Wonderful, this show was simply wonderful. I loved every episode, and the end was executed in such a way as to make you feel too much to bother thinking. It was a well deserved happy ending, paid for with tears and sorrow so as to be all the more beautiful. I was so surprised when it wasn't Mai that saved everyone but Ayu's love, and then it was Yuichi's love that saved her, that made everything fit together perfectly.

P.S. Akiko for mom of the Year!