Episodes:
12 + Special
Opening
theme: “Ikenai Taiyo” by
Orange Range
Ending
theme: “Peach” de Otsuka Ai
Personal Appreciation:
(rank 1 to 10) 8
Japanese
drama, I’m more related to this. I’m even familiar with the characters because
of the previous drama I saw (Hana Yori Dango), but I’ll leave that for later.
Now, let’s focus on Hana Kimi.
Oguri
Shun is a well renowned japanese actor that came out strong in yet another role
as the “I-don’t-care” guy. His character was a little more intense than the one
in the manga, making his version of Izumi Sano to be between the line of cruel
and mean. He slowly warms up to Horikita Maki (Ashiya) but doesn’t show it, and
only in rare ocassions does his walls come down to denmostrate his real
feelings.
Horikita
Maki is a great japanese actress that has a great number of movies and dramas
in her resume. Her face, for me, was really girly at first, but then I thought “it’s
the same thing in the manga, come on, it’s almost impossible for a guy not to
notice a disguised girl”, so I decided it was ok. She has this powerful smile
and outgoing character that blends in perfectly with the original part, and so
she never gives up to try to help her idol even though he couldn’t care less. Shun and Toma called her "Horikitty".
Last
but definetely not least is Ikuma Toma. Now this guy is my personal favorite
Nakatsu Shuichi…funny, sometimes an idiot, serious when he has to be and able
to move you when he opens up his heart. His role was amazing, going from the
normal happy-go-lucky guy to inner-self talks trying to explain that it was
okay to love a boy. He never cease to amuse you and several girls fell in love
with his irreverance and sweet manners. Go Toma!
The
version was good, it’s has a lot of things that are not in the manga but not in
a bad way. They did have the Sakura Committee and they did show the development
of the main characters relationship, although quite at the end. We have a
really active participation between the 3 dorms, something that we don’t get to
see in the Taiwanese version, and also you can clearly differentiate which
student belongs to each dorm.
Another
characters that appear quite a lot here and that aren’t in the manga are the
principal and her assistant. They are always organizing events, school trips
and contests between dorms, all in the hopes of getting the boys to “bloom” in
this short adolescence period, into the adult world without forgetting the true
bonds of friendship. That was a nice touch.
Finally,
we get an special chapter that does have content; this one comes after the
series but is made up of several flashbacks to points in between episodes. This
isn’t bad thought, because you get to see some things of the present
remembering things from the past that we just assumed happened but didn’t get
to see. Again, for me, the special chapter is better because of Ikuma Toma,
without this guy I seriosuly doubt the drama would’ve been so succesful, but
hey, that’s my personal opinion…what do you think?
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| The many happy faces of Nakatsu, I never grow tired of them!! |
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| He laughs, but he can also cry...and with such feeling T___T |
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