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Surprising Great
I was surprised when China took on the re-make of this Drama. I literally watched all the versions out there. Surprisingly in my opinion this was the best version out of all of them. One can argue that the male leads behavior exhibits violence, anger and cruelty. But have in mind, this is just one of the most common traits in behavior in manga's and dramas. It's one of those common school dramas. In this one it it starts off with your happy go lucky main girl who starts college with her friends. She ends up have a bad first meeting with the male lead and lands herself out of favor with the male lead of the F4. She ends up with common the red card notice. The male lead exhibits his cruel bullying behavior, especially towards the main girl who challenges him. But in this version, it's more watered down compared to the Korean and Japanese version. She later on shows him that she's not going to take his crap and high kicks his face which triggers the 'oh she's different and interesting.' Proceeds to be in denial at first but realizes he actually likes her. One of the common manga storylines of a love hate relationship. Every version has their own way of telling the story, but it was refreshing that instead of going with the cheesy high school start, they went with college, a more appropriate setting for the mature like content. For me it helped with all the adult themes that the F4 were exhibiting with the drinking, women, etc. Also in this version, the students were different, just more indifferent and less toxic which was more logical . Overall the the characters fit their age, progressively matures and have good endings. A couple things for me to pick on was the picking of the same few songs going on over and over for 50 episodes. A few sung by the male cast. They were good, but used too much. There could have been more neutral music for the mood direction of parts. Another is I wish the main girl had a bit more justice like the Japanese version 'Hana Yori Dango.' Overall, this drama is my favorite version. I'm sure many can disagree or might enjoy it, but that's why we all have our own opinions of favorites. I hope you take a chance to watch and judge it for yourself and if you don't like it, that's fine. Enjoy.
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