Final Impressions / First Impressions / Hana Yori Dango

Summary:

When Tsukushi returns to the hospital, she finds that Tsukasa is already gone from his room. It seems that he’s left the hospital already, so Rui drives Tsukushi back to the Doumyouji home. Along the way, Rui wonders if she’s going to buy flowers, but Tsukushi says hana yori dango (dumplings rather than flowers) about Tsukasa. Hearing this, Rui suggests that Tsukasa’s dumpling is Tsukushi. Upon arriving at the Tsukasa’s home and going to his room, Tsukushi is surprised to find Umi already there. Tsukasa doesn’t take kindly to Tsukushi having come to his home and tells her to leave because he still thinks that she’s Rui’s girlfriend. This gets Tsukushi pissed off enough to start yelling at him until Umi interrupts them. Privately, Umi tells Tsukushi not to come here again because her irritating Tsukasa is interfering with the recovery of his memory. She thinks that Tsukasa will remember soon and asks Tsukushi to leave this to her. Umi then brings Tsukasa his tea, but he would rather have those cookies again. Tsukushi is shocked to find out that Umi is pretending to be responsible for the cookies, but she doesn’t say anything to refute it and instead starts crying. She finally leaves after throwing her Saturn necklace at Tsukasa.

After hearing from Tsukushi about what happened, Yuuki wants to go give Umi a piece of her mind, but Tsukushi stops her. Tsukushi had felt that even if he lost his memory, Tsukasa would choose her, but she knows now that it was wrong to think so conceitedly. Back at the Doumyouji mansion, Tsukasa can’t help but think about how Tsukushi had been angry and crying. Umi herself starts crying about how he’s concerned for Tsukushi and confesses that she likes him. Tsukushi meanwhile ends up returning home, but she gets a phone call from Rui inviting her to a ski resort courtesy of Akira. He reminds her that she won’t lose even if she’s stepped on because she’s Tsukushi the weed. She ends up going, but Tsukasa also shows up with Umi in tow. When Tsukushi encounters Umi in the hot springs later, Umi reports that Tsukasa hasn’t remembered Tsukushi. She does say, however, that he’s considerably more cheerful now. Umi also decides to declare to Tsukushi that she likes Tsukasa. Outside, Soujirou and Akira are considering what to do about Umi, but Rui doesn’t believe that Umi will end up with Tsukasa because Tsukasa is like a wild animal and Tsukushi won’t be surpassed by Umi. He feels that the bond between Tsukasa and Tsukushi is stronger than how they feel.

After her bath, Tsukushi runs into Tsukasa in the hotel lobby, and he surprisingly asks her why she hasn’t shown herself around him lately. After she points out that he was the one who didn’t want her around, he then asks if she knows something. Tsukushi admits that she does know, but she feels that it won’t have meaning unless Tsukasa finds out himself. She remains on Tsukasa’s mind and he continues to hold on to the Saturn necklace when Umi brings him a new batch of cookies. As soon as he bites down, Tsukasa realizes that the taste is wrong and he angrily throws away the entire box. He now knows that she lied because she didn’t make the original cookies. This causes her to question if he remembers everything now, and although he hasn’t, he’s figured out that she has nothing to do with him. Umi calls him cruel and then runs out, but Tsukasa doesn’t even give her another look and instead focuses on the Saturn necklace in his hand. At that time, Tsukushi is searching for Yuuki and runs into Umi in the lobby. After thinking for a moment, Umi tells Tsukushi that Yuuki went to the restaurant at the top of the mountain to get something she left behind. Concerned for her friend, Tsukushi rushes out into the snowstorm outside. In actuality, Yuuki had been in the hot springs, and when she shows up for dinner by herself, Rui becomes worried about what happened to Tsukushi.

Realizing that Tsukushi must have gone out, Rui and Yuuki confront Umi, and she admits what she did. When Tsukasa comes to see what’s going on, Yuuki tells him that Tsukushi may have had an accident. Noticing the big snowstorm outside, Tsukasa springs to action and rushes outside to a snowmobile. Akira is surprised to see Tsukasa act like this since he was supposed to have forgotten Tsukushi, but Rui feels that it’s Tsukasa’s instinct to go save her. By now, Tsukushi has collapsed in the snow somewhere in the woods and thinks about how she doesn’t want to die because she still has her dreams: she still has to become a lawyer and make her family happy, and she also wants to put on a wedding dress. Tsukushi is awakened from the visions of her future self when she hears Tsukasa calling out to her. His snowmobile is out of gas, so he carries her to a nearby cabin in the woods. The authorities and media have been notified of them being missing, and Kaede is frustrated again after watching the news report. She becomes shocked when Ken suddenly comes into her office and reveals that he confessed everything to Tsukasa after he was found out. Back then, when he had begged for Tsukasa’s forgiveness, Tsukasa had inquired about the well being of Ken’s wife and children. Tsukasa had actually been really glad that Ken was still alive and had cried as a result. Because of this, Ken sees Tsukasa as a man who stands at the top of the group and pleads with Kaede to send a special rescue force.

