must sometimes take risks and try to genera not satisfying a priori to his tastes: we are never safe from surprise. In this case, it was to try to television adaptation of a shoujo, I appreciate that kind usually quite low. The result of this experiment proved mixed.
I laughed at the animated "Host Club" where a young girl of humble fell into the hands of a band of young amateurs fabulously wealthy. The gap between them often proved hilarious. On a somewhat similar scenario, Hana Yori Dango has rarely managed to tear me a laugh.
This series does have an undeniable asset in the person of the young and dynamic actress Inoue Mao in the role of Makino Tsukushi, a schoolgirl penniless at war against the "F4", a group of 4 students - Domyoji Tsukasa (Jun Matsumoto), Hanazawa Rui (Oguri Shun) Nishikado Sojiro (Matsuda Shota) Mimasaka Akira (Abe Tsuyoshi) - the most popular establishment, heirs of powerful families and implacable tyrants ruling over their classmates. The problem lies precisely in that group, particularly in the character of Domyoji Tsukasa. Primo, "Matsumoche is ugly, and if we can do nothing against nature (though ... ask his opinion Kame-Chan) is somewhat problematic as when it is supposed to incarnate a lady-killer. Secondly, we would have hoped that the physical is compensated by an interesting personality ... or it occurs just the opposite. His character is horribly flat, uninteresting and limited: no more than a spoiled kid and bounded. The writer failed to give him depth, despite valiant efforts to distill tension with an implacable mother figure (Mariko Kaga) and some scenes of bravery falling like a fly in the soup.
I laughed at the animated "Host Club" where a young girl of humble fell into the hands of a band of young amateurs fabulously wealthy. The gap between them often proved hilarious. On a somewhat similar scenario, Hana Yori Dango has rarely managed to tear me a laugh.
This series does have an undeniable asset in the person of the young and dynamic actress Inoue Mao in the role of Makino Tsukushi, a schoolgirl penniless at war against the "F4", a group of 4 students - Domyoji Tsukasa (Jun Matsumoto), Hanazawa Rui (Oguri Shun) Nishikado Sojiro (Matsuda Shota) Mimasaka Akira (Abe Tsuyoshi) - the most popular establishment, heirs of powerful families and implacable tyrants ruling over their classmates. The problem lies precisely in that group, particularly in the character of Domyoji Tsukasa. Primo, "Matsumoche is ugly, and if we can do nothing against nature (though ... ask his opinion Kame-Chan) is somewhat problematic as when it is supposed to incarnate a lady-killer. Secondly, we would have hoped that the physical is compensated by an interesting personality ... or it occurs just the opposite. His character is horribly flat, uninteresting and limited: no more than a spoiled kid and bounded. The writer failed to give him depth, despite valiant efforts to distill tension with an implacable mother figure (Mariko Kaga) and some scenes of bravery falling like a fly in the soup. 
Consequently, this series, revolving around the birth and development of the romance Domyoji / Makino, quickly loses its interest as the latter seems unlikely. None of the nine episodes of credibility does the inexplicable as to how Makino could fall in love with a Domyoji qu'imbécile as ugly. Apart from several short plays nice, especially the TOJ contest (episodes 8 & 9) embellished with the presence of the dummy Ayana Sakai (incidentally Tetsu wife, bassist of L'Arc ~ en ~ Ciel ... yes, yes!), Remains the final the viewing to Hana Yori Dango one question: do I really give up trying to assess les shoujo ?
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6/10 : That wasn’t too bad, I guess. But never worth a rewatch.
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