I haven't seen the taiwanese version. *goes to see if she can find it*
I felt like girl!akiha was only tangentally like boy!manga!akiha. Like, I enjoyed the character for herself a lot and I do like the way the series handles her--ie, she's not super-speshul-sparkly-princess-go! She's an aging obnoxious career woman in love with a gay dude. Who sprays disinfectant on her and breaks out into hives when she touches him. But as an adaptation of the manga character? She's so different it almost doesn't make sense to compare them, to me.