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Cut to the chase: it's an absurdly confusing story (SPOILER-FREE)

"Koiiji" has a very interesting plot when you start reading it. The narration has a very autobiographical way that I particularly like a lot and the style of drawing caught my attention.
The real problem occurs when after several chapters you start to realize how mess the story is. There are several characters with several subplots that don't develop well, and the fact that the characters are physically similar doesn't help to understand who is who from time to time. But what really kills the story is the "time travel" that the narrative decides to do. Out ... of nowhere they show a scene from the past (which most of the time you don't understand who they are) that doesn't even seem to connect with the current scene;
Plus: the ending is weird and it doesn't seem to conclude anything

A romance that is not romantic at all

Hana Yori Dango was one of my worst anime experiences, mainly because it tricked me in the first 20 episodes. In the beginning, the anime offers an interesting plot, especially with the protagonist. However, to my surprise, everything broke down relatively quickly, here are, in my view, the main problems of the work:

-The "triangle": The love triangle of this anime does not make any sense, because simply, one of the 2 parts of the triangle is not interested in the protagonist, in fact, all the moments that this person directs in a more "loving" way with protagonist seemed ... to me out of pity, or for him to console himself from another novel. (It is a triangle because the protagonist is indecisive about which boy she likes)

-The characters: The protagonist at the beginning is very interesting, strong and courageous, but in the last 2/3 of the work she becomes petty, false and liar, unpalatable. The men in this anime are even worse, one of them is a bully who, believe me, RAPES the protagonist, well, if you consider that the other only used the protagonist when she was fragile, it is also rape ... It is worth mentioning that because of the bully she suffers at least 4 times physical aggression, I just don't understand what the author had in mind.

-She didn't love him: I won't say who she stays with, but for me she didn't love him at all, just looked at the other, she didn't even say once that she loved him in 51 episodes! Not in appearance either, whenever she was with him she seemed in a bad mood. So, the main point of the anime, romance, for me, didn't exist.

-The manga Vs the anime: When I finished the anime I was so nervous, and I found out that the ending in the manga was different, so I read the last chapters and damn it! It's totally different from the anime, the chemistry between the characters was absurdly better, I don't know what happened to make these changes in the anime, in short, do you want to know the story? Read the manga.

-Visual and audio waste: I really like the anime songs (minus the opening) but the violin pieces were beautiful, the visual was beautiful too, the design of the characters was exactly the style I liked, unfortunately, wasted in a horrible story.

A story with a lot of potential, but that the immaturity of practically all the characters of the work, spoils it.