I feel weird about the way this series portrays female characters. Beyond Haruna and Mami, they all seem to be fairly terrible people, jealous and vindictive and conniving and totally irrational. With the exception of Asaoka, the never-serious rogue, most of the male characters are either sweet gentle saviors or just sort of innocuous background people. So that's a downside . . . 
 But I really, dramatically love Haruna and Yoh as a couple. Their relationship actually progresses in surprisingly mature ways throughout this series, so much so that I--the person always bitching about how much she hates Teenage Love in movies and books--wanted nothing more than to see them together forever. God, they are cute. I sort of want to start the series over again now that I'm done.