Category — Hana Kimi Japan

One sure sign that an Asian drama is a hit on Philippine TV is reruns. And that’s exactly what network rivals GMA-7 and ABS-CBN are doing extensively as of late.

The Korean hit (and still one of my favorite K-dramas of all time), My Name is Kim Sam Soon is being shown on GMA at 5:30 p.m., before the game show Hole in the Wall. I haven’t had the chance to watch the Tagalized version when it was first shown here so I tried to catch a few episodes. Unlike other Tagalized versions of Asian dramas, I think the dubbing for this one actually worked. The voices aren’t as irritating as other dubbed dramas and it’s just fun to look at the expressions of the actors instead of catching up with the subtitles.

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Hanazakari No Kimitachi E (Hana Kimi) Ikemen Paradise is a twelve episode drama starring Horikita Maki as Ashiya Mizuki, Oguri Shun as Sano Izumi and Ikuta Toma as Nakatsu Shuichi. It is based on the Japanese manga, Hana Kimi which is written by Hisaya Nakajo. 

Ashiya Mizuki is a Japanese girl from California who disguised herself as a boy to study in the all boys school Osaka Gakuen. A year ago, she saw Sano Izumi in a high jump competition and began to idolize him. Unfortunately, Sano Izumi injured himself in an incident that involved Ashiya Mizuki and he stopped high jumping ever since. Ashiya blames herself for what happened and promised to make Sano high jump again. The only way she can do it is to enroll in the same school as Sano and act as a boy. Can she do it?