The Hana Yori Dango manga is written and drawn by a woman named Kamio Youko, and it runs in the bi-weekly shoujo manga compilation called Margaret, which is published by Shuueisha. 
To the right is a picture of a cover of Margaret that has Hana Yori Dango on it. Click the thumbnail to see it up close. Also, here is a picture from the opening pages of the story. I love the color pictures at the beginnings of many of the Margaret installment!
The anime and the manga are quite similar in story and in look. Well, not at first. I think in the manga, everyone looks a little odd (well, very odd in Doumyouji's case, his hair is wierd even for him =) but everyone slowly evolves to looking like how they do in the anime. Many of the details and scenes are done in the exact same way in both anime and manga. Clothing is the same, scenes are layed out the same, etc. It seems to go 3 TV episodes per volume of manga, but not always. Also, there are some differences in the manga. There are some subplots and stoylines in the manga that the anime has either skipped, or not covered yet. The most noticible one to me right now is the beauty queen contest thing in volume 11... anyway, here are some pictures :)
I have placed a thumbnail of some of the covers of the manga below, along with what anime episodes each volume corresponds to. Click on the thumbnails to see the larger pictures!
 Hana Yori Dango Volume 1 (ISBN4-08-848028-7): Hmm believe it or not, the main storyline in this volume is covered in eps 1 and 2 of the anime. |
 Hana Yori Dango Volume 2 (ISBN4-08-848055-4): The main events of anime episodes 3-6 are in here. As always, there are some slight changes here and there, but the main plot is the same.
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 Hana Yori Dango Volume 3 (ISBN4-08-848103-8): This volume runs right up to about the middle of anime episode 10. |
 Hana Yori Dango Volume 4 (ISBN4-08-848123-2): This goes from the second half of episode 10 up to the middle of episode 14 or 15. Hehe, this is the volume that Tsukushi was reading in episode 5 of the anime. The page layout she was looking at in the anime is exactly the same as in the actual manga :)
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 Hana Yori Dango Volume 5 (ISBN4-08-848153-4): Hmm This covers from around the middle of episode 14 or 15, right to the end of episode 16 =) Love the ending of this volume =)
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 Hana Yori Dango Volume 6 (ISBN4-08-848193-3): Yay! This relates the events of episode 17 (or rather, episode 17 relates what happens in this volume=) through the end of episode 20. One of my favorite volumes =)
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 Hana Yori Dango Volume 7 (ISBN4-08-848223-9): This relates the events that were told in episodes 21-23 of the anime. This volume gets my vote for one of my favorite covers =) |
 Hana Yori Dango Volume 8 (ISBN4-08-848253-0): Hmm episodes 24-26 cover what happens in this volume, though from what I can tell, It looks like episode 26 ends just slightly differently here than in the anime.
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 Hana Yori Dango Volume 9 (ISBN4-08-848295-6): Yay! You would think by the cover of this volume that it would reflect episodes 27-29 of the anime. Well, in the very beginning it does, but it changes radically very quickly. This volume skips the whole Canada storyline and instead introduces a new character, Seinosuke. He is another love interest for Tsukushi. Seinosuke is not in the anime! Wah! He is cute too! As for the Canada storyline, I have been told that is does occur in the manga, but later on in the volumes that I haven't seen yet :) The anime has rearranged some events it seems. Oh well =\ |
 Hana Yori Dango Volume 10 (ISBN4-08-848343-X): This whole volume covers a storyline that is not (yet?) in the anime. It involves Seinosuke also. |
 Hana Yori Dango Volume 11 (ISBN4-08-848383-9): This one also covers events that the anime has not touched yet... this is the one with the beauty queen contest thing in it. The Miss Teen Japan contest is pretty funny. Poor Tsukushi, forced to try to live up to the examples of Shizuka and Tsubaki who have both won the contest before! Heheh =) I need to see how the contest turned out! It continues into volume 12 =) |
 Hana Yori Dango Volume 12 (ISBN4-08-848423-1): The conclusion of the beauty contest that was not done in the anime. Tsukushi and Doumyouji entertain/babysit a kid for a day, and more!
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 Hana Yori Dango Volume 13 (ISBN4-08-848475-4): Tsukushi goes to Canada! This is the volume that covers some of my favorite episodes in the anime, eps 28-29! Tsukushi goes to Canada and falls into serious danger, with only Doumyouji there to save her life! :)
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 Hana Yori Dango Volume 14 (ISBN4-08-848549-1): This volume covers the introduction of Tsukushi's new, very cute friend named Junpei...
