*nodnod* AGREED. I remember stumbling onto love_deeper after seeing the anime and reading up to...maybe volume 4 of the manga. All this talk of Akira, Hotaru and Shinrei (among others) left me REALLY wanting to get more manga. To me, before that, they'd just been random background characters with not much interest to them.

I agree on the younger thing too...they both seem more boyish in the anime (and in the anime it seems to be more "delusions of granduer", while in the manga those claims are pretty justified. They're STRONG.)