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RK? Well, its only the best ever anime series you know.(can't say about manga..not read enough of it, but as many say the jinchu arc was the best, its ought to be good)

It wasn't the first one I saw and certainly wasn't the one that hooked me to anime. I saw it in Japanese first time around without subscripts, understanding nothing..lol, heck, I grasped the story in an entirely different manner by just seeing the animation..and say what, I think that version of the story was not much worse from the real one, if not better XD. But yeah, now that I have seen the entire anime series in English and pretty much seen enough of it and other anime series to be able to rate it unbiased, I'd say it pretty much sets the standard for anime. You have comedy, drama, seriousness, adventure, action, romance, love, hatred and pretty much everything going on through the entire series. And the fillers weren't half bad, just that they weren't really fillers, given that they were at the end of the series and instead of being used to pad in between the episodes, they were bundled together and shown for a long time without any real story, sad that the unwise use of fillers brought the anime to end but it still is the best.

As for the OVAs, the first one is pretty good but reflection wasn't really all that good. It had a slow moving theme, a presentation style that required everyone to have read the entire manga or seen the entire anime and had a sad ending. Apart from that, I have serious problems with that awkward art style used in the OVAs, everyone's like way too round and without half as much essence as in the anime.

And I didn't enjoy seeing one of my favorite character being turned into a lame guy who'd go against his principles and kill his *should never have been* wife(I mean Kaoru not Tomoe, he just transfers his fatal disease to her when he had promised to never be the reason of anyone's death again and to always protect Kaoru, even at the expense of his life) leave his family for say what, nothing at all and act all lame. (I think acting overly sweet and all mushy gushy is lame...). It still is something that's not unworthy of being seen but yeah..I hope it is labeled AU and a new movie with anime style arts and a better ending cum story is made, and I wish the jinchu would be animated as well, although that looks almost impossible now.