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So, to explain, when people talk about adaptations of Ikuhara works often being drastically different, that's usually deliberate: Quite often he gives a brief overview about themes and ideas and let's his collaborators go ham with it. So it's not so much a "bad adaptation" as "two radically different stories with the same briefly sketched outline and some character art"

(There's a possibly apocryphal story that He'd told Chiwa Saito that it was supposed to be a manga about "Friendship between girls" and that after she saw the movie she was like "Ooooh, so THAT'S what he meant...")