[Upcoming] Tao Hua Ai Wu Di 桃花愛無敵, Arron Yan, Gui Gui, Ah Ben >> Filming began on June 15th.
Introduction
Because of the good chemistry and ideal pairing between Arron Yan and GuiGui in the series The Clue Collector, they have been chosen to act together again with Ah Ben who have just joined Bang Bang Tang in the show Tao Hua Ai Wu Di . Tao Hua Ai Wu Di is adapted from Japan's best selling manga Tao Hua Mei Mei. The plot is about Tao Hua [Gui Gui] who has been pampered and loved by 4 of her brothers almost to the extend of sister brotherly love. Thus the other brothers tasked the 5th brother Ah Ben to look after the sister, and with the appearance of prince charming Arron Yan, a love battle is created among everybody.
Characters:
Tian Zhong Tao Hua (GuiGui)
Tian Zhong Yu Yi (AhBen)
Shi Lang (YaLun)
(The names are just the characters in the comic. Names in the series are not decided yet.)
Storyline of Tao Hua Mei Mei:
Tian Zhong Tao Hua is a girl who is good in piano. She's the youngest in the "Tian Zhong" family, and also the only girl. Later, she fell in love with a guy from "Duo Mo High" called Shi Lang. Regarding's Tao Hua's first love, the 4 Tian Zhong brothers were strongly against it. They also did all means to stop them from falling in love with one another. Tao Hua's 5th brother - Yu Yi, was being asked to spy on Tao Hua in school. Hence, he was forced not to take up and examinaion, and being transfered to "Duo Mo High".
Shi Lang's childhood friend - Tong Zi, planned to snatch Shi Lang away from Tao Hua.The leader of 鍚堟皵閬 (?) (probably a club/society in the school), Chang Shan YeYue liked Tao Hua at first sight, and also decided to woo her.
After being through lots of obstacles, Tong Zi & Yue decided to give up. Then [dono who - probably is the brother, didn't want to surrender so easily] hence gave 4 conditions to approve their [Shi Lang's & Tao Hua's] relationship. Despite that every condition is going to be a difficult task for her [Tao Hua], for the sake to be with Shi Lang, she is willing to give in her best to fufill them.
The original title of the manga is Momoka Taifuun!! (yup, with the exclamation points). There is very little information about this manga in English... aside from what's already available here at AF, that is wink.gif The manga was first serialized in Flower Comics from 1987-1989; the name of the mangaka (as I said before, it's the same mangaka who wrote the manga for Romantic Princess) is 藤田和子 Kazuko Fujita.
Now, onto the title of the drama. Personally, I think the "best" English translation is probably TaoHua's Love Conquers All.
Why? Because it's quite similar in Chinese construction to the English "transplant/translation" 真愛無敵 Zhen Ai Wu Di or True Love Conquers All. 無敵 Wu Di, taken by itself, means... literally, without enemy, without opposition... or, more poetically, "invincible." 桃花 TaoHua is the name of the main character... literally, "Peach Blossom."
Interestingly, 桃花 Tao Hua is also very commonly used to describe the relationship between a man and a woman-- in more ancient times, it was mainly used when describing a man who had won the affection of a woman; if used to describe women, it had more of a negative connotation... mainly used when a woman who was married or about to be married still had other "suitors."
Now, though, it's used interchangeably for men and women and is mostly innocent (although the married-but-with-suitors thing still persists)... if I say, "That guy has tao hua!" it merely means that someone of the opposite sex likes him. "She has tao hua yun!" means that "she is lucky in love."
So the title of this drama can take on an extra dimension when viewed in this light...
But I wouldn't read too much into it... it's a nice dimension, but it might be unintentional... or just an "added bonus." After all, Momoka is Japanese for peach blossom, too... and I'm not sure that they ever used "momoka" in the same way as the Chinese (to describe relationships, that is).
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