Meteor Garden 2018 vs Meteor Garden 2001 vs Hana Yori Dango
SAME THROUGHOUT ALL 3:
Time difference in Paris scene
Shoes can take you to beautiful places quote
Shan Cai/Makino you're cute today kiss scene with Lei 2001 and 2018 and Rui (I don't think there was a kiss?) at night
F3 help sell dango/cakes/milktea
DMS tells Shan Cai to close her eyes because he will get beat up, says it don't hurt one bit and Makino covers Tsukasa for the final blow, and says he wouldn't be able to protect her if he didn't fight back
DMS mom makes Shan Cai play piano during DMS bday party
Shan Cai's mom pours flour/salt on DMS mom's head, in 2018 her dad also pretends to throw water for her to wash it off
Shigeru bites Tsukasa's ear after he drags her out far barefoot and doesn't have money to take a cab
Akira and Soujiro go out with Shigeru on rollercoasters, buffets and exotic animals (HanaDan), plus movies, ice cream and sanitary napkins (2001), only movies, walking, claw machines and lingerie shops to buy bras(2018) Shigeru visits Makino at work to show them how they're trying to get her to give up DMS
Shigeru waits for Makino outside her house and hugs her and says Tsukasa agreed to date her
Shan Cai listens to Xiao Zi's rants and Xiao Zi asks if they've kissed
Shigeru strips and Tsukasa says she'll catch a cold, DMS doesn't feel a thing, Xiao Zi asks if she should've worn lingerie, blabs so that she doesn't hear when Tsukasa says he doesn't like her
Shan Cai works as a maid in DMS' house because she needs a reason to stay there to protect her pride, doesn't wanna stay for free
Nakatsu buys drinks while Tsukasa goes to the bathroom, Nakatsu plays dumb after being punched
Tsukasa gets mad at Makino if this is her idea of a commoner's date and says it's great if Yuki and the guy broke up, doesn't apologize
Yuki defends Tsukasa and says Nakatsu was extremely rude the whole time and Tsukasa was patient
Yuki cries to the ground when Soujiro passes by and invites her to his house
Yuki says I don't know him but I may have seen him in school
Nakatsu tells Makino her boyfriend is weird for rejecting him
Tama defends Makino to Kaede over her dead body, vowed to serve household for life to repay patriarch
Forbid Shan Cai to leave the house and will risk life to protect
DMS got into fights in HS, when sister married no one was left who dared discipline him
Rui gets Makino to kiss him to prove she can't
Breakup in the rain scene: Have you ever once seen me without my family, my name, just as a normal man? Makino lies and says no and that if she really loved him she wouldn't leave. Cuts ties with Domyouji fam
ONLY IN METEOR GARDEN (BOTH VERSIONS):
DMS visits Shan Cai while she's sick
Lei kissing Jing scene witnessed by Shan Cai
Rubber shoes scene
Forced kiss scene after seeing Lei with Shan Cai
Jing cutting hair scene
Shan Cai pukes on DMS
prank gift from DMS to Jing
Li Zhen only uploaded the photo (2018), went back from home to the hotel to take photos (2001)
Confronted by DMS, says foreigner is just asking directions
Drawing DMS angry face in notebook (2001) vs chalkboard (2018)
Challenge between DMS and Lei basketball (2001) vs bridge (2018) and offer to cancel if Shan Cai says she likes DMS and Si stops just before winning both times
DMS dead man walking on the street until he hears Lei and beats them up
Lei and Shan Cai spend the night in the same room voluntarily (2018), forced by friends (2001)
DMS sleeps in Shan Cai's house cause jet lagged
Tug of war with Shan Cai between Lei and DMS in cafeteria
Shan Cai borrows 1M from DMS, pays back with a date (2001), interest paid back with cheek kiss (2018)
I like you, I'll chase you wherever you go, even if you go to Mars and Shan Cai still leaves with Xiao Shun/Shun Ping
F3 pretends DMS is dead at the hospital after DMS and Shan Cai are beat up by Xiao Shun/Shun Ping, DMS was asleep (2001) was in on the prank (2018)
Shun Ping/Xiao Shun goes to hospital to apologize to Shan Cai and says he wishes they could be friends if she wasn't the girl DMS liked, DMS doesn't take revenge
F3 pitch DMS to Shan Cai at the hospital, she calls him a dog
Shan Cai lies about forgetting DMS bday gift
Shan Cai resists meeting DMS mom and bumps into table (2018) waiter (2001) causing a scene and making DMS mom tell Si to make her leave, DMS introduces her as the girl she likes, DMS mom asks what business their family is in and F3 lies for her
Shan Cai actually plays one song on the piano well and lectures DMS mom while playing
DMS tells Shan Cai, do you know the Maple hotel chain? That's my mom's after the party, talk in convertible (2001) in a club owned by DMF (2018) then DMS stomach's rumble and Shan Cai reveals the cookies after previously saying she forgot the gift, DMS pleads Shan Cai to not eat the cookies even if she's hungry (2001) Shan Cai told her parents she and DMS ate cookies (2018)
Shan Cai and DMS faint in the warehouse after being beaten up
F3 talk after the party about what will happen, DMF scolds F4 when they were still high school and tells DMS not to hang with F3
DMS sleeps in Lei's house and wakes him up to show him the cookies, Lei takes a bite (2001) eats the entire cookie (2018) and Si makes him spit it out
Shan Cai and DMS leave party on Ximen's car
Shan Cai congratulates DMS on his engagement in the cafeteria and argue, F3 finds out
DMF offers to solve Lei's dad's financial problems if he dates Shancai because Si always liked to steal his toys and would throw them after and now the same will happen to Shancai, he refuses and warns her about Si's personality that the more she tries to pull them apart, the stronger their bond will be and warns her twice that he will protect Shancai from her