Inside the cabin, Tsukasa gives the shivering Tsukushi his coat and then starts a fire in the fireplace. Before falling asleep, Tsukushi is relieved to hear that Umi lied and Yuuki is actually okay. She wakes up again sometime later and asks Tsukasa if he remembered everything. When he tells her that he hadn’t, she questions why he saved her. Tsukasa isn’t so sure himself and admits that his body acted on its own when he found out that something happened to her. He then collapses and Tsukushi realizes that he’s got a high fever. She manages to finds some medicine for him, feeds it to him, and then covers him up. Because Tsukasa wonders if she’s not cold too, Tsukushi says that she’s okay because she’s used to the cold as a poor person. She also calls herself Tsukushi the weed, and this reminds Tsukasa of something like this happening before. He remembers that he waited and waited in the rain and they had been later confined to a place they couldn’t run away from. He had gotten a cold back then and she had made him take some medicine before they had spent the night together. He recalls now that the woman he fell in love for the first time was Tsukushi – she’s his destined woman. Tsukushi is in tears over how he finally remembered and is even happier that he kept the Saturn necklace. He struggles back up to put the necklace back around her neck and says that they are a fated union. Because of all this, Tsukushi can’t help but cry tears of joy as Tsukasa holds her in his arms.

The next morning, Tsukushi and Tsukasa are discovered and rescued by a search party. When the news reaches the ski resort, Umi can’t help but feel bad and apologize. Rui, however, tells her that she won’t be forgiven even if she cries – as long as she isn’t sincerely reborn, no one will forgive her. Tsukushi eventually returns home to her parents and finds a celebration awaiting her. The reason seems to be because the newspaper is running an article about the countdown to the engagement announcement of the woman who helped Tsukasa – in other words, her. What’s more, the president of the company that Tsukushi’s father used to work for now wants him back because he saw the article. Everyone is excited that they can return to the company housing, but Tsukushi first notices that there’s another article of interest on the back of the newspaper. It involves the old man she talked to before Tsukasa lost his memory who seems to have made a big invention using nanotechnology. In fact, at that time, the old man Tooyama is in talks with Kaede about their companies cooperating together. He tells her that if the talk about the marriage is true, then he wants to help Tsukasa. Tsubaki comes into the meeting to explain to her mother that Tsukushi is Mr. Tooyama’s benefactor, and Tooyama himself even goes as far as to suggest that Tsukushi is perhaps the Doumyouji Group’s savior.

Under pressure from Tsubaki to accept Tsukushi and Tsukasa, Kaede tells Tsukasa the following day that she’s entrusting the company to him. She’s officially naming him as the successor, but Tsukasa has a condition first: he wants Nishida as his secretary. He says that he’s not a stupid manager who would leave a competent secretary fired, and after Tsukasa walks away, Kaede smiles. Tsukasa then goes home and asks his sister for help in going to New York to settle business with Shigeru’s family. He knows that Tsukushi has been blaming herself for the failed merger, so he wants to make her feel better by getting it worked out again. Tsukushi meanwhile is helping her parents pack up and is looking forward to her graduation ceremony tomorrow when her father comes in with a large package from Tsukasa. In it is a red dress for the prom, and Tsukushi’s mother couldn’t be prouder of her. The day of graduation soon arrives, but Tsukushi’s family’s van gets stuck in the mud on the way there. Although they get out to try to push, the family can’t move the car. It’s not until Umi shows up to help push that they get the car out of the mud. The two girls laugh when they get their clothes dirty, and as the van drives away, Umi apologizes for everything she did to Tsukushi, allowing the girls to part on friendly terms.

