Hanazakari no Kimitachi e: Japanese drama version

Original Title: 花ざかりの君たちへ ~イケメン♂パラダイス~/ Hanazakari no Kimitachi e ~Ikemen ♂ Paradise~

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.

Hanazakari no Kimitachi e: Taiwanese drama version

Original Title: 花樣少年少女 / Hua Yang Shao Nian Shao Nu (literally "The Tricks of Boys and Girls")

Episodes: 15 + Special

Opening theme: “怎麼辦" (What Should I Do?) by S.H.E

Ending theme: "專屬天使" (Personal Angel) by Tank

Personal Appreciation: (rank 1 to 10) 6

I can’t say I didn’t enjoy this version of the manga, it almost never diverts from the original path and puts great number of funny situations…

Hanazakari no Kimitachi e: Manga

Released:           1996                     

Author(s):          Nakajo Hisaya

Genre(s):            Comedy, Drama, Gender Bender, Romance, School Life, Shoujo

Plot:  

Mizuki Ashiya is a japanese girl living in USA, she doesn't have friends and her school life is difficult even though she is really love by both of her parents and really doted on by her older brother. However, one afternoon her life changed. She turned on the TV and saw a japanese boy performing a beautiful high jump, his name was Izumi Sano. Completely mesmerized by him, Ashiya inmediately became his fan and started to look up every information she could; Sano's words and actions encouraged her day by day. Now Ashiya has friends, but she stil wants to meet her idol. She discovers Sano is attending Osaka High School and decides to enroll...the only problem? It's an all-boys school. 

Ashiya convinces her parents that she can go to Japan alone and after a long fight, she got what she wanted (obviously, her parents knew nothing about the gender of the school). With her best friend's help (Julia) she disguises as a boy and enroll into the school only to find out that her idol is far from the image she had made in her head and even worse! He is no longer jumping. 

What happened to Sano that he doesn't high jump anymore? Will Ashiya be able to help him? Will she be discovered? Trust me, this is a manga you won't regret reading.                      

Personal Appreciation (please be aware of some spoilers):

Mangas that were made into anime or dramas

I have read a lot of mangas, perhaps not as many as I’d like, but I’ve been doing my best taking time between work and college. So, there are some mangas I’ve read that at some point I find myself thinking “Please, let this manga reach the anime and drama stage” and I know more that one of you must have think the same thing.

There are just so many good mangas out there that deserve more than to be in just paper, there are sometimes we are lucky to find Drama CD’s and that ease the urge a bit, but the excitement of watching one of your favorite mangas in an anime, or better yet, a drama, is just so amazing that one can hardly keep oneself from screaming.

This week I’ll start with some of my favorites and then maybe I’ll began to post the ones that are still in the waiting list, sitting tight for the chance to be made into something even better.

Let’s start!

First Line from left to right: Hanazakari no Kimitachi e, Sailor Moon, YuYu Hakusho, Kuroshitsuji
Second line from left to right: Samurai X, Card Captor Sakura, Inuyasha, Hana Yori Dango

How I started...

Hey there, I'm just writing my first entry on this blog.

How did I start in the asian world? Well, I gotta say, when I first watched anime, I didn't know that's what it was...It was not until I was 13 years old that I saw Sakura Card Captors.

This anime was everything for me: I could relate to the main character, I enjoyed watching her grow each time she faced a difficulty, she liked a boy, (let's admit it, girls usually start falling in love at this age) and she was always surrounded by good people and friends (that was different from my actual situation back then but I wished I could be the same).