Lei tells Shan Cai he can't encourage DMS to date Xiao Zi because people might think he has ulterior motives
Xiao Zi asks DMS to kiss her to prove he is over Shan Cai, which she sees and is upset but hides it but Lei easily sees through and she blabs when she is seen through and throws backpack at Lei and forgets to get it back
Lei sees Shan Cai at coffee shop and joins her (2018), Lei is at coffee shop and sees Shan Cai on the street, calls her on the phone to join him (2001)
Xiao Zi and DMS join Lei and Shan Cai for coffee and XZ invites them to go to the hot spring, DMS and SC are hesitant but Lei agrees
Shan Cai faints in Sauna (2018) and Si almost runs to save her but Lei beats him to it, hot spring (2001)
Shan Cai cries on Lei's shoulder after Xiao Zi tells her she and DMS had sex
Xiao Zi's mom asks her what happens and if Shan Cai is cunning, Xiao Zi defends Shan Cai
Shan Cai tells Xiao Zi she doesn't wanna hear it, and XZ asks if she hates her
DMS tells his mom he can't be with Xiao Zi, she tells him to apologize to the He fam and she'll forget it but he says he'd rather not be Dao Ming Si
F3 visit Shan Cai while she lives alone, Shan Cai doesn't wanna invite DMS, DMF visits house and tells F3 to shut up when they defend SC, SC tells DMF to gtfo, F3 applaud her
Shan Cai sits alone in her house eating cup noodles and listening to mom's message that her dad gets seasick
Ah Si peed his bed till 3rd grade
DMS sees Zhong Ze/Xiao Qi talking to some girls who he invited to a bar later that night, invites him too
Shan Cai reaches high score in punching game by thinking of Dao Ming Feng (2018) Hammer game (2001)
Lei asks, did anything weird happen to the people around you? Qing He and Xiao You get in trouble, she negotiates with Dao Ming Feng
Dao Ming Si plans to move out to protect Shan Cai but she talks him out of it
SC cuts ties with DMS and DF immediately calls to cancel orders about Xiao You and Qing He
SC leaves letter to Yu Sao before leaving, lies that her parents asked her to go home
SC's mom finds the necklace in SC's luggage at the fishing village
DIFFERENCES:
DMS stepped on Vivo smartphone therefore replaced Shan Cai's phone (MG 2018)
ringtone Mission Impossible (2001) Star Wars (HanaDan)
Cake thrown on Dao Ming Si (MG 2018) dirt? (MG 2001) Sakurako bumps with drink (HanaDan)
Almost no bullying and F4 doesn't seem to have too much power in the school (Read somewhere that MG 2001 was banned in China because of promoting class differences or something, so this may explain some things, but I can't confirm that those are facts)
College setting in both MGs and age diff freshman to senior vs HS in HanaDan and only 1 year apart
The whole bridge angle and joker card instead of red card (MG 2018)
MG 2018's Shan Cai doesn't make a joker card in her challenge to F4
same as Tsukushi in HanaDan not making one
Shan Cai 2001 makes her own red card
Handstand thing consistent in both MGs, but I don't recall Rui's handstand
Attempted rape wasn't ordered by DMS in MG 2018
Done by their minions in MG 2001 and HanaDan, but they didn't specifically order that
MG 2018 borrowing Jing's clothes not at a party, but at cafeteria after tug of war
MG 2018 DMS threw food at Shan Cai, Tsukasa threw Makino's special Ebi bento on the floor
Shan Cai 2018 doesn't seem as poor as 2001 or Makino
Lei 2018 doesn't snap at Shan Cai for interrupting his violining, 2001 does
2018, after makeover, no Shan Cai admiring self in mirror scene (2001 and HanaDan)
Stuck in elev (MG 2018 and HanaDan)
Staircase (MG 2001)
No random english words from Mei Zuo 2018 unlike 2001
DMS 2018 asks Shan Cai out at the airport while Lei's plane leaves
in HanaDan Tsukasa is too busy waving to Rui and being upset that he's leaving and isn't even mad that he kissed Shan Cai's forehead unlike MG 2018
Dao Ming Si is one of Ming De's smartest students (2018), students and teachers of Ying De are afraid of Dao Ming Si who frequently makes Taiwanese mistakes (2001), Japanese and English mistakes and puns (HanaDan)
Li Zhen never gets to party 2018
in 2001 she gets there wearing Shan Cai's dress and is asked to leave by DMS
Xiao Shun saved Shan Cai from the photo studio (2001) Rui (HanaDan)
Xiao Shun tells DMS not to fight back or he'll cut Shan Cai's face (2001) Sakurako personal grudge (HanaDan) Shunping taking revenge for his boss (2018)
Xiao Shun takes revenge on DMS for his friend (2001) poses with SC on magazine on article "how to please your man?", gives Shan Cai part time job and is beat up by DMS once, but DMS doesn't take revenge after he apologizes to SC in front of him
Junpei (HanaDan) does the same,is model, poses with Tsukushi on cover of magazine to admiration from school, apologizes to Makino alone and drops out of school, and Tsubaki saves Makino because Tsukasa is in New York
Shan Cai "sleeps" with Thomas, a foreigner (2001 and 2018) vs a host hired by Sakurako (HanaDan)
Dao Ming Feng invites Shan Cai to dinner where she announces DMS is engaged (2001) then he walks off with the wrong girl,
surprise announcement is made on Tsukasa's birthday party (Hanadan), then he walks off with the wrong girl and the scene plays out pretty much the same way
Shan Cai tells Xiao Zi that DMS likes her (2001)
Pretty much keeps their entire relationship the whole time (HanaDan)
Shan Cai goes shopping with Xiao Zi, she buys her clothes from agnes b (2001)