Tsukushi ends up missing the graduation ceremony and is noticeably absent still from the prom as Rui, Soujirou, and Akira wait for her. Many familiar faces show up to the Nippon Budoukan, including Shizuka, Sakurako, and even Shigeru with Tsukasa, but Tsukushi is at that moment stuck because the van ran out of gas. With the encouragement of her mother, she runs on foot towards where the prom is being held, and she happens to encounter Kaede and Nishida along the way. Kaede comments on how she’s dirty as usual, but she also tells Tsukushi to get into the waiting car. An excited Tama explains to Tsukushi that Kaede has accepted her, so Tsukushi goes over to thank Kaede. As her car drives away, Kaede smiles and waves out the window. Unfortunately, despite the ride, Tsukushi doesn’t arrive at the prom until its dark, and the sign is already being taken down. Unable to believe that it’s already over, Tsukushi rushes inside and finds herself in a dark auditorium with a single spotlight. Tsukasa appears in the light and yells at her for being late and not wearing the red dress. Tsukushi had forgotten about it and tries to justify it by saying that dresses don’t suit her because she’s Tsukushi the weed.

After a moment of silence, Tsukasa announces that he has something he wants to tell her. That something is a marriage proposal, and he once again holds out his hand to her. After she slowly approaches him, he feels that despite all the bad experiences, he still wants to be with her. Saying that it can’t be helped, Tsukushi takes his hand. To her surprise, he then sweeps her off her feet and the lights to the auditorium turn on to reveal thousands of cheering people. Tsukasa explains that he had asked them all to wait after the prom was over because he was making a proposal. With all of her friends are here to congratulate her, Tsukushi can hardly believe what’s happening. She then dances with Tsukasa while everyone watches on, and she also gets to dance with Akira, Soujirou and Rui. Outside the arena, Kaede tells Nishida that she’s not going in, but she tells him that if he wants to go, he should. After Nishida excuses himself, Kaede can’t help but smile again. Sometime after the party, Tsukasa arrives at the Makino home to ask Tsukushi’s father for Tsukushi’s hand in marriage, but he screws it up and asks her father to marry him instead, much to everyone’s amusement.

Describing the members of the F4, Tsukushi starts with Akira who is the most adult and the nicest. She feels that Soujirou is the biggest playboy, but he’s also the most pure. He would always give you a push so that you can live according to your desires. Rui was her first love, the person who always helped her, and the person who understood her the best. She really wants to thank him a lot. That leaves just her destined person, Doumyouji Tsukasa. From now on, she’ll be, for a long long long time, together with him. When she goes out on a date with him at their normal meeting spot, he’s angry that she’s late again. She responds by grabbing him by the scarf, pulling him in, and kissing him.

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Well I think this is as happy an ending as I could have hoped for. It was certainly a lot more conclusive than the ending of the first series. I had read last week that the finale got filmed with 11,500 extras, so I had been expecting something like that arena scene to happen. It was good to see everyone gathered for the finale and Tsukasa’s marriage proposal, though it was a little frustrating that they saved the kiss for the very last 30 seconds of the episode. They should have also kissed (they were so close!) during the cabin scene and maybe while Tsukasa was holding Tsukushi in the arena too. But I guess all’s well that ends well.
My hatred for Umi continued even as they tried to redeem her character a little at the end, whereas Kaede actually started not looking so bad in comparison. It still felt awkward to see Kaede smile like that, but it wasn’t that bad. The person I feel the most sorry for is still Rui, who didn’t get the girl despite all he did for her. He gave away his violin at the end, so maybe that’s a sign that he’s moving on.

Final Thoughts: Overall, I think this season started out well, but the middle few episodes felt very frustrating because of how Tsukushi and Tsukasa just couldn’t get together for whatever reason. The most important thing for me is that it ended with Tsukasa and Tsukushi finally clear of all obstacles in their relationship, and this time they aren’t on opposite sides of the world. In any case, I’m really glad I watched both Hana Yori Dango series because they’ve been thoroughly entertaining. Although I would like to see more about Rui and maybe Soujirou and Yuuki, I think they’ve exhausted most of the story, so I can’t see them making a third series. Still, I can imagine the possibility of a wedding special or something…

141 Comments

  2. ohhhhhmyGOSH. i am so sad its OVER!!!!!! wah.
    hana yori dango 2 was sooo good. its the best show ever!
    i was just wondering… why does it say ‘つづく’ at the end???
    that means, it will continue… IS IT GOING TO?!!!!!
    I HOPE THERE IS A HANA YORI DANGO 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol.

