Hana Yori Dango anime high session 1

Either I'm really high or anime version of this is actually really good. I've only seen the live action version of this series before, and assumed the older anime version wasn't as good.

Episode 01 - Declaration of War!!

Starts off with a completely different tone... Tsukushi is already attending Eitoku... she just wants to get by the next two years with a peaceful school life... but she can't stand seeing the F4 bullying people. She starts calling them out, and officially makes her own "declaration of war" red note and slams it on Tsukasa's face. Meanwhile, her friend who she defended from the F4, is now pretending not to be her friend for her own safety, and only speaking to Tsukushi through stealthy talk-balk toy messages.

Episode 02 - No-Brand Woman!!

Tsukasa Domyouji has some shady men kidnap Tsukushi, and sends her to... a beauty salon. At first it's really eerie, it really feels like he's going to do something bad to her...

It costs more than you'll ever make. 420k yen, altogether.

Tsukasa tells her that Rui is already taken...
He offers to be allowed around him and invites her to this luxurious life, but at school he will ignore her.

You think you can buy me like merchandise?

I'm no-brand. Don't put me together with all the other girls out there.

She passes by Rui later... asks him if there's anything money can't buy... he goes: "Air.. dumb girl."

Episode 03 - I Won't Get Hurt!!

Now a group of girls who are obsessed with Tsukasa are bullying Tsukushi. She blames it on the F4 at first, then finds out the ones who were pretending to like her actually did it. They start ridiculing her about her crush on Rui, and the competition she has... Then instead of Rui, it's Domyouji who comes to save her from the bullies this time. She rejects his attempts of kindness with a punch to the head.

The other two members of the F4, Sojiro and Akira (who barely got any introduction in the 1995 movie) are acting nice to her now too... so now she's got the whole F4 on her side. Rui creeps on her a bit when he finds out she likes him... Tsukasa goes even further and changes his hairstyle to impress her...