It's not that I dislike tsundere. I do like tsundere if they are not severely so and/or are balanced well by their partner. Usually authors go overboard with the tsun part and drive me nuts, tho. :P

I can see the super-polite in English thing feeling unnatural and lame, but then most of these characters don't feel much like Americans anyway....

I might still read it but with very low expectations. Hopefully I'll either be pleasantly surprised or I won't be too disappointed.

I've seen two excerpts from booklets, one when Dick first meets Yuhto's brother and another about Ned(?) and Tonia in jail. Are there more?