I think my unconsious daydreaming about Fang comes from that guy at lunch who looks just like him... My friends are always like "Why do you keep looking over there? Are you staring at that Fang guy again?!"
Eh, all the googlyness can be useful. Ideally it would make the reaction when Fang gets shot/stabbed/burnt/poisoned/exploded/clobbered/asphyxiated/eaten alive/filleted/run-over-by-large-motor-vehicle more severe and traumatic. Then we can have another Max Snaps scene. I personally enjoyed the scene in book 2 where it happened last and she tried to open up her arm.
The manga makes me gibber and squee because the emotions are so much better portrayed. JP doesn't write bad dialogue, and his ideas are sometimes okay. He's just not fab at creating imagery.
So the manga, by its nature as a story mainly told visually, is way better. The characters seem like people.