Man, I remember reading this manga so many years ago, feeling bummed that the TL died, then like a year or two I when I started to get into reading raw manga to improve my JP, and it was my first manga I completed in Raw. Admittedly, it was far from the hardest hurdle I've come up to in JP; After all, when you exclude translated chapters, it only had about 10 left. Still, to see someone finally finished the TL is pretty heartwarming. I always did like this series quite a lot when I came across it.
Maybe one day I'll read the Light Novel.