Makino and Yuki go shopping with Shigeru, she buys them Bvlgari jewelry (HanaDan)
DMS puts a jacket on Shan Cai while they're talking about him not wanting to be with Xiao Zi (2001), accuses her that her friendship was bought by her gift then he slaps her when she tells him to date Xiao Zi instead?! walks home drenched in rain
Domyouji puts a jacket on Tsukushi while they're thinking about what to do to get his mom to accept her (HanaDan), he never lays a finger on Tsukushi ever
DMS doesn't slap Shan Cai, just walks home like a zombie drenched in rain (2018)
Dao Ming Feng tells Lei to start anew with Shan Cai and she will save his father's company (2001)
Shan Cai thinks of DMS during date with Lei (2001) doesn't but also doesn't enjoy date (2018) too happy about date with Rui (HanaDan)
First meets Tsukasa's sister after she punches him for chasing Makino on the street (HanaDan) helps her during an argument with bystander (2018)
DMS gives up Shan Cai to Lei because he owes him for stealing his fave toy as a child, which he eventually apologizes for (2018) because he won't eat his favorite grated apples anymore because he told Rui eating them that way would make him bald but doesn't apologize (HanaDan), it is mentioned that DMS stole Lei's toys and threw them away but DMS isn't guilty about that and doesn't give Shan Cai up (2001)
DMS willingly kisses Xiao Zi to prove he doesn't like Shan Cai anymore (2001) Tsukasa is only forcibly kissed by Shigeru (HanaDan)
Makino faints while working in construction, Tsukasa leaves engagement dinner to run to the hospital after a note from Nishida (HanaDan) but Rui beats him to it, Shan Cai faints in hot spring in Xiao Zi's villa, DMS runs to save her but Lei already has (2001) sauna (2018)
DMS voluntarily flees to NY after quitting the basketball challenge (2001), bridge and London (2018), Domyouji forced by mom to study in NY for 2 years if he loses bet that Makino won't win Teen of Japan (HanaDan)
Dao Ming Zhuang seems like a more tough love sister who intimidates erveryone than Tsubaki who seems very affectionate to everyone
Dao Ming Zhuang won a contest because of her pumpkin pie she learned to cook to punish Si who hates the taste of pumpkins (2018) Tsubaki won TOJ cause she was the only one who knew how to cook okonomiyaki because it was Tsukasa's favorite (HanaDan)
Cooking contest for prize money (2018) TOJ for prize money (HanaDan) Both have opponents impossible to win, and have you forgotten that she is the only girl that stood up to F4 scene, she wants to quit both time and doubts winning and is comforted by DMS/Tsukasa, because Tian Ye told her to quit (2018) but Shan Cai's opponent isn't DMS' fiance but Tian Ye's which is the guy he works part time with who is nice, likes her and is rich and not Xiao Shun with totally different story (2001)
Shan Cai wins a special prize in cooking contest (2018) Makino doesn't win TOJ (HanaDan)
DMS shows Shan Cai shooting stars through a telescope, tells her love quote about shooting stars, puts diamond necklace on her while she was working as a servant in their house, she thought it was a booty call, tries to run away to Xiao You's but is caught by DMS at the door, he asks her to officially date but she says she can only give 1/10 what he gives but he suggests to a 2 month trial, when Shan Cai agrees at 7am DMS who hasn't slept happy dances when she leaves but is seen by Shan Cai when she gets her broom from his room (2001), gives her necklace so she can see shooting stars everyday, asks her to be GF and to trust he can make up the 90% cause he is DMS, sings with the vacuum making SC come back to take a look when she agrees so that she'll have a chance to seriously like him (2018), Tsukasa never gets to show Saturn to Tsukushi because she doesn't show because their family gets in trouble, only puts diamond necklace on at the airport runway, there is never a formal dating decision, Tsukasa acts cute on the bed when he's giddy (HanaDan)
SC asks DMS to a double date in person with F3 there (2001 and 2018), he doesn't agree but shows up anyway, Makino asks Tsukasa by phone and he agrees immediately (HanaDan)
DMS and Shan Cai go on a commoner's double date with Xiao You and Zhong Ze at an amusement park, goes on rides separate from Xiao You, DMS refuses to go home to save SC face, restrains himself and promises not to punch ZZ until he introduces girls to him (2001), goes to haunted house without Xiao You, Xiao Qi doesn't say he doesn't know Xiao You because she ran away too quickly, Shan Cai punches Xiao Qi (2018), zoo, punches Nakatsu because he says Makino isn't that pretty and invited him to ditch the girls, Makino punches Nakatsu (HanaDan)
Ximen goes on a date with Xiao You after saving her from Zhong Ze is obsessed with coffee not tea (2001), wine and tea, calls Si to meet him at the bar and they double team Xiao Qi (2018), Soujiro doesn't reciprocate Yuki's feelings and always avoids her (HanaDan)
Dao Ming Feng's butler is a complete loyal puppet (2001), Nishida sides with what is right and forms a bond with Tsukasa (HanaDan)
Shan Cai meets a boy named Song at the fishing village (2001)
