I just finished up this series today and was a bit disappointed. The show started off really well and showed a lot of promise. The characters are very well written and I really enjoyed all the crazy use of super deformed and other animation techniques used. However, after you get past the second disk things start to move about as fast as dragonball z ... and that just doesn't work for a drama series such as this. Every other episode started with "a synopsis of what's happened so far", and there must have been about 4 full episodes devoted to recap.

The ending is non-existant as well. I actually finished the last episode and immediately went to my computer to lookup if there was additional dvds that continue the series. I guess that the anime caught up with the manga and that's why the ending sucked, lame.

I can still appreciate that this was a neat anime in a lot of ways, but I don't think I would recommend it to anyone but hardcore anime fans.