Manga Notes: Maison Ikkoku 2

When I read the first volume of the new release of Rumiko Takahashi’s Maison Ikkoku, experiencing a title in the background of my anime and manga knowledge at last, and realising it was just a bit different from my impressions of it, had got me to the point of making up a post about it. With that settled, I might have just gone on to the second volume of the series and not said anything about it. Just around the time I was getting to it, though, I noticed the blurb for a review of it on Anime News Network with the ominous declaration it just happened to include the least impressive chapter of the whole manga. It might only reveal something about myself that I imagined something “controversial,” thinking of certain moments from a few anime series just a few years older than this manga.
( Chapter by chapter went by, though... )