All About Hana Yori Dango

Yay! Hana Yori Dango is coming to the Philippines on April 23, 2007.
It will be broadcasted by GMA-7 dubbed in Filipino. Note, for now I'm limiting my cover as much as possible solely to HYD Season 1 in consideration of those who never watched it yet. :)
Introduction:
Makino Tsukushi is the only poor student at Eitoku Gakuen, the school of the ridiculously rich and privileged that is ruled by Flower 4 or F4, a group of four boys who come from extremely powerful families: Domyoji Tsukasa, the leader and heir of the Domyoji World Finance Group; Hanazawa Rui, the introverted son of a large company; Nishikado Sojiro, a player who is the heir of a tea ceremony school; and Mimasaka Akira, a madam killer with ties to the underground. If a student gets on the F4’s bad side, he/she gets a red notice and is bullied and driven out of school.

Makino hopes to pass her days quietly-- without drawing any attention to herself-- but one day, she stands up to Domyoji in defense of her friend. The next day, Makino gets the dreaded red notice. Even though she is harassed, Makino decides to keep going to school because she is a “tough weed”. She declares war right back on the F4. Her resolve gets the attention of her crush Hanazawa Rui and oddly enough, rouses romantic feelings in her worst enemy, Domyoji Tsukasa.
The series is based on the Japanese shoujo manga "Hana Yori Dango" (Boys Before Flowers) by Kamio Yoko.
Cast:
INOUE Mao as MAKINO Tsukushi
MATSUMOTO Jun as DOUMYOUJI Tsukasa
OGURI Shun as HANAZAWA Rui
ABE Tsuyoshi as MIMASAKA Akira
MATSUDA Shouta as NISHIKADO Soujirou
Megumi SATO as SANJOU Sakurako
NISHIHARA Aki as MATSUOKA Yuki
SADA Mayumi as TOUDOU Shizuka
FUKADA Aki, SETO Saki, and MATSUOKA Emiko as AYUHARA Erika, ASAI Yuriko,
and YAMANO Minako

Credits: www.D-addicts.com

Production Credits:
Original writing: Kamio Yoko
Screenwriter: Satake Mikio (サタケミキオ), Fujimoto Yuki (藤本有紀), Takahashi Natsuko (高橋ナツコ), Arai Shuuko (荒井修子)
# Producer: Setoguchi Katsuaki
# Director: Ishii Yasuharu, Yamamuro Daisuke, Katayama Osamu
Music: Yamashita Kousuke (山下康介)

Episode Titles

* Ep 01: 宣戦布告!!お金より絶対に大切なモノ / Declaration of War! The thing which is absolutely more important than money
* Ep 02: 最悪のファーストキス!! / The Worst First Kiss!
* Ep 03: 涙!!サヨナラ大好きなヒト / Tears! Good-bye to the Person I Like
* Ep 04: 初めての朝帰り!? / First Time Coming Home in the Morning
* Ep 05: 命がけの愛の告白 / Confession of Life-Threatening Love
* Ep 06: 大波乱一触即発の三角関係 / A Love Triangle of a Roller-Coaster Ride Hair-Trigger Crisis
* Ep 07: バトルF4解散!! / Battle F4 Dissolution!
* Ep 08: いざ女子高生日本一決定戦 / Now the Female High School Student's "Top of Japan" decision war
* Ep 09: 最高のラストプレゼント / The Greatest Last Present