Hana Yori Dango or Boys Over Flowers

GENRAL INFORMATION:
Author &Artist: Kamio Youko
Categories: anime, comedy, drama, live action, romance, shoujo
Status: 242 Chapters - completed scalation, and completed volumes in english
ANIME/DRAMA: NO/ YES: KOREAN, JAPENESE, TAIWANESE, AND MANY MORE.

Rating: 4.5 (started good but just kept going for far too long)

Summary:Although Tsukushi Makino is from a poor family, she attends an elite school for the super rich, where her life has become intertwined with the "F4," the ruling boys of the school, in a whirlwind of love and confusion!

Review:
Okay just let me explain the rating. Hear me out. Okay this manga is very very popular. It received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shoujo. Made into a bunch of dramas. But i do not like it one bit. Please let me finish. this manga is long. very very long. you have to put alot of time and energy into this manga. alot of time and energy, its fricken 242 chapters!
Now i used to like it, thought it was interesting. a different take on shoujo manga i mean it kinda pretty much started the rich boy falls in love with the maid genre.(by the way shoujo can be spelled shojo or shoujo)But when i say different its really only for the first 3/4 -1/2 of the series. don't get me wrong the first half was good. but after that i couldn't take all the predictable drama that started happening. i mean at lest for a 100 chapters i could predict the outcome. And sometimes i would skip chapters and know exactly what had happened even though i didn't read it. it was so predictable. and sometimes i like predictable. like if a girl gets kidnapped i want that sappy scene right after her crush saves her. But the predictable stuff in here was the bad one that just annoyones you. It became a predictable outlandish shojo manga.

SPOILERZ (THERE NOT REALLY SPOILERZ BUT R.) IT WON'T REALLY EFFECT YOU JUST READ IT.

For example a rough out line of the second half . they broke up, the main guy changed after they broke up, they got toegther, weren't allowed to see each other, the guy she started to like first liked her now, even though she does not like him, mother does not like the girl, he loses his memory, she almost leaves and never comes back, she comes back, then they finally get toegther hurray, they go away toegther, and then bam! oh guess what the main guy (dango i'm pretty sure) has to go away for 4 years. AND YOU NOE WHAT SHE SAID??? I'LL WAIT FOR YOU! and SHES NOT EVEN ANGRY!okay well, i get why she said that because what is she supposed to do?say," no take me with you!" i know shes not allowed to go. but she did nothing it was completely out of her character
but what really gets me angry is the fact that after 242 CHAPTERS I DON'T EVEN GET TO SEE THEM HAPPILY TOEGTHER! NOTHING! NADA! ZIP! DID-LE-LY SQUAT! not even a little after story! ahh wait i'm sorry i was wrong they had a little sidestory. it took place a year later! and they didn't even do anything but just yell!okay they kissed, and i'm gald they didn't get all lovey-dovey but really nothing?! and you know what the chapter ended "i have 3 more years to wait. " i didn't even get to see them happy toegther! it was a complete let down.