Ahhhh....Meteor garden....My very first Taiwanese show and I LOVE IT....
I remembered watching it with my parents, and we had soooo much fun watching it, and its the 'idol drama' which made me so interested in Taiwanese dramas (sadly now the standards of Taiwanese dramas are not very good T_T)
It's an adaptation from a famous Japanese manga 'Hana yori dango' which means boys over flowers. It's a very cliche kind of story, but I think it is one of the classic stories that establish the Poor girl Rich boy romance drama storyline that we see so much of these days.
So basically the story is about a Poor but Hardworking girl who somehow ended up enrolling into an elite only super Rich people only high school. She's the only 'lowly' class student there but she tries her best to not be noticed and peacefully graduate, well until she stepped onto the toes of the 'F4'. F4 which means 'FLOWER 4' (Pftttttt *rolls eyes* ) are 4 super duper Rich, famous and Handsome high school seniors which controls the school, and once you are targeted by them, you basically get bullied and outcast-ed by everyone in school until you quit school.So yeah, main girl is determined and take all the bullying, main hot head rich F4 guy falls for her, then another F4 guy too falls for her, then lots of bling bling and drama and what nots...hehe
So that's the summary of it, and even though it sounds like a story soooo overly done, but It is fun to watch and damn, the guys are hot!!!:P..... And, it is such a popular story until there are multiple versions of it, there's the Taiwan, Japanese, Korean, China and I think there was an Indonesian version of it as well (not really sure).
Ok, the first version was the Taiwanese version, and I think it is one of the versions that stayed really true to the manga....yes the production value wasn't that great, but hey, It was in the 90's and taiwanese dramas that time wasn't that well known yet. And I can't say anything bad about this version since it was the first version, the characters were lovable enough, and story flow was ok (the last few episodes kinda dragged)...so yep:D...plus this was THE drama that introduced Taiwanese dramas to the world (it was the talk among everyone that time!! it was like the Winter sonata that made Korean dramas famous)
The next one to follow was the Japan version 'Hana yori dango'. I think it was the best adaptation out of all because the acting and production was really good.... the main actor does not really fit the image of the character, but hey, he can act, so it was kinda convincing anyways even though he was one of the shortest out of all the other actors. Plus the main actress was soooo lovable, she was not overly overdoing the 'OMG,I'm poor AND cute AND totally awesome!!!like duh I'm the main actress'.... And the story was so well done and the pace was consistent (that's what I love about Japanese dramas, since it has only 9- 12 episodes for each series, they can't really drag the story, but only focuses on the important ,exciting parts!)...
And the OVERLY POPULAR version was the Korean adaptation 'Kkotboda Namja'... I had such high hopes for this version since I'm a big Korean drama fan, But I think this version was SOOOO over rated!!!!! The production was really really good since they had the budget for it, cinematography was awesome as well...but the storyline was like WTF AM I WATCHING!!!
Main girl was so annoying in this version, I'm not sure If it was the main actress trying to be overly cute OR that the director asked her to be like 'hey go overly cute and annoy the hell out of everyone!!'.....arghhh...Main girl in this version was SUCH a damsel in distress, and hell no man, she is NOT SUPPOSE to be such a person!!!...other than the main girl, the story was soooo 'korean-nized'...with all the super duper over sentimental drama in it...urghh...like DUDE, this is an adaptation FROM a manga...it's suppose to be Fun and Fluffy and Crazy...But NOOOO...let's just make it super drama with all the bling bling....sigh...
But it was popular, mainly because of the super handsome cast, well it does has the Most handsome F4 out of all the other versions....but meh....story still sucked...and the ending was horrible....my reaction was 0_o... dafug did I just wasted my time watching....
There was a China version as well, but I only watched the first episode and then gave up. Not sure if it was good but I just hate the voice overs in Chinese dramas, It sounds horribly fake and I just could not finish the drama. But I did heard that this version was not bad as well.
Well yep, so all versions are different... I loved the Japanese the most for it's storyline and acting, Taiwanese one for it being the ORIGINAL one and it had so much different characters and side-stories, and the Korean one for ONLY it's really pretty Production value...plus the actors were nice to look at as well:P
Hehe... So yep, one manga and more than 4 different countries adapted it... so popular!!
