Before reading this, I think I should say that I have never watched the other adaptations (Boys Over Flowers) nor the original (Hana Yori Dango), this is the first time I watch this story (I watched some parodies though).

At first, I always sided with the FL because everything seemed to go wrong with her life, but I grew to not really like her as much as I continued watching, mainly because of the choices she made. I also think that some of the things the ML did were forgiven too easily. It was actually pretty hard to choose a favorite character. They all seemed too uninteresting or (stereo)typical, but with time, I grew to like the second lead (as I had predicted) and the other two guys when they are in good friend mode.

Regarding the story... Well, it's very clichéd. In my opinion, they should have made it shorter. Half of the time I wondered: 'Is it really necessary to put these scenes?' or 'What the heck is happening?' And towards the middle of the series, I actually got bored and took my time to continue watching (normally I binge watch series, but with this one, I couldn't).

All in all, it was decent and good to kill some time, don't really recommend it, but if you are interested, I think you should watch it and form your own opinion.