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Differences between anime and mangageneral notes |
First some general considerations: it's fundamental to notice immediately that the manga has a very marked shoujo style and it's centered on Miki. The anime instead gives more space to both Yuu and also the other characters, making so the plot more varied. Obviously the story among Miki and Yuu remains in foreground, but the events of Ginta/Arimi, Namura/Meiko/Satoshi, Kei and Suzu have a greater weight than in the manga. Moreover in many occasions the anime is certainly more clamorous (full of sensations) but also more romantic. In the middle-final phase the anime is more serious while the manga maintains its charge of jokes and amusing situations.
The things listed here there AREN'T in the manga:
Anju, and therefore also all events of that Christmas (that she felt badly and Yuu that went to assist her at the hospital) are absent. In fact Anju does a touch-and-escape appearance in the first season...
Tsutomu's girlfriend, Yayoi (poor Tsutomu... ^___^;;)
Kei's changing, that from egocentric becomes cool (in the manga there is not any "return" of him as there is in the second season of the anime... ^___^;;).
Ryouko and therefore all the relative events about her with Namura.
The attendance of Satoshi and Ryouko at the trip to Hiroshima (when Namura and Meiko get together again). Meiko doesn't receive fists from anybody...
Akira and Rei.
A lot of situations at the Junk Jungle and as a result Kijima is seen very little, only once in the first three volumes. The Junk Jungle appears for the first time only in the fourth volume, when Miki goes with Meiko to visit Yuu and she finds there Satoshi too (and in the manga in this situation Satoshi begins to woo Meiko).
All the Americans, including Michael. In the manga there isn't any trip to America, excluded the holidays to the Hawaii of the parents.
All the merchandising toys, included the Toryo medallion with the photo. However this doesn't change the facts when Kei appears: he takes possession of a bracelet (that there isn't in the anime) that Miki received from Yuu and that she loses in the same way (falling from the staircase and landing over Kei).
Many kisses and many attempts of kiss. ^_______^;;;;;
In the manga Suzu isn't fallen in love of Yuu at all, rather she will try to put Yuu and Meiko together (!). Despite she succeeds to insinuate some doubts in Miki, she isn't so unpleasant and vitiated as in the anime and she doesn't look for any alliance with Kei. To be notice that in the ending initially settled by Yoshizumi, Yuu and Meiko really will get together (see in the curiosities).
In the manga, near the end, just before Yuu discovers the ambiguous photos that instigate his escape, his family receives the visit of an old friend of his and Miki's parents, who has two little but turbulent twin daughters and Yuu believes that this man could be his father, but then he understands to be wrong.
The ending is very different even if the meaning is nearly the
same of the anime. In the manga Yuu, when he believes to be Miki's brother,
moves to a school in Kyoto (about 500Km far form Tokyo) with the excuse to
study architecture. When Miki goes to visit him (on Meiko's suggest) she
finds him in fellowship of another girl: Yuu lets her to believe that this
girl is his new girlfriend and Miki runs away. After some time Yuu must return
home because the mothers want see him. Miki and Yuu meet and Miki is still
fallen in love with him. Yuu, after he said to her another time to stop loving
him, decides to tell to Miki the truth (that is the story with the other
girl was a fake and that he never stopped loving her). Then Miki asks him
to do the famous trip they two alone still as lovers before break up forever.
They go on trip, they enjoy a lot of but unfortunately the time goes away
quickly... so at the end of the trip none of them wants to be separated from
the other and so Yuu asks Miki to marry him (not immediately obviously, when
he will be able of it) and she accepts. When Miki & Yuu inform the parents
about their relationship, the parents are surprised and amazed. They didn't
know it and they didn't even imagine it! When they talk about the
misunderstanding about who is the real father of Yuu, there isn't the same
playful atmosphere of the anime: Yuu also receives a slap from Youji (because
Yuu told him "you aren't my father") and Jin is jealous of the daughter (Miki)
towards Yuu. There isn't the double pregnancy of the mothers. Meiko and Namura
were already married since some time (precisely after the trip to Hiroshima),
and Miki & friends didn't attend the marriage. At the end, the parents
decide to take another trip to the Hawaii bringing with them the sons (to
not leave them alone at home!), to finally make a worthy wedding ceremony
with the white suit (the mothers with the fathers, not Yuu and Miki... ^_^;).
There isn't the final kiss of Yuu & Miki with wedding dresses and not
even the hints about the future of the other characters.
In the last volume, Suzu and Kei go together to Bobson's to Miki and it's clear that they are on a date together... but Kei doesn't seem to give very importance to Suzu, who instead bothers him. ^_^;
In the manga, at the end, there is the true story of Yuu and Miki's parents and their (complicated) relationships. In a few words... at college's time the couples were like this: Jin with Chiyako and Rumi with Youji. Once Chiyako goes out with Satoshi's father (her boss on the work), Jin sees them and breaks up with Chiyako. Chiyako asks help to Youji, Rumi sees them together and breaks up with Youji. Jin goes to work in England and Rumi follows him (and in fact Miki was born in England). Chiyako however is pregnant and the child's father is Jin. Youji knows this and he decides to marry Chiyako anyway. The letter that Yuu discovers were written from Youji's mother to Youji ("will you be happy with a woman that is going to have a child from another man?"). Unfortunately Chiyako loses the child, but they get married anyway. After a year Yuu was born. After many years the two couples meet again at the Hawaii and we know how the story is ended... ^__________^
The temporal timing is different: in the manga the time is more dilated. For example, when Miki and Yuu are alone at home for the first time, they already knew each other since about nine months, while in the anime it were less than three months. Despite this the manga is more condesed about the events, while the anime is more dilated: seldom there is more than an important fact in an episode, while in the manga even in a few pages always happens something.
Many situations that last only an episode in the manga there aren't, i.e. the sales' competition at the Junk Jungle. An exception is the marathon.
Kei and Suzu don't come almost at the same time like in the anime, in the manga the TV commercial video is completed when Kei arrives.