Well - The core of the story is different. If I remember right, in Citrus the girls are not blood-related at all. Their father and mother get married when they are already grown up and they are complete strangers for each other. There is also a big difference in social status between them, so that makes understanding each other rather difficult. It takes a long time before those girls overcome the hurdles, and even then their relations almost get wrecked in the end.

In Love Ribbon the girls are blood-related, but did not known each other before they meet. Here difference in social status does not play a big role, but the difference in life-style does. When they fall in love they have very different hurdles to climb over. Those hurdles are more centered around social taboos, than about social status and being lesbian.

I must say I like both the Citrus and Love Ribbon stories. Although there are a lot of similarities, in my opinion Love Ribbon is certainly not a "watered down" version of Citrus. I could even say the later addition of the after story for Love Ribbon makes the good ending a bit more heartwarming than that of Citrus. But, as said, that's a personal opinion.

Depends what you mean by 'watered down.' Citrus has been running for years, this is just a single VN that can be completed in a few hours. In terms of amount of content, there's no comparison.

BUT... I think Love Ribbon is better written. Citrus is full of contrivances and silly plots, it gets downright ridiculous (and not in a good way, in my opinion) with all the 'obstacles' it throws in. In this story the relationship grows and develops much more organically.

So while the two have a similar theme, they approach it in very different ways.

Originally posted by Tregarde:

Depends what you mean by 'watered down.' Citrus has been running for years, this is just a single VN that can be completed in a few hours. In terms of amount of content, there's no comparison.

BUT... I think Love Ribbon is better written. Citrus is full of contrivances and silly plots, it gets downright ridiculous (and not in a good way, in my opinion) with all the 'obstacles' it throws in. In this story the relationship grows and develops much more organically.

So while the two have a similar theme, they approach it in very different ways.

seems u did not read all 12 volumes, ORIGINAL manga, not fans translation

Originally posted by Tregarde:

Depends what you mean by 'watered down.' Citrus has been running for years, this is just a single VN that can be completed in a few hours. In terms of amount of content, there's no comparison.

BUT... I think Love Ribbon is better written. Citrus is full of contrivances and silly plots, it gets downright ridiculous (and not in a good way, in my opinion) with all the 'obstacles' it throws in. In this story the relationship grows and develops much more organically.

So while the two have a similar theme, they approach it in very different ways.

After having worked my way through 7 volumes of "Citrus", I can agree to this completely. Zoey and Iris are actually against the odds and in addition to building a relationship, they cannot hope to meet any kind of approval and support aside from the dad with a heart of gold , whereas in Citrus, it's almost as if half its world is hell-bent on getting Yuzu and Mei together. Vol 4 of Citrus was one of the worst I read.

Citrus isn't a Hentai anime, This game has an adult Patch... that's my two cents

Originally posted by TyranntX:

Citrus isn't a Hentai anime, This game has an adult Patch... that's my two cents

Love Ribbon isn't a "hentai" either. Given that there is a fair amount of relationship building and an emphasis on romance, it falls more into erotic, rather than pornographic content.