Manga vs anime?

The animé is a pretty close adaptation. The manga had already ended long before the animé aired (about 8-9 months), so they had plenty of time to adapt the original story fully and it shows. The biggest difference I found is that the animé left out a huge chunk of the hentaish content that the manga contained. Cutting all that crap out made episodes 9 and 12 much better than their manga counterparts. This is why I have the animé rated 8 and the manga 6. It's one of the very rare instances where I feel that the adaptation is significantly better than the original. That 60 page sex scene (I counted) in volume 7 really hurt my rating for the manga.

Animé: 37K users
Manga: 5K users

There's a huge gap between viewers and readers. I doubt very many on here read the manga before watching the animé. So most of those 5K readers are people who saw the animé and liked what they saw and then read the manga after and also liked that. The people bringing the animé rating down are not likely to read the manga and bring that rating down too.

If you're unsure about the series, the biggest complaint people have is the war. It's incredibly far fetched and they never explain anything about it. Considering it's the driving force of the entire story I can understand why it would rub people the wrong way. Some people also get annoyed with the characters. This I don't understand. The story may be far fetched, but the characters are real and relatable. It reminds me a lot of Kimi ga Nozomu Eien where you have ordinary, flawed people thrust into an incredibly extraordinary situation and are struggling mightily to emotionally cope with it and constantly messing up because of it.

@Quintessence

why? does the sex scene detract from the original in anyway? I get mood wiplash but if your getting triggered by a sex scene I want to know why, is it like that wolf manga by the akumetsu author where the protagonist gets raped for 30 chapters in a row or somethign?