Shan Cai goes on holiday in Canada, Qianhui and Baihe tell her that Xiaoyou is lost in blizzard to see night view, Lei goes with her but loses her and spills wine on one of the girls and calls them murderers, DMS was fighting with her when he went to save her on foot, dream sequence wedding scene DMS face not clear and doesn't shift to his face telling her to wake up, blizzard too big for rescue team so Ximen Xiaoyou and Meizuo decide to search until Lei knocks some sense, DMS makes hot water for Shan Cai, take off their clothes and warm each other with body heat bc Shan Cai is too cold (2018) Umi lies that Yuki went back to get something, Makino goes alone, Domyouji had forgottten about her when he went to save her on a jetski, Rui gets Umi to spill and says she should pray that Domyouji finds Makino, Makino ends up taking care of Tsukasa at the cabin (HanaDan)
Shan Cai's parents get mad at her for thinking she and DMS had sex (2018) celebrate and encourage (2001) get sad thinking she's a whore (HanaDan)
Shan Cai bakes the cookies after work at the shop with Xiao You's help (2001) Xiao You was asleep, cookies show diff emotions of DMS: happy, sad, angry, sleepy (2018) Makino bakes alone at home and was a Christmas gift to Tsukasa, just one big cookie (HanaDan)
Shan Cai is lent a dress from DMS' sister for DMS' bday party (2001) necklace (2018) Makino wears own outfit (HanaDan)
DMS bday party is held at DMS house (2018) somewhere else (2001 and HanaDan)
DMS gets sportscar as a gift (2001) rare champagne from a shipwreck in 1907 which he will sell at the party's charity auction and necklace from Bhutan (2018)
Engagement to Shigeru is announced in Tsukasa's birthday party (HanaDan), where Tsukasa mistakenly leaves with Shigeru instead of Makino. DMF's secretary visits Shan Cai at work to give her an invitation to DMS and Xiao Zi's engagement dinner, but mistakenly he leaves with Xiao Zi (2001 and 2018)
Xiao Zi asks Shan Cai to help her pursue DMS so that they'll know if he's a playboy or serious about Shan Cai (2018) after knowing from Shan Cai that there's nothing between them now (2001 and HanaDan)
Makino tells Tsukasa to date Shigeru as they are a good match (HanaDan), in the rain DMS walks away and goes home drenched (2018) DMS slaps her then leaves her in the rain (2001)
Shancai are you happy for me? (2018) I'm happy for you Shigeru (HanaDan)
DMS admits to Xiao Zi that he still loves Shan Cai in the villa, Xiao Zi hits DMS and is seen by Shan Cai on the futon because she thinks DMS forced himself on Xiao Zi after hearing noise, XiaoZi stays in villa and lies to Shan Cai that they had sex (2001), Xiao Zi doesn't hit DMS even if she wants to, seen by Shan Cai on the floor (2018), Shigeru hits him in his house, seen by Makino on his bed because she went to snoop after hearing noise, Shigeru lies to Makino that they had sex the next day (HanaDan)
Shan Cai's parents move to fishing village because her uncle is sick and dad's company lost funds, she lives alone in their house (2018) to work as fishermen and she moves to a different place to live alone (2001) lives with Susumu in a different apartment (HanaDan)
Shigeru tells her parents that she doesn't wanna be with Domyouji at the engagement dinner (HanaDan), DMS tells his mom that he won't ever marry anyone other than Shan Cai (2001 and 2018)
Shan Cai stands up to DMS' mom when she goes to her house(2001 and 2018), Makino personally goes to Domyouji headquarters to stand up to Kaede (HanaDan)
Shan Cai listens to parents' voice message about life at fishing village (2001 and 2018), Makino and Susumu read mom's letter (HanaDan)
Shan Cai's parents' house where she lives alone is bought by DMF and she has to leave (2018), Shan Cai's house where she moves to makes her leave in 2 hours (2001), Tsukasa buys the building Makino and Susumu move into so that he can stay with her, she has to leave because she threw Tsukasa to the ground and the floor gave out (HanaDan)
DMS looks for Shan Cai and asks the landlord, looks all over the city for her and calls her phone bajillions of times and found her at the place where they fought last time (2001), Shan Cai posts on QQ and people offer to let her stay, DMS finds her immediately and doesn't know she's been made to leave (2018), Tsukasa asks Tsubaki for help and she says to let her stay in the house (HanaDan)
Tsukasa is already awake when Makino cleans his room (HanaDan), DMS is woken up by SC (2001), fakes sleep and hugs her naked in bed (2001)
Yu Sao had debts paid and was taken in by Si's grandpa (2018) Tama's husband died in war and was taken in (HanaDan)
DMS' dad died of liver cancer in HS, they were a happy family until that time when DMF took over the group and the fam became cold (2018)
DMS is with F3 when he receives info from Shan Cai's kidnappers to go alone (2001 and 2018), Tsukasa is on the street running to Makino when Soujiro realizes Sakurako is dangerous and calls him on the phone and Akira pleads him not to go alone (HanaDan)
Shan Cai hides the fact that Yu Sao stood up to DMF for her from DMS (2018), Tsukasa finds out from Tsubaki and is amazed at Tama (HanaDan)
DMS drives home in a red top under his coat to see Shan Cai leaving with luggage, Yu Sao doesn't run into Shan Cai after the rain scene (2018) Tsukasa walks home in bright red coat in the rain, Tama points out Makino's lies and tears after (HanaDan) Yu Sao points out Shan Cai's lies and tears (2001)
they dress like it's always winter in China while in the Taiwanese version, they wear sleeveless clothes or just shirts all the time. I know it doesn't get super cold in Taiwan but I just noticed. HanaDan leans towards warm clothing too but not too much layers. I mean 2018 Lei wears gloves and scarves indoors!
Mei Zuo - Zhou Caina storyline, met at cooking contest, love triangle with old man Terrence (2018)
CAMEO:
2001 Shan Cai's mom in episode 11 of MG 2018, tells DMS 2018 he reminds her of her son in aw, which is basically DMS 2001!