    sarahh
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  6. OMFG that was beautiful! I agree, a little cheesy at moments, but soooo good! and when Tsukasa says “swwwwwaaaeeeet honaaaaaay” (sweet honey) when they were rescued I almost DIED it was soo damn funny! I was always for Tsukushi/Rui to end up together, but the ending was perfect **sigh** I’m sad it’s over but happy it ended happy. Although I still feel sorry for Rui…

    Suki
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  7. OMG!!! i’m going crazy… we don’t have the live channel where HYD is shown so i’m extremely anxious about the ending!!! what happened??? i can’t wait for the summary!!! please please please… 🙂

    meishiru
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  8. “My hatred for Umi continued even as they tried to redeem her character a little at the end, and Kaede actually started not being so bad in comparison.”

    me too!!! I totally hate Umi!!! despite only having seen the 10th episode, I think she should just fall off that dangerous cliff and DIE for real!!!

    meishiru
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  11. the proposal scene was fantastic!
    a little cheesy, but honestly who wouldn’t love that to happen to them…and i thought it was clever to recreate the elevator scene, even with same scarf, as soon as i saw that scarf i knew what was gonna happen!

    thanks for covering this series, your summaries really helped my not so great japanese understanding out…

    Have a nice day!

    andi
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  14. thanks for the summary!!
    it was the most amazing drama i have ever watched including the second season which made me fully satisfied with the ending. *sigh* i’m going to miss hana yori dango.

    Saturn_people
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  21. Aww, Tsukasa and Tsukushi looked so cute with each other in this episode. ^^
    I felt so good when Tsukasa pitched those cookies made by whatshernameidontcare against the floor. Possibly one of the best scenes in this series!

    I’m kinda disappointed it didn’t end with the actual wedding, but it was a good finale nonetheless. Kudos to HYD staff for this fantastic drama series! ^^

    Rasmiel
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  22. Thank you for all of your hard work. You’re so awesome…

    If there is a season 3, I think the anxiety of anticipation is going to kill me…
    but for some reason I think that this may be it…although I’m mighty frustrated that “the kiss” was in the last scene…and that whole wedding dress thing–yikes….
    I don’t care for things like that. Oh well…
    Although I’m fond of the Tsukushi/Tsukasa pairing, I’m fond of Tsukushi/Rui even more…
    I’m glad Shigeru came back one more time…
    ok I’m done…sorry

    Fiori
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  26. @:D
    these “???” means nothing, its just that your system are not compatible to display
    Japanese Fonts. They need a 16Bit encoding, and for this you need special functions, to
    display Japanese letters (Katakana,Hiragana,Kanji. Romanji are our letters)

    Thats all

    Germanguy
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  30. Auwww. Poor Rui. Always giving, giving, giving until the end without receiving anything back xD;;. I was hoping Shizuka was with him when he was playing his violin, or would pop up somewhere. As much as I’m for T&T pairing, I always felt so bad for Rui because he…idk. It seemed like every one of his genuine loves seemed to go wrong.

    I’m dying for a third season though, or at least sort of special 12th episode. I have no idea what it’d be about, but I’m kind of sad that HYD2 ended xD;;. Nothing to look forward to on Fridays/Saturdays anymore :/.

    Carolyn
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  34. I find it both sad and rather amusing that even though Tsukushi sees Rui as the one who always helps her and the one who understands her the best, she still believes she’s in love with Tsukasa… But that’s just my opinion.

    I remember getting so excited for this series to start, and now it’s over, probably for good… I looked forward to these summaries every week, too; now what am I going to look forward to? LOL

    jessi
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  36. NOO !! ITS THE END !!!

    i loved the proposal ! cept for the fact she was in her
    uniform … but yea ! still awesome !!

    and they should definitely make a wedding special !
    i’d sooo freaking love that !!!!! ^__^

    sakurakiss
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  37. Hi Omni!
    Thank you sooo much for your HYD summary and all your effort! You’re really doing a great job!!!!
    HYD became dfinitely one of my favourite jdrama 🙂
    I’m really relieved to know that Tsukushi and Tsukasa are finally a couple and even marry:-)

    So what do you think: will there be a HYD III?*lol*

    Lots of greetings

    DelightfulGirl
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  41. i cant believe its over!!!!!! i love hana yori dango i hope they do make a 3rd season ill just pray it will happen i feel sorry for rui he didnt get the gurl after all he did for her

