Anime was too slow and manga too quick. But manga had much more blood, on the other hand, anime was more psychological. (you don’t need to watch the anime to read the manga.)
The story
Distant planet where people fled after they destroyed Earth. (Different from anime, where the coralians were invaders, here it were people) And there is this group gekko-go or something that fights the military on mechas. Most of it was the same as the anime.
Art
awesome. Art is the best part of this manga, not really my style, but still awesome. Detailed and clean.
Characters
Being it made after anime, they didn’t have the need for character development. I personally think it would be nice, but the anime was too slow for its own good. I especially like that Holland wasn’t a b*tch like in the anime. He was a wise mentor from the start. I really hated him beating Renton all the time in the anime, so. Another thing I prefer in the manga is that it focused more on Dominic and Anemone and made them some past memories that weren’t in the anime.
Too bad they killed him off, they tried to make it more tragic I guess. The same with Dewey. In the anime, he killed his father, in the manga he saved Holland's life and lost a leg. Emotional much?
Favorites are of course Dominic and Anemone. It didn’t focus on the rest of the crew at all, so if you didn’t watch the anime, they were just random people on board.
Enjoyment
I don’t know if I liked this or the anime better, anime was really slow and then a rushed ending. On the other hand, I hated the ending in the manga (I still disliked the anime ending).
Why I wonder did they have to kill both Dominic and Eureka? If Dominic didn’t die, I would give it a higher score.