I had started watching Citrus a while back (the first few episodes) and having an interest in the story, decided to read the manga and compare both. To my great demise, I am utterly disappointed in the fact that there are only about 16 out of the 50 chapters of the manga that were adapted. I found the manga intriguing, exciting and had quite an emotional time binge-reading all of it. I personally found the pacing adequate and the ending relatively believable and satisfying.
I then decided to continue watching the Anime adaptation, and to my surprise, there's simply a fat chunk of the story that's been completely left out and wasn't adapted. I was looking forward to watching it animated, anticipating what kind of music or atmosphere would be used to depict the scenes I had such a great time imagining and picturing in my mind. Alas, my hopes were unfulfilled and crushed as I watched, episode after episode, telling myself time and time again "only a couple episodes left, no way they adapted everything.. I hope they did though..". So, I'm very disappointed about that, and that's what impacted my enjoyment the most. Nonetheless, the adaptation was good in my opinion, the art and characters reflect what I had imagined whilst reading the manga. And the story pretty much follows the chapters in order, but there's like 70% of it missing, so yeah. I didn't really get emotional whilst watching, even though I did when reading, and I'm usually the kind of person that gets teary eyes easily when watching romance/drama.
The only redeeming qualities of this adaptation are the Art, the animation fluidity and the OP that's pretty great, in my opinion. Otherwise, what a waste of an opportunity to adapt a good manga. It needed a 24 episode season at the very least.
If you want to know how it (truly) ends, you have to read the manga. Actually, just read the manga, it's better that way, you get the full story and the same great art, minus the animation/music/sounds. Anyway, since I doubt there's going to be a sequel to this adaptation, I'm going to cherish the memories I've made within myself when reading the manga and imagining what it'd actually look like animated.
