Is it any better? No not really. I think they're both fine in their own sense. I like the story of Hori and Miyamura enough that I was willing to watch it twice in two different art styles, so big points there. Obvious art is subjective, but I think most would prefer the high budget flashy new animation to this much more simplified look. If you were a big fan of the manga you may like this version simply for keeping true to that art style, which may be why they did more episodes of this even after the other anime adapted all the same material from the manga and then some.
Finding subtitles for this one was hard, and at the time of writing this review episode 6 subtitles have yet to surface. Luckily I had seen the other show already and it's pretty easy to pick out what's going on. It's hard to say how I would have felt about the show in a vacuum, since it hard not to compare and contrast with the other adaptation. I'm going to give it a 7 on what I think are it's own merits. I still enjoyed watching it maybe a bit more than that since I liked the other version so much, I just felt this one was a little weaker on it's delivery.