Time difference in Paris scene
Shoes can take you to beautiful places quote
Shan Cai/Makino you're cute today kiss scene with Lei 2001 and 2018 and Rui (I don't think there was a kiss?) at night
F3 help sell dango/cakes/milktea
DMS tells Shan Cai to close her eyes because he will get beat up, says it don't hurt one bit and Makino covers Tsukasa for the final blow, and says he wouldn't be able to protect her if he didn't fight back
DMS mom makes Shan Cai play piano during DMS bday party
Shan Cai's mom pours flour/salt on DMS mom's head, in 2018 her dad also pretends to throw water for her to wash it off
Shigeru bites Tsukasa's ear after he drags her out far barefoot and doesn't have money to take a cab
Akira and Soujiro go out with Shigeru on rollercoasters, buffets and exotic animals (HanaDan), plus movies, ice cream and sanitary napkins (2001), only movies, walking, claw machines and lingerie shops to buy bras(2018) Shigeru visits Makino at work to show them how they're trying to get her to give up DMS
Shigeru waits for Makino outside her house and hugs her and says Tsukasa agreed to date her
Shan Cai listens to Xiao Zi's rants and Xiao Zi asks if they've kissed
Shigeru strips and Tsukasa says she'll catch a cold, DMS doesn't feel a thing, Xiao Zi asks if she should've worn lingerie, blabs so that she doesn't hear when Tsukasa says he doesn't like her
Shan Cai works as a maid in DMS' house because she needs a reason to stay there to protect her pride, doesn't wanna stay for free
Nakatsu buys drinks while Tsukasa goes to the bathroom, Nakatsu plays dumb after being punched
Tsukasa gets mad at Makino if this is her idea of a commoner's date and says it's great if Yuki and the guy broke up, doesn't apologize
Yuki defends Tsukasa and says Nakatsu was extremely rude the whole time and Tsukasa was patient
Yuki cries to the ground when Soujiro passes by and invites her to his house
Yuki says I don't know him but I may have seen him in school
Nakatsu tells Makino her boyfriend is weird for rejecting him
Tama defends Makino to Kaede over her dead body, vowed to serve household for life to repay patriarch
Forbid Shan Cai to leave the house and will risk life to protect
DMS got into fights in HS, when sister married no one was left who dared discipline him
Rui gets Makino to kiss him to prove she can't
Breakup in the rain scene: Have you ever once seen me without my family, my name, just as a normal man? Makino lies and says no and that if she really loved him she wouldn't leave. Cuts ties with Domyouji fam
ONLY IN METEOR GARDEN (BOTH VERSIONS):
DMS visits Shan Cai while she's sick
Lei kissing Jing scene witnessed by Shan Cai
Rubber shoes scene
Forced kiss scene after seeing Lei with Shan Cai
Jing cutting hair scene
Shan Cai pukes on DMS
prank gift from DMS to Jing
Li Zhen only uploaded the photo (2018), went back from home to the hotel to take photos (2001)
Confronted by DMS, says foreigner is just asking directions
Drawing DMS angry face in notebook (2001) vs chalkboard (2018)
Challenge between DMS and Lei basketball (2001) vs bridge (2018) and offer to cancel if Shan Cai says she likes DMS and Si stops just before winning both times
DMS dead man walking on the street until he hears Lei and beats them up
Lei and Shan Cai spend the night in the same room voluntarily (2018), forced by friends (2001)
DMS sleeps in Shan Cai's house cause jet lagged
Tug of war with Shan Cai between Lei and DMS in cafeteria
Shan Cai borrows 1M from DMS, pays back with a date (2001), interest paid back with cheek kiss (2018)
I like you, I'll chase you wherever you go, even if you go to Mars and Shan Cai still leaves with Xiao Shun/Shun Ping
F3 pretends DMS is dead at the hospital after DMS and Shan Cai are beat up by Xiao Shun/Shun Ping, DMS was asleep (2001) was in on the prank (2018)
Shun Ping/Xiao Shun goes to hospital to apologize to Shan Cai and says he wishes they could be friends if she wasn't the girl DMS liked, DMS doesn't take revenge
F3 pitch DMS to Shan Cai at the hospital, she calls him a dog
Shan Cai lies about forgetting DMS bday gift
Shan Cai resists meeting DMS mom and bumps into table (2018) waiter (2001) causing a scene and making DMS mom tell Si to make her leave, DMS introduces her as the girl she likes, DMS mom asks what business their family is in and F3 lies for her
Shan Cai actually plays one song on the piano well and lectures DMS mom while playing
DMS tells Shan Cai, do you know the Maple hotel chain? That's my mom's after the party, talk in convertible (2001) in a club owned by DMF (2018) then DMS stomach's rumble and Shan Cai reveals the cookies after previously saying she forgot the gift, DMS pleads Shan Cai to not eat the cookies even if she's hungry (2001) Shan Cai told her parents she and DMS ate cookies (2018)
Shan Cai and DMS faint in the warehouse after being beaten up
F3 talk after the party about what will happen, DMF scolds F4 when they were still high school and tells DMS not to hang with F3
DMS sleeps in Lei's house and wakes him up to show him the cookies, Lei takes a bite (2001) eats the entire cookie (2018) and Si makes him spit it out
Shan Cai and DMS leave party on Ximen's car
Shan Cai congratulates DMS on his engagement in the cafeteria and argue, F3 finds out
DMF offers to solve Lei's dad's financial problems if he dates Shancai because Si always liked to steal his toys and would throw them after and now the same will happen to Shancai, he refuses and warns her about Si's personality that the more she tries to pull them apart, the stronger their bond will be and warns her twice that he will protect Shancai from her
