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Rating: 5/5; Loved it very much and will own it one day so I can re-watch it.
RD: 2009
Total Episodes: 25
Favorite ep: 8!!!!!! soooo awesome!
More info on show: http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Boys_Before_Flowers
Age R: Teens. Nothing extremely inappropriate (unlike the manga which I haven't read yet sorry!) so pretty much 13+.
Synopsis:
Jan Di is a poor girl who comes from a family that owns a dry cleaning store. Things happen and she ends up having to transfer to a school full of rich kids. In that school she will come across the infamous/famous F4. The F4 members are 4 guys who have known each other since they were little kids. They are all the richest, the most handsome, and the most powerful guys in Shinwa High School and Goo Joon Pyo is the one with the most power. He's also the meanest. Jan Di unfortunately ends up crossing Goo Joon Pyo and, well, more things happen.
Thoughts:
AHHH!! *fangirl screams*
A little background info. This show is known by many names some of which are: Boys Before Flowers (Korean), Boys Over Flowers, Meteor Garden (Taiwanese), Liu Xing Yu, and Hana Yori Dango. This show was originally a Japanese manga written by Yoko Kamio (yeah her name is Yoko just like you know, John Lennon's Yoko hehe), but later became a tv show in many, many countries like Korea (that's the version I'm talking about here), Japan, and Taiwan and it also became an anime.
I chose to watch the Korean version before seeing any others because I've heard it's the best version out of all the tv shows and the anime. I shall definitely watch the other versions and read the manga though before I make an official conclusion on that ;)
Back to my thoughts on the drama.
I LOVED it! I wish I had not seen it, just so I could watch it all over again and be so excited for having seen something so entertaining and damn cute. Just by reading the synopsis and knowing that this is a drama, you will probably be able to predict that the bad guy is going to go for the semi good girl. That does happen but so much comes in between them you have no freakin' idea! Then there are a bunch of other things besides that that occur.
The last episode was too soap opera-like for me. I hated it for that reason. I adored the abra cadabra moment, but man, I got upset with all the well, drama. It was not unnecessary per se (considering that's how dramas go) but I did not appreciate how it was unoriginal. I've seen that twist one too many times to care. Another thing I despised about the ending was how one of the characters was the "soulmate." It was a huge WTFruit moment for me. Maybe Koreans have a different definition of soulmate though. Or maybe just the Jun Di. I also hated how some of the characters did not find love. That kills me a little inside. :(
So that's what I didn't like. But what did I actually like?
I didn't just like everything else in the story, I loved it! It's so adorable even though sometimes it's over the top romance. That's what makes it so great though. If you saw You're Beautiful after this show, you probably noticed tons of similarities). That I did not fancy, but I got over it because to me they're different enough to both stand out in a cute unique way.
Just watch them okay?
It'll make you go "aww" more times than there are stars in the galaxy. Okay, exaggeration, or is it? I guess there's only one way to find out. Sort of, since we don't really know the exact number of stars, but I digress.
It's really cute, did I mention that already?
This drama is basically a story about a girl who's tough and brave without needing the help of anyone no matter what. Along comes a guy who's at the top of the world and hates her as much as she hates him. The audience knows these two are going to be together because that's just how these things go. They go through a TON of freakin' obstacles (typical drama) and eventually... you'll see. It's quite entertaining. All of it. The journey is dramatic to say the least, but oh so cute, and well worth watching more than once.
You will fall in love with the love story and with the hot guy friends in F4. All the secondary characters are interesting and well thought out which I highly appreciated and I'm sure you will too.
Enjoy the ride!
Note:
In the manga I could kind of get over the fact that you know who and you know who did not communicate over 4 years because of no cell phones and such but hello?! What about letters?!! And ditto for the drama. Grr!!
You will like this drama if you liked You're Beautiful.
Rating: 5/5; Loved it very much and will own it one day so I can re-watch it.RD: 2009
Total Episodes: 25
Favorite ep: 8!!!!!! soooo awesome!
