Manga Notes: Maison Ikkoku 7

My perpetual pondering about what to post to this journal next drifted to manga read. Not that long after watching my way through the girls’ theatrical academy anime Kageki Shojo!, I picked up the original manga I’d chased down in the midst of the adaptation. It was nice to revisit the story. However, after an extra-thick lead-in volume (having wondered just what that meant in advance of a volume with number one on its spine, a note at its back explained the story had moved from one manga magazine to another) and five regular instalments I haven’t quite reached where the anime left off even if I’ve happened on subplots and flashbacks that weren’t adapted. The next volume of manga I thought I might be able to say something about was the seventh instalment of Rumiko Takahashi’s Maison Ikkoku, which I’d managed to keep up some sort of commentary on.
( But I digress )