Meteor Garden, or Liu Xing Hua Yuan, is a live action version of the Hana Yori Dango story that was made into a TV series in Taiwan. (Shoujo manga --> live action seems to be popular there, as there are also live-action dramas of the manga Peach Girl and Marmalade Boy as well.) Over there, the manga is called Meteor Garden, so the TV series took that name as well. Meteor Garden totals 2 TV series, and set of side-story specials called Meteor Rain. The show has been incredibly popular and influential all over Asia, and the guys who were cast to play the F4 have become huge idols. They even record music as a singing group, also under the name of F4. The popularity of the series has even resulted in the show being banned in China (for fear of it promoting negative feelings between the classes, if I remember correctly).

Meteor Garden follows the HYD Anime and Manga very closely. Some slight changes were made (for example, all the characters attend Ying De University, not high school) but so many other things follow the original closely in the first seriesI was amazed! The second series strays a bit.

The Cast: HYD Name/Meteor Garden Name : Actor Name

I am tempted to remove this cast list because a lot of people have emailed me with 'corrections' to the spelling of the names on the cast list, and everyone gives me DIFFERENT versions of the names! I am getting a little confused :) I'm not Chinese (or even Asian at all for that matter...) so I have no idea who is correct ^_^;;;;