I’ve watched the 2007 Japanese version of Hana Kimi like 3
years ago and this time they brought out To The Beautiful You, Korean version
remake of Hana Kimi. Since I watched To The Beautiful You, I watched Hana Kimi
again and of course people will compare right? So, here’s my OWN PERSONAL
OPINION of both dramas so if you’re not agree, then I can’t help it.
HANA KIMI
Undoubtedly, I love Hana Kimi so much more! It may not
advance or ‘secanggih’ TTBY (I mean a bigger dorm, hp canggih, set mahal blah
blah blah) but Hana Kimi gave me more impact compare to TTBY. I love all the
bromance-y and friendship-y in Hana Kimi. It has a lot of element, love,
friendship, humor, moral values and so much more in a hilarious way. It’s sort
of crazy, yes, and doesn’t make sense too but that’s what makes it funny. They
fight like all the time (in a funny way of course), but hurriedly make up again
and unite with each other when their friends got into trouble. They have a lot
of event and festivals, and almost every event that they do looks happy and
crazy. But even if it looks crazy, it has their own meaning and moral values
that they wanted to imply by doing all that. All 3 dorm sure wanted victory,
but at the end it doesn’t matter who win or lose.
AND I AM LOVING NAKATSU OMG *SQUEAL*. He is so darn funny
with his ‘im-not-homo’ dance and “I-think-I-may-be-gay-no-I-can’t-but-imma-chase-after-him-anyway”
LOLOLOLOL. Ikuta Toma portrayal of Nakatsu is amazing. He brings a lot of laugh
and so do the other boys in the dorms. ^_^ And I also love this because Hiro
Mizushima (Nanba-senpai) is in this drama and I adore him!!
Watching their friendship and all that gives you a heartwarming
feeling, and it feels like you wanted to be in high school again. Of course,
you can’t really feel all that in TTBY, as TTBY focusing more on their glamorous
life and love line, no school event, festival and so on. Sulli’s acting is kinda okay, but her
character sucks. She’s too dumb, and focuses too much at Tae Joon. While Ashiya
and Sano both love and took care of Nakatsu when he got problems. And Nakatsu was EPIC I tell you. Eun Gyeol is
awesome in his own way but still can’t beat Nakatsu epicness. Trust me, you
CANNOT watch Hana Kimi without laughing even once, except you’re not fond of
Japanese drama, didn’t like the actor, you love Korean drama so much, or simply
because you’re an heartless creature.
TO THE BEAUTIFUL YOU
As you know, this is the Korean version remake of Hana Kimi.
I won’t say it is the worst cos I’ve watched some movie that much worse than
this. But, honestly speaking it sucks and not really up to my expectation. I
don’t really like the meter of seriousness it gives me giving that the fact
this is adaptation from a manga. It’s kinda confusing and Minho is not a good
actor to begin with. I don’t really like his expression. Okay okay, I won’t
blame him for his expression, but what the heck with the script? I’ve
watch a lot of drama and the crappy one won’t satisfied me anymore. The script
is pretty much confusing.
The most obvious example is the scene where they are at the beach. Minho supposedly didn’t know yet that Jae Hee is a girl, but he acted like he already knows everything. Block her from water splash on the road, giving her a cloth to cover her bare shoulder, worry about her when the pervert uncle touch her, and save her from being rape by that perv. I mean, a normal guy won’t even care about all that in front of another GUY friend, let alone thinking that he’s gonna be rape by some other man. It doesn’t make sense at all.
The most obvious example is the scene where they are at the beach. Minho supposedly didn’t know yet that Jae Hee is a girl, but he acted like he already knows everything. Block her from water splash on the road, giving her a cloth to cover her bare shoulder, worry about her when the pervert uncle touch her, and save her from being rape by that perv. I mean, a normal guy won’t even care about all that in front of another GUY friend, let alone thinking that he’s gonna be rape by some other man. It doesn’t make sense at all.
Compare to TTBY, in Hana Kimi, Sano acted normal when Ashiya
came, which is what a normal guy suppose to act in front of the same sex
friend. He doesn’t hate Ashiya without a solid reason, he just acted a lil bit
cold like he acted in front of anybody else. Even when he knows Ashiya is a
girl, it’s not obviously shown. He acted like a good friend, and help Ashiya
cover her identity without being so obvious.
Besides that, even he knew Nakatsu like Ashiya, he didn’t hate Nakatsu,
and still care for his friend.
And for me, Goo Jae Hee reason to enroll into all boys high
school doesn’t really strong IMHO. It’s more like a stalker for me. Idolize
someone and chase him at his school. At least Hana Kimi came up with quite a
‘make sense’ reason, she’s feeling guilty because Sano stopped high jump
because of his injury while saving her from thugs.
A lot of things are missing from Hana Kimi, for e.x:
1. The competition between 3 dorm. And where the hell is
Oscar??
2. Heartwarming friendship and bromance.
3. Humour.
4. The guy who read aura.
5. More, more and more.
Actually, there’s a lot to argue between both of the drama
but to list all that will take a lot of time so this is what I can write out
for now. It doesn’t matter what I said, you have to watch it to understand what
I mean about those two drama. Well, both dramas have its own storyline but
again, I love Hana Kimi. So much that I can even laugh out loud after watching
it again and again. But then, it depends on your own preference.
