Happy Mania, Volume 8

ハッピーマニア [Happy Mania] #8

by Moyoco Anno

Kayoko finds herself unable to leave Kyoto and her hot new man Tamekichi. When she finally emerges after three days, Mari warns her that "Mr. Right" is all wrong for her. Tamekichi's mysterious past is catching up with him, and Kayoko has a revelation about the meaning of true happiness-will our hapless heroine decide to love the one she's with?

Genres: Manga, Josei

184 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1999

About the author

See also: 安野モヨコ

Moyoko Anno (安野 モヨコ) is a Japanese manga artist and a fashion writer, with numerous books published in both categories. Her manga and books have attained considerable popularity among young women in Japan. Though she primarily writes manga of the josei demographic, her most popular series, Sugar Sugar Rune, (serialized in Nakayoshi) is targeted at primary school-aged girls. In a recent Oricon poll, she was voted the number eight most popular manga artist among females and thirteen in the general category. Her manga Happy Mania was made into a television series in 1998, followed by Hataraki Man in October 2007. Sakuran was made into a movie in 2006.
In the movie Japan Sinks, she has a cameo role alongside her husband; their characters were also married. The movie was directed by Shinji Higuchi, who, like her husband Hideaki Anno, is a co-founder of Gainax.

Anno won the 29th Kodansha Manga Award for children's manga in 2005 for Sugar Sugar Rune.

Visit her blog: http://www.annomoyoco.com/blog/

Reviews

[-moonprismpower- · Rating 4 out of 5]

I know Shigeta hasn’t been the best person but she deserves more than that….