kiyette
Personally I prefer the anime because I think you get a feel for what the charcters are more like when they are in the anime than in the Manga even though I do love the Manga version I just prfer the Anime -> But they should have put Rin and Kureno in the anime somewhere and some of the pairings they missed out like you said. Ritsu/Mitchan would have been good in the anime! X3 I have to argue this point... I think you don't get as good a feel for the characters in the anime as in the manga. There are entire facets of the personalities of characters like Kagura, Ayame, Ritsu, Hiro, Kisa and Haru that are NEVER delved into. These characters become either comic relief (in the case of Ayame, Ritsu and Kagura) or are sloughed off as being one-dimensional assholes (like Hiro and Haru). In the case of Kisa, her personality is a little better explored, but not by much. She's played off as this meek little fraidy-cat, when really, in the manga, she's got a lot more personal strength than that.
If we went simply by the anime, these characters would be totally undeveloped. Ayame, for instance, has a serious and thoughtful demeanor that, sure, it gets explored a little in the anime, but I find the anime made him seem that he's totally flakey, with the
possibility of being more than that. Really, he hides his serious side. It's not that it only comes out once in a while... it's that he only
lets it out once in a while.
Kagura... I hate her in the anime. I absolutely despise her because she's so violent and irrational. When you look at her in the manga, though, that violent streak is very much downplayed, and the real her shows through a lot more. The Kagura who takes care of her friends and truly cares about her family... you don't get to see her much in the anime because she's just comic relief. She comes in, beats Kyo up, and leaves with a trail of destruction following after her. It's totally unfair.
And Ritsu... don't even get me started on Ritsu. They don't even give him justification, let alone any serious introspection on his character. They offer a half-hearted explanation as to why he cross-dresses, and then just let him get the laughs. It's an injustice to such a wonderful character, that he is represented as this flakey, suicidal angst-mongering cross-dresser instead of the fragile, vulnerable, self-conscious man who wants desperately to be strong but has no idea how to do so.
So my thing is that the manga delves into the characters much more than the anime does, with the exception of Yuki, Tohru and Kyo. Those three are well-represented, but the rest of the cast sort of gets pushed aside.