Lei tells Shan Cai he can't encourage DMS to date Xiao Zi because people might think he has ulterior motives
Xiao Zi asks DMS to kiss her to prove he is over Shan Cai, which she sees and is upset but hides it but Lei easily sees through and she blabs when she is seen through and throws backpack at Lei and forgets to get it back
Lei sees Shan Cai at coffee shop and joins her (2018), Lei is at coffee shop and sees Shan Cai on the street, calls her on the phone to join him (2001)
Xiao Zi and DMS join Lei and Shan Cai for coffee and XZ invites them to go to the hot spring, DMS and SC are hesitant but Lei agrees
Shan Cai faints in Sauna (2018) and Si almost runs to save her but Lei beats him to it, hot spring (2001)
Shan Cai cries on Lei's shoulder after Xiao Zi tells her she and DMS had sex
Xiao Zi's mom asks her what happens and if Shan Cai is cunning, Xiao Zi defends Shan Cai
Shan Cai tells Xiao Zi she doesn't wanna hear it, and XZ asks if she hates her
DMS tells his mom he can't be with Xiao Zi, she tells him to apologize to the He fam and she'll forget it but he says he'd rather not be Dao Ming Si
F3 visit Shan Cai while she lives alone, Shan Cai doesn't wanna invite DMS, DMF visits house and tells F3 to shut up when they defend SC, SC tells DMF to gtfo, F3 applaud her
Shan Cai sits alone in her house eating cup noodles and listening to mom's message that her dad gets seasick
Ah Si peed his bed till 3rd grade
DMS sees Zhong Ze/Xiao Qi talking to some girls who he invited to a bar later that night, invites him too
Shan Cai reaches high score in punching game by thinking of Dao Ming Feng (2018) Hammer game (2001)
Lei asks, did anything weird happen to the people around you? Qing He and Xiao You get in trouble, she negotiates with Dao Ming Feng
Dao Ming Si plans to move out to protect Shan Cai but she talks him out of it
SC cuts ties with DMS and DF immediately calls to cancel orders about Xiao You and Qing He
SC leaves letter to Yu Sao before leaving, lies that her parents asked her to go home
SC's mom finds the necklace in SC's luggage at the fishing village
DIFFERENCES:
DMS stepped on Vivo smartphone therefore replaced Shan Cai's phone (MG 2018)
ringtone Mission Impossible (2001) Star Wars (HanaDan)
Cake thrown on Dao Ming Si (MG 2018) dirt? (MG 2001) Sakurako bumps with drink (HanaDan)
Almost no bullying and F4 doesn't seem to have too much power in the school (Read somewhere that MG 2001 was banned in China because of promoting class differences or something, so this may explain some things, but I can't confirm that those are facts)
College setting in both MGs and age diff freshman to senior vs HS in HanaDan and only 1 year apart
The whole bridge angle and joker card instead of red card (MG 2018)
MG 2018's Shan Cai doesn't make a joker card in her challenge to F4
same as Tsukushi in HanaDan not making one
Shan Cai 2001 makes her own red card
Handstand thing consistent in both MGs, but I don't recall Rui's handstand
Attempted rape wasn't ordered by DMS in MG 2018
Done by their minions in MG 2001 and HanaDan, but they didn't specifically order that
MG 2018 borrowing Jing's clothes not at a party, but at cafeteria after tug of war
MG 2018 DMS threw food at Shan Cai, Tsukasa threw Makino's special Ebi bento on the floor
Shan Cai 2018 doesn't seem as poor as 2001 or Makino
Lei 2018 doesn't snap at Shan Cai for interrupting his violining, 2001 does
2018, after makeover, no Shan Cai admiring self in mirror scene (2001 and HanaDan)
Stuck in elev (MG 2018 and HanaDan)
Staircase (MG 2001)
No random english words from Mei Zuo 2018 unlike 2001
DMS 2018 asks Shan Cai out at the airport while Lei's plane leaves
in HanaDan Tsukasa is too busy waving to Rui and being upset that he's leaving and isn't even mad that he kissed Shan Cai's forehead unlike MG 2018
Dao Ming Si is one of Ming De's smartest students (2018), students and teachers of Ying De are afraid of Dao Ming Si who frequently makes Taiwanese mistakes (2001), Japanese and English mistakes and puns (HanaDan)
Li Zhen never gets to party 2018
in 2001 she gets there wearing Shan Cai's dress and is asked to leave by DMS
Xiao Shun saved Shan Cai from the photo studio (2001) Rui (HanaDan)
Xiao Shun tells DMS not to fight back or he'll cut Shan Cai's face (2001) Sakurako personal grudge (HanaDan) Shunping taking revenge for his boss (2018)
Xiao Shun takes revenge on DMS for his friend (2001) poses with SC on magazine on article "how to please your man?", gives Shan Cai part time job and is beat up by DMS once, but DMS doesn't take revenge after he apologizes to SC in front of him
Junpei (HanaDan) does the same,is model, poses with Tsukushi on cover of magazine to admiration from school, apologizes to Makino alone and drops out of school, and Tsubaki saves Makino because Tsukasa is in New York
Shan Cai "sleeps" with Thomas, a foreigner (2001 and 2018) vs a host hired by Sakurako (HanaDan)
Dao Ming Feng invites Shan Cai to dinner where she announces DMS is engaged (2001) then he walks off with the wrong girl,
surprise announcement is made on Tsukasa's birthday party (Hanadan), then he walks off with the wrong girl and the scene plays out pretty much the same way
Shan Cai tells Xiao Zi that DMS likes her (2001)
Pretty much keeps their entire relationship the whole time (HanaDan)
Shan Cai goes shopping with Xiao Zi, she buys her clothes from agnes b (2001)
Makino and Yuki go shopping with Shigeru, she buys them Bvlgari jewelry (HanaDan)
