nightmare
• 9 Doumyoji Tsukasa estalla
• 10 The woman who leaves behind her past
• 11 Love flies high above the clouds
• 12 A date? Snow on the main street
• 13 Love comes too fast
• 14 The hidden secret of Sakurako
• 15 Get lost!
• 16 Believe in me!
• 17 Finally you are mine
• 18 Do you want to go out with me?
• 19 A noisy little bird in my heart
• 20 A night of treason
• 21 An unfortunate kiss
• 22 A first disastrous date
• 23 Tsubaki Doumyouji returns home
• 24 Storm of Love Disbursed from school?
• 25 Each with his love
• 26 Night of insomnia together
• 27 Doumyoji to New York!
• 28 Tsukushi, Canada!
• 29 His heat!
• 30 Do you need a friend?
• 31 The second red card
• 32 Doumyoji, isn't he coming?
• 33 Someday, we will laugh at this day
• 34 The most important woman in my life
• 35 Fuga of love?
• 36 The secret plan of the mother of Tsukasa
• 37 The planned confrontation!
• 38 I will give you your deserved!
• 39 The evil triangle
• 40 The limit of love: a crossroads
• 41 The beginning of new days
• 42 So suddenly a double date!
• 43 The scar of my heart is heavy and deep
• 44 You are not for me!
• 45 Why are you not honest with yourself?
• 46 In the direction of a hurricane!
• 47 The consequences of Shigeru's transfer
• 48 Have I no choice but to study abroad?
• 49 Our new relationship
• 50 Let's finish this once
• 51 Interminable

Hana Yori Dango (OVA)

Then, in 1997, the 90-minute OVA Hana Yori Dango: The Movie (1997) was released in Japan by the Toei Animation studio. This version, although it follows the theme of the manga, has a different development of the story.

Set in an alternate time to the TV series and manga, the film depicts the classic Cinderella story, told through the dance and dance of the 1980s. Tsukushi Makino is a trainee dancer in the troupe New York Performance, who fights to become the star of the show with the help of Rui Hanazawa and Tsukasa Doumyoji.

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Meteor Garden (TV Series)

In 2001 the Taiwanese television series Meteor Garden (2001) premiered, then a special Meteor Rain (2001), followed in 2002 by the second and final season of this version Meteor Garden 2 (2002), starring Barbie Xsu and Jerry Yan. It was broadcast on GTV.

Meteor Garden

Shan Tsai, a lower-middle-class girl, goes to Ying De University, the private school exclusively for rich people. In addition to being looked down upon by her fellow millionaires, she has infuriated the leader of the F4, Dao Ming Si. The F4 consists of Dao Ming Si, Hua Ze Lei, Xi Men and Mei Zuo, who are the heirs of the 4 richest families and they donate a lot of money to the school, so absolutely no one dares to challenge them. Shan Tsai has been the only one in the school who has dared to face Dao Ming Si and that made him arouse an interest in her. However, her continuous torture towards her has made her hate him and also made her fall in love with Hua Ze Lei who has been constantly helping her with her problems.

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Meteor Garden OST

Track List

Meteor Garden II

The F4 have graduated from Ying De Xue Yuan University. So for the graduation trip, Dao Ming Si invites Shan Cai to go on a trip with him to Spain. This was the rest of the F4's way of letting Shan Cai and Dao Ming Si have some time alone. Just before Shan Tsai and Dao Ming Si leave for Spain, Hua Ze Lei gives Dao Ming Si an envelope with "good advice" on it. When Dao Ming Si opens the envelope, Hua Ze Lei's advice is that he propose to Shan Tsai in an old church that has a legend, so Dao Ming Si buys a ring which Shan Tsai had liked. much when he saw him and prepares to propose to her. But on the way to church, Dao Ming Si gets into a car accident which causes him to lose his memory of him, and that way he meets Ye Sha who helps him and takes care of him. Dao Ming Si's sudden disappearance causes Shan Tsai to worry about her, so he asks Jing to help her. And also the other three members of the F4 go to Spain immediately after they find out about his disappearance. Shan Tsai waits a long time for him, he returns to Barcelona where they happen to meet and in a strange moment he remembers Shan Tsai and they both swear eternal love in the church where they agreed to meet after that incident.

