Happy Mania, Volume 3

ハッピーマニア [Happy Mania] #3

by Moyoco Anno

Taka takes advantage of Takahashi s amnesia and fools him into thinking that she is his girlfriend. But he senses that all is not right and sets out to discover more about himself before he is forced to marry Taka. He ends up in Kyoto and takes a job waiting tables while Shigeta, also in Kyoto, visits a temple famous for granting the wishes of those who visit. So close yet so far, the two lonely souls wander Kyoto aimlessly, searching for someone or something that will bring them happiness.

Genres: Manga, Josei, Graphic Novels

192 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1996

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 3 out of 5]

I can usually stand Shigeta’s stupidity when there’s a lot of humor surrounding it but this volume was … a dud. Takahashi deserves better but at the same time he’s a p*ssy ass bitch … so???

[yaal Vv · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kind of hard to like the mc she’s so stupid and blind. And above all of this she’s so heartless she want love but she put herself behind everything.

[Subdee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hard to know where to put a review of an ongoing series. I'll put this one here, because it was written after I'd read the first three volumes:

http://sd.magatsu.net/blog/2011/04/12...

[Hazel]

OK kind of shallow.