Hanazakarino Kimitachihe

I have never followed a single telenovela all my life: Filipino, Mexican, Korean, English nor Chinese, ask anyone but me if you want to know the characters of any telenovela.

As we all know, when Meteor Garden reached the islands, it was adored by practically everyone in the country... probably everyone but this writer. It's not that I voluntarily decided to become a hermit and locked myself from civilization nor did i spend a few good years in a hole. It's simply because: I don't watch much TV, and secondly, I don't have the tenacity to follow in "installment" any boob-tube show of sort. Telenovela wasn't just my thing... or so i thought..

I mentioned earlier that I stayed in Malaysia for almost a month. I don't know if it was plain boredom. But honestly, this is the first time I genuinely followed a particular telenovela avidly! How i got sooo addicted to HANA KIMI. (ANd i watched the complete episodes on youtube. Hooray for English subs! hehe. But you know what, since I watch it every night on youtube and i usually use an earphone, husband told me that observing me from afar, i look like a crazy girl with laughing outbursts ;p The telenovela is really funny!)

 

To give you the synopsis

Hanazakarino Kimitachihe, adapted from a well-known Japanese manga.

The story is mainly about a girl, Lu Ruixi, who flew all the way from the USA to Taiwan, to enrol into the same school as her crush, Zuo Yi Quan, a high jumper. The reason for her admiration is that one day on TV, after seeing his determination in high jump events, it also led to her determination to strive and lose weight. So her goal in returning to Taiwan was to watch him high jump live in action.

But the main problem is that Quan is enrolled in an all-boys school, thus Ruixi is forced to hide her female identity, and dress up as a boy. As luck would have it, Ruixi ended up being Quan's new roommate.

With such a perfect arrangement, Ruixi goes all out to befriend Quan, only to be rebuffed by him, and to her dismay, she discovered that he has given up high jumping.

Quan discovered Ruixi was a girl from the very first episode, when he
accidentally touched her chest, while trying to help her when she fainted. She was also unable to hide her female identity from the school doctor Mei Tian. He could sense she was a female as he is gay!

Both Quan and the school doctor decided to help Ruixi keep her secret, though Ruixi is unaware that Quan also knows her secret. Due to this, Quan also came to her aid on several occasions when Ruixi's identity was almost exposed. Through all this, Quan and Ruixi became closer friends, and it was also due to Ruixi's encouragement that Quan decided to return to high jumping.

There were also several funny moments involving Xiu Yi, one of Ruixi's best friends in school, when he thought he was becoming gay as he was attracted to Ruixi, whom he thought was a boy!

 

I sooo hope that Hanazakarino Kimitachihe  花樣少年少女  will be shown in the country soon. When i watched it in Malaysia, it was spoken in Mandarin and subtitled in Bahasa. Learning a few Bahasa during my stay in Malaysia didn't help much especially when you're watching a one-hour worth of fast-paced Mandarin/Bahasa telenovela everyday. 

Well anyways, I don't care if they will do the dubbing in Filipino or English, I just want to watch  HANA KIMI the soonest :)

To ghelp you start the Hana Kimi addiction, watch the first episode with ENGLISH subs here. For the succeeding episodes (can't find episode 2 though), you can click here. I tell you.. it's really good and one of those cutesy-feel-good-funny-comical telenovela you will ever watch!

By the way, Wu Zun, Jiro Wang and Ella Cheng are such sweethearts. Not to mention that Jiro portrayed the funny character really well.

And ohh i'm a huge Fahrenheit (esp Wu Zun and Jiro Wang ) fan now

:)