Junpei may have lost Tsukasa (for now), but if he gets both Aya and Yui in exchange, I'd say that's a pretty sweet deal.

Bastard.

Speaking of Yui, I initially expected her to be a quiet and reserved girl. That's what her character design suggested, at least. I'm happy to have been proven wrong.

Yui's character surprised me as well. I don't read scanlations and I make no claims that my Japanese reading and comprension is actually above that of a two-year old, so I'm not 100% sure what's going on in Ichigo 100%, but I do have a couple volumes of the manga, and Yui's character always struck me as being more naive and childish than what she is in the anime. Even the OVA led me to believe she was much more naive and childish than what she is in the anime. But she's not bad in the anime, so I'm not complaining.

Mm... just to nitpick on the designs - though it's rather difficult to get the manga-style designs down pat, they took Yui's design and changed it so that she looks deceivingly more quiet and reserved than she is in the manga. Without a comparison being made, though, I suppose it's not that bad. :)