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Meteor Garden II OST

• Theme of opening: " deののののの de (Can't Lose You) - F4
• Closing theme: "的ののの de (Season of Fireworks) - F4

International Issues

• It was transmitted in Indonesia by the Indosiar channel in 2003.
• It was transmitted in the Philippines by the ABS-CBN chain in 2003 and retransmitted in 2007 by the GMA Network channel bent to the Tagalog Language. Following the first season ABS-CBN retransmitted the second season from 12 to 23 May 2014, but was cancelled. Jeepney TV also broadcasted the series until 4 July 2014 with the name Meteor Garden: Season 2 Uncut.
• In the fifth week of the second season Myrtle Sarrosa played the song Your Face Sounds Familiar by Jerry Yan.
• The series was also broadcast in Thailand by Channel 3.

Meteor Rain

Tells the stories of 4 of the members of the F4: Dao Ming Si, Xi Men, Mei Zuo, Hua Ze Lei. They happened at different times… Before, during or after Meteor Garden.

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Hana Yori Dango (TV Series)

From 2005 to 2008, the series Hana Yori Dango (2005), Hana Yori Dango: Returns (2007) and the 2008 film Hana Yori Dango: The Final Act (2008) were broadcast in Japan on TBS television. starring Mao Inoue and Jun Matsumoto.

Hana Yori Dango

Makino Tsukushi (Inoue Mao) is a poor student at Eitoku Gakuen, a school of ridiculously wealthy and privileged students led by the "4 Flowers", the F4, a group of four boys who come from the poorest families. Japan's powerful powers: Domyoji Tsukasa (Matsumoto Jun, the leader and heir of "Domyoji World Finance Group", Hanazawa Rui (Oguri Shun), the introverted heir to a large company; Nishikado Sojirou, a womanizing heir to a ceremonial tea empire and Mimasaka Akira, the son of a famous Yakuza clan come to more. If a student for any reason is put in the crosshairs of the F4 he receives a red card, which indicates approval for the entire school to harass him. This drama is based in the Shōjo manga for girls "Hana Yori Dango" (Don't Tell Me With Flowers) by author Yoko Kamio.

Cast

Hana Yori Dango OST

• 1st Opening: Wish - Performer: Arashi
• Intermediate song on the scene of romance or sadness: Planetarium - Performer: Ai Îtsuka

Hana Yori Dango: Returns

In this second season of “Hana Yori Dango,” it follows right after Domyoji's departure for New York. After confessing to Domyoji, Makino hasn't spoken to him again for a whole year. Rui and the other F4 members try to help her meet again by taking her to New York for Christmas vacation. Although the F4 and Makino meet up with Domyoji, they notice that he seems to have turned into a totally different person, and somewhat bittersweetly they return to Japan. Some time later, Domyoji's mother announces that she and her son will be returning to Japan shortly. Once in Tokyo, a giant and exclusive party is held for Tsukasa's birthday and he makes an extremely important announcement. Tsukasa, as in the first season, is engaged to an heiress and a very rich girl. The only difference is that the wedding will take place in a short time. What will Makino do? here her misadventures begin, again. On the other hand, Rui begins to fall deeply in love with Makino. Will this become a battlefield of love?

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Hana Yori Dango: Returns OST

• 2nd Opening: Love so Sweet - Performer: Arashi
• Intermediate song on the scene of romance or sadness: Flavor of life - Performer: Utada Hikaru

Hana Yori Dango: The Final Act (Movie)

With Makino about to graduate and engaged to Domyoji (Enshrined as president of his company), Sojirou as the Tea Master, Akira taking his father's place, and Rui worried about Shizuka's wedding in Paris, it would seem that our boys couldn't be busier. However, when the expensive tiara "The smile of Venus" (Gift from Domyoji's mother) is stolen from the hotel, Makino and Domyoji begin a journey in search of it that will take them to Las Vegas, Hong Kong and many other places to find it. and thus be able to have an infinite love.

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OST

• Intermediate song in sadness scene: Kisshug - Performer: Aiko Yanai
• Ending: One love - Performer: Arashi

Boys over Flowers (TV Series)

One of the most successful franchises that launched Lee Min Ho and Koo Hye Sun to fame was Boys Before Flowers (2009), a television series broadcast in South Korea on KBS2. Two specials were broadcast that same year: Boys Before Flowers: F4 After Story (2009) and Boys Before Flowers: F4 Talk Show Special.

Geum Jan Di, is a humble girl whose family owns a dry cleaners. One day while she makes a delivery for a student at the prestigious Shinhwa High School, (school for the rich). She realizes that the boy was going to commit suicide from the roof for getting the F4 red card, and just at the precise moment she jumps Geum Jan Di saves her life by stopping him and is called as the wonder girl / woman. This act generates great controversy in the city, for which she receives a scholarship to attend school. At first she is mistreated and isolated by the other students when she receives the red card from the F4 (4 flowers), which is a group of students who cruelly rule the school for their beauty and wealth. Gu Jun Pyo, leader of the F4 and successor to the Shinhwa Company, begins to have feelings for Geum Jan Di, Yoon Ji Hoo also falls in love with Geum Jan Di, but before he realized he was in love with her, he had her feelings put on her longtime friend Min Seo Hyun and she “reciprocates” that feeling.

