Manga Thoughts: Maison Ikkoku 1

I’ve mentioned here before how, in trying to keep up with the manga I buy, I only go back and “read things again” in exceptional circumstances. (This is at least different from having piled up so much anime “to watch... some day” that I can shrug and return to series every so often.) However, I’m not quite “stranded in the present moment”; older series do keep getting released, whether in new editions or even for the first time. I picked up one series getting a new edition with some interest. Rumiko Takahashi’s “Maison Ikkoku” had been present in the general fan consciousness when I first joined in, and I’d formed the impression that in being more “realistic” than Urusei Yatsura or Ranma 1/2 (and having an actual conclusion, or at least one that hadn’t resulted in vast quantities of fanfiction) it had wound up a vital part of her work. With volumes of Urusei Yatsura beginning to pile up again as my “anime adaptation before original manga” habits bumped into news more of its movies will be legitimately re-released over here and having to admit to just sort of letting Ranma 1/2 trail off, having the chance to read Maison Ikkoku seemed a pleasant example of “better late than never.”
( Judging a book by its cover )