Fan reviews: Hana Yori Dango Season 2

Sun_Shang_Xiang · 28 Jul 2011

The second season was seriously marred by the use of negative stereotyping of African Americans in the first episode.If it wasn't for this the season would have rated higher for me.

The music for the most part was regurgitated from the first season down to the Harry Potter style music motifs which actually isn't a bad thing in itself, my only real complaint as regards the music was that I soon got fed up of hearing Utada Hikaru's Flavor of Life drowning out the dialogue every 35 - 40 minutes into each episode.Matsumoto Jun's acting was ok for the most part except when he was trying to hide something from his fellow F4 members, then it looked a little hammy. On the plus side, Matsuda Shota and Ogori Shun were good, however Kato Natsuki was even better and was the highlight of the show.

JOSIE-chan · 22 Aug 2010

As expected, hyd2 was just as good if not better than the first, in my opinion of course. Though the first season was amazing, funny and had a great story line, i felt that it lacked the emotion and seriousness that season 2 was full of. sure there were moments when you wanted to just turn off the t.v (like all the beatings domyouji so frequently gives out to random guys) but the moments that make you go "awwww" and "omg" were so worth the watch. For example, the part where domyouji and makino are stuck in a cabin during a blizzard in which he regains his memory loss, or the episode where hanazawa rui confronts domyouji about his feelings towards makino. The emotion was natural. I also particularly enjoyed the fact that they also focused more on the whole cast rather than just the main protagonist. they ventured into soujirohs long lost love story and susumi's love dilemna as well as akiras family life. although i would have loved to learn more about akira, they did a pretty good job in adding more to the other characters stories. if you are a true fan of hyd this season will not disappoint you. i loved it as much as the first and it made for a wonderful watch. if you love hyd you might want to watch the final movie, which was made instead of a third season. :)

yuki_yoru · 25 Apr 2010

I was a bit annoyed at first because it almost seemed like all that love and effort from season 1 was brought back to square one. But having watched both seasons and the movie and now looking back, I think it was still worth watching because it was still cute and funny to watch. Its definately enjoyable and a very popular drama at that.

JEaddicthellyeah · 3 Nov 2009

And of course, i knew I was going to come across this one. The always loved through whatever drama. Your saying to yourself you dont like it...It's cheesy... Matsujun must stay single all his life... Inoue must die... Stuff like that. *Clearance: That was all the opnions I got from some internet user I came across* But you cant stop and think, wow, for the first time in my boring life, I found something to do, is what your thinking. I'm guessing you were browsing the internet, or youtube, and spitted the famous, and somewhat, infamous, Matsumoto Jun-kun. You dont know him?! He's a Je-boy, yes, he's forever labeled as one, wether he quits or not. He's part of Arashi... yata yata yata. But you have to admit, this drama was *SAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKKKKKKKKKKOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO*
*cough* Yes, "saiko" or awsome. :)) I loved and laughed my way through this drama. I love Inoue's 'punch' to Matsujun. Well, what the? I'm talking about the second season here. Not the 1st one.

I honestly HATE Domyoji in this season. He's pig-headed, yes, pig-headed. I prefer Sho from Arashi... Well, whatever, you dont care anyway. He sees that Makino comes all the way to uh... Where was it again? NYC, right? Well, he doesnt even give a d@mn.

Though, I gave it thought, and it gets a 9.

doublemask · 13 Oct 2008

Didn't have any high expectations for the sequel because sequels never seem to do well. But surprisingly, it wasn't as bad as I thought. More focus was given to the supporting characters and there's a bit more expansion on the plot thanks to the love triangle. Some scenes were not neccessary as they didn't serve any purpose to the story. If you're hooked to the first one, you'd definitely love this one too.

eiza · 10 Sep 2008

Domyouji and Makino have a critical situation but their were not give up so easily to live together.. Very like it!^-^

Paos · 26 Aug 2008

Little bit over-dramatic... So many random events, some of them seams to be there just to fill up the episodes. Still, a fairly good drama.

diane · 2 Aug 2008

Arigatou to kimi ni iwareru to nandaka setsunai
sayounara no ato no tokenu mahou awaku horonigai
The flavor of life

tomodachi demo koibito demo nai chuukan chiten de
shuukaku no hi wo yumemiteru aoi furu-tsu
ato ippo ga fumidasenai sei de
jirettai no wa nande?

