> >With only five OAV episodes and roughly 8 volumes of
> > manga out at the time, obviously something had to
> > give in the OAV.  :-)  But at least we'll get a
> > proper TV series now.  Yay! :-D
> > 
> 
> With only 26 episodes and it will start again at the
> begining of the Manga? I'm betting some corners would
> have to be cut again, but at least there will be more
> artwork around and new songs ^_^

I doubt there will be corner-cutting.  There may be some modifications in the anime
over the manga, but that's standard practice for all manga-to-anime or novel-to-anime
titles.

Generally, 8 volumes of manga go into a 26-episode TV series.  So I would suspect
we'd see the first 8 volumes of AMS converted to 26 TV episodes.  If the ratings are
good after that, then they could do more episodes off of more volumes of manga.

Of course, they could go the "You're Under Arrest",  ;-)  There were only 8 volumes
of that manga, yet it produced a 4-episode OAV, a 47-episode TV series, a movie, a
mini-episode TV special series (with 1 full-length episode), a 2nd regular TV
series, and finally an OAV spinoff.  ^_^