We were there. The story so far

The manga has been licenced by Viz media and the first volume was released at the beginning of the month. The second volume will be out the 6Th January 2009.
I got my own copy and preordered the second from Amazon. ( I don't normally preorder but since i had some credit left from my amazon voucher i decided to go for it ...and I'm quite glad i did it!!!)

For me this is such a good news as the unlicensed version available online is fragmented. There is no way to find scanalations of the chapters 13 up to 32 online. This is because the manga was translated by two different groups.
The first one, Perfect illusions, translated from chapter 1 up to 12. ( I am not aware of any update re new releases from Perfect Illusions. Since the manga has been licenced they may have dropped the project altogether)
The second group, jshojo, is translating from chapter 33 ( basically where the anime ended) and they are currently up to chapter 45. Here i just found a note on the Jshojo website saying that they are currently working on the next chapter, so yay!!

So, if you want feel the gap in the story I definitely recommend to watch the anime. The anime is still unlicensed and the english subbed episodes are available on GalAnime.com ( here.) .There are 26 episodes in total and the story is quite faithful to the original one. Also the art is quite enjoable to watch.
By the way GalAnime.com hosts the scanalation of the manga as well. So, if you want to take a look and download a couple of chapters feel free do so but please make sure you do buy the licenced version!!