arigatou to kimi ni iwareru to nandaka setsunai
sayounara no ato no tokenu mahou awaku horonigai
The flavor of life

amai dake no sasoi monku ajike no nai doku
sonna mono ni wa kyoumi wa sosorarenai
omoitoori ni ikanai toki datte
jinsei suteta mon janai tte

doushita no? to kyuu ni kikareru to "uun. nandemo nai"
sayounara no ato ni kieru egao watashi rashikunai
sinjitai to negaeba negau hodo nandaka setsunai
"aishiteru yo" yori mo "daisuki" no hou ga kimi rashii janai?
The flavor of life

wasurekakete ita hito no omoi wo totsuzen omoidasu koro
furitsumoru yuki no shirosa wo omou to sunao ni yorokobitai yo

daiyamondo yorimo yawarakakute atatakana mirai
teni shitai yo kagiri aru jikan wo kimi to sugoshitai
"arigatou" to kimi ni iwareru to nandaka setsunai
sayounara no ato no tokenu mahou awaku horonigai
The flavor of life

diane · 2 Aug 2008

kagayaita no wa kagami demo taiyou demo nakute kimi dato kizuita toki kara
ano namidagumu kumo no zutto ue ni wa hohoemu tsuki Love Story mata hitotsu

kizutsuita yume wa kinou no kanata he
sora ni hibike ai no uta

omoide zutto zutto wasurenai sora futari ga hanarete ittemo
konna suki na hito ni deau kisetsu nido to nai
hikatte motto saikou no Lady kitto sotto omoi todoku
shinjiru koto ga subete Love so sweet

soko kara itsumo mieru youni kono te wo sora ni muke hirogaru kimi to no omoide
ano katakuna de ijipari na boku wo kaeta kimi no te Love Story aruki dasu

magari kunetteta futatsu no tabiji wa
koko de hitotsu niji ni nare

omoide zutto zutto oikaketa yume futari ga tooku he ittemo
donna tsurai yoru mo kujike souna chikai demo
waratte motto saigo no Lady kitto sotto negai todoku
akenai yoru wa nai yo Love so sweet

tsutae kirenu itoshisa wa
hana ni natte machi ni futte
doko ni itemo kimi wo "koko" ni kanjiteru

omoide zutto zutto wasurenai sora futari ga hanarete ittemo
konna suki na hito ni deau kisetsu nido to nai
hikatte motto saikou no Lady kitto sotto omoi todoku
shinjiru koto ga subete
akenai yoru wa nai yo
shinjiru koto ga subete Love so sweet

jed_ka · 11 May 2008

That's incredible to continue to do so exciting!

There are even new faces, the new fiancé and the New Notice of engagement, there is much new suffering and screams!

At the end it will still Exciting, the amnesia of the main characters and the arrogance of the mothers, that's nothing against the will of the love between and Tsukasa Domyoji Makino Tsukushi!

I recommend the continuation to see!

meggielots · 28 Apr 2008

weee... at first i wanted to watch this because of Toma but i end up watching it because of the story!! its a great Drama! :D

nadiafarhana · 3 Apr 2008

best!

jenefer0612 · 27 Mar 2008

i love tsukasa and tsukushi..the best couple..nice act , good combination,both very good facial expression. were waiting for hana yori dango final. and we hope to have another season 3

jenefer0612 · 27 Mar 2008

i love tsukasa and tsukushi..the best couple..nice act , good combination,both very good facial expression. were waiting for hana yori dango final. and we hope to have another season 3

xEternal · 19 Feb 2008

[WARNING - SPOILERS]

I felt Season two was just as good as one, but I really didn't like how there were just so many coincidences and caused so much conflict out of sheer misfortune. In season one there was more comedy as well as a better storyline, and in season two it involves a lot more drama and serious parts.

The cast played very well as always, though I felt that Jun and Mao acted better in season one because of the fact that they seemed much more cheerful and funny. I like how we get to see more of Rui, Akira and Nishikada.

The music is great as always, I REALLY loved Flavor of Life, whenever I listen to it I feel the emotions rushing back to me from the episodes where I cried since the song always played then.

The story was pretty good (excluding the coincidences). Shigeru added a lot of BANG to the season because of the conflict - I'm sorry to say but I didn't like her as a character; she was super crazy, then all lovey-dovey, then all evil and back to goody-goody. I think that she caused too much miscommunication for Makino and Domyouji.

I would also have to say to people who claim this drama was very predictible, that I disagree. This is because there were many characters that could possibly have gotten together with Makino and Domyouji. At several points into the drama I really thought that Makino would get together with Rui and Domyouji with Shigeru. Also because of the coincidences it was hard to predict what would happen.

Overall season two was really good. The only person I reallllly HATED was Umi. Totally pissed me off when she stole Domyouji AND almost killed Makino. My favourite parts would be when Domyouji went all tense and started making dumb jokes - shakePEER LOL,(I think ep4 or so), the part when they see Shigeru off and Domyouji and Makino hold hands (SO CUTE FOR LIKE 5 SECONDS ;_;), and a bunch of other parts with Makino and Domyouji together.

