Title: Hana Yori Dango / Boys Over Flowers

Author & Illustrator: Yoko Kamio

Genre: Shojo

Volumes: 36 (Complete)

Publisher: Shueisha (Japanese)

Licensed by: Viz Media (English)

Year: 2004

Picture: I’m having problems uploading the picture from work, will do it as soon as I get home today - apologies XD

Official Summary (Anime News Network):

16 Year old Makino Tsukushi is 16-year old girl, from a mid-class family, who, due to her brains, gets into an ultra high-class school called Eitoku Gakuen. One day she accidentally gets on the F4’s, bad side *they’re a gang at school*, and from then on she suffers from hazing. She fights this back, and while doing so falls in love with one of the F4’s members. However, another one of the members also falls in love with her.

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Drama, love triangle, betrayal, lower class, upper class – all defines what you’ll find in this manga. When I first began reading, it was appealing. Even though the art/graphics was not something I was used to in this century, it had my interest. However, the more I read, the more I began losing interest.

The story just kept on dragging with unnecessary drama that was too much for me to adjust. There are some things just not possible in life. The story had a lot of ‘slice of life’ elements, but it threw that away with non significant things.

The problem is that I am not able to point many things out as I would be giving away a lot of spoilers. You’ll just have to read it and make your own opinion about it.

Please note that this story has been adapted to anime and J-Drama.

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Sources: Anime News Network