hana yori dango = meteor garden

I finally watched the Hana Yori Dango live action drama that was given to me by a friend. For those who don't know, Hana Yori Dango is basically (more popular to the Philippines) Meteor Garden! It's actually the original version which inspired the Taiwanese to do Meteor Garden. Hana Yori Dango was a popular manga, then turned anime, and now a live action drama.

The story is exactly the same as Meteor Garden, which revolves around a poor girl Tsukushi Makino (Shan Cai) and her relationship with F4 consisting of: Tsukasa Domyoji (Dao Ming Zu), Rui Hanazawa (Hua Ze Lei), Akira Mimasaka (Mei Zuo), and Sojiro Nishikado (Xi Men). By watching both incarnations, I say that Hana Yori Dango which was made in 2005, has higher production values resulting to a more polished product than the 2001 made Meteor Garden. In the story presentation though, I think Meteor Garden has the advantage being that it has more solid character development. Meteor Garden had 19 episodes, each with 45 minutes... while Hana Yori Dango season one had only 9 episodes, which is a little short to develop the characters and make the audience appreciate them more. But fear not, Hana Yori Dango season 2 is now ongoing in Japan. Anyways, both series were great so just watch them both.

What about the rumor according to Erick that there will be a pinoy Hana Yori Dango/Meteor Garden starring no other than Heart Evangelista as Shan Cai?! God, please don't make it happen!!! Hahaha! Sinong susunod na cast?! Si Jericho Rosales si Dao Ming Zu?! Tapos si Diether Ocampo si Hua Ze Lei?! Holy Bull Crap! Just shoot me nalang to get it over with! Hahahaha! Peace out! ;p