Kokoro Toshokan

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I really enjoyed the anime, and for being an anime, I went to the manga afterwards expecting it to be even better despite the change in medium.
I'll start by saying that this is really a faulty review, as I have not actually read the entire manga.
However, that is the major problem with this manga, if you're an English reader like me, it is just not possible to read all of it.
There are no official translations in English and any fan translations were last updated more than a decade ago.
Despite that, I still recommend it highly.

For the chapters that can be read in English, well, they ... are simply very great.
The artist and art style are different from the anime, but oh so wonderful, that is what I love most about the manga.
It just looks so good in most panels, especially the big close up drawings.

Story wise though? From what I'm able to read, it is pretty different from the anime.
Difference is not the story itself but how it is told, the anime is sort of episodic but still linear, in the end it goes somewhere.
The manga has mostly very short chapters where it focuses around one thing, in each one it is told by what the title of the chapter is.
It is more "episodic" than the anime, really, which is not bad at all.
Sort of gives a nice difference to the anime, you can enjoy them both without experiencing the exact same thing twice.
Well, the same story events do happen in both manga and anime, but weirdly enough the order of events is way different.

The biggest nail the anime hit for me though.. In the manga, there are a lot fewer characters.
It goes both ways, there are some characters that are only in the manga.
But the majority of the characters in the anime are not in the manga, which has led me to think the anime is the better version to experience really.

Now, I really love the anime, and I love the manga too.
But in short, I really wish I could actually read the rest of it, without learning how to read Japanese.
Oh right, another bonus of the manga is the nice extra drawings at the start and ending of each chapter, I think they are neat.

One last thing, while I do recommend the manga.. I really think the anime is enough on its own, especially if you can't read Japanese.
The story in the anime is already very great by itself and it wraps up nicely at the end.
Including all the other characters that are only in the anime (I won't list all of them, but there are a lot), I really think the anime is the more definitive version.

But hey, those are just my opinions though, and I'm not even able to read the entire manga, I might aswell be judging a bit too hard.