The ending was beautiful; I felt very satisfied after watching it and I would have to say it is a very good drama - Makino and Domyouji FOREVER. <3

sinned12 · 18 Feb 2008

The drama picks up from the last episode of season 1. It's actually a 2 hour seaon opener which explains why the first seaon had only nine episodes. It starts with Makino lost and alone in New York being robbed and about to attacked until her hero comes to save her. Could it be Tsukasa or somebody else?
Another excellent performance from everybody especially Inoue Mao and Matsu Jun. They got into their characters really well. Of course a few characters and guests were added into the series that made the drama more interesting. I liked Shigeru's character and how she always played an innocent villain all the way up to the end when she finally stabbed Makino in the back by lying to her only to take it back right away and play the heroine. They could have made Umi's character a little more evil but I guess they don't want her to be as annoying as Sakurako's character.
I was hoping they would have gotten deeper into Akira's background and maybe developed a sort of Gokusen story out of it. Instead they focused more on Shouichiro's love story. I was hoping they'd lay off Domyouji's violent scenes but I guess family entertainment is quite different in Japanese standards than that of American Standards. Seriously all these headbutting and beating up a group of guys by yourself gets ridiculous and redundant after a while. Because of my limited Japanese skills, I had to watch it in subtitles and was kinda disappointed with the translation sometimes. One of the funniest parts is how Domyouji is always using the wrong words or phrases in Japanese and I know it's suppose to be funny but it's not as funny translated.
Overall, I'm sad the series ended I kinda wanted to see more. the ending was the usual fairy tale ending but quite nice. HYD 2 is not a sequel but more of a continuation of the whole story so I suggest you watch it if you liked the first one. It's longer than the first one so you wouldn't be disappointed.

dekatrain · 4 Feb 2008

A little disappointing but still full of somewhat calculated surprises, HYD2 ensures its audience is in for a few (or many) ups and downs as it begins with its stars in New York and generates a casual pace from there. The generic plot then develops giving Matsumoto many girls to sift through and Inoue...well, she just has her usual sulking to attend to. If only people would talk to each other? No really, if they did that in this drama, the show would be over after one episode.

Khalida · 1 Feb 2008

At first I wasn't sure how the second season of HYD would turn out. Since they already had included Ayano as the first fiancee, I wasn't sure whether they would still have Ookawahara Shigeru or not. I was hoping they wouldn't because she reallllly bugged me in the anime. But now, I'm really glad they still included her.

Kato Natsuki was the prefect Shigure, and I ended up liking her a lot more than I did during the anime. I'm sure they meant for everyone to hate Umi though, and they were pretty darn successful. Though the amnesia was an overload of cliches, it added nice touch for the near ending of the series.

I'm really glad they went into Soujiroh (I still have no idea what the proper spelling of his name is xD) and Akira's personal lives. I always felt they were under appreciated in the manga. And no offense, but Yuuki kind of annoyed me... a lot.

The proposal was VERY expected and cheesy, but still nice. The dance with the F4 was a great classic touch. It's seen everywhere in anime, but it always seems to make a great ending. As always, the actors were fantastic, and they acting was real and impressive. The music was great, and the insert song always seems to come in at the right moment.

Oh! And PS. Did anyone else CRINGE when Tsukasa ate Tsukushi's year-old cookie? I mean, it was touching and all... but the thing was a year old, probably hard as a rock, and possibly rotten. Fresh, homemade cookies don't have as many preservatives to keep them alive as store-bought ones do. I was surprised he didn't get sick after that, cookies can't last forever you know?

kiasukid · 12 Dec 2007

This isn't quite as pacey as Hana Yori Dango Season 1 but still makes for very enjoyable viewing especially if you liked the first one.

Characterization and character development is given more focus in this series compared to Season 1 and I feel it's a good move as it distinguishes season 2 from season 1 and does not make this season feel like a rehash of old ideas form the first season.

It's amazing what good actors with a good script and a good production team can do. As was the case with the first season, nothing in the second can really be said to be that ground-breaking in the sense that they are both really pretty much genre products.

Still, even though Hana Yori Dango season 1 & 2 are very much standard romantic comedy fare, the characters are so well written and wonderfully performed, the script so logical and tight, the direction so firm and confident that you can't help but be drawn into the story.

So much credit must go to the two leads Mao Inoue and Matsumoto Jun because they really give so many layers to what could have be one-note characters. Both these young actors managed to convey the pain and the struggle of young people just trying their best to do what's right and yet at the same time preserve a modicum of dignity and pride so important to teenagers. Kudos too to Kaga Mariko for her perfect performance of Domyuji Kaede. Not only was Kaga Mariko able to bring across the ruthlessness and authority that Domyuji Kaede possessed in spades, she was also able to vary the look in her eyes so well that the viewer is always left feeling that there is more to her and in this way, Kaga Mariko was able to give her character depth.

Recommended.

marienella · 30 Oct 2007

not as good as the first one, im tired of this drama, i hope the movie will be the last