Takuto, This Is A Terrible Idea.
I've started reading the Full Moon manga, perhaps inevitably, and I'm enjoying it a lot! Thanks to yumiboo and 
john_egbert for mentioning the manga to me; it might not have occurred to me to check it out otherwise. (The title has been rendered as Full Moon o Sagashite in localisation, rather than Full Moon wo Sagashite, but I'm already used to writing the latter, so I suppose I'll stick to it.)
The manga is adorable and fun and doesn't seem to have the same pacing issues as the anime, but the anime did make some changes that I actually prefer. I'm going to talk quickly about those changes here. I'm only up to the fourth chapter of the manga but have seen the entire anime.
As I say, I'm enjoying the Full Moon manga a lot, but I'm glad I watched the anime before I read it. The anime, as you may have gleaned from the focus of almost every entry I've made about it, caused me to fall seriously in love with the Mitsuki/Takuto pairing, and that was probably the foundation upon which all my emotional investment in the series was built. From what I've seen so far, I'm not sure the manga would have had the same effect.
There are two main reasons for this:
- The anime's glacial pacing at the beginning (it took eighteen episodes to cover three chapters of the manga, mainly by injecting an absurd quantity of filler) actually worked in its favour on the Mitsuki/Takuto front. The anime had time to build up their friendship and attraction very slowly before there was any hint that something might actually happen between the characters, which is exactly the sort of thing I love.
- The scene in episode eighteen/chapters three and four where Takuto kisses Mitsuki while she's unconscious. In the anime, it's pretty clear that he's trying to give her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, even if he doesn't have a great idea of how to go about it, and then they're both awkward about it and it's delightful. In the manga he's just... kissing her while she's unconscious, which is creepy, Takuto, don't do that.
(The manga does at least make it immediately clear that Takuto can't be Mitsuki's father by saying early on that he died two years ago, though. That could have saved me a lot of heartache.)
In conclusion: I love Mitsuki/Takuto as a pairing in the anime to tiny, tiny pieces, but in the manga I'm a little dubious about it. We'll see, though!
john_egbert for mentioning the manga to me; it might not have occurred to me to check it out otherwise. (The title has been rendered as Full Moon o Sagashite in localisation, rather than Full Moon wo Sagashite, but I'm already used to writing the latter, so I suppose I'll stick to it.)
The manga is adorable and fun and doesn't seem to have the same pacing issues as the anime, but the anime did make some changes that I actually prefer. I'm going to talk quickly about those changes here. I'm only up to the fourth chapter of the manga but have seen the entire anime.
As I say, I'm enjoying the Full Moon manga a lot, but I'm glad I watched the anime before I read it. The anime, as you may have gleaned from the focus of almost every entry I've made about it, caused me to fall seriously in love with the Mitsuki/Takuto pairing, and that was probably the foundation upon which all my emotional investment in the series was built. From what I've seen so far, I'm not sure the manga would have had the same effect.
There are two main reasons for this:
- The anime's glacial pacing at the beginning (it took eighteen episodes to cover three chapters of the manga, mainly by injecting an absurd quantity of filler) actually worked in its favour on the Mitsuki/Takuto front. The anime had time to build up their friendship and attraction very slowly before there was any hint that something might actually happen between the characters, which is exactly the sort of thing I love.
- The scene in episode eighteen/chapters three and four where Takuto kisses Mitsuki while she's unconscious. In the anime, it's pretty clear that he's trying to give her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, even if he doesn't have a great idea of how to go about it, and then they're both awkward about it and it's delightful. In the manga he's just... kissing her while she's unconscious, which is creepy, Takuto, don't do that.
(The manga does at least make it immediately clear that Takuto can't be Mitsuki's father by saying early on that he died two years ago, though. That could have saved me a lot of heartache.)
In conclusion: I love Mitsuki/Takuto as a pairing in the anime to tiny, tiny pieces, but in the manga I'm a little dubious about it. We'll see, though!