HELLO FRIENDS!!!!
this blog is @poetry-protest-pornography and @hotasfahrenheit's newest agenda idea - the hanadan project, in which we watch every version of Hana Yori Dango ever made, together.
mia is a huge Hana Yori Dango fan and has been for 20+ years, since discovering the manga while she was at university, then quickly discovering the anime, and then once the jdrama version was released, devouring that. the jdrama is her most favourite drama of all time, in fact, and she's watched it probably at least 50 times over the years. no joke. she's shared it with friends, she's watched it repeatedly, it's become a background/comfort show.
what she hasn't done is watched it with rachael, and she also hasn't watched or at least finished any of the other drama versions of it.
SO HERE WE GO! we're gonna watch it all, together. and post about it.
our watchlist, in no particular order:
-the Hana Yori Dango anime (1996-1997) -the original Hana Yori Dango live action movie (1995) -Meteor Garden (Taiwanese version, 2001) -Hana Yori Dango jdrama (the best version, Maria swears, 2005) -Boys Over Flowers (Korean version, 2009) -Meteor Garden (Chinese version, 2018) -F4 Thailand: Boys Over Flowers (Thai version, 2021)
we are not sticking to a set schedule and we're not crazy enough to only watch one episode a week, but we're aiming for weekly posts about whatever we've been watching. reviews, reactions, who knows what, but we'll be posting!
follow along with us on this ridiculous ride!
or don't, we're not your moms~