DMS puts a jacket on Shan Cai while they're talking about him not wanting to be with Xiao Zi (2001), accuses her that her friendship was bought by her gift then he slaps her when she tells him to date Xiao Zi instead?! walks home drenched in rain
Domyouji puts a jacket on Tsukushi while they're thinking about what to do to get his mom to accept her (HanaDan), he never lays a finger on Tsukushi ever
DMS doesn't slap Shan Cai, just walks home like a zombie drenched in rain (2018)
Dao Ming Feng tells Lei to start anew with Shan Cai and she will save his father's company (2001)
Shan Cai thinks of DMS during date with Lei (2001) doesn't but also doesn't enjoy date (2018) too happy about date with Rui (HanaDan)
First meets Tsukasa's sister after she punches him for chasing Makino on the street (HanaDan) helps her during an argument with bystander (2018)
DMS gives up Shan Cai to Lei because he owes him for stealing his fave toy as a child, which he eventually apologizes for (2018) because he won't eat his favorite grated apples anymore because he told Rui eating them that way would make him bald but doesn't apologize (HanaDan), it is mentioned that DMS stole Lei's toys and threw them away but DMS isn't guilty about that and doesn't give Shan Cai up (2001)
DMS willingly kisses Xiao Zi to prove he doesn't like Shan Cai anymore (2001) Tsukasa is only forcibly kissed by Shigeru (HanaDan)
Makino faints while working in construction, Tsukasa leaves engagement dinner to run to the hospital after a note from Nishida (HanaDan) but Rui beats him to it, Shan Cai faints in hot spring in Xiao Zi's villa, DMS runs to save her but Lei already has (2001) sauna (2018)
DMS voluntarily flees to NY after quitting the basketball challenge (2001), bridge and London (2018), Domyouji forced by mom to study in NY for 2 years if he loses bet that Makino won't win Teen of Japan (HanaDan)
Dao Ming Zhuang seems like a more tough love sister who intimidates erveryone than Tsubaki who seems very affectionate to everyone
Dao Ming Zhuang won a contest because of her pumpkin pie she learned to cook to punish Si who hates the taste of pumpkins (2018) Tsubaki won TOJ cause she was the only one who knew how to cook okonomiyaki because it was Tsukasa's favorite (HanaDan)
Cooking contest for prize money (2018) TOJ for prize money (HanaDan) Both have opponents impossible to win, and have you forgotten that she is the only girl that stood up to F4 scene, she wants to quit both time and doubts winning and is comforted by DMS/Tsukasa, because Tian Ye told her to quit (2018) but Shan Cai's opponent isn't DMS' fiance but Tian Ye's which is the guy he works part time with who is nice, likes her and is rich and not Xiao Shun with totally different story (2001)
Shan Cai wins a special prize in cooking contest (2018) Makino doesn't win TOJ (HanaDan)
DMS shows Shan Cai shooting stars through a telescope, tells her love quote about shooting stars, puts diamond necklace on her while she was working as a servant in their house, she thought it was a booty call, tries to run away to Xiao You's but is caught by DMS at the door, he asks her to officially date but she says she can only give 1/10 what he gives but he suggests to a 2 month trial, when Shan Cai agrees at 7am DMS who hasn't slept happy dances when she leaves but is seen by Shan Cai when she gets her broom from his room (2001), gives her necklace so she can see shooting stars everyday, asks her to be GF and to trust he can make up the 90% cause he is DMS, sings with the vacuum making SC come back to take a look when she agrees so that she'll have a chance to seriously like him (2018), Tsukasa never gets to show Saturn to Tsukushi because she doesn't show because their family gets in trouble, only puts diamond necklace on at the airport runway, there is never a formal dating decision, Tsukasa acts cute on the bed when he's giddy (HanaDan)
SC asks DMS to a double date in person with F3 there (2001 and 2018), he doesn't agree but shows up anyway, Makino asks Tsukasa by phone and he agrees immediately (HanaDan)
DMS and Shan Cai go on a commoner's double date with Xiao You and Zhong Ze at an amusement park, goes on rides separate from Xiao You, DMS refuses to go home to save SC face, restrains himself and promises not to punch ZZ until he introduces girls to him (2001), goes to haunted house without Xiao You, Xiao Qi doesn't say he doesn't know Xiao You because she ran away too quickly, Shan Cai punches Xiao Qi (2018), zoo, punches Nakatsu because he says Makino isn't that pretty and invited him to ditch the girls, Makino punches Nakatsu (HanaDan)
Ximen goes on a date with Xiao You after saving her from Zhong Ze is obsessed with coffee not tea (2001), wine and tea, calls Si to meet him at the bar and they double team Xiao Qi (2018), Soujiro doesn't reciprocate Yuki's feelings and always avoids her (HanaDan)
Dao Ming Feng's butler is a complete loyal puppet (2001), Nishida sides with what is right and forms a bond with Tsukasa (HanaDan)
Shan Cai meets a boy named Song at the fishing village (2001)
Shan Cai goes on holiday in Canada, Qianhui and Baihe tell her that Xiaoyou is lost in blizzard to see night view, Lei goes with her but loses her and spills wine on one of the girls and calls them murderers, DMS was fighting with her when he went to save her on foot, dream sequence wedding scene DMS face not clear and doesn't shift to his face telling her to wake up, blizzard too big for rescue team so Ximen Xiaoyou and Meizuo decide to search until Lei knocks some sense, DMS makes hot water for Shan Cai, take off their clothes and warm each other with body heat bc Shan Cai is too cold (2018) Umi lies that Yuki went back to get something, Makino goes alone, Domyouji had forgottten about her when he went to save her on a jetski, Rui gets Umi to spill and says she should pray that Domyouji finds Makino, Makino ends up taking care of Tsukasa at the cabin (HanaDan)