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 Hana Yori Dango Volume 15 (ISBN4-08-848572-3): The Junpei incident! The junpei incident! See how Tsukushi got her fashionable haircut, and see Doumyouji risk his life for Tsukushi!
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 Hana Yori Dango Volume 16 (ISBN4-08-848611-0): This one begins with events that happen in episode 34 of the anime. I am not sure how close to the manga that the anime stays after this point :)
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 Hana Yori Dango Volume 17 (ISBN4-08-948677-3): Yay, volume 17 at last! This volume is very cool, it covers roughly anime eps 38-42. Even though the anime has ended, I believe the manga is still running, so keep looking for more tankoubon volumes in the future! |
 Hana Yori Dango Volume 18 (ISBN4-08-848716-8): Wow! now things get really interesting! Unlike the Anime, which ends at ep 51, the manga keeps going! So the events in the manga that follow the whole 'Shigeru's hot springs' story take a very different turn than in the anime! Woo hoo, looks like Kin-san, the cute guy that wasn't in the anime, is back! And what is this? Tsukushi working as a servant at Doumyouji's mansion? Oh my!! |
 Hana Yori Dango Volume 19 (ISBN4-08-848766-4): Yay, a new volume! This one was published in March, 1998. It continues the saga of the series past the end of the anime. Yes in deed, Tsukushi is working as a household servant in Doumyouji's mansion! What a tough situation, forced to be nice and polite to him as her employer in the mornings when serving him breakfast, and then to argue with him as usual at school ^_^
This volume does have some good scenes between the two of them though :)
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 Hana Yori Dango Volume 20 (ISBN4-08-848805-9): I am always happy to see a new volume of the HYD manga come out! Can you imagine my excitement at finding this one? Woo hoo :) Anyway, this volume actually doesnt really focus on Tsukushi and Doumyouji as much as all the others. Instead the main romantic focus has shifted to Tsukushi's friend Yuki, who is having boyfriend problems, and interestingly enough, finds herself in a budding romance with one of the F4 :) Yay!
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 Hana Yori Dango Volume 21 (ISBN4-08-848870-9): I just love the cover of this one! They both look soooo adorable! This is a great volume! Doumyouji's mom seems to be up to mischief again, and this time she's targeting Tsukushi's friends! Oh the lengths Doumyouji Kaede will go to to keep her son away from Tsukushi! There are some great scenes in this volume also, especially THE KISS ;)
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 Hana Yori Dango Volume 22 (ISBN4-08-847023-0): Aww, what a bittersweet volume this is! Tsukushi living the life of a girl in a fishing village? Doumyouji being mean again!? That picture of Doumyouji in the rain! And that flowered shirt! Hehehe :) There's yet another new guy in this volume Yoshimatsu Matsutarou. Now that is a name for ya ^^.
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 Hana Yori Dango Volume 23 (ISBN4-08-847074-5): Okay! This volume wraps up the fishing village storyline. I think my favorite bit from that was the arrival of Doumyouji, and him getting some pocket change from Rui for the villagers, ho ho ho! Lets see, Tsukushi is back in town and atEitoku Gakuen agan, thanks to an apartment from Doumyouji. Akira sports a new straight hairstyle that makes him look a LOT like Thomas from way back in the Sakurako storyline.. and what's this? Another new guy, this one claiming to be Doumyouji's cousin... looks just like him, with straight hair! Woo but what are his REAL intentions! ^_^
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 Hana Yori Dango Volume 24 (ISBN4-08-847126-1): The continuing saga of Tsukushi, Doumyouji, and the mysterious look-alike "cousin"! The new guy is rather cute, but what is his secret? He seems to really like Tsukushi too, but is he honest? Things are strained between Tsukushi and Doumyouji, and the look-alike's arrival is not helping things. It looks like Doumyouji Kaede is once again plotting to tear our favorite couple apart!
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 Hana Yori Dango Volume 25 (ISBN4-08-847178-4): Is it just me, or does Akira with straightened hair look a lot like Thomas now? Anyway... we learn who the lookalike is in this volume, and things heat up between him and Tsukushi, though not exactly in a romantic way. Tsukushi admits her feelings for Doumyouji, but that doesn't really mean everything will be happily ever after... ahh things must be so complicated!
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 Hana Yori Dango Volume 26 (ISBN4-08-847232-2): Even more on the saga of Doumyouji's look-alike, Amon. But then we can finally move on from that, yay! Tsukushi and Doumyouji's relationship gets stronger (IMHO)... Don't they look ADORABLE on the cover? ^_^
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