Plot things are coming thick and fast! Stuff is really starting to happen like crazy now, and all kinds of secrets and conspiracies and deceptions are being revealed.

Kyo has a beautiful moment of connection with Machi. I think those two might be friends after all! Emotional stuff being brought up, and I'm so surprised and touched by Machi's story. She's really a lovely person!

It's nearing the end of the school year, so all the upperclassmen are saying goodbye, and Yuki gets caught in the middle of several romantic goodbyes with fangirls that he would rather have avoided. Hilariously funny!

Hatsuharu is determined to protect his beloved Isuzu/ "Rin", but she is just as determined to get herself into trouble sneaking around the Sohma estate looking for a way to break the curse. She gets involved with the wrong people, and ends up in a bad place, injured and sick, until an unlikely person rescues her. Rin is so amazing, and I adore her character! She's a difficult character to understand, but her mystery just makes her more interesting.

Shigure reveals what he knows about the Sohma curse, and Rin is satisfied, but Tohru gets upset, and worries that the curse will not be broken after all, at least not in time to save Kyo. Sweet Tohru, she's always focused on helping everyone!
The suspense is getting pretty intense here!

Drama, and emotions, and crying, and laughing, and suspense, and secrets! Oh, my poor heart can't take much more of this. Just when I think I will never stop crying, then something hilarious happens, and I'm laughing my head off. It's exhausting and I love it!

Nope. I can't live anymore. I can't handle this drama and my heart is killing me! I'm crying and laughing and a complete emotional wreck. I love all these characters so much, and the plot is marvelous! The Sohma family is so insane with all those secrets!

This book made me cry in several different ways; I cried in anger and frustration, I cried because of all the sad things, I cried in relief,and I cried in delighted wonderment. I laughed at the funny stuff, and I laughed in relief, and I laughed in delighted wonderment. I'm a mess!! My heart is just a mashed-up blob by now. Also I'm running out of tissues.

Momiji is so adorable! I can't even begin to control my feelings here.
I love the story, I love the artwork, and I love Kyo and Tohru and everyone, and I love everything forever until eternity!
There is nothing left to say. My heart is too full!

OMG, things happening! What is happening in this plot?! Murder and mayhem, secrets and betrayal... I'm on the edge of all this suspense, and I can't handle it all!

In this volume, we get to see even deeper into Akito's soul, and it is a weird messed-up soul. I mean, I always knew Akito was insane, but really... can someone get us a padded cell over here, please?!

So many plot things that happened in the last volume are resolved a bit in this volume, especially since a bunch of people are congregating at the hospital. Why is everyone always getting injured and in the hospital?! Can't we have a plot without half-killing the characters every other volume?! I mean, it makes for good drama, but I want my babies to be safe and happy.

Yuki is amazing in this volume. He is perfection! He tells it like it is, takes care of business, and kicks butt, and falls in love, and then gets home in time for tea. I love this boy so freakin much!

Two sets of twin baby brothers are cast adrift in a storm and wash up on shore in separate cities. When they are grown, they meet up again, not knowing of the others' existence, and mistaken identities abound! One man's wife mistakes him for his twin, and some creditors apply to the wrong twin for payment. The servants are totally confused, because they keep receiving conflicting commands from their masters.

While there are lots of hilarious situations, mix-ups, and puns and jokes galore, the plot is very straight forward with no surprises, and that made me a bit bored. It's a very short play with a small cast of characters. It's comedic fluff with not much of a story to it.

Maybe I'm just not in the mood for comedic fluff right now. Maybe if I saw it performed, it would be funnier, and I would enjoy it more. Reading a play is never the same as the real thing.

I loved loved loved this hilarious graphic novel, and then the end left me flat. I hate those poignant, leave-you-hanging, no closure endings that are supposed to be all philosophical and crap. Bleh. There is no resolution and I hate that!

The artwork is beautifully detailed, but still gives this impression of space on every page. It really draws your attention to these little changes and reflects the mood of the story perfectly!

I adore the writing style, the prose and almost poetry, that makes every word count. It's just perfection!
The plot is hilarious and the weird and wild things going on just put the characters into stark relief before this background of a war between chaos and order.

I was laughing and weirded out and thoroughly enjoyed it.... except for the end.

I'm not a huge fan of animal stories (unless they are anthropomorphic), but the writing in this book was so excellently crafted that I loved it!
I especially loved the boy's story, how he travels across country and the people he meets and connects with. There's a lot of depth to the story, and the spiritual journey that the boy goes through is just beautiful.
The fox's story was less compelling. Basic animal survival and a lot of dead things, but it was certainly interesting.

I loved how the story line has a lot of flashbacks, and we gradually learn the history of the fox and the boy, their family life, how they first met, what they value most, etc...
Sometimes a lot of flashbacks can kill a story, but they were so easily and seamlessly woven into the narrative, with important emotional connections to the "now" of the story, that it enhanced the story rather than distracting the reader.

A beautiful and heart-wrenching little story!

A solid ending to this great trilogy! May is back in the Ever After, reunited with her ghostly friends, and hunted and hounded by her enemies once again. The plot moves quickly with tons of quirky and hilarious scenes. My favorite characters are back with the silly dialogue and camaraderie that warms my heart!

May is definitely a winsome character. She wants so badly to be "good", to be brave, to be what her friends need her to be; but she also has this wild nature that leaves her fighting against herself. She often wishes that she could just fit in, but finally comes to accept that she was born to shine, born to be a warrior.

May and her friends crack me up! The whole ghostly crew is so much fun and I love their snappy dialogue and little heart-felt moments when they support and encourage each other. I'm so emotionally attached to all these characters now!

I still don't really like the ghostly Halloween-type setting. The world building is VERY good, with lots of interesting details and excellent descriptions. But that kind of setting just doesn't appeal to me with all the cobwebs and ghouls and slime. I loved the magical bits though, and the tour of the universe with stargazing being prominent in the plot!

I loved the ending! It was the perfect conclusion to this last book!

Spoiler

The fact that it was Pumpkin who ultimately saves the world, and NOT May, was absolutely perfect! After all her angst about saving the world and being the warrior who rescues the cosmos, it was little cowardly Pumpkin, the house ghost who she told to go hide, who sacrifices it all and saves the world. Simply brilliant on so many levels! First of all, it was surprising that the hero does nothing heroic at the last. Secondly, it shows that the small one, the weak one, the cowardly one CAN be the hero! Thirdly, it worked because Bo Cleevil never expected a threat from that direction. Such great writing, especially since the mystery around the Bridge of Souls was built up through the whole book.

I love this whole trilogy!

This was a fun little adaptation of P&P into manga form, but it's a little too cutesy and "teen drama" for me. There are roses and hearts everywhere, and the character's facial expressions and actions are too overly dramatic.

I mean, if someone is going to collapse into a chair from illness, is it really necessary for them to pitch headlong to the floor in a flurry of curly hair and roses, and with their cloak fluttering behind them? haha! They couldn't just sit down in a chair and faint like a normal person?

I did not like how Darcy's character was drawn so austere and dark. They could have softened him a little, I think. Same thing for Mr. Bennett. He looks very harsh.
Most of the other characters were perfectly drawn though! Their looks really reflected their personalities. I really liked how Elizabeth and Jane were portrayed.

Of course, any adaptation like this is going to be so watered down that the story is barely there, and the elegance of the original story is mostly lost. But it was very cute and enjoyable! It certainly made me laugh. I loved the chibi panels that were inserted between chapters. So funny!

This would be a good manga to introduce 7-12 year olds to classics!