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For some reason I decied to read Kobato manga after watching anime. It was definetly good decision. Manga adaptation is better than anime.

Story 10/10

At first the story might seem too simplistic or pointless but as story progresses and past events related to main herione Kobato and her companion Ioryogi are revealed it gets really interresting. In short Kobato is sweet romantic fantasy and there are lot of emotions especially as series is coming to its final. Story is well elaborated contrary to anime. 

Art 8/10

Art is typical CLAMP style. I think it's quite nice, not the best, but definetly nice. Some charaters are taken from other CLAMPs books. 

Characters 7/10 

Main herione is typical pure-naive-stupid type. Choleric Ioryogi is more interesting character. They make togheter funny combination. I give 7 because some characters seem to me too simplistic.

Japanese difficulty: 2/10 (1 - very easy / 10 - very hard)

If you want to start reading manga in Japanese Kobato is way to go. It contains mainly simple dialogues and there aren't many difficult words. Manga also contains furigana which makes it lot easier to find word you don't understand. 

Overall 9/10

Kobato manga is enjoyable romantic fantasy story in contrast to ratrher childish and slow paced anime adaptation.