I watched the entire Hana Yori Dango dorama (the first one) the other day, and I enjoyed it a lot. This one is centered around a poor high school girl who is attending an elite, rich-kid school and her relationship with the leaders of that school, who are known as “F4”. It’s your typical dorama aimed at Japanese youths, since the main actors are all from boy bands. But the acting is really good, especially best friend, Yuuki (Nishihara Aki, 西原亜希) more, since she looks a lot like Matsumoto Jun (松本潤), who was also in Gokusen 1, is also really good in this dorama, and won Best Supporting Actor. There are a lot of parallels between Hana Yori Dango and Gokusen I noticed, but it’s not a bad thing. Tsukushi and Yankumi are similar in that they both take on the bad kids, and can kick ass. 🙂

One interesting thing is that Domyouji’s house is British Hills, which is affiliated with second series which is airing now, and it is pretty much a continuation of the first, with the same actors returning.