Interesting re. the response to the TV drama, kind-of confirming (again) my feeling that not all manga makes a successful transition when adapted to live action drama (as opposed to light novels/novels). Manga is so image-specific with its own rhythms of story-telling that it needs reinventing and what made it special often gets lost, whereas a novel doesn't have that extra visual element (except in the mind of the reader!). Anime seems a much more natural way to convey a manga (but is much more expensive and time-consuming to make).
