Reviews

I read the manga and it was one of my favorites, yeah, factor in the crummy translating and scanlations- they took pictures of the BOOKS and posted them, as though you could actually read something so blurry and small!- and the fact that towards the end the story veered off to have something to do with a guy named Joker and people named after card suits, it got a little confusing and was no longer true to the synopsis, which is one thing a lot of people hate.

I had no doubt that the anime wouldn't have everything the manga did- it's too short, but I did NOT like the anime. Yes, it stayed true to what the manga started as, which I DID appreciate, but Nina was such a fricking twat I wanted to strangle her most of the time, and they cut out all of the romance parts! They barely developed anything close to romance between Nina, Zero, and Ichi. Yeah there was tension, but NO romance! And I swear that they changed the ending. I don't remember the pearl going all DOOM and doing what it did.

All in all, I didn't really like this anime adaption. If you're looking to watch something that sticks to one plot and one plot only, so that it doesn't solve one problem and move onto another, I suggest you watch this one. But I was severely disappointed that they cut out so much- including one element that was fairly big in the manga. When sticking to the original plot, this one gets top marks, but capturing the essence of the manga? Sorry, very low points there.