This is going to be the only Authors note I put on here, there will be no more going forward. I started writing this as a little project for myself as I wanted a version of ItaKiss that was a little more modern that I could read and I decided to set it in the UK as that's where I live and I felt that would be easier for me. I genuinely love this series so much but find it hard to get through some bits (eg; Naoki making fun of Harper getting molested on a bus... what is that about). I'm going to outline the major changes I have made here. The chapters can be very long as they are based on the manga chapters.

Story

I wanted to follow the basic story as closely as I could but I had to swap around some of the storylines so that it could fit in with the drastic differences between the UK and Japanese schooling systems. There are also some component changes such as what I mentioned above with bus.

Names

As this is a version set in Britain, everyone's names are different. I have tried to name everyone something that has the same meaning as their Japanese counterpart. For example; Kotoko means Harp Child so I have named her Harper and Naoki means "Tree of Truth" so I have named him Oliver after an Olive Tree. The rest of the characters names are similarly influenced. You don't have to like what I named them.

Kotoko

For Kotoko, I wanted to change her a little so she is less of a complete idiot who will literally puppy dog after Naoki for the rest of her life. Keeping the fact that she is not academically gifted, she will develop other skills and learn to be her own person instead of forming her entire personality around Naoki.

Noaki

I wanted to keep Noaki's brash personality, especially for when he is young. I would like to see him mature from an arrogant arsehole, to someone who takes accountability for what he does and says in a grownup way and growing out of his manipulative behaviour to be a decent human being and husband.