[REVIEW] Honey and Clover (2008) ★★★★
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I'm back again with a new review! Hehe. This time I will review a drama which is surprisingly, I can finish only in two days eventhough there's no Hey! Say! JUMP member as the cast. But still there's a johnny's who play the cast. It's a pretty old drama, as you can tell from the title of this post it's from way back in 2008. To tell you the truth, I already know this drama for so long, because around 2009 or so I was so deeply in love with Takashi Kashiwabara because of Itazura na Kiss (I still think from all the version of that drama, the only actor who can potrays Naoki Irie so freakin well is him). He also played in this film but as a minor character so that's why I decided not to watch it. But two days ago, I finally try to watch it and I really really love it until I can't stop to keep continue watching each episode.
Title: ハチミツとクローバー
Title (romaji): Hachimitsu to Clover
Also known as: Honey and Clover
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Romance, friendship
Episodes: 11
Cast:
Narumi Riko as Hanamoto Hagumi
Ikuta Toma as Takemoto Yuta
Harada Natsuki as Yamada Ayumi
Mukai Osamu as Mayama Takumi
Narimiya Hiroki as Morita Shinobu
So the story revolves around 5 college students in an Art College. Three of them, the guys, Takemoto, Mayama, and Morita lives in one apartement so they're close to each other. They are also friends with a girl named Yamada. One day, Takemoto meet eyes with a girl near the college pond and falling in love with her on the first sight. Sadly, before he even knows her name, his to friends Mayama and Morita drag him away to get the freshman curry rice. The four of them also friends with their professor, Professor Hanamoto. When they play on his office, they met with a girl who is busy with her painting. Takemoto was taken aback, because that girl is the girl he met by the pond and turns out, she's Professor Hanamoto's cousin's daughter, Hanamoto Hagumi. From there, the five of them established a friendship, but it was not an ordinary friendship. Yamada is secretly in love with Mayama and Takemoto secretly in love with Hagumi. Sadly, Mayama is in love with his boss, Rika, who is a widow, and Hagumi falls in love with Morita.
The thing that I love the most about this drama is because it actually relates to the real life. We can see how each of the characters struggling with their choices of life. Struggling about finding what is actually they want to do with their life with their own problem. Not to mention the unique love interests in the drama that makes you really curious who will ended up with who. Eventhough the story maybe feels a little bit slow on the plot, but it's actually well-packaged. Eventhough there's still so many questions in my head that are not answered in the drama, but it still enjoyable to watch. There is also this one character which is so funny called Romaya-Senpai, who acts like the spiritual teacher for Mayama, Takemoto, and Morita.
One very plus point for this drama is the soundtrack. I REALLY REALLY LOVE THE SOUNDTRACK. It really fits the drama well and it's also easy-listening. The ending of each drama is also my favorite because they showing a footage of five of them eating together, celebrating birthday, etc which can make you feel their friendship despite of all the problems they had.
I really recommend you to watch this drama if you haven't, especially for you who love love-friendship genre drama. Oh, and i'm sorry i didn't share my favorite scene because my laptop is dead and i got all the video files on it *sigh*.
I'm back again with a new review! Hehe. This time I will review a drama which is surprisingly, I can finish only in two days eventhough there's no Hey! Say! JUMP member as the cast. But still there's a johnny's who play the cast. It's a pretty old drama, as you can tell from the title of this post it's from way back in 2008. To tell you the truth, I already know this drama for so long, because around 2009 or so I was so deeply in love with Takashi Kashiwabara because of Itazura na Kiss (I still think from all the version of that drama, the only actor who can potrays Naoki Irie so freakin well is him). He also played in this film but as a minor character so that's why I decided not to watch it. But two days ago, I finally try to watch it and I really really love it until I can't stop to keep continue watching each episode.
Title: ハチミツとクローバー
Title (romaji): Hachimitsu to Clover
Also known as: Honey and Clover
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Romance, friendship
Episodes: 11
Cast:
Narumi Riko as Hanamoto Hagumi
Ikuta Toma as Takemoto Yuta
Harada Natsuki as Yamada Ayumi
Mukai Osamu as Mayama Takumi
Narimiya Hiroki as Morita Shinobu
So the story revolves around 5 college students in an Art College. Three of them, the guys, Takemoto, Mayama, and Morita lives in one apartement so they're close to each other. They are also friends with a girl named Yamada. One day, Takemoto meet eyes with a girl near the college pond and falling in love with her on the first sight. Sadly, before he even knows her name, his to friends Mayama and Morita drag him away to get the freshman curry rice. The four of them also friends with their professor, Professor Hanamoto. When they play on his office, they met with a girl who is busy with her painting. Takemoto was taken aback, because that girl is the girl he met by the pond and turns out, she's Professor Hanamoto's cousin's daughter, Hanamoto Hagumi. From there, the five of them established a friendship, but it was not an ordinary friendship. Yamada is secretly in love with Mayama and Takemoto secretly in love with Hagumi. Sadly, Mayama is in love with his boss, Rika, who is a widow, and Hagumi falls in love with Morita.
The thing that I love the most about this drama is because it actually relates to the real life. We can see how each of the characters struggling with their choices of life. Struggling about finding what is actually they want to do with their life with their own problem. Not to mention the unique love interests in the drama that makes you really curious who will ended up with who. Eventhough the story maybe feels a little bit slow on the plot, but it's actually well-packaged. Eventhough there's still so many questions in my head that are not answered in the drama, but it still enjoyable to watch. There is also this one character which is so funny called Romaya-Senpai, who acts like the spiritual teacher for Mayama, Takemoto, and Morita.
One very plus point for this drama is the soundtrack. I REALLY REALLY LOVE THE SOUNDTRACK. It really fits the drama well and it's also easy-listening. The ending of each drama is also my favorite because they showing a footage of five of them eating together, celebrating birthday, etc which can make you feel their friendship despite of all the problems they had.
I really recommend you to watch this drama if you haven't, especially for you who love love-friendship genre drama. Oh, and i'm sorry i didn't share my favorite scene because my laptop is dead and i got all the video files on it *sigh*.