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I can't stand the manga at all and even ever regret reading it. To start with, I was very disgusted at how sexualized some of the female characters were (Saya being drawn with bigger breasts, copious amounts of her clevage shown, Julia being assualted by Charles, etc.) as well as the changes in the characters personalities. Charles' blatant misogny towards Saya was also gross, but even worse is Kai's creeper attitude towards his OWN sister. Then there's James, one of Diva's strongest chevaliers getting killed just AFTER he is introduced which makes me wonder if the author is biased or something.

But I think the tip of the iceberg was the way in which Solomon, my favorite character, was written. Rather than the tragic and romantic hero he was in the anime, we the fans instead get a clone of Amshel, except much worse. As I kept reading on, everything just got so much worse that the characters actually accomplished making themselves more unlikeable than they already were (I'm looking at you, Saya and Van). The only good thing about the manga was Riku displaying his chiropteran powers and was the only character I even liked at all; everyone else was just either irritating or barely shown at all for me to care.

I think if Katsura Asuka kept the characters personalities intact and followed the plot of the anime while expanding on it, the manga would've been more sucessful. Good thing the light novels exist for those did a way better job at handling the story and its characters.