    Sarah
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  42. such a good show!!!! i loved it best ever and the anime too!!! but i still wished Makino could have been with Rui instead …i don’t really like doumyogi plus.. Rui was sooo nice…ohh welll VERY WELL DONE show anyways!! i still love it ….i hope i can find somthing as nice as this show

    girl101!
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  43. Thankyou sooooo much for the detailed summaries!!!
    I’m the type of person who usually wants to know what happens when I am not expecting any surprises, and so since I’ve had exams, i havent been able to watch HYD, desperate to know what happens, my only resort is your summaries!! Having survived on reading your reports, exams will soon be over and so I actually watch the episodes!!!!

    you are my saviour!!

    ps, i still feel bad for rui though ~ my love!!

    ible
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  44. I gotta say, I agree that in comparison to the first season’s ending, this is much better.
    I still can’t figure out where the hell Umi came out of at the end. She just randomly popped out of nowhere.
    I am still cheering for Yuuki and Nishkado! I wish there was more progress at the end for them. I really liked the scene when the lights went on and everyone was doing the whole “Surprise” thing. I mean, it wouldn’t be a Domioji proposal if he didn’t go over the top at one point.
    I know that everyone is feeling really bad for Rui, but I gotta be selfish and say I am glad that he didn’t get back together with Shizuka or anything of that sorts. It lets all his fangirls (present company included) to daydream as much as they want to.
    As much as I would love a continuation of the story, I don’t think that a wedding special would be a good idea. Seeing them all over the top lovey dovey would kind of ruin their image. I’m looking forward to Matsumoso Jun’s future performances. I think with his character being twisted and turned and utterly alternated this season, he handled it very well. 5 stars for season too!

    Marina
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  47. Hi !!!

    Well I haven’t seen the episode but I hope to see it soon.
    About a third season, I read in a website that the 3rd season will start to be recorded in June.

    I you wonder which website (in fact si a blog XD) I leave you the link. It is an spanish blog.

    http://arashi4dream.blogcindario.com/2007/03/00101-hana-yori-dango-3-temporada.html

    Even though, I don’t know what the 3rd season would be about, but it want to see everyone again ^^

    last_memory
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  48. a 3rd season being recorded so soon would b great. more then great but are u sure thats reliable information? matsujun has bambino jdrama and an arashi movie coming out on april that guy sure is working a lot this year.

    Rute
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  51. I totally agree with you that the middle episodes were SO fustrasting. I was thisclose to punching my laptop b/c I was so pissed. Umi is the most hated character ever. I’m glad that at least Makino finally showed her true feelings for Doumyoji…about time!! Doumyoji made his feelings clear over and over again, yet she either rejects him or ignores him or finds some stupid excuse to break up with him. If I ever did that to someone, I doubt I’ll have such a happy ending (especially if he’s the richest bachelor on the planet and looks like Matsumoto Jun). I liked the ending because it showed that she finally embraced her feelings and isn’t afraid to show them. The series ended well. I would like to see a wedding special if there is one (pending that they wouldn’t break up yet again). Thanks for all the caps and your comments!

    aki no hana
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  53. Wow3… Good END!!! I was wondering how they were going to tie off the rest of the stories. And another I like the ending how tsukishi describes them at the end cause at the beginning of the hana yori 1 all she could say about them were not so good (Except Rui) It’s nice how the wrappd it out although I really wanted tsukishi to have a beuaty scene and not the plain uniform , maybe Kaede could have given her a dress at least. But still YYYEEEEYYYYY!!!!

    aira
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  55. It’s a nice drama,, but still they didn’t show us something about soujirou and yuki future relationship >>!!

    well, i am glad that tsukushi ended up with tsukasa…

    arigatou ^_^

    UAE girl
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  56. @last_memory

    The writer is simply hoping for a third season after reading a TV magazine where the HYD cast talked in interviews and each of them answering ‘what if there were to be a third season’ question. And the entry was made 2 episodes prior to the finale so that’s not even a decent source to begin with.

    I don’t remember very clearly but there wasn’t a ‘See you soon’ line like at the end like that of the first season, which I think indicates that they aren’t planning any new season as of now.

