Maison Ikkoku, Vol. 14: Welcome Home [Paperback]

Rumiko Takahashi (Author, Illustrator), Mari Morimoto (Translator)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2000

Maison Ikkoku is a shabby apartment building populated with deadbeats and pranksters, bashful college student Yusaku, and his paramour Kyoko, the building manager. With everyone meddling and Yusaku's shyness, will they ever get together?

Product Details

• Paperback: 248 pages
• Publisher: VIZ Media LLC; 1 edition (June 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1569314934
• ISBN-13: 978-1569314937
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,241,817 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE END, October 28, 2000

By 

Ookami "daronin" (Toronto) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Maison Ikkoku, Vol. 14: Welcome Home (Paperback)

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.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars At long last ..., July 7, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Maison Ikkoku, Vol. 14: Welcome Home (Paperback)

...the moment we readers have awaited so long. The big fights have been had, the truths told, the many rivals for Godai's and Kyoko's respective affections have withdrawn from the field, and our hero and his beloved even manage a night to themselves to make everything okay. Our long-awaited happy ending is in plain sight ahead, so it should be all smooth sailing from here on ... right?

Well, no, that'd be too easy, and if anything about this love story were easy, it just wouldn't be Maison Ikkoku. There are still some pent-up feelings to vent, years worth of misunderstandings and resentments to clear away; and now that the news is out, more frequent and raucous interference from the usual gang of drunken housemates and hard-headed family members. No fear of spoilers, there aren't any big shocks plotwise; but the slapstick is dialed way down in this volume to make way for the tear-jerkers to come out in full force. By the time it's all over, it's safe to say that Godai and Kyoko are stronger and more tightly bound for everything they've gone through to finally be together. No worries, friends - they'll be fine. And so will everyone else too.

Three loud cheers for Rumiko Takahashi - who else can make us laugh so loud and cry so hard all at once, and still carry it all through to such a sweet ending? Nobody on God's Earth, that's who.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The wonderful conclusion to Maison Ikkoku, June 7, 2000

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R. F. Boehme (Baltimore, MD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maison Ikkoku, Vol. 14: Welcome Home (Paperback)

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.