> The OVA was also my first contact with the series.  I don't now, nor did I
> before reading the manga, have the opinion that the end of the OVA resolved
> anything other than the actual plot of the OVA  (Just to provide a
> counterpoint... ^_^)

That ain't a counterpoint! :) My whole point was that most people assumed it
was a) an ending and specifically b) a wedding, but that the sort of people
on this mailing list, like you and me, would of course not see it that way!
Aarrgghh!

Sam the man