    Rasmiel
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  57. i’m s0o0o0o0o gonna MISS this series… definitely, one of the best i’ve ever seen. 🙂 thanks A LOT for blogging the summaries… it really helped ease the agony of having to wait 2 weeks just to know what happened in the last episode 🙂

    meishiru
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  58. wuaaah… finally its all wrap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    2 years i’ve been waiting 2 watch it,,,
    omni… hounto ni doumo arigatou gozaimasu for all your hard work… just cant enough to thank to you… just like omni,, i (deep inside) i still hoping 4 the wedding special or something,,, cant get enough for every hana yori dango thing…

    jya nee…

    sumire
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  59. wut was up with the wave its not a football game o.0 i’d love to see wut would happen if u put tsukushi and tsukasa’s mom in the same house…haha and wut happens if the family tried to discuss wedding plans~~ i think that would be amusing and soujira and yuuki~~

    littlemozart
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  60. OMFG!!!!
    i watched HYD froem the first season and waited for the second one like a lunatic…
    i even got a bunch of friends to go ga-ga over it here in KL.hahah
    am known as one of the people that spread-ed the HYD virus!hahah
    Second season was great…i thought that Oguri Shun nearly outshone Matsu Jun..
    HE was so good at potraying Rui especially when he told Tsukasa that he was in love with Makino at the cafeteria.I thot he sucked at it in the first season…
    i almost voted for him in this one…hehehe…i wud have chosen Rui within a heartbeat…
    i thot that it was great that everyone was gathered in the end…
    i luuuuuuvvvvv HYD…its better than flowers any day!!!
    i get so happy by watching it…
    final thought:the cafeteria’s food must be great ne…they keep going there.o_O
    and i really tot that it would have been better if they kissed in the arena than Domyougi lifting her like that…they should have kissed more!!!!LOL

    rainchan
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  63. I guess they ended it as happily as they could for T&T…tho I felt that the ending was a bit rushed with too many things happening and that they could’ve cut out some boring stuff in the middle, but other than that, it was a pretty good sequel…I like the actress that acted as Umi, but I don’t like the character she played…felt bad for Rui as i expected..wish he could be happy too…anyways, I’m still impatiently waiting for crunchyroll to upload the last episode with subs…very weird how it’s taking so long..it’s like they’re purposely making fans be in suspense..lol..anyways, thanks for all your wonderful summaries=)

    sheilapiglet
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  64. I really like to watch Hana Yori Dango.. I was having my marathon every night.. hahahaha… I will watch 4-5 episodes in just one night… anyway it’s worth it.. I’m very excited to see the last episode.. i hope that it will come soon.. anyway this summary really helped me a lot.. and ofcourse the pictures.. They are sooo cute…>.

    Marianne
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  65. Umi popping in out of nowhere was quite weird..I mean really. yeah the ending WAS quite cheesy…sigh…I agree with how you feel, especially about Rui, who’s so nice.

    It’d be nice to know what happens after, though.

    Deena
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  66. soy Natalia de Argentina y quiero decirles q me encanto la primera parte de la novela y no veo la hora de q traduzcan la segunda para poder verla completa. esta “BUENISIMA” me gustaria q alguien me respondiera para poder comentarla. chauuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!

    naty
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  67. yo soy de chile.. me vi la 1ª y 2ª temporada.. eso si las dos temporadas me las vi en ingles.., natalia te va a encantar la 2ª temporada.. por lo menos yo me enamore 😛 esop… 😛 xau

    cata
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  68. that was a great ending ep!
    they managed to squeeze in a few plot lines from the manga without making it seem to fast
    the ending was soooo sweet
    makino can’t dance very well ^^’
    thankyou for summarizing this series

    i’m hoping for a bonus ep sometime ^__^

    Carcy
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  69. what a good & romantic story!!! If there’s season 3, I hope it’s as good as this…
    actually I watch HYD from season 2, then at the ep.1 it flash back to the season 1, that make me really want to watch the 1st season and OMG!!! it’s a great story

    I feel sorry for Rui..he’s the one who supported Tsukushi from the very beginning and he got nothing..
    I hope he can find a nice girl like Tsukushi
    Thanxs for the picture.. it makes me want to watch it again and again…

    she_ariesgirl
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  70. i love this drama. Im so sad to see it end. I would want ta third season but then the sotry line could be pointless. I loved the ending. I couldnt of hoped for a better ending. I wish they kissed more. Thanks for all summaries and pics. ;}

    Jennifer
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  73. i really love this story so much,. i think tsukasa is a perfect man in the world…he is so cute.can wait the next story…for yoko kamio…u r so great…gambatane…keep goin girl..luve u…

    erychan
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  77. wow!! the story of hanayori dango 2 is just
    like the story of meteor garden2 !!
    its pretty good even i didnt watch it
    the story is nice!!
    it will be a good story if rui and tsukushi will
    end up together but tsukasa is cool too!!
    i luv the last part~~!

