This manga is just so fascinating. I'm only just starting book three, but I can't wait till I get up to book nine, though they'll prolly have number ten out by then. The concept behind the story is just amazing. The Italian setting is a nice change from the typical manga settings. The character development in the girls' just has to get to your heart. We got my friend the anime box set for Christmas, and I was really dissapointed by it. The way they mixed up the plotline and really just didn't seem to hold true to the book. It made reading the second book really weird, as I hadn't gotten the chance to read it before then. I also thought that it was kind of strange that if they were going to release an anime of it that it would only cover the content in the fist two books of the series.