Boys Before Flowers

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Boys Before Flowers OST

• Opening: Paradise - Performer: T-Max
• Ending: Because I'm Stupid - Performer: SS501

Boys Before Flowers: F4 After Story

25-minute musical drama that concludes the F4 saga in omnibus format, showing the four members of the F4 played by: Lee Min-ho, Kim Hyun Joong, Kim Bum and Kim Joon, five years after the last time we left them.

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Boys Before Flowers: F4 Talk Show Special

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Meteor Shower (TV Series)

In the same year, the Chinese television network Hunan TV launched a television series Let's Go Watch Meteor Shower (2009) and the second season Let's Watch The Meteor Shower Again (2010). It starred Hans Zhang and Zheng Shuang.

Let's Go Watch Meteor Shower

Meteor Shower is a version of Hana Yori Dango. Although it is based on the original story of the mangaka Yōko Kamio, it is not like the other versions. Thanks to the help of her uncle, Chu Yu Xun (Makino) manages to enter the prestigious Aliceton University, with the firm objective of being a great student, on the other hand, Yun Hai (Tsukasa) also gets to study, being this classmate. Chu Yu Xun's class later, he will also meet Duan Mulei (Rui), Shangguan Ruiqian (Soujirou) and Ye Shuo (Akira) the three most popular boys in the university, with whom at first he does not get along at all Like Chu Yu Xun, however, over time they meet and become great friends, thus forming F4. Thanks to Yu Xun's influence, the F4 eventually become the top four students in the school. At the same time, they become loving and responsible men. Through multiple conflicts and hardships, Yu Xun and F4 grow. They learn to control their own lives, choose their own future, and fight for their dreams.

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Let's Go Watch Meteor Shower OST

• Opening: Starlit Fairy Tale
• Ending: He way i want to fly - Performer: Xu Fei
• Let me sing a song for you.

Let's Watch The Meteor Shower Again

Murong Yunhai remembers everyone except Chu Yu Xun, Murong Yunhai lost his memory in an accident, his mother takes him away from China so he doesn't remember or have any contact with Chu Yu Xun. Every night he dreams of a girl and wakes up, which makes him wonder who this girl is and why he feels that half of her heart is lost and empty. Yun Hai tells her mother about the girl from her dreams, but her mother tells him not to worry about her and that he should forget about her. He, however, disobeys his mother's orders and escapes from the house, which is actually an island, and travels around the world to find the girl. He decides to go to Singapore and meets a girl, Jiang Yuan, and he thought that she could be the girl that appeared in his dreams and that he was looking for so much, and little by little he falls in love with Jiang Yuan wrongly. However, when they both return to China, Yun Hai feels like someone is waiting for him. Will Yun Hai be able to regain his memory and remember Yu Xun. On the other hand, will the relationship between Ye Shuo and Yun Hai end? Will Shangguan give up his playboy attitude and give his heart to Xiaoyu? Could there still be hope in Yun Hai and Yu Xun's relationship so that they can have a happy ending?

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Let's Watch The Meteor Shower Again OST

Boys Before Friends (TV Series)

The Hana Yori Dango craze finally hit the US in 2013 with the Boys Before Friends (2013) version, produced by TBC and Willkinn Media and aired on Viki, though not finished. It starred Claude Racine in the first episode and Dawn Morrow in the following episodes, in the role of Domyoji was Joseph Almani.

Zoey, a ballerina from a middle-class family, is accepted into a program her senior year of school attended only by the elite of the rich and famous. The school is run by 4 boys from the elite families in the country known as the F4. When Zoey goes head-to-head with the F4 to protect a friend, she finds herself in the middle of an F4-led bullying. North American version of Hana Yori Dango.

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Boys Before Friends OST

• Wordsmith - Hook Up Hotline

Moon River (TV Series)

Moon River (2014) Taiwanese television series on GTV, starring Pets Tseng and Sam Lin.

A Different Kind of Pretty Man (TV Series)

A Different Kind of Pretty Man (2014), Chinese television series, broadcast on Hunan TV, with Emma Wu and Hans Zhang.

Special Beautiful Man (TV Series)

Special Beautiful Man (2017), a Chinese television series, broadcast on Hunan TV, with Adi Kan and Leon Zhang.

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