This second season of Hana Yori Dango picks up right after Domyoji leaves for New York. After confessing to Domyoji, Makino has not spoken to him for a year. Rui and the other members of F4 try and help Makino meet Domyoji again by going to New York for the christmas holidays. Though F4 and Makino meet Domyoji again, he has become a completely different person, and so they leave for Japan. Some time later, Domyoji's mother annouces that they will be returning to Japan. There, they hold a giant super-rich and classy birthday party for Domyoji and announce something very important. Domyoji, like in the first season, is engaged to a rich girl and heir, Shigeru. The only difference is that they are to be wed soon. What will Makino do? On the side, Rui begins to fall in love with Makino. Will this become a love square?

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  Matsumoto Jun (Domyoji Tsukasa)

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  Oguri Shun (Hanazawa Rui)

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  Abe Tsuyoshi (Mimasaka Akira)

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  Matsuda Shota (Nishikado Sojiro)

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  Inoue Mao (Makino Tsukushi)

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  Tomiura Satoshi (Makino Susumu (brother of Tsukushi))

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  My Favorite Worst Nightmares

  Shaz22 discusses some moments in dramas that are simply haunting. **Spoilers**

  • Jan 30, 2013

• Apr 22, 2012 11 of 11 episodes seen

  Rourou
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  I doubt if there's a person who haven't seen the 2nd season after watching the 1st. As for me, I don't seperate between the two seasons, I just feel they're one part.
  This season had much more events than the 1st one but the 1st season's music was better than this season's. However, if we speak about the general concept everything was nicely done; The actors showed more skills and proved their great talent : I fell for that strong acting.
  Domyouji remain as my favorite character in this drama, there were new cast beside the old one wich made the drama more interesting.
  Basically, if you watched the 1st season you won't feel it's finished without watching this one.

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• Jan 3, 2012 11 of 11 episodes seen

  nyzgal23
  7 of 8 people found this review helpful
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  I can't believe that no one has rewritten a review for HYD2 yet! This drama is one of my all time favorites (amongst Japanese and Korean dramas); I loved the storyline (having read the manga and seen Meteor Garden before this one) and all of its characters. HanaDan is brilliant in that it captures the lives of these seemingly unbelievable characters in such an honest and beautiful way. I will admit, when I first started the first season, I did not like any of the characters despite being invested in the story. However, Tsukasa, Rui, Makino and rest of the characters quickly won me over. When you are watching this, you can tell just how devoted the actors really are. The acting is argubly one of the best aspects of HanaDan with a great cameo by Ikuta Toma in this season. I will forever love Oguri Shun as Hanazawa Rui. He is the standard by which I compare all second leads-I also adore Matsujun as Tsukasa as he flawlessly portrays an incredibly rash and violent character who turns out to posses an enormous heart (metaphorically). The soundtrack also deserves attention of its own: I still listen to OST for this drama and love the songs to pieces.
  Overall, I just want to say that I like the this drama is not as bright and cheery as the Korean version. It has a darker tone, which I think only helps to sell its story. This is BY FAR, my favorite version of BOF (I've seen all the versions including the Mainland Chinese one) and I'm an advocate of almost every aspect of this drama. I do, of course, suggest that you watch the first season before you start this one: you will appreciate the characters so much more. :) read more

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  Meteor Garden 2

  See the original japanese version and you can see the deffrence with yourself and i purposely recommanded second season since it's second here too but if you watch the hole Hana Yori Dango you will see the huge deffrence.

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  Hana Yori Dango

  It's the continuation of part one.

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