Learning Curves (Maison Ikkoku, Volume 9)

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Summary: Little Ibuki Yagami
Review: Godai is still doing the student teacher thing, and Yagami's fascination with her wishy-washy teacher escalates to new heights. She goes to Maison Ikkoku and refuses to leave, wanting to sleep in Godai's room. Of Course the ever jealous Kyoko will have none of this and has Yagami sleep in the manager's room. Yagami who is much more frank with her feelings than Kyoko confronts the lovely woman about how she feels about Godai. Of course, Kyyoko can't come clean with her feelings, and remains silent. Yagami takes this to mean that Kyoko has no interest in Godai, so this further causes things to go haywire. Yagami later corners Godai in the gym equipment storAge room wearing only her underwear, and later moves into Maison Ikkoku when she has a fight with her father over her feelings for Godai, chaos insues of course. Then we have Godai turned down for job after job poor guy. read this, enjoy this, suffer along with Godai.

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Summary: Superb, hysterically wacky and beautifully real.
Review: Has Takahahashi ever written anything that wasn't phenomonal? The latest episode in Takahashi's manga series focuses on Godais turmoil as he is Pursued by the un-dauntable (That means she don't ever give up. EVER!) Ibuki Yagami. A student of his during his Student Teaching assignment. As well as Godai's Attempts to find a job before Graduation. And one of the companys he applys to is owned by Yagamis Father (Do you need me to tell you that Yagami find's a way to "help" Mr. G?). Eventually Yagami winds up moving INTO Maison Ikkoku in order to win the love of "Mr. G". This has to be one of the finest series ever written. Manga, or otherwise. It's so cool to watch Godai and Kyoko grow over the course of the series. Though they're good people, they are neither perfect, nor living charmed lives. They grow and mature and come to love each other by eventually overcoming lifes wrinkles together. This is a series that, though the Japanese flava is definately there, will appeal to anyone that will give it a chance.

Rating:
Summary: Superb, hysterically wacky and beautifully real.
Review: Has Takahahashi ever written anything that wasn't phenomonal? The latest episode in Takahashi's manga series focuses on Godais turmoil as he is Pursued by the un-dauntable (That means she don't ever give up. EVER!) Ibuki Yagami. A student of his during his Student Teaching assignment. As well as Godai's Attempts to find a job before Graduation. And one of the companys he applys to is owned by Yagamis Father (Do you need me to tell you that Yagami find's a way to "help" Mr. G?). Eventually Yagami winds up moving INTO Maison Ikkoku in order to win the love of "Mr. G". This has to be one of the finest series ever written. Manga, or otherwise. It's so cool to watch Godai and Kyoko grow over the course of the series. Though they're good people, they are neither perfect, nor living charmed lives. They grow and mature and come to love each other by eventually overcoming lifes wrinkles together. This is a series that, though the Japanese flava is definately there, will appeal to anyone that will give it a chance.

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Summary: The romantic game continues with a spoiled brat tossed in!
Review: Our lovesick, long-suffering hero, Godai winds up teaching at an all-girl high school where the object of his yearning desire once attended (and attached her first husband in the very first place). This heart-rending irony continues when a lovestruck young student decides to chase the handsome Godai all the way to the ends of the world. In fact, this stinking rotten little girl even denies her own self-respect and the respect from others when she cornered her victim wearing only a bra, forced her way into his room, manuipulated and abused her dear old father into giving him a job at his company, and plain just drove poor young Koyoko (and Godai as well) up the wall. The kid's dad seems like a gruffy, heavy-breathing orge who looks ready to eat up any male who would dare to go near his only daughter, - but actually, he turns out to be such a docile piece of putty in the dainty hands of that mean little creature. A real nice touch of Lolita-complex twist in the endless mating ritual between the ever-hopeful young Godai and the lovely dark-eyed Koyoko.