Shan Cai's parents get mad at her for thinking she and DMS had sex (2018) celebrate and encourage (2001) get sad thinking she's a whore (HanaDan)
Shan Cai bakes the cookies after work at the shop with Xiao You's help (2001) Xiao You was asleep, cookies show diff emotions of DMS: happy, sad, angry, sleepy (2018) Makino bakes alone at home and was a Christmas gift to Tsukasa, just one big cookie (HanaDan)
Shan Cai is lent a dress from DMS' sister for DMS' bday party (2001) necklace (2018) Makino wears own outfit (HanaDan)
DMS bday party is held at DMS house (2018) somewhere else (2001 and HanaDan)
DMS gets sportscar as a gift (2001) rare champagne from a shipwreck in 1907 which he will sell at the party's charity auction and necklace from Bhutan (2018)
Engagement to Shigeru is announced in Tsukasa's birthday party (HanaDan), where Tsukasa mistakenly leaves with Shigeru instead of Makino. DMF's secretary visits Shan Cai at work to give her an invitation to DMS and Xiao Zi's engagement dinner, but mistakenly he leaves with Xiao Zi (2001 and 2018)
Xiao Zi asks Shan Cai to help her pursue DMS so that they'll know if he's a playboy or serious about Shan Cai (2018) after knowing from Shan Cai that there's nothing between them now (2001 and HanaDan)
Makino tells Tsukasa to date Shigeru as they are a good match (HanaDan), in the rain DMS walks away and goes home drenched (2018) DMS slaps her then leaves her in the rain (2001)
Shancai are you happy for me? (2018) I'm happy for you Shigeru (HanaDan)
DMS admits to Xiao Zi that he still loves Shan Cai in the villa, Xiao Zi hits DMS and is seen by Shan Cai on the futon because she thinks DMS forced himself on Xiao Zi after hearing noise, XiaoZi stays in villa and lies to Shan Cai that they had sex (2001), Xiao Zi doesn't hit DMS even if she wants to, seen by Shan Cai on the floor (2018), Shigeru hits him in his house, seen by Makino on his bed because she went to snoop after hearing noise, Shigeru lies to Makino that they had sex the next day (HanaDan)
Shan Cai's parents move to fishing village because her uncle is sick and dad's company lost funds, she lives alone in their house (2018) to work as fishermen and she moves to a different place to live alone (2001) lives with Susumu in a different apartment (HanaDan)
Shigeru tells her parents that she doesn't wanna be with Domyouji at the engagement dinner (HanaDan), DMS tells his mom that he won't ever marry anyone other than Shan Cai (2001 and 2018)
Shan Cai stands up to DMS' mom when she goes to her house(2001 and 2018), Makino personally goes to Domyouji headquarters to stand up to Kaede (HanaDan)
Shan Cai listens to parents' voice message about life at fishing village (2001 and 2018), Makino and Susumu read mom's letter (HanaDan)
Shan Cai's parents' house where she lives alone is bought by DMF and she has to leave (2018), Shan Cai's house where she moves to makes her leave in 2 hours (2001), Tsukasa buys the building Makino and Susumu move into so that he can stay with her, she has to leave because she threw Tsukasa to the ground and the floor gave out (HanaDan)
DMS looks for Shan Cai and asks the landlord, looks all over the city for her and calls her phone bajillions of times and found her at the place where they fought last time (2001), Shan Cai posts on QQ and people offer to let her stay, DMS finds her immediately and doesn't know she's been made to leave (2018), Tsukasa asks Tsubaki for help and she says to let her stay in the house (HanaDan)
Tsukasa is already awake when Makino cleans his room (HanaDan), DMS is woken up by SC (2001), fakes sleep and hugs her naked in bed (2001)
Yu Sao had debts paid and was taken in by Si's grandpa (2018) Tama's husband died in war and was taken in (HanaDan)
DMS' dad died of liver cancer in HS, they were a happy family until that time when DMF took over the group and the fam became cold (2018)
DMS is with F3 when he receives info from Shan Cai's kidnappers to go alone (2001 and 2018), Tsukasa is on the street running to Makino when Soujiro realizes Sakurako is dangerous and calls him on the phone and Akira pleads him not to go alone (HanaDan)
Shan Cai hides the fact that Yu Sao stood up to DMF for her from DMS (2018), Tsukasa finds out from Tsubaki and is amazed at Tama (HanaDan)
DMS drives home in a red top under his coat to see Shan Cai leaving with luggage, Yu Sao doesn't run into Shan Cai after the rain scene (2018) Tsukasa walks home in bright red coat in the rain, Tama points out Makino's lies and tears after (HanaDan) Yu Sao points out Shan Cai's lies and tears (2001)
they dress like it's always winter in China while in the Taiwanese version, they wear sleeveless clothes or just shirts all the time. I know it doesn't get super cold in Taiwan but I just noticed. HanaDan leans towards warm clothing too but not too much layers. I mean 2018 Lei wears gloves and scarves indoors!
Mei Zuo - Zhou Caina storyline, met at cooking contest, love triangle with old man Terrence (2018)
CAMEO:
2001 Shan Cai's mom in episode 11 of MG 2018, tells DMS 2018 he reminds her of her son in aw, which is basically DMS 2001!