It is nice getting to see so many of the characters (even if only briefly) from the manga again. However, as I've said before, Takaya-sensei's current character designs make some of the characters hard to distinguish. In the early volumes, there was no trouble telling characters apart. They all had personality that came through the art. Now, the characters look generic -- there's no personality that really comes through. Machi and Tohru often look identical. Kagura and Kimi often look identical. It is really a shame too because that was one of the nice touches about Takaya-sensei's style of drawing back then.