The only other manga I could think of for having such a huge success is 'Hana Kimi' with a Taiwanese, Japanese and potential Korean version that is coming out soon (there's a China version as well, but it hasn't aired yet even though it was suppose to be aired last year, not sure what is going on with that)... so yep...excited for that !!!:D
I remembered watching it with my parents, and we had soooo much fun watching it, and its the 'idol drama' which made me so interested in Taiwanese dramas (sadly now the standards of Taiwanese dramas are not very good T_T)
It's an adaptation from a famous Japanese manga 'Hana yori dango' which means boys over flowers. It's a very cliche kind of story, but I think it is one of the classic stories that establish the Poor girl Rich boy romance drama storyline that we see so much of these days.
So basically the story is about a Poor but Hardworking girl who somehow ended up enrolling into an elite only super Rich people only high school. She's the only 'lowly' class student there but she tries her best to not be noticed and peacefully graduate, well until she stepped onto the toes of the 'F4'. F4 which means 'FLOWER 4' (Pftttttt *rolls eyes* ) are 4 super duper Rich, famous and Handsome high school seniors which controls the school, and once you are targeted by them, you basically get bullied and outcast-ed by everyone in school until you quit school.So yeah, main girl is determined and take all the bullying, main hot head rich F4 guy falls for her, then another F4 guy too falls for her, then lots of bling bling and drama and what nots...hehe
So that's the summary of it, and even though it sounds like a story soooo overly done, but It is fun to watch and damn, the guys are hot!!!:P..... And, it is such a popular story until there are multiple versions of it, there's the Taiwan, Japanese, Korean, China and I think there was an Indonesian version of it as well (not really sure).
Ok, the first version was the Taiwanese version, and I think it is one of the versions that stayed really true to the manga....yes the production value wasn't that great, but hey, It was in the 90's and taiwanese dramas that time wasn't that well known yet. And I can't say anything bad about this version since it was the first version, the characters were lovable enough, and story flow was ok (the last few episodes kinda dragged)...so yep:D...plus this was THE drama that introduced Taiwanese dramas to the world (it was the talk among everyone that time!! it was like the Winter sonata that made Korean dramas famous)
The next one to follow was the Japan version 'Hana yori dango'. I think it was the best adaptation out of all because the acting and production was really good.... the main actor does not really fit the image of the character, but hey, he can act, so it was kinda convincing anyways even though he was one of the shortest out of all the other actors. Plus the main actress was soooo lovable, she was not overly overdoing the 'OMG,I'm poor AND cute AND totally awesome!!!like duh I'm the main actress'.... And the story was so well done and the pace was consistent (that's what I love about Japanese dramas, since it has only 9- 12 episodes for each series, they can't really drag the story, but only focuses on the important ,exciting parts!)...
And the OVERLY POPULAR version was the Korean adaptation 'Kkotboda Namja'... I had such high hopes for this version since I'm a big Korean drama fan, But I think this version was SOOOO over rated!!!!! The production was really really good since they had the budget for it, cinematography was awesome as well...but the storyline was like WTF AM I WATCHING!!!
Main girl was so annoying in this version, I'm not sure If it was the main actress trying to be overly cute OR that the director asked her to be like 'hey go overly cute and annoy the hell out of everyone!!'.....arghhh...Main girl in this version was SUCH a damsel in distress, and hell no man, she is NOT SUPPOSE to be such a person!!!...other than the main girl, the story was soooo 'korean-nized'...with all the super duper over sentimental drama in it...urghh...like DUDE, this is an adaptation FROM a manga...it's suppose to be Fun and Fluffy and Crazy...But NOOOO...let's just make it super drama with all the bling bling....sigh...
But it was popular, mainly because of the super handsome cast, well it does has the Most handsome F4 out of all the other versions....but meh....story still sucked...and the ending was horrible....my reaction was 0_o... dafug did I just wasted my time watching....
There was a China version as well, but I only watched the first episode and then gave up. Not sure if it was good but I just hate the voice overs in Chinese dramas, It sounds horribly fake and I just could not finish the drama. But I did heard that this version was not bad as well.
Well yep, so all versions are different... I loved the Japanese the most for it's storyline and acting, Taiwanese one for it being the ORIGINAL one and it had so much different characters and side-stories, and the Korean one for ONLY it's really pretty Production value...plus the actors were nice to look at as well:P
Hehe... So yep, one manga and more than 4 different countries adapted it... so popular!!
The only other manga I could think of for having such a huge success is 'Hana Kimi' with a Taiwanese, Japanese and potential Korean version that is coming out soon (there's a China version as well, but it hasn't aired yet even though it was suppose to be aired last year, not sure what is going on with that)... so yep...excited for that !!!:D
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