Hana Yori Dango: I am so in love

[lesbiassparrow]

Okay, so well the lead male is a complete bastard at the begining of the series. And yes there is no excuse for how he behaves, because I would back my car over him. But then there is a scene where he begins to regret all of his actions and is horrifically beaten up for the girl he loves and the evil false friend of girl he loves is asking why he doesn't fight back and it's all so dark and guh and it is all so trying and deeply moving.

Right, then. If you like screwed up love, you'll love this, because everyone loves the wrong person. At least they do at the moment.

ETA: Also the school uniform is a bit like mine, Except we had a better tie. And I may be misremembering the quality of talent around in my my youth, but the boys' boarding school which was near ours also had very hot boys. In uniform.

ETA 2: Evil mum goes and tries to bribe heroine's family. But her mum tells her to piss off and pours food over her head and fakes a fit where she insists that the heroine marry the rich guy but then makes fun of it and it is a great scene, and you realise how the heroine's family is all about hanging together no matter what and it is great. Really, I am sucker for family mockery of outsiders scenes.

ETA 3: And heroine works in sushi shop with completely mad boss lady who is great and has endless stories of men she was in love with. I love boss lady.

Comments

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I looked at it a bit on youtube and it seemed a bit more to my liking than Peach Girl - and the voices don't grate on me (I really hated whoever was doing the voice for the lead girl in Peach Girl). So there may or may not have been ahemming. I am going to Borders tomorrow for other things, so I might have a look for the Mangas there, only I can't really imagine buying anything in that quantity - especially if I didn't do it for Mars. (This is mainly because I have no more space on book shelves and am now creeping on to floor space and will never be able to move ever again if this continues).

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

only I can't really imagine buying anything in that quantity - especially if I didn't do it for Mars

Yeah, especially since this thing is 36 volumes, only 19 of which have been published stateside.

If you like the look of the anime, then by all means you should get it, as it's very very good. I've bought mine on ebay. Just be careful to get the series and not the movie (even though my series DVDs have movie pics on the cover and I almost died from the horror as the movie is an AU set in a ballet school. Yes, really). I really really love it (usually, artwork is a make or break it thing for me, in anime, and the fact that I ended up marathonning this despite never getting into the artwork is a huge thing for me).

I do remember, since this was the first version of HYD I came across, how horrified I was in the beginning that the heroine, whom I really liked, was going to end up with Domyouji :P