花より男子

HANA YORI DANGO

ANIME

STATUS
COMPLETE
EPISODES
51
RELEASE
August 31, 1997
LENGTH
25 min

DESCRIPTION

Makino Tsukushi: a girl who comes from a poor family just wants to get through her 2 last years at Eitoku Gakuen, quietly. But once she makes herself known by standing up for her friend to the F4, the 4 most popular, powerful and rich boys at the school. She gets the red card: F4's way of a "Declaration of War". But when she doesn't let herself be beaten by them and is starting to fall for one of the F4; Hanazawa Rui. She starts to see that there is more than meets the eye...

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CAST

Tsukasa Domyouji
Naoki Miyashita
Tsukushi Makino
Maki Mochida
Rui Hanazawa
Kouji Yamamoto
Sojirou Nishikado
Yoshihiko Akaida
Tsubaki Domyouji
Chiho Ookawa
Akira Mimasaka
Yuuta Mochizuki
Shigeru Okawahara
Emika Sato
Junpei Oribe
Hiroki Takahashi
Shizuka Todo
Keiko Imamura
Sakurako Sanjo
Rumi Shishido
Yuuki Matsuoka
Kanako Tobimatsu
Kaede Domyoji
Mika Doi
Kazuya Aoike
Youji Ietomi
Thomas
Yuusuke Oguri

EPISODES

Dubbed

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RELATED TO HANA YORI DANGO

MANGA DramaHana Yori Dango

MOVIE DramaHana Yori Dango (Movie)

REVIEWS

Shellshock
30/100
A story about a poor girl moving to most fucked up school filled with rich snobs.
Due to the nature of this review I will be spoiling the first 15 episodes of the series. This includes a major initial love triangle that gets resolved.

Boys over flowers is a reverse harem romance comedy series about this heroine who is really poor who attends this really super duper rich school. In this school there is 4 top dogs. Known as the F4. Though really you will only get to know about 2 of them. Particularly, Rui hanazawa = the violin player. And Curly man who is also the leader of the F4 and the MMC. The series than revolves around 5 (really just the 3) characters and how they all affect each other. Other characters show up from time to time. Jealous women mostly. But again it mostly revolves around those 3 and later just curly man and the FMC.

Now this series starts off really bad. Why you ask? Well, the F4 are the biggest group of assholes ever. These guys are very harsh people, that make satan look like a pretty princess. They beat up random ass people who bump shoulders, Hurt kids so much that they have to drop out. And if they put a red card in your locker that means that every other student will be out for your blood. They are such a vile group its kinda hard to root for any romance. With that being said, they do kinda grow on you albeit begrudgingly.

Now the series starts with this love triangle between rui, the FMC and the MMC. Rui is actually the nice guy of the group. But is also an asshole because this is a shoujo manga. Now there is this push and pull thing going on between the FMC and Rui, and Curly man wants in on the action but his desire to date the FMC is very odd. I don't understand why he starts liking her in the first place.

Let me break down what he does in the first 10 episodes of the series. First he hires 4 goons to rape her. Then he puts a red card in her locker (which she fights back and the male lead starts gaining affection for her). Then he tries to rape her himself. Then the school tie her up to a car and drag her around and he runs away like a fucking dumbass. They are other moments where he physically assaults' her. I understand that I've made him look like the worst guy in human history but he does do nice things and this is the problem I landed in. The author wants us to believe that the MMC and FMC are supposed to be together and there is this push and pull thing happening between them but at the same time Curly man is constantly going way too far and it seems absolutely ridiculous that the author just wants us to sweep this shit under the rug.

They are both good quiet and loud moments in this series that makes you appreciate the MMC but in contrast to the entire thing he is a piece of shit. Even if by the end of it, I did think that these 2 were meant to be together.

I originally was rooting for Rui. Because he was i shit you not the nicest character in the series so far. And he was still an asshole. There is this whole love triangle this that becomes a square when Rui's crush shows up and he leaves with her to France. But its done so poorly i just completely missed it tbh. I'm glad Rui left though because this did solidify the relationship between curly man and FMC but at that point i still didn't actually like the MMC. Rui does show up again but this is purely to fuck with there relationship and nothing else.

Majority of the cast also suck massive dick. Lets start the FMC's parents. They literally put her in a school like that so she can marry some rich kid and they can be together happily ever after. One time the mom refused a bribe from someone's mom because she believe that he daughter would marry her son and be even more rich. The dad is also just a complete deadbeat. What are these parents man....

The 3 wicked witches of the west are also awful. They are just there to fuck up the main heroine as much as possible and have no repercussions whatsoever even by the end of the series. Any heroine that tries to help the FMC is also trying to murder her behind her back. There is such a large amount of garbage people in this series it really makes you wonder what kind of fucked up childhood the author had.

The only really likable character in this series that has personality and charm and isn't retarded (mostly) is the Tomboy Princess. She is very likable and i wanted to see more of her. Too bad she only shows near like the end of the series.

I also could not take any moment in the series seriously. Like there is this music playing every single time whenever there is a dramatic sequence to the point of over doing it. I cannot help but laugh during these moments. They happen so much and are so repetitive that I just lose it from time to time.

I've seen some people say that Curly man is a great guy. I hope people saying this get out of the abusive relationship they are currently in because the MMC should not be the type of guy you go after

TLDR: The series in general is just filled with shit characters, with no personalities that get practically no repercussions whatsoever. That is my problem. There are good moments but its not worth wading through a sea of bullshit to find it. 3/10

Im curious about the movie though.
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