While I have not watched any other incarnation of this drama, I was aware of the basic plot before going into it. It's generally one of the types of plots that I like in romantic comedies and I haven't really watched a lot of Japanese ones so I decided to give it a shot. It ended up taking me over a year to finish. I did enjoy it mostly but I would find myself in the groove of watching and suddenly Kotoko did something ridiculous and embarrassing. I would have to turn it off. Towards the middle, it just got to be too much. But I've been trying to finish dramas that I've started so I decided to push through. Once the show reached the last 4 or 5 episodes, it lost some of the silliness and I liked it more. Miki Honoka is really young compared to the rest of the main cast and it showed quite often. Even the girls that were her friends, who are only slightly older, felt more mature than she did. Maybe that's because she made strange, dramatic faces throughout most of the show. It seemed like she was someone's younger sister rather than their classmate. Still, she managed to portray the obsessive one-sided love of a dim girl very well. Furukawa Yuki did a good job with the emotionless Naoki. I really liked Yamada Yuki as Kinnosuke, though I didn't really feel for him as the second lead until more than halfway through. I did like that he didn't sit around pining in secret but he was also pushy and that sometimes got annoying. The music was kind of blah to me. I didn't love the opening or closing songs and I can't recall any music during the episodes. I don't really see myself watching this drama again. If I was so inclined, I might watch the last 2 or 3 episodes only. Overall, I didn't love this drama. It had way too much embarrassment going on for me to truly get into it. But I ended up liking it well enough and do plan of watching the sequel.