Different Worlds Apart

It seems I'm the only one who on first seeing Hana Kimi Ikemen Paradise don't like it very much. Japan has so many beautiful young talents but it all seems like the production team has got a knack in chosing the most ugly ones instead (perhaps they could only afford one JE boy, but even Ikuta Toma is not one of the pretty JE boys).
But apart from the missing pretty, they have changed the plot around. And not only for the sake of live action realization. No, if I hadn't known that this was actually Hana Kimi, I wouldn't have recognized it.
I think they wanted to make it more mature - but the whole manga is not mature, folks. The whole story works because it is so out there and cracktastic. I don't see that yet with Hana Kimi Ikemen Paradise(JPN).

As for Maki as Mizuki - she has a more cute quality than Ella as Rui Xi and yet, I prefer Ella with her outrageous facial expressions. You can actually see her as a cutish boy whereas Maki is sporting breasts more than once in the first ep. You can actually see she is a girl and now they want to pull it off Sano won't recognize it? Oh pluuuuuuuueaaaaaaze!

It seems I'm the only one who on first seeing Hana Kimi Ikemen Paradise don't like it very much. Japan has so many beautiful young talents but it all seems like the production team has got a knack in chosing the most ugly ones instead (perhaps they could only afford one JE boy, but even Ikuta Toma is not one of the pretty JE boys).
But apart from the missing pretty, they have changed the plot around. And not only for the sake of live action realization. No, if I hadn't known that this was actually Hana Kimi, I wouldn't have recognized it.
I think they wanted to make it more mature - but the whole manga is not mature, folks. The whole story works because it is so out there and cracktastic. I don't see that yet with Hana Kimi Ikemen Paradise(JPN).

As for Maki as Mizuki - she has a more cute quality than Ella as Rui Xi and yet, I prefer Ella with her outrageous facial expressions. You can actually see her as a cutish boy whereas Maki is sporting breasts more than once in the first ep. You can actually see she is a girl and now they want to pull it off Sano won't recognize it? Oh pluuuuuuuueaaaaaaze!

ROTFLMAO :)
Nanba just mentioned Kimura Takuya ... ah I love Hua Yang Shao Nian Shao Nu (Hana Kimi) :)

I need HK icons :)

Have to get ready for my ray treatment ... I'm so dead tired I almost fell asleep in the shower :( BUT! I have finished my work load which is a stone load off my chest.

Watched Hana Kimi up to ep 09 last night and I am SQUEEING like mad. Even though they changed a couple of events around, they stuck to the original manga and it is love, love, LOVE.
Jiro Wang as XuiYi (Nakatsu) is just laugh out funny, this guy has a great potential for comedy and yet you cannot help but feel sad for him as XuiYi. He is gradually accepting himself as being gay because he has feelings for RuiXi, and it will all blow up in his face when he finds out the truth. The scenes with him imagining to be together with RuiXi are just hilarious, Ella and him can do over the top silliness very well.
I really like Wu Zun as Quan. I didn't like him in Tokyo Juliet, but here he just fits. He even looks a bit like Sano in the manga.
But man, they are really driving the fact home that when you are gay it is okay. I love that about HK. Nothing icky or awkward and the way RuiXi and Quan are behaving with each other, they sure do look like a couple. A cute gay couple. Even their schoolmates are picking up on it and even though some do wonder what is going on, they are all fine with it. I think if HK ever comes on German TV the church and those religious right would flip. :)
Oh and damn Jiro makes one pretty girl :)

Have to get ready for my ray treatment ... I'm so dead tired I almost fell asleep in the shower :( BUT! I have finished my work load which is a stone load off my chest.

Watched Hana Kimi up to ep 09 last night and I am SQUEEING like mad. Even though they changed a couple of events around, they stuck to the original manga and it is love, love, LOVE.
Jiro Wang as XuiYi (Nakatsu) is just laugh out funny, this guy has a great potential for comedy and yet you cannot help but feel sad for him as XuiYi. He is gradually accepting himself as being gay because he has feelings for RuiXi, and it will all blow up in his face when he finds out the truth. The scenes with him imagining to be together with RuiXi are just hilarious, Ella and him can do over the top silliness very well.
I really like Wu Zun as Quan. I didn't like him in Tokyo Juliet, but here he just fits. He even looks a bit like Sano in the manga.
But man, they are really driving the fact home that when you are gay it is okay. I love that about HK. Nothing icky or awkward and the way RuiXi and Quan are behaving with each other, they sure do look like a couple. A cute gay couple. Even their schoolmates are picking up on it and even though some do wonder what is going on, they are all fine with it. I think if HK ever comes on German TV the church and those religious right would flip. :)
Oh and damn Jiro makes one pretty girl :)