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Summary: Maison Ikkoku Welcome Home, vol. 14
Review: This is such and awesome book, i made my mom buy it for me! Rumiko Takahashi could not have written a better conclusion to this astounding series if she tried. What a great ending. However, if you are considering this book, I strongly recommend reading the other Maison Ikkoku books first. You will need to know the story to have this book make sense. Again, a simply astounding graphic novel, and as always, great artwork. Definately the creme de la creme of manga.
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Summary: The Best one
Review: This is the best one out of all of them.when i saw it was the conclusion i starded to cry . and please dont start with the last one get all of the first! its worth it. in the book moving on is hard ( the part that will have you crying)if you get this book you wouldn't be sorry.
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Summary: The Best one
Review: This is the best one out of all of them.when i saw it was the conclusion i starded to cry . and please dont start with the last one get all of the first! its worth it. in the book moving on is hard ( the part that will have you crying)if you get this book you wouldn't be sorry.
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Summary: The wonderful conclusion to Maison Ikkoku
Review: This is the conclusion to the Maison Ikkoku series. It can be very tense at spots, which especially holds for this book. Everything is now resolved at Ikkoku, and Rumiko's masterpiece draws to a close. This is the best series I've ever read.
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Summary: THE END
Review: Well, it had to happen someday. Unlike Lum, and Ranma 1/2, Maison Ikkoku has alway's been a story about Love and personal growth. Which meant that someday we'd have to see the end. When We first met Godai and Kyoko, he was an immature, irresponsible, college flunkout, who had as much luck with women as he did on his first college entrance test. She was an uptight, somewhat introverted, yet gentle women recovering from the recent death of her husband. Here they are today, by the stories time, eight years later, finally where we all knew they were meant to go. In eachother's arms. This issue tosses asside MOST of the series trademark wackiness to make room for all of the moments that we all know are coming. The confessions and consumations of love. The blessings of the parents. Godai finally finding his career. The end of an old ache for kyoko. The wedding. A reunion with old friends, and the the birth of Thier first child. As I said, Most of the wackiness has been tossed aside, yet thier are plenty of laugh's to be found and anyone who enjoy's a good laugh and a good cry will find themselves doing both at the same time while reading this story. I hope all of us who enjoy the story of Maison Ikkoku are lucky enough to find such fulfilling mate's one day.
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Summary: I cried.
Review: Well, it had to happen, Maison Ikkoku is at its heart a story about two people, and there's only one way it could end. That said it doesn't end without a fight, there's quite a bit of wrangling and in-fighting to be done before Kyoko Otonashi and Yusaku Godai get their happy ending. It's a real weepy this one, with Yusaku's honest description of his love for Kyoko, the resolution of Kyoko's love for Soichiro, a wedding and quite a few babies all coming before the end. Still it's a classic of manga and indeed of global literature. Takahashi-sensei has done it again. "...You see this is the place where mummy and daddy first met" Buy this book.
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Summary: It is finally over....*sniff*
Review: Whew!
I laughed until my mouth hurt, I went thirsty while reading this series so I wouldn't wet my pants or spit out my juice. I tried not to read Maison Ikkoku in public because my laughing made people look at me.
I made sure that when I reached the more tender, introspective scenes, that I locked myself in my room so I wouldn't embarrass myself when I began to cry.
I connected with Yusaku because I'm a college student, and with Kyoko when she was in deep thought.
I don't know what powers of telepathy that Ms. Takahashi has that she can pinpoint the exact thoughts that go through a person's mind. Being a creative type, I can understand a little, but her skills are uncanny and her comedic timing plays out as some of the best TV skits.
(Just remember the double-takes of the characters and you know exactly what I'm talking about)
I'm happy to say that I was not only entertained, but also learned a great deal about proper story-telling, pacing, and emotional setting.
This was truly extraordinary. Yusaku's heartfelt plea to Kyoko, Kyoko struggling within herself over moving on, the events and circumstances in life that hinder or help us... I'm getting emotional here.
Bravo Ms Takahashi. I know there is a kind of lifetime achievement award in the comic world that you should receive, or perhaps you already have.
It took me two years to finish the graphic novels. A two years that I rushed through and now wished I had savored more, but I'm not complaining.
All Yusaku's dreams came true as well as Kyoko's.
May all our dreams be just as fruitful.
I'm going to miss these people.
And I mean ALL of them.
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Summary: A great conclusion
Review: You know, I'm sure everybody eventually gets to the point where the overdone robo-mecha and fantasy crap gets old and unrealistic. Enter Maison Ikkoku, a truly realistic novel in which there are no sex changes, time travel or anything like that; just a manga about life for a group of average people. In this final volume, everything is brought to a close; people get married, resentments are cast aside, and a child is born. By the way, don't read this volume if you haven't read the others. Go through the entire series; it's worth it. Welcome Home will take you on a wide range of emotions, and unless you're made of stone, you'll feel something, and perhaps even cry. I love this series, and you will not regret buying this book.
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