As for the manga, I thought the story falls a little flat by the end, but the beginning is still a good solid story and fun to read for sure.

Honestly, I almost like the Live Action Drama better. You fall in love with Night even more when he's a real person and they give Soshi a little bit of attitude :P I seriously suggest looking it up! Sars-Fansubs has it available for download. Once I started watching, I couldn't stop!

The final volume of Absolute Boyfriend is worth having if you're a Yuu Watase fan, even if you don't like the series much. It has some really nice unrelated short stories in it that take up a majority of the page count.

After a while she got fed up with it, and just went with what she was told, rather than telling the story she wanted.

It;s a shame really, because as you say, it starts out great. However it lacks the humour of Fushigi, and the darkness of Ayashi. It sort of hovers between the two elements, but dosent succeed at it.

I buy the volumes because im a fan of her's, and i guess at some point i'll sit down again and try and read it, but for now i want to reread both of the fushigi series, i think those are my all time favorites!!