More info on show: http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Boys_Before_Flowers
Age R: Teens. Nothing extremely inappropriate (unlike the manga which I haven't read yet sorry!) so pretty much 13+.
Synopsis:
Jan Di is a poor girl who comes from a family that owns a dry cleaning store. Things happen and she ends up having to transfer to a school full of rich kids. In that school she will come across the infamous/famous F4. The F4 members are 4 guys who have known each other since they were little kids. They are all the richest, the most handsome, and the most powerful guys in Shinwa High School and Goo Joon Pyo is the one with the most power. He's also the meanest. Jan Di unfortunately ends up crossing Goo Joon Pyo and, well, more things happen.
Thoughts:
AHHH!! *fangirl screams*
A little background info. This show is known by many names some of which are: Boys Before Flowers (Korean), Boys Over Flowers, Meteor Garden (Taiwanese), Liu Xing Yu, and Hana Yori Dango. This show was originally a Japanese manga written by Yoko Kamio (yeah her name is Yoko just like you know, John Lennon's Yoko hehe), but later became a tv show in many, many countries like Korea (that's the version I'm talking about here), Japan, and Taiwan and it also became an anime.
I chose to watch the Korean version before seeing any others because I've heard it's the best version out of all the tv shows and the anime. I shall definitely watch the other versions and read the manga though before I make an official conclusion on that ;)
Back to my thoughts on the drama.
I LOVED it! I wish I had not seen it, just so I could watch it all over again and be so excited for having seen something so entertaining and damn cute. Just by reading the synopsis and knowing that this is a drama, you will probably be able to predict that the bad guy is going to go for the semi good girl. That does happen but so much comes in between them you have no freakin' idea! Then there are a bunch of other things besides that that occur.
The last episode was too soap opera-like for me. I hated it for that reason. I adored the abra cadabra moment, but man, I got upset with all the well, drama. It was not unnecessary per se (considering that's how dramas go) but I did not appreciate how it was unoriginal. I've seen that twist one too many times to care. Another thing I despised about the ending was how one of the characters was the "soulmate." It was a huge WTFruit moment for me. Maybe Koreans have a different definition of soulmate though. Or maybe just the Jun Di. I also hated how some of the characters did not find love. That kills me a little inside. :(
So that's what I didn't like. But what did I actually like?
I didn't just like everything else in the story, I loved it! It's so adorable even though sometimes it's over the top romance. That's what makes it so great though. If you saw You're Beautiful after this show, you probably noticed tons of similarities). That I did not fancy, but I got over it because to me they're different enough to both stand out in a cute unique way.
Just watch them okay?
It'll make you go "aww" more times than there are stars in the galaxy. Okay, exaggeration, or is it? I guess there's only one way to find out. Sort of, since we don't really know the exact number of stars, but I digress.
It's really cute, did I mention that already?
This drama is basically a story about a girl who's tough and brave without needing the help of anyone no matter what. Along comes a guy who's at the top of the world and hates her as much as she hates him. The audience knows these two are going to be together because that's just how these things go. They go through a TON of freakin' obstacles (typical drama) and eventually... you'll see. It's quite entertaining. All of it. The journey is dramatic to say the least, but oh so cute, and well worth watching more than once.
You will fall in love with the love story and with the hot guy friends in F4. All the secondary characters are interesting and well thought out which I highly appreciated and I'm sure you will too.
Enjoy the ride!
Note:
In the manga I could kind of get over the fact that you know who and you know who did not communicate over 4 years because of no cell phones and such but hello?! What about letters?!! And ditto for the drama. Grr!!
Watch it (you know you're gonna buy it though):
they're English subbed btw
You will like this drama if you liked You're Beautiful.
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i love boys over flowers! it's my favorite kdrama after princess hours! did you watch the japanese version? i think i like the koroean better.
I watched boys before flower first then u're beautiful. My fav character was Woo Bin though he doesn't have much to do. If asked to chose between BBF or u're beautiful , i'd definitely choose for u're beautiful, Jang Geun Suk makes all the difference. :)
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