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Warning: this review may have some minor spoilers

FIRST COMMENTS:
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I've started reading the manga after watching the anime. Well, the anime covered the first two arcs, and of course didn't end properly (manga is 194 chapters long). More motive to start reading the manga.

I would say that it have a mix of everything: School life, comedy, romance, fights, riddles, puzzles, suspense, drama, and a lot of side characters. Its difficult to classify. Its more like the next arc always present an new element that sum up with the previous arcs.

I recommend reading at least the first arc after the anime ends (third arc: minus). At this ... point you can say that you like or dislike it. So I will make a review of the first three arcs.

ART: 7
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The art is good. The characters are well drawn, in spite of the great variety. The author did a great job, making every character unique. The quality don't drop through the arcs. With the focus on the characters and dialogues, the background was left with bare minimum. Its interesting that sometimes you get so into the dialogue that you forget where you are, or that you still are on a school.

STORY: 8
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The plot and character development that make this manga great.

The first arc (Unzen arc) covers the first season of the anime. Starts with a overpowered, charismatic main character. School council president, a monster of a fighter and with the manga title in her name, Medaka could be the center of some comedy, romance, school life manga. This arc only works for presenting the story, the characters and to initiate the second arc.

The second arc (flask plan), things start to change. A lot of fights take places, people with odd skills appear. At this point you can notice that the plot really starts and the story progress in a way totally different from when started.

In the third arc (minus), you can notice that the atmosphere changes. The plot kicks in, the manga start to develop the characters psychologically. You still have a lot of fights, but their content is not entirely exchange of punches and kicks, weird skills and such. There is a lot of "talk no jutsu", drama and suspense take its course.

Personally, toward the middle, I found this manga a little repetitive. Its not like you don't enjoy it, but over several fights, for someone that master any skill, gets hard to create someone that can put up a battle. Some parts are too focused on japanese characters (kanji and hiragana), so the english version totally miss the effort the author put in it. Well, the author do explain every pun, but you will miss the effect it was on the story.

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CHARACTERS: 6
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The characters are original and unique. With a lot of characters, there is absolutely some that you will like most, be it a protagonist or coadjuvant. Downside, its hard to keep track of then. Some you will forget quickly, others gets sequence in the story.

CONCLUSION: 7
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Definitely enjoyed. Got addicted in the end of the second arc. The story is not that much, but the plot was well made, original and unpredictable to the very end.

Overall: 4. When a serie is rushed to the end, or is interrupted, its a bad sign.

Story: There is war, and there is magic. Quite common, but it's alright. It's hard to see some original work. The plot was not developed as it should be.

Art: so-so. Not great, not bad.

Sound: The background music fails to dictate the feeling. Not that the plot helped.

Character: the character development is too much predictable. Too much.

... Well, not a great adaptation of the manga. If it was serialized, then the manga should not be such a disappointment.

What I enjoyed the most is a fight that happens in the middle. Really liked. The only reason that made me watch to the end.