Bless all of you who gave this mangu a chance, if your first exposure to HW! was the OVA. Admitedly the story starts off a bit slow for the first few volumes and finally wanders the better part of a volume before Takeshita brings in the "SRS BIZNIZ" arc. The art early on is a bit rough and the character design a bit weak. It rapidly becomes clean and sharp, cute when need be and very detailed and a well designed epic when need be. The characters grow and develop nicely. We see the good and bad and in-between sides of not just the leadsbut of the majority of the entire cast. They also have backstories that surprise and may even shock you. You may find yourself fans of the fully developed side characters! I found myself greatly enjoying the side romance stories almost as much as the fumbling of Elle and Takishita.

The story was, I'll admit, a bit rough and unfocused(except on the ecchi!) early on. The nudity and ecchi-ness may put off some as much as the later focus about humanity and our relationship with the divine and the rest of humanity

It rapidly evolves into a epic spanning heaven and earth, love and death, that may make you wonder a bit about life, eternity and the fragility of the things we hold most dear, love, family and friendship. It is a story of tragedy and redemption, the joy of finding and the agony of loss.

There are a number of excellent blog reviews of HW! and the best review *that completely humbles this brief one* is available on the scanlation groups homepage.

HW! was a manga that actually touched and moved me. I have reccomended it to all my animangu acquaintances. It is doubly a pity that it has not been picked up for distribution in North America.