moodboard: me, VALIANTLY STRUGGLING not to dunk on the debut YA novelist who really thought "I didn't like this manga, so I decided to lift the entire premise and write my own version" was a reasonable and professional writing strategy
LRT: It is astonishing looking at the side-by-sides. Compare those to excerpts from this book by John Lowe, which covers similar material but is laid out and executed COMPLETELY differently.