Mahoraba
Alt Names: | まほらば 마호라바 我们的仙境 Махораба |
Author: | Kojima Akira |
Artist: | Kojima Akira |
Genres: | Comedy Psychological Romance Shounen Slice of Life |
Type: | Manga (Japanese) |
Status: | Complete |
Description: | Shiratori Ryuji wants to become a picture book writer, and he moves to an apartment, Narutaki-So, in order to go to an art school in Tokyo. The Narutaki-so is an old Japanese style one-story house which doesn’t fit in with the urban scenery. It's owned by the cousin of his mother, but the manager of the apartment is Aoba Kozue. She is his second cousin, and they met with each other when they were children although he doesn’t remember her much. She is in the second year of a high school attached to Aoba Junior Collage. There are five people living in Narutaki-So. First, Chanohata Kotomi is living in the room #1. She is a best friend of Kozue. Then, the resident of the room #3 is Momono Megumi. She is a kind of person who goes her own way. In the room #5, Kurosaki Sayoko and her daughter Asami are living. Asami is in the first year of a junior high. Finally, in the room #6, Haibara Yukio is living with his puppet, “Johnny”. They are all characteristic and eccentric persons. However, in fact, the most eccentric person is Kozue. She has a secret; when she is shocked at something, she changes her personality. Not knowing this, Shiratori moves to Narutaki-So to realize his dream. What kind of a new life will be waiting for him? |
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24 Comments
heh... Thanks Batoto and Hiyoko no GAO for this manga...
Ahh just as I remembered... I really love this manga even years after I first read this. 11/10 would read again haha
It really is a shame that it looks like so few people on batoto have seen this.
Knowing how many people use this site as their main source of manga, it might be forgotten by those who come after us, but I place it among the greats.
If you've stumbled upon this page one way or another, take the time to show this one to your friends.
The whole multiple-personality feels kind of forced and it's pretty silly, but it's still hard to find a romance with pacing this good; it captures everything a slice-of-life should be perfectly.
This soothe my soul. Every human need a place to rest their mind utterly. I hope I can find a place like that in my life.
This ones is a good read.
Characters are typical manga archetypes but the fact that they all express realistic human emotions, appropriate to the situations they encounter, gives them some depth.
And that's how you properly end a manga.
Didn't hit me as hard as I thought it will. The transition between the first half and the second half is too sudden for my taste, it feels as if the author ran out of ideas and simply went ahead with the pre-planned ending. While it's great how large and varied the cast is, it turns into a chaotic and awkward experience as the author tried to progress the story while trying to allocate enough panels for the side characters. The arc style progression where every main character's given their fair share of spotlight is partly to blame as well; there's simply too many side characters introduced that was promised a return but never given an appropriate stage for their eventual termination as the main story progress. They simply come back from time to time and disappears out of the blue till the epilogue hits.
Nevertheless, it's a great heartwarming story for casual readings. It's a shame that I never managed to really get into it, especially the ending. The cast grew too large for the author to manage at the end.
This was so good I read it in one night, then read it over again the next.
I almost cried for the ending