From: tanstaafl@pobox.com   
      
   On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:14:39 GMT, in rec.arts.manga, Travers Naran   
    wrote:   
      
   > And it looks like a REAL conclusion, not a   
   >Takahashi conclusion. :-D   
      
   The only other works by Takahashi I've read/watched are Maison Ikkoku and   
   Mermaid Forest.   
      
   The ending of Maison Ikkoku was partly responsible for me becoming a regular   
   reader of manga.  At the end of the anime series I wound up feeling like who   
   married who was determined more by what the dogs did in the night than by   
   any choices made by the characters.  That inspired me to read the manga, to   
   see how that aspect of the story was handled in the original version.   
      
   On the other hand, the non-ending of the Mermaid Forest anime put the manga   
   into my 'read when I've nothing better to do' pile. :(   
      
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