I watched the anime prior to the movie. I felt that they preserved a lot of the feeling in the series when converting to the movie. Haruma was the perfect shouta. His shy looks, blushes and smiles killed me. I went back and watched some of my favorite parts in the anime and he was spot on. He was so cute in this movie, I'll be sure to check out his other works. Tabe was also great. It was hard to read her character at times, but overall it was good. The only real complaint is I missed out on ryuu and yuuko. I really enjoyed them in the anime, but didn't get the same feels from the movie.