Maison Ikkoku Collector's Box Set, Vol. 2
Godai has the best intentions in the world--and the worst luck. Although he's  now a student at a teacher's college, he's permanently broke and so busy  daydreaming about Kyoko, the pretty manager of his broken-down rooming house, he  walks into telephone poles. Not that the other tenants of Maison Ikoku are any  less eccentric. Mrs. Ichinose drinks and gossips; her son Kentaro is a pest;  the mysterious Mr. Yotsuya snoops; Akemi lounges around the building in skimpy  negligees. But one quality they all share is a  neverending delight in  teasing poor Godai, and his unflagging ineptitude affords them plenty of  opportunities.Rumiko Takahashi's comic soap opera careens along its merry path in this  second collection, as misunderstandings are compounded, opportunities blown, and  everyone operates at cross-purposes. After Kyoko sprains her ankle playing  tennis with the dashing Coach Mitaka, all the tenants bring her food. The poor  woman about to burst when Godai shows up with inedible ramen he's prepared  himself. Godai gets tricked into taking care of a classmate's kitten, also named  Kyoko. When Mrs. Ichinose  overhears him tell the cat's owner "Kyoko sleeps with  me every night," she tells everyone he's having an affair with the manager. Warmer than the previousUrusei Yatsura(Those Obnoxious Aliens), but  not a zany as the slapstickRanma 1/2,Maison Ikokuoccupies a  special place in Takahashi's extraordinary output. (Unrated: suitable for ages  13 and older: risqué humor, brief nudity, alcohol and tobacco use, slapstick  violence)--Charles Solomon