[Lemnear]

I started reading the manga and then one day decided to watch the series. Between the amount of stuff that happens in the books, the anime was very slow paced that it couldn't have been well constructed (still haven't seen the final 8 episodes of the 2nd series). Get the feeling like with Escaflowne, which was originally planned to be a 36 episode series but when its budget got slashed they had to tie things up in a hurry (and slopely). Its a shame that the anime is so below the manga in quality, Clamp is one of the few production companies that has been able to turn good manga into good anime's as well.