    Khim_aRasHiFan
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  78. THis Series is the best series i had watch in my life…. this is the most beautiful…hahahaa.. I love HAnasawa RUI… Ingiit kau.. THank Hana Yori Dango for such a great storyyy ever… and i’ve learned a lot in this showw… thanks

    Camcliffe4
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  80. haha..i hate umi but after those things happened i8 recalled all girls who came to tsukasa’s life who tried to pull him away from tsukushi and i also hate shigeru….but i loved this part:marriage proposal.

    kissarine
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  83. yo! guys who really loves watching HYD,
    i hope that there would be another season of it!
    right guyz!
    hey those who knows e-mail address of tbs let me know,
    lets flood their site with our request!^^
    see yah guys!
    SAYOUNARA & HAJIMEMASHITE!

    francis~!
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  88. thnx… i’ve been dyn 2 know what happens. atleast there was a marriage purposal, which is more than I can say 4 the manga. don’t get me wrong, I luvd it, but atleat we got better conclusion instead of an open ending.
    thanks, again.

    belitza
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  89. Im sooooooooo sad..I wish there is a HYD season 3…!!!!weeeeehhhhhh…..!!!!!! I wish that Doumyoji and Makino have their daughters and sons……!!!!! im sooooo very thankful that there is Hana Yori Dango… It sooooooo veeeeeeeeery gooooooood…!!!!!!! I LOVE HANA YORI DANGO 4EVER AND EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    I LOVE IT!!!!!!!I LOVE IT!!!!!!!I LOVE IT!!!!!!!I LOVE IT!!!!!!!I LOVE IT!!!!!!!I LOVE IT!!!!!!! I wish someday i will meet Jun and Mao in personal…!!!!

    -jane-
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  91. I absolutely love HYD. i don’t usually watch jap drama but this is the best. i love Hanazawa Rui. he is so cute. Domyoji Tsukasa was okay. he still acts like an asshole though. but it’s all good in the end.

    Love HYD
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  94. Please can somebody tell me where can I look HYD free on the internet.
    I was looking for it since April and I didn’t found it yet. I used to look on “Youtube” but now I can’t find it.
    I love HYD and I think it’s a very beautiful serie. I’m really a fan!!^^

    -Nana Kashin-
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  95. This is such a great drama…I can’t help watchin it over and over…the cast is great and fit the characters very well…this is so much better than meteor garden (a rip off of hyd)…

    Rui is such a nice guy…wonder if all that he did was to help makino all along…like making tsukasa jealous…he also so generous and kind…such a sweetie….sometimes I want makino with rui but other times makino with tsukasa…

    I don’t like umi…trying to take advantage of tsukasa who lost his memory…and he’s such a dummy for forgetting makino..

    I love how hyd had a happy ending…

    If there’s a season 3 I’ll definitely watch it…

    P.s. Thanks for the thorough summaries…keep up the good work!

    dramafan
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  96. You realize no one would like that the series once again ended, and you would always wished they had more, but then come to the conclusion that it’s best to not make more, because then it wouldn’t be good anymore…. sad isn’t it? Already ended…

    I totally agree with anyone that thinks they should’ve have had wedding or something.

    Phoebs
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  97. I love you….tsukasa !!! sugoi da!!! Hope you’ll be always together with tsukushi for a long time….forever maybe…i thought that hana yori dango is the best japanese drama that i’ve watched….Success for you all!!

    Eugenia
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  99. Ohhhhhhhhhh!!
    It’s so great. It’s so entertaining.
    I luv it very much.
    I really did cry when Tsukasa forgot Tsukushi.
    But it has a happy ending.
    Yep, I really like the ending although I feel sorry for Rui.
    Thanks for the summery.
    I REALLY hope there’ll be HYD season 3…

    Dsmbr
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  101. This episode was sooo awesome, just like the whole series. I felt so bad for Rui, but I still think Makino/Domyouji is the best. “MY SWEAT HONEY!!!!!” LMAO. I actually laughed wicked hard.

    To Ayusa: That’s basically just Makino thinking about all the things she wants to do when she thinks she’s dying.

    BosoxChica
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  102. I watch the HYD 2 except episode 5. reading it completed the whole story, but it would be great if I could watch it. In the end it’s Tsukasa and Makino but Riu would be better I think he is hotter and sweter then Tsukasa. But that’s mine opinion.

    Feyza
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  103. Thanks for the shots and the complete story. You have sure encouaged me to continue watching HYD2 [currently at epi 4]. And from what I have just read, Umi really seems to be a horrible person even though they let her undergo ‘makeover’.

