None of the characters were annoying to me, maybe because of the manga. One thing that differentiates the manga from the anime is that I see the manga more straight-forward and the anime dragged a bit (probably they did this in order to stop at the start of chapter 10). I think that Ririchiyo and Soushi's confession or Soushi's past have revealed quite early for a series with romance (for example, the anime (not read the manga) of Kaichou wa Maid-sama had 24 episodes and we didn't get to know anything about Usui)
Anyway chapter 15 has been translated for a while now and that chapter is where things start to get interesting plot-wise (I find a shame that although there are other forums which talk about it, this forum doesn't have much manga readers and the ones who do read it won't discuss it in the manga forum).
Well, the anime has been popular enough that there is a high quantity of fanart and cosplay pictures (people really love cosplaying as Zange):
And had to share this
