Is the anime adaptation good? I've heard great things about the manga, but IDK if the anime is as good as the source material. Which one should I go for?
Both, the anime is really great, the first episodes (which the director is the storyboarder and the episode director) are really great, at level of other top directors out there (even remembering yamada naoko's style of direction), the others episodes are also really great, so yeah, both are great, you can watch the anime and read the manga from where it stops, you probably wont lose anything, but I would recommend watch all the anime and read all the manga
let's set this straight... the anime itself is amazing and you should defenetly watch it buuut... if you don't want to read the manga afterwards you shouldn't. and there is one simple reason for it. it ends in the middle of the story currently without any hope for season two. so you shouldn't watch it if you hate things like this like myself. i watched it and was super disappointed when it just enden so abrubt.