    Tonikaku, I’m just glad that Tsukasa and Tsukushi are together.

    Love so sweet ♫

    Kise
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  105. Oooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhh, I stumbled on your site while surfing wikipedia. So sad that HYD2 have ended, they have onbly just started showing in SG. Anyway lets hope the finale, movie version will be good and gosh i tot my drama craze had ended. That Matsumoto Jun have to come and ruin it all. Wooo i love the show and all of the cast except for that stupid Umi of course. LOLs….

    The most Fabbbbbbbbbbbbulous show of the year indeed!

    calyn
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  106. i think they are makeing a hana yori dango 3 movie not drama.
    i’m not to sure though, it was on wikkipedia.com so i’m not sure if its true.
    however i hope they do make the finial ending of this series!
    i loved it!
    😀

    julie
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  114. …ang ganda ng story grabeh! ang gwapo ni jun matsunoto! kuhang kuha nya yung dapat na pole for him.. nakikilig din ang mga manonood…the girl also did the great job… i hope to see more of them together in the near future with lots of movies or series together..

    lea
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  115. HANAYORI DANGO 1 AND 2 IS THE BEST JDORAMA EVER. EACH TIME I HEARD FLAVOR OF LIFE SONG WHILE IM WATCHING THE SERIES IT MAKES ME FALLIN IN LOVE WITH THIS SERIES, WISHING THATS THERE A CONTINUATION OF THE SERIES, IM SURE THAT PEOPLE WILL STILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THIS KIND OF SERIES

    genu
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  117. cguradong aabangan na naman ang hana yori dango2 dahil itoy napakganda at nakakaaliw panoorin;;;;;”””,,,,,,,,,;);)gudluck sa show nio ang ganda u makino;);:)lov u muah;………..

    cathy
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  119. I totally agree with you about Umi’s character — not a very likable one. It’s not that she made bad decisions, but she came off as a selfish and bad person. So that just made it worse. I can’t believe that it took Tsuku and Tsukasa so long to be together. The whole season was good — but most of the episodes were so annoying to me because they were so stubborn and other things kept getting in the way. I don’t like Kaede’s character, either. She’s ultimately selfish and cruel to do that things she did to Tsukasa, despite her intentions. Ahh, Rui. I really wished someone would appear from the blue and be right for him. But if that happened, he would come off as wishy washy because he cared so much for “Tsukyy”~ Regardless, I feel bad for him. He’s the perfect nice guy and gets nothing in the end. In the middle of the season, I was really cheering for Rui because I thought he would make a better pair with Tsuky than Tsukasa. But I mean…it’s 11 episodes worth of drama, so I am glad those two ended up together.

    Thank you for your summaries and reviews! They were awesome.

    Tama
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  122. gosh!!!
    i hate UMI TOO MUCH!!
    she’s a devil in disguise!!
    a CERTIFIED STEALER
    AND DEFINITELY A FLIRT!!

    thankS to rui hanasawa..
    he is a great friend..
    a and a true lover..
    he’s never been that shellfish..
    and he protected TSUKUSHI until the end..
    i liked him the most when he told that FLIRT
    to keep her mouth shut and he’s an eyesore to him!!
    =)
    i love HYD..
    except for that stupid FLIRT!

    DIANE
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  125. Ohhh I love this drama, is great. The only bad thing for mi is Rui’s end, he ends all alone and he loves Tsukushi…so sad…I’ve always wanted a Rui/Tsukushi end, but I thing this is fantastic too. I hated Tsukasa but is so cute…But Rui is cute too…ahhhhh I can wait to see the film…We have to wait until August…I NEED IT NOW!!!!

    Amaranta
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  126. hey guys don’t worry it’s not ending! my friend from japan says that they’re currently filming the movie for HYD and it’s gonna be shown in cinemas in japan this may. So it’ll probably take some time to come to singapore, but oh well, IT’S NOT THE END YET 😀
    楽しみにしてね！

    kiseki
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  129. ^ yessss same here! i am so unsatisfied with the way HYD2 ended, especially my poor Rui :[[ hopefully he will get his own happy ending in the moviee 🙂 oh and yuki…i hope she ends up getting together with soujihro<3

    laynaa
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  131. this is not the end… there will be
    ” hana yori dango final the movie ” = THAT will be the end…
    it just came out on the 28th of June 2008
    so..
    u’ll have to wait for a while for it to be uploaded with english subs. on any site..

    im sure that its gonna be a happy ending.. ^_^

    julia
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