I'm really glad I was warned away from Bronze in time. I feel the same way about Ai no Kusabi and Mirage of Blaze. Just think of all the angst I was saved!

Ha, I'm the opposite of you, I guess, because I was warned away from Ai no Kusabi and Mirage of Blaze. (I even owned the Mirage of Blaze DVDs, but I never got around to watching them, and then what I heard of the series later made me just get rid of them, unwatched.)