I am talking about the anime in general. It is a shame, not only did that storyline have a beautiful end despite what happened, but another favorite character of mine never made it to the anime, I would love to have seen Ranju in the anime. She is so funny, even more reason to love Reina.
After they air the last episode, we should discuess the manga. Just for the record, the last chapter in the anime is 98 volume 12. So if you want to start where they leave off, start at volume 13 chapter 99. Though I really loved volume 16, especially what happenens in chapter 128 titled "Reina's Heart".
Some news you might want to hear, just recently Tokyopop's license to Rave Master expired, and if they ever continued the anime and wanted to release it in North America, it would be a different company producing it.
To answer your last question, you obviously have not read the manga or even watched the original anime, they don't have the lame jokes and dioloque. It would be different without that and it is way better. Just like Digimon is way better